Curious how to make DIY rosewater toner at home? Making a witch hazel and rosewater toner for your natural skin care routine is super easy! It’s also a great way to save money on your everyday beauty products. Learn how to keep your skin balanced and beautiful with this easy, all natural DIY rosewater face mist. Plus discover essential oil blends for your skin type to make a rose toner with essential oils.
Natural Skin Care: Rosewater Toner
Caring for your skin doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, with just a few natural ingredients and your favorite essential oil blend, you can formulate your own custom witch hazel and rosewater toner for your daily beauty regimen. It’s also really easy to customize a DIY rosewater face mist for natural skin care. Simply pick an essential oil blend that works for your skin type. Whether you have dry or maturing skin, oily or acne prone skin, you can create the perfect rosewater toner to address your unique skin care needs.
Read on to learn more about the benefits of using a DIY rosewater toner. Plus discover a collection of natural essential oil blend recipes you can use in your DIY rosewater toner based on your skin type.
What are the benefits of rosewater?
You can use plain rosewater on your skin as a refreshing facial mist to help balance and hydrate skin. Rosewater, however, does more than those two things alone. There are actually a number of other natural skin care benefits to using rosewater. Some of the benefits of rosewater include the following, according to Healthline.
- As rosewater has anti-inflammatory properties, it helps to soothe skin inflammation and irritation caused by dry skin, eczema and even psoriasi. This also makes it especially suitable for sensitive skin. Additionally, these properties also help to reduce skin redness and even puffiness.
- Rosewater is also antibacterial and a natural antiseptic. Therefore it may help to reduce the occurence of acne as well as promote healing.
- Both rose petals and rose oil are naturally rich in antioxidants. Therefore rosewater may help protect cells from damage as well as help to reduce the visible appearance of wrinkles.
Due to rosewater’s many skin care benefits, it makes it the perfect ingredient for a natural facial toner. When combining rosewater in a rosewater toner recipe with witch hazel and an essential oil blend customize for your skin care needs, you get glowing skin that looks and feels healthy.
Tips on How to Make Rosewater Toner at Home
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Lots of recipes for making DIY rosewater toner indicate to add essential oils to a water based product such as rosewater and/or witch hazel. The problem with this is that the essential oils will rise to the top of the formula. Even when shaking the product, you end up with essential oils on your face that aren’t properly diluted because oil and water simply don’t mix. To remedy this, you should use an emulsifier in your facial care recipes.
Polysorbate 20 is a gentle water-soluble emulsifier that works great for natural skin care products and even room sprays. It’s formed through a chemical reaction with a sugar alcohol, called sorbitol. Polysorbate 20 works as a nonionic surfactant and wetting agent that helps both essential oils and fragrance oils attach to liquid or gel cosmetic bases in order to prevent them from separating.
It’s easy to determine the amount of Polysorbate 20 you’ll need for your DIY rosewater toner recipe. Simply use the same amount of Polysorbate-20 as the essential oils in your recipe.
Ready to get started? You’ll find my easy rosewater toner recipe below along with an array of essential oil blends for every skin type.
DIY Rosewater Toner Recipe with Essential Oils
© Rebecca D. Dillon
Ingredients:
You will need the following ingredients to make this rosewater face mist to use as a skin toner:
- 1.5 oz. rosewater/rose hydrosol (You can also learn how to make DIY rose water here.)
- .5 oz. witch hazel
- 6 – 12 drops essential oil blend, of choice (see below)
- 6-12 drops (equal to essential oil blend) Polysorbate 20
- preservative of choice, recommended (use manufacturer’s guidelines)
Tools & Materials:
These are the tools you need to formulate a rose toner:
- 2 oz. glass bottle
- fingertip mister
How to Make a Witch Hazel and Rosewater Toner
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Here is how to make a witch hazel and rosewater toner recipe:
- Begin by sterilizing your glass bottles. You can do this by running them through the sanitizing rinse on your dishwasher or rinsing them out with 99% isopropyl alcohol.
- Using a glass dropper add equal parts of the essential oil blend and Polysorbate 20 to a 2 oz. glass bottle with a fingertip mister. Then, if using, add the preservative.
- Shake well to combine.
- Then measure out the rosewater and witch hazel and pour into the bottle with the essential oil blend.
- Screw the fingertip mister onto the bottle of DIY rosewater toner, then shake well to thoroughly mix the ingredients.
How to Use Rose Toner
To use your DIY rosewater toner, simply mist onto your face after cleansing. (Try one of these amazing, natural daily face wash recipes.) Then follow with your favorite moisturizer.
Essential Oil Blends for Rosewater Toner
Adding essential oil blends to make a rosewater toner with essential oils is easy, although optional. If you’re wondering how to make a rosewater toner with essential oils, you first need to choose an essential oil blend that works for your skin type. Following are essential oil blends you can use to create a custom DIY rose face mist for daily skin care. Simply choose the essential oil blend that works best for your skin type. I’ve share essential oil blends for normal skin, acne prone skin, sensitive skin, oily skin, combination skin and mature skin.
Once you’ve mixed the essential oil blend that works with your skin type, simply add 6 to 12 drops of the blend in with the other ingredients to make a rosewater toner with essential oils. The polysorbate 20 used in my witch hazel and rosewater toner recipe ensures the the essential oils are diluted and stay evenly mixed in the formulation.
Normal Skin
- 4 drops lavender essential oil
- 4 drops geranium essential oil
- 2 drops frankincense essential oil
Acne Prone Skin
- 4 drops lavender essential oil
- 2 drops tea tree essential oil
- 2 drops geranium essential oil
- 1 drop blue chamomile essential oil
Sensitive Skin
- 2 drops helichrysum essential oil
- 2 drops sandalwood essential oil
- 2 drops frankincense essential oil
- 2 drops lavender essential oil
Oily Skin
- 5 drops cypress essential oil
- 2 drops peppermint essential oil
- 2 drops rosemary essential oil
Combination Skin
- 2 drops frankincense essential oil
- 2 drops geranium essential oil
- 2 drops sandalwood essential oil
- 2 drops lavender essential oil
Mature Skin
- 4 drops geranium essential oil
- 2 drops helichrysum essential oil
- 2 drops frankincense essential oil
Alternatives to Using Rosewater to Make Homemade Face Toner
Don’t feel like you must only use rosewater for making facial toners, however. There are a number of floral waters, or plant based hydrosols, you can use in lieu of rosewater. You can choose a hydrosol similar to the essential oils for your skin type. Some of the hydrosols available are:
- Calendula Hydrosol
- Chamomile Hydrosol
- Frankincense Hydrosol
- Helichrysum Hydrosol
- Lavender Hydrosol
- Peppermint Hydrosol
- Rose Geranium Hydrosol
- Rosemary Hydrosol
If you like my DIY rosewater toner recipe, then you may also like my moisturizing facial toner recipe with apple cider vinegar, calendula hydrosol and manuka essential oil. Alternately, you can also find more rose skin care recipes, like these DIY rose bath bombs, here.
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