Beauty formulation
Potato Milk Skin Brightening Toner
The section's twice-daily toner, leaning on potato's brightening enzyme reputation alongside rosewater's calming properties and witch hazel's light astringency, gentle enough for regular use unlike the more active spot-treatment masks elsewhere in the section.
By Aunesty Janssen · The Big Book of Milk & Garden Beauty: 156 Natural Recipes for Skin & Hair Using Alternative Milks & Everyday Pantry Ingredients
Ingredients
- Phase A (Aqueous Phase)
- ½ cup (120 mL / 120g) Fresh Potato Milk
- ¼ cup (60 mL / 60g) Organic Rosewater Hydrosol
- Phase B (Astringent Phase)
- 1 tsp (5 mL / 5g) Alcohol-Free Witch Hazel Extract
Method & application
- Whisk fresh potato milk and rosewater hydrosol together in a glass measuring beaker.
- Add witch hazel and stir well.
- Pour into an amber spray bottle.
- APPLICATION
- Mist over clean facial skin or apply with a cotton pad night and morning.
Kitchen note
Shake more vigorously than you would for the book's other toners, potato starch settles more stubbornly than the lighter hydrosol-based formulas elsewhere in the book.
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