Personalized toner: trial 1

After a lot of reading on the internet. Here are the ingredient that I finally decided on:

Ingredients
4 tbsp (2 fl. oz.) rose water
4 tbsp (2 fl. oz.) apple cider vinegar
4 tbsp (2 fl. oz.) aloe vera juice
4 tbsp (2 fl. oz.) green tea
10 drops of jojoba oil

Proportions
This is the recipe I mostly based the proportions upon.

For the green tea portion, I am going to use the 1 cup green tea leaves/1qt of water. Probably not that much water and tea, as per this article. 

Explanation of ingredients
To start off, I never even knew there was a difference between different toners and such. This is a pretty good overview of them.

This is customized to my skin which is a bit acne prone during certain times of the month, dry/combination, but tends to be a bit more oily during summer, I think.

I wanted to create a toner because I started wearing makeup again and it'll be nice to have something to help take everything off.

Rose water (found in ethnic section of grocery stores, I found mine in Ralph's. It was better than the ones I found in Henry's): I'm using rosewater as a base because it has mild astringent properties and does not contain alcohol. It's good for dry/sensitive skin. If my skin was a bit oilier, I'd probably use witch hazel hydrosol instead (which also does not contain alcohol, but I have no idea where to get it.)

Be sure to get the kind that says "distilled rose water" as opposed  to "water, rose oil" or something to that effect. Distilling is really how one creates rose water. It's also why the one I found at Ralphs was better than the water/oil mixtures I found at Henry's. tsk tsk. 

Apple cider vinegar: originally I wanted to use lemon juice. However, the latter is more perishable than vinegar. I wanted the acidic properties of either. Acid is not a good environment for bacteria to grow in. It also helps in exfoliating the skin.

Aloe vera juice: can be gel or juice. Using it just because everyone knows that aloe is good for skin. I'm using juice to make mixing easier. However, it seems to be quite perishable. So that's a drawback.

Green tea: anti-oxidant. Replaces vitamins E, C, and A apparently because it's that much stronger.

Jojoba oil: good for moisturizing and makeup removal since it's an oil. Fairly useful it seems.

Ultimately though, who knows if any of that is effective? Who knows whether some new properties will emerge when all of them are mixed together? Beneficial or detrimental? Perhaps it's all placebo effect. Ah well, it'll be fun.