Cranberry & Helichrysum Vitamin Toner

This refreshing facial toner is designed to enhance your skin’s natural glow. Enriched with humectants to lock in moisture, it’s brimming with vitamins C, B3, and E to deeply nourish and brighten your complexion. It also doubles as a micellar water, perfect for revitalising your skin while gently removing light makeup, dirt, and daily impurities.

This carefully crafted blend includes:

• Aloe vera juice: Known for its soothing and hydrating properties, aloe vera juice helps to calm irritation and provide deep moisture, leaving your skin feeling refreshed and balanced.
• Glycerin: A powerful humectant, glycerin draws moisture into the skin, ensuring long-lasting hydration and a plump, dewy complexion.
• Ascorbyl glucoside: A stable form of vitamin C, ascorbyl glucoside brightens the skin, evens out tone, and reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles for a youthful glow.
• Niacinamide: This multitasking ingredient helps to minimize pores, regulate oil production, and improve skin texture while enhancing the skin's barrier function.
• Cranberry glycerite extract: Cranberries are widely recognised as having one of the highest concentrations of antioxidants of any fruit or vegetable. These nutritious berries are also a natural source of flavonoids (an antioxidant) and salicylic acid (a beta hydroxy acid or BHA).
• Helichrysum essential oil: Used to soothe inflamed irritated red skin, helps to regenerate and has the ability to revitalise the appearance of skin
• Vitamin E: This potent antioxidant nourishes and protects the skin, helping to reduce the signs of aging and improve overall skin health.

Together, these ingredients create a powerhouse facial toner that hydrates, soothes, and rejuvenates your skin, leaving it looking luminous, clear, and revitalised. Perfect for daily use, this toner will help you achieve a naturally beautiful complexion.

Make Your Own Cranberry & Helichrysum Vitamin Toner

Ingredients
Makes 250g 

Phase A
84.20% | 210.5g *Aloe Vera Juice
0.20% | 0.50g Sodium phytate
3.0% | 7.5g Glycerin
2.0% | 5g Ascorbyl glucoside (Vitamin C)
3.0% | 7.5g Niacinamide (Vitamin B3)
3.0% | 7.5g Cranberry glycerite extract

*Aloe Vera Juice is made with distilled water and Aloe vera extract
How to make *Aloe Vera Juice - You will not need to preserve it if you're going to use it all at once.
Phase B
3% | 7.5g Polysorbate 20
0.50% | 1.25g Helichrysum essential oil
0.10% | 0.25g Vitamin E, certified organic
1.0% | 2.5g Geogard ECT

Method 

1. Combine all the Phase A ingredients, stirring until well mixed.
2. Separately combine all the Phase B ingredients, stirring until well mixed.
3. Slowly add Phase B to Phase A, stirring until well mixed.
4. Check and adjust pH to 5.3 - 5.8.   (Check out our blog on pH testing and adjusting)

Substitutions

• Aloe vera juice % can be substituted in part or entirely with a Hydrosol of your choice, or simply with distilled water.
• You can replace the Helichrysum essential oil with a different Essential oil or left out completely, just make up the % with more water.

To use

• Apply after cleansing if using as a toner.
• Spray or pour into a reusable face pad, or directly into hands, and sweep across the face and neck.
• Follow with your favourite serums/moisturiser.
• If using as a micellar water it can be applied as a cleanser directly to skin to remove light make up, sunscreen and daily grime.
• Safety: Due to the essential oil it is recommended to avoid contact with eyes. If contact occurs rinse well.