Homemade Eye Serums and Creams? YES Please!!!!

We have since discovered the joy, fun and benefits of crafting our own personalized body care products using herbs and other natural ingredients that nourish, pamper, cleanse, and protect the skin and all of this can be done without using irritating or harmful chemicals. 

Yamerra provides offerings that are all natural and nutrient-rich in essential oils and fresh herbs that will embolden the skin to greater heights of radiance! In conjunction with our eco-luxury skin and hair offerings, you can always make and use natural skin and hair remedies on-the-spot that are just divine! 

In just minutes, you can whip up dozens of organic treatments that will make your face radiant, your skin glow, your hair shine, and your hands and nails beautiful. From head to toe, you'll find the perfect treatment for every part of our body, whether you're looking for a relaxing bath blend, a stimulating facial mask, a natural bug repellent, an anti-aging eye serum and nutrient-rich creme, or a sensual body cream. Our new craze at Yamerra is to make our own fresh, natural Eye Serum!!!! We have shared 3 different blends that are restorative, soothing and strengthening, with anti-aging natural ingredients and properties:

Ultimate Eye Serum Recipe

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon Grape Seed Oil

1 teaspoon Cranberry Seed Oil

1 teaspoon Pomegranate Seed Oil

1 teaspoon Carrot Oil

Pomegranate Seed oil carries high moisturization, anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties that are excellent for skin regeneration and repair

Directions:

Combine oils and store in a one-ounce glass bottle with a dropper top.

To Use:

Apply 1 drop of the oil to your finger and gently smooth the oil around eye area at night. Less is more!

Anti Aging  Eye Serum Recipe

Ingredients:

1 ounce Jojoba oil
5 drops Rose essential oil

5 drops Chamomile essential oil

Rose oil carries restorative power to heal the skin, especially scars and blemishes.

Directions:

Combine essential oils with Jojoba oil and store in a one-ounce glass bottle with a dropper top.

To Use:

Apply 1 drop of the oil to your finger and gently smooth the oil beneath your eye and onto the area just beneath the brow bone. Do not apply oil directly to your eyelids.

Cucumber Eye Gel

Ingredients:

1 Tbs. aloe vera gel

1 tsp. fresh cucumber juice

¼ tsp. cornstarch

1 Tbs. witch hazel

Freshly pressed cucumber juices, with sunburn healing properties, and helps to tighten open pores.

Directions:

Mix together aloe, cucumber and cornstarch. Heat until just boiling. Remove from heat source and stir in witch hazel. Stir well and allow the mixture to cool completely. You should have a clear, jelly-like cream. Spoon into a small clean jar. To use: Dab a small amount under your eyes and be careful not to rub or pull the delicate skin under your eyes.  Keep in cool place.
We trust that these natural eye serum blends will help strengthen, soothe, restore the skins radiance and balance. Try them! Let us know how they work for you.

Love,
Maryam 

Wellness Fix: Pure Honey and Fresh Lemon to the Rescue

In the past week, I've been sick with a dreadful bout of sore throat, voice loss, sniffles, coughing (uncomfortable, mostly at night...The worst), and aches.   It’s likely that working too much and neglecting nutrition probably left my immune system even more susceptible to getting sick. 

We can avoid getting sick by maintaining a good diet and taking vitamins? Mum's advice on one sure way to keep the "cooties" at bay (and this is super easy): 

Every morning, have a spoonful of raw honey (in raw form, it should be a pale yellow color and very thick) with organic cinnamon sprinkled over it. Try to take this before breakfast and it’ll ramp up your defenses! Take it straight and not in your tea; it’ll just turn to sugar once in the tea. This is a preventative way to boost our immune system.

Another way, more reactive than proactive- and I find this helps especially with voice loss is taking a shot of freshly squeezed Lemon (2 tablespoons will do). Follow directly with a teaspoon of honey.

Leave us a quick comment on how YOU boost your immune system. We'd love to hear from you.

~ Maryam