Superfine White Kaolin Clay

* level: a spoon filled to the brim, where the excess has been removed by passing a spatula or the back of a knife over it.

• Bran: 200 g

• Clay: 100 g

• Milk: 1 liter

• Honey: 100 g

• True Lavender essential oil: 10 drops

Directions: Pour the honey, lotion, essential oil and clay into the hot bath, along with a small sachet containing the bran.

• Fresh or dried Lavender flowers: 25 g

• Fresh Calendula flowers: 25 g (or 4 teaspoons of dried flowers)

• Freshly scented Rose petals: 25 g (or 4 teaspoons of dried petals)

• Very hot water: 225 ml

• Yoghurt: 2 teaspoons

• Honey: 1 tablespoon

• Kaolin: 20 g

• Liquorice root powder: 1 teaspoon

• Neroli essential oil: 5 drops

• Rose essential oil: 5 drops

• Sea water (or mineral water with 2 teaspoons of sea salt added): 125 ml

• Sea salt : 60 g

Procedure: Leave the petals to infuse in very hot water for at least 30 minutes. Strain the mixture through cheesecloth, kitchen paper or a fine sieve. Set aside. Make a smooth paste with the yoghurt and honey. Gradually add the kaolin, Liquorice root and essential oils, whisking well.

To use: Run a very hot bath (to fill the room with steam) and pour in the infusion and sea salt. Add the sea water (or substitute) to the paste and whisk again. Massage the mud into your skin from head to toe, avoiding the eye area and mouth. Leave for 10 minutes, then plunge into the bath (you may need to add a little cold water) and stay in the muddy water for 10 minutes. Rinse off with cool water (and the bath too!).

Warning: This recipe is messy. You can set up a comfortable armchair in your bathroom and line it with old towels. Make yourself comfortable and leave the mud to work.

Alternatively, cover anything likely to get dirty with plastic.

NB: Mud is washed away by washing clothes at a high temperature.

Recommended container: glass jar Ingredients for 50 ml:

• White clay: 2 tablespoons

• Roman chamomile hydrosol: a few drops to moisten the clay paste

• Aloe vera gel: 1 tablespoon

• Lavender essential oil: 2 drops

• Tea tree essential oil: 2 drops

• Propolis extract: 2 drops

Directions: Mix the ingredients together vigorously until a homogeneous paste is obtained.

Use: Apply in small dabs to infected or irritated areas. Leave on for as long as possible. Gently remove with clean water, then dab with antiseptic lotion. Use every evening until the lesions have healed. This blend can be kept for 2 to 3 weeks.

• Ylang-Ylang or Geranium Essential Oil: 2 drops

• Sesame or Borage oil: 1 teaspoon

• White clay: 2 tablespoons

Directions: Dilute the essential oils in carrier oil. Add a little fresh water or floral water to the clay to make a paste. Add the mixture of essential and carrier oils.

Use: Apply the mask to a well-cleansed face, avoiding the eye contour area, and leave on for 10 to 20 minutes (the mask needs to dry). Then rinse off with lukewarm water or floral water.

• Ylang-Ylang or Geranium essential oil: 2 drops

• Sesame or Borage oil: 1 teaspoon

• White clay: 2 tablespoons

Directions: Dilute the essential oils in carrier oil. Add a little fresh water or floral water to the clay to make a paste. Add the mixture of essential and carrier oils.

Use: Apply the mask to a well-cleansed face, avoiding the eye contour area, and leave on for 10 to 20 minutes (the mask needs to dry). Then rinse off with lukewarm water or floral water.

• Clay: 3 tablespoons

• True Lavender essential oil: 3 drops

• Cedar essential oil: 3 drops

• Castor oil: 1 teaspoon

• Lemon juice: 1 teaspoon

• Brewer's yeast: 1 teaspoon

• Lavender infusion

Procedure: Mix all the ingredients.

• White or green clay: 2 teaspoons

• Bran: 1 teaspoon

• 1/2 crushed peach or strawberries

• Petitgrain bigaradier essential oil: 2 drops

How to use: Mix all the ingredients, then proceed with a scrub.

