This is my favorite face wash recipe.  It’s a really simple (but effective) foaming face wash recipe that can be customized for your skin type.
This is great for me because my 13 year old daughter sometimes has normal skin and sometimes (when hormones flare) she has mild acne.  And depending on the time of year, my skin can be sensitive (summer) or dry (winter).  And I’m increasingly using the aging/mature foaming face wash on a daily basis. It’s very moisturizing and nourishing!
We’ll get into the skin-type specific recipes in just a bit, but first I want to show you how basic this recipe really is. It’s just 3 ingredients and water. It doesn’t get much more simple than that.
1)Â To a 16 oz foaming soap container add…
1/2 cup unscented Castile soap
2 Tbsp. of a skin enhancer (such as, witch hazel, aloe vera gel, rosehip seed oil, jojoba oil, or sweet almond oil
~30 drops of essential oil
1 cup distilled water
2)Â Stir well
3)Â To use:
wet face, put 2-3 pumps of soap in your hand or on a wet washcloth, gently wash your face using small circular motions, and rinse clean (note: be sure to avoid your eye area; you don’t want to get soap or essential oils in your eyes)
After I use this face wash, here’s what I do:
- apply a homemade essential oil toner with a cotton round, using gentle upwards motion all over face (avoiding eyes) here’s the recipe
- finish by moisturizing my skin with my DIY face serum (here’s the recipe – just like my foaming face wash there are customized recipes of carrier oil and essential oil blends just right for your skin type whether you have dry, oily, acne-prone, mature, or sensitive skin)
And it’s really easy to customize this basic recipe for your skin type. So whether you have normal, sensitive, dry, aging, or acne-prone skin, there’s a foaming face wash that’s perfect for you. Here are the recipes by skin type:
Foaming Face Wash for NORMAL skin
to a 16 oz foaming soap container add…
1/2 cup Castile soap
2 Tbsp. aloe vera gel
20 drops lavender essential oil
10 drops melaleuca essential oil
1 cup distilled water
Foaming Face Wash for ACNE-PRONE skin
to a 16 oz foaming soap container add…
1/2 cup Castile soap
2 Tbsp. witch hazel
10 drops lavender essential oil
10 drops lemongrass essential oil
10 drops melaleuca essential oil
1 cup distilled water
Foaming Face Wash for SENSITIVE Skin
to a 16 oz foaming soap container add…
1/2 cup Castile soap
2 Tbsp. jojoba oil
10 drops sandalwood essential oil
10 drops frankincense essential oil
10 drops helichrysum
5 drops rosemary
1 cup distilled water
Foaming Face Wash for DRY skin
to a 16 oz foaming soap container add…
1/2 cup Castile soap
2 Tbsp. sweet almond oil
20 drops lavender essential oil
10 drops frankincense essential oil
1 cup distilled water
Foaming Face Wash for AGING/MATURE skin
to a 16 oz foaming soap container add…
1/2 cup Castile soap
2 Tbsp. rosehip seed oil
10 drops lavender essential oil
5Â drops frankincense essential oil
5 drops sandalwood
5 drops helichrysum
5 drops myrrh
1 cup distilled water
How to use face wash as part of skin care routine
- Remove face and eye makeup with these homemade makeup remover wipes – recipe hereÂ
- After removing makeup, wash face with the foaming face wash (recipes above)
- Apply gentle homemade toner (recipe here). Use gentle upwards motion all over face (avoiding eyes) – shake toner bottle well before each use
- Finish by moisturizing skin with my DIY face serum (here’s the recipe – just like my foaming face wash there are customized recipes of carrier oil and essential oil blends just right for your skin type whether you have dry, oily, acne-prone, mature, or sensitive skin)
Ready to make yours? Here’s where I get my supplies:
click here for the foaming soap dispenser in the photo  (you can also find the pump at Michaels or other craft stores and make your own)
click here for unscented Castile soap Â
click here for rosehip seeed oilÂ
click here for sweet almond oil
distilled water— grocery store or Walmart by the bottled water
Click here for a FREE PRINTABLE with 5 foaming face wash recipes for 5 skin types {normal, acne-prone, sensitive, dry, and aging}
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This was so helpful I enjoyed reading your detail steps. I should be sleep but I’m enjoying the journey.
If you know of a blend I can make for my aunt for ulcer on the leg/ ankle please share.
I’m sorry, Lynn, I don’t have a recipe for that.
Do you have a home made makeup remover?
Love to hear from you.
Thanks
Diane
Hi Diane,
I haven’t shared my recipe for that yet.
I have so many things in the que to share, I’m not share when my makeup remover will be released.
Sarah
Can I substitute sandalwood for cedarwood and rosehip oil for coconut oil or jojoba or vitamin e oil?
Hi Rachel,
Cedarwood would not be a good substitute to use instead of sandalwood. A better choice would be to use more frankincense or helichrysum as a substitute for the sandalwood, or another option would be to lavender or geranium in place of the sandalwood.
Fractionated coconut oil (the liquid kind) doesn’t have the skin nurturing benefits of rosehip seed oil and jojoba oil, so I would not use fractionated coconut oil in this face wash. You could use vitamin e oil as a substitute for pure rosehip seed or jojoba, just be sure to make sure that the vitamin e oil is made with a high quality oil like jojoba or rosehip seed oil and not soy or some other lower quality oil.