Create Your Own Beauty Magic With DIY Recipes for Allergies
Create Your Own Beauty Magic With DIY Recipes for Allergies
Beauty and magic go hand in hand. Many witch-inspired products take their fragrances and colors from the ingredients used for love spells over centuries.
These recipes are allergy-friendly and will allow you to cast daily beauty spells from the inside out. They include essential oil blend sprays, homemade allergy balm and a tasty tea mix.
1. Homemade Allergy Spray
Allergies are the body’s exaggerated response to substances that are normally harmless such as pollen found outdoors or in indoor houseplants, animal fur, certain foods or dust. These allergens can trigger symptoms like a runny nose, itchy eyes and sneezing or more serious reactions like anaphylactic shock.
Using natural products is one of the most effective ways to treat allergies. Natural remedies and herbal products are available for treating allergies. These include drinking apple cider vinegar and raw honey, quercetin, stinging-nettle tea, or using essential oils such as frankincense or peppermint.
You can make your own homemade allergy spray to help relieve annoying allergy symptoms like a runny nose, watery eyes and sneezing. The ingredients for this DIY recipe include olive oil, a skin moisturizer that can also promote healing, as well as chamomile, calendula, dandelion and plantain, herbs that can calm the immune system and soothe itchy eyes.
2. Homemade Allergy Balm
Whether it is the tree pollen, dander or dust that is giving you allergy symptoms, this balm helps to relieve those pesky symptoms such as runny nose, watery eyes and itchy skin. It also soothes the sinuses and throat.
This DIY uses essential oils that are known for their anti-inflammatory, soothing and anti-histamine properties. They can help to reduce allergies symptoms. Lemon and peppermint both have anti-histamine properties, and lavender is well known for soothing and anti-inflammatory qualities. Frankincense oil is also a powerful antispasmodic with expectorant qualities.
Place shea butter, coconut oil and beeswax in the upper half of a double-boiler pan. Over low/medium-low heat, melt the shea butter and coconut oil. Combine well. Add your essential oils and remove from heat. Pour into your containers and allow to cool completely. After the containers have cooled down, place lids over them and add labels if desired.
3. Homemade Allergy Tea
Pollens from flowers, grasses, trees and weeds can trigger allergies. Symptoms include runny or watery nose, itchy eyes, sneezing, and coughing. The herbal teas are an alternative natural remedy to allergy medication.
It is also known as Stinging Nettle. This herb has anti-allergy qualities and helps reduce inflammation of the lungs and sinuses. It can also help alleviate congestion and clear out mucus. The peppermint is a wonderful ingredient in allergy teas because it reduces histamine levels, which can help to relieve inflammation and itchiness.
Fennel and lemon peel are both anti-inflammatory, and they help to improve digestion. Hibiscus is also rich in Vitamin C and boosts the immune system. Ginger is a potent anti-inflammatory with shogaol and gingerol that help to relieve itchy and runny noses. This tisane is delicious hot or cold, and can be refrigerated for use as an iced tea in the summer.
4. Homemade Allergy Cleanser
Many allergy medicines are available, and they may provide relief. However, these medications can have side effects. Rather than going through 10 boxes of tissues and getting tired from relying on medication to get through the day, try some natural remedies to help relieve your symptoms.
Inhale oils such as eucalyptus, peppermint and frankincense to help relieve sinus allergies. Use an oil diffuser or rub some drops onto your wrist to breathe in these energizing scents.
You can also soothe skin allergies with baking soda paste. It is an anti-inflammatory and helps to soothe itching. Mix 4 tablespoons of baking soda with a little water to make a paste. Apply it on the itch. of baking soda with a little water until it forms a paste and apply it to your itchy area. Leave it on for about 30 minutes before gently rinsing it off with cool water.