Green Tea Toner

I've been reading so much about the benefits of green tea toner on Anamika's site (wiseshe), then I saw that Palak has also joined the bandwagon, so I hauled my lazy behind to the kitchen & decided to make it myself.

It was so much fun, once I started I wanted to add so many things to it; I finally had to restrain myself as it begun to smell a little medicinal (I added too much tea tree toner in my enthusiasm).

Anyway's here is what I did:
I used

1. Green Tea Bag - 1
2. Lemon - 1/2
3. Honey - 2 drops
4. Sesame Oil - 3 drops
5. Tea Tree oil - 1 drop (I added 3-4 drops. I blame the new bottle, I didn't know it would expel so much oil)
6. Dried Chamomile flowers - quarter spoonful
7. Water - 100 ml.

How to:

Heat water in microwave, add tea bag & chamomile flowers - let it steep for 5 to 7 minutes.

I had purchased the chamomile flowers a year ago, after I read about the benefits of drinking chamomile tea. I had visions of me sipping delicately honey flavored tea by the window sill. None of that happened. It is supposed to be very beneficial for cell regeneration, reducing puffiness, redness of skin & cleansing pores of impurities. So I thought, might as well. This bottle you see in the picture cost me Rs. 32 at Star Bazaar.

Those things floating are the dried chamomile flowers

After all the steeping, I added juice of half a lemon, 2 drops of honey, 3 drops sesame oil, too much tea tree oil (you just add 1 drop), swirled it around, strained it & have kept it for cooling in the fridge.

I will be trying this out later tonight, I might add a few drops of lemon or lavender essential oil to deal with the overpowering smell of tea tree, later.

I will keep you girls updated on how this fares on my skin.

Have a nice weekend y'all!