How to Incorporate Microgreens into Your Beauty Routine: Microgreens Toner and Baths – Part 2/4

From your salad to your face. Microgreens aren’t just food, they’re your glow-up weapon.

Welcome back! In Part 1, we explored masks and smoothies as simple ways to add microgreens to your beauty routine. Today, we’ll go a step further and add two more refreshing treatments you can also try at home: DIY toners and microgreen baths. Both are easy, natural, and perfect for glowing, healthy skin.

Microgreens Toners

Toners help to balance skin’s pH, tighten pores, and give an instant boost of hydration. By making them with microgreens, you get the added benefits of antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals directly absorbed into your skin. 

1. Cucumber Microgreen Refreshing Toner

Perfect for: all skin types, especially oily or acne-prone skin.

You’ll need:

• 1 cup cucumber microgreens
• ½ cucumber (peeled and chopped)
• ½ cup distilled water
• 1 tsp aloe vera gel (optional, for extra soothing)
  

How to make:

1. Blend the microgreens and cucumber with distilled water until smooth.
2. Strain through a fine sieve or cheesecloth.
3. Add aloe vera gel and stir well.
4. Store in a clean spray bottle in the fridge for up to 5 days.
   

You may use it during your morning and evening skincare routine after cleansing. Spritz directly onto skin or apply with a cotton pad.

2. Antioxidant Spinach Microgreen Toner

Perfect for: mature or dry skin needing extra nourishment.

You’ll need:

• 1 cup spinach microgreens
• 1 green tea bag
• ½ cup boiling water
• 1 tsp honey (optional)
  

How to make:

1. Steep the tea bag in boiling water for 5 minutes, then let it cool.
2. Blend spinach microgreens with the cooled green tea.
3. Strain and stir in honey if desired.
4. Pour into a glass bottle and keep refrigerated (lasts about 3 days).
   

Apply it daily with a cotton pad to refresh and hydrate.

Microgreens Baths

If you are tired after a long week, want to pamper yourself a bit, and you got a bath at home, you may want to try a microgreen bath. Microgreen baths are an indulgent way to detoxify, relax, and nourish your skin from head to toe. Warm water opens your pores, letting nutrients from the microgreens absorb more effectively. 

1. Relaxing Basil Microgreen Bath

Perfect for stress relief and soothing tired muscles.

You’ll need:

• 2 cups fresh basil microgreens
• ½ cup Epsom salts
• 3–4 drops lavender essential oil (optional)
  

How to make:

1. Blend or crush the basil microgreens.
2. Add them to a muslin bag or thin cloth so they don’t float around in the tub.
3. Fill your bath with warm water, then drop in the bag along with Epsom salts.
4. Add essential oil drops and soak for 20 minutes.
   

2. Skin-Softening Sunflower Microgreens Bath

Perfect for dry, flaky, or sensitive skin

You’ll need:

• 2 cups sunflower microgreens
• 1 cup rolled oats
• 2 tbsp coconut oil
  

How to make:

1. Blend oats and microgreens together into a fine powder.
2. Mix with coconut oil.
3. Add the mixture directly into warm bathwater.
4. Soak for 15–20 minutes and gently massage skin while bathing.
   

Summary

We are one step further to building a solid, flexible skincare routine for everyone. From face masks and smoothies (Part 1) to toners and baths (Part 2), a skincare routine that works inside and out. But wait, we’re not done yet! Stay tuned to discover how microgreens can keep transforming from food to skincare, and don’t forget to check our page for the next parts in this series.

Links of interest

How to Incorporate Microgreens into Your Beauty Routine – Part 1/4

“Eat Your Skincare (achieve a glowing skin with microgreens)”

Green Elegance: DIY Spinach Recipes for Nourished Hair and Glowing Skin

https://urbanwhip.com/blogs/news/green-elegance-diy-spinach-recipes-for-nourished-hair-and-glowing-skin?srsltid=AfmBOooV9k85vOIBSQrlMjJXJqrw8Mt58qxeMGRrycVxAgryGUJ5_v2i&utm_source=chatgpt.com