Use : Cleanse the skin with a lotion or lotion. Apply the scrub quickly, massaging it into the skin in small circular motions to remove impurities deep down. Leave on for 20 minutes, then remove the product by rubbing in rotating movements over the forehead, chin and cheeks, and in vertical movements over the nose, face contours and neck. Rinse thoroughly with lukewarm water, then spray on a toning lotion and dry the skin. Apply a day (or night) cream or skincare oil. This scrub should be done once or twice a month, depending on the condition of your skin.

• Kaolin (white clay): 100 g

• Baking soda: 100 g

• Dried raspberry leaves: 10 g

• Dried aromatic herbs (according to your preference: spearmint, sage, fennel, peppermint, etc.): 5 g

• Myrrh powder: 5 g

• Dried curly dock: 5 g

• Mint or sage or Fennel essential oil, depending on your choice of aromatic herb: 5 drops

Method: Pour the kaolin and bicarbonate of soda into a container, then grind the aromatic herbs to a powder using a coffee grinder or pepper mill (or a mortar and pestle). Add the other two dry ingredients and mix with a wire whisk to aerate the mixture. Add the essential oil corresponding to the aromatic herb of your choice, and whisk again. Cover the container with a clean cloth or towel and leave the mixture to rest overnight. In the morning, quickly whisk the mixture and transfer to a sterilised bottle.

How to use: Put a little powder on your toothbrush every morning and evening to clean your teeth as usual.

• 1 tablespoon white or green clay or fine salt, or 1 tablespoon iris powder, or lycopod or flour

How to use: Sprinkle the chosen product onto the scalp. Leave on for 5 minutes. Brush several times to remove all the product. You can also use 1 tablespoon of a mixture of 2 or 3 of these products.

• 2/3 White clay

• 1/3 Mugwort, dried and finely ground

How to use: Mix the ingredients. Sprinkle on the inside of shoes. Store in a jar. Prevents perspiration and tired feet.

• Chopped fresh sage leaves: 110 g or 50 g dried sage leaves

• Cider vinegar: 225 ml

• Kaolin powder (white clay)

• 1 egg yolk (optional, for its nourishing effect)

Procedure: Heat the vinegar in a saucepan and infuse the sage in the simmering liquid for 10 minutes. Strain the mixture while it is still hot.

Use: Leave to cool and then add the kaolin powder, until the mixture has a mask-like texture. Gradually beat in the egg yolk. Using clips or tongs, separate dry hair into strips, then coat with paste from roots to ends. Wrap your hair in cling film and leave the dye on for 30 minutes to 1 hour (wrap a hot towel around the cling film to speed up the treatment slightly). Rinse with lukewarm, almost cold water (not hot), then wash and apply conditioner. Use once a week. If you have dry or frizzy hair, add 1 tablespoon of olive oil to the mixture, after the egg yolk.

• Dried sage leaves: 25 g

• Dried Calendula leaves: 20 g

• Red wine: 225 ml

• Kaolin powder (white clay)

• Extra virgin olive oil: 1 tablespoon

• 1 egg yolk (optional, for its nourishing effect)

Procedure: Place the sage and Calendula leaves in a heatproof container, then bring the wine to the boil in a small saucepan. Pour over the leaves and leave to cool thoroughly. Strain the herbal wine and reheat in a clean saucepan. Gradually add the kaolin to the wine, stirring all the time, until the mixture has the consistency of a mask. Add the olive oil, which will nourish the hair, and the egg (leave the mixture to cool before adding the egg yolk, which could cook).

To use: Using clips or tongs, separate dry hair into strips and spread the paste over each strip, from roots to ends. Wrap your hair in cling film and leave for at least 45 minutes (you can wrap a hot towel around the cling film to speed up the treatment slightly). Rinse thoroughly with warm water, then wash and apply conditioner.

NB: This treatment may cause bleached hair to turn carrot orange.