Description
Corn silk was often used as an ingredient in makeup as a soft dusting powder for the face because of its nice smooth texture that used to be readily available in the past but is hard to find more recently. The great thing is that you can still make your own cornsilk powder with options to personalize it to your own preferences.
The basic cornsilk recipe for makeup as a dusting powder includes adding cornstarch or arrowroot powder to corn silk as a base. From there, you can begin to personalize it to your skin tone by by adding cocoa powder, cinnamon, or other spices that can add a light bronzing color and give it a slight fragrant smell. Mix well and keep your mix in a small makeup container with a powder puff pad for easy use and touch up as needed.
If you'd like to apply your corn silk powder as a cream with a little more wetness, you can add essential oils like lavender, a carrier oil such as sweet almond or vegetable glycerin. You can also add zinc oxide if you are outside alot and would like to add some sun protection. The use of corn silk powder and other ingredients offer fragrance and aroma plus potential skin health benefits because of their natural vitamins, minerals, amino acids and lutein which are high in antioxidants too.
