DIY - Eye Make-up Remover

Hello Beautiful People!

This week I have another fabulous DIY beauty product for you.  Eye make up removers can be just another expense to add to your beauty arsenal but they don't have to be.  Yes, a commercial product contains a whole bunch of things claiming to be gentle, have amazing, out of this world benefits and blah, blah, blah.

Honestly.  All you need is... oil.

 

Most eye make up products are designed so that water will not wash them away.  An obvious idea because our eyes are likely going to water (yes, I say my eyes leak because apparently "Big girls don't cry" *eye roll*)  So, naturally washing with soap and water isn't too effective.  That means that most eye make up is what we call oil soluble.  Dissolves in oil.  Now, I could have designed a product, as the big companies do, to make money off you but I can't in good conscious bottle plain old oil, jack up the price and sell it to you as something else.   I find it a little bit ridiculous when all you really need is oil.  

Any oil.  But my favorite is jojoba oil.

Okay, you got me.  Jojoba oil is not really an oil.  Its a wax ester that takes a liquid form but for our purposes it acts extremely similar to our own skins sebum.  It's gentle.  It's not overly greasy.  Though I don't recommend putting it in your eyes on purpose, this of course, has happened to me, and it doesn't terribly hurt.  But I digress.  Use what you've got, but I'll mention again, for those of you new to this... baby oil is mineral oil.  Mineral oil is a petroleum product.

K.I.S.S.  (Keep It Simple Sister) 

Humans, and IMHO the cosmetic industry, have a tendency to over complicate things.  Just take the oil, put it on a cotton pad or swab, gently wipe over your eyes and voila.  Cleansing and moisturizing in one go.   As I mentioned, you can use any ol' oil.  Almost all of us have olive oil in the kitchen now.  Sunflower oil is usually my go to body oil.  But I love the jojoba for eyes, face and hair.  You'll likely have to search it out at a health food store.  Although some of the larger super markets may have some in the beauty section (ie: soap, shampoo etc) if they've jumped on the "all natural" band wagon.  You know the section I mean, the one carrying the "natural" products from the really big companies *another eye roll is required here*... but that's another story.

Vegetable oil.   I ask you, what could be simpler?