Easy Homemade Bath and Beauty Recipes, Body Recipes and Crafts. This Lip Balm's Made for Kissing. One of the most popular posts of all time at FIMBY is my homemade lip balm recipe.
I published that post nearly three years ago. Sometime during the last year it hit StumbleUpon and since then it's been "stumbled upon" repeatedly. It's a FIMBY rock star I tell you. This is a pleasant turn of events for my stats (the numbers I use to track how many people visit here each day, what posts they like, etc.) but is kind of ironic since I blog about lip balm, oh... once a year or so.
Seems like it's that time of year to blog about lip balm again (smile). This is a good time of year for making lip balm, soap and other body care products. Lip balm is a great place to start if you want to make your own body care products. See my Suppliers List at Homemade Soap & Body Care if you live way in the boondocks somewhere with no access to even rinky-dinky health food stores. I've been making the same lip balm recipe for years. Peppermint Cocoa Lip Balm Notes: FIMBY - StumbleUpon.
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You might also enjoy let's talk lip balm. After making my own lip balm I will never buy it again. It's easy, cheap, 100% natural and good for your lips, especially this time of year. I tried to figure out the actual cost of this recipe but it wasn't worth counting up the pennies. Let's just say Burt's Bees makes a killing on lip balm! Ingredients 1/2 oz. Directions In a small pot over medium low heat melt beeswax, coconut oil, lanolin and vitamin E. This recipe makes enough for 3 - 3/4 oz tins (see photo for size) and one 1 1/2 oz jar. Notes I prefer to measure kitchen cosmetics with a scale but I included the approximate tsp. measurements for those without a scale. All ingredients can be found at a natural food store or ordered from an online store such as Mountain Rose Herbs. Some people are allergic to lanolin. I always use solid honey, that's just the kind of have.
Homemade Body Wash - Keep Scary Out Of Your&Shower - To Be A Farmer - Little Seed Farm - StumbleUpon. Our Homemade Lavender-Lemongrass Body WashWhat do you put on your body every day?
By the time I’ve finished my morning routine I’ve used shampoo, conditioner, body wash, face wash, toner, moisturizer and sunscreen for my face, and lotion for my body. Somehow, it took me close to a year before I started wondering what the heck was actually in those bottles in my shower. Isn't it odd that we’ve become so conscious of what we put inside our bodies, and somehow managed not to give any thought about what we were putting on them? All of that changed a few weeks ago when a friend recommended The Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Database which rates products according to the chemicals they contain and how harmful they are. How to Make a Banana Face Mask. Papaya Pumpkin Facial Recipe. If you have visited spas and resorts in exotic locales such as the Pacific Rim, Bali, Hawaii, and Tahiti, you’ve probably been lucky enough to have an aesthetician select and mash fresh fruit in front of you for a fresh-on-the spot enzyme mask.
Pumpkin Face Mask Rich In Vitamins A, C, and Zinc. Get your skin ready for fall with one of Mother Nature’s most beneficial products, the pumpkin.
Pumpkin makes an excellent face mask ingredient for all skin types, especially environmentally damaged or sensitive skin. High in Vitamin A (skin healing), C (anti-oxidant) and Zinc, the pumpkin soothes, moisturizes and acts as a carrier, assisting the other mask ingredients to absorb deeper into the skin and intensifying the results. Give your skin this healing mask for a healthy glow! Pumpkin Pie Face Mask Ingredients 2 teaspoons cooked or canned pumpkin, pureed (see above for benefits) one-half teaspoon honey (humectant, regenerative) one-quarter teaspoon milk (or soymilk)(alpha hydroxyl acid, enzymes digest skin cells) Optional Ingredients For Dry Skin one-quarter teaspoon heavy whipping cream (moisturizing; alpha hydroxy acid) -or- one-half teaspoon brown sugar (exfoliates, moisturizes, alpha hydroxyl acid) Directions Combine the ingredients for your facemask.
Ginger and Coconut Oil Sugar Body Scrub. How to take a few things from around the kitchen and turn them into a ginger-infused coconut oil sugar scrub for body and face. 72K+ Today’s post is not about food that you eat.
It is, however, about things you normally find in your kitchen like oils and ginger and sugar and kosher salt. While you could technically eat what we are going to make today, I’m suggesting that you feed it to your skin instead.My mom is a lotion fanatic. She has a giant bottle that she is constantly using at home on her hands, her arms, legs, face, wherever. I’m sure part of this stems from being a nurse, where washing your hands so many times a day leads to dryness, which leads to an increase need for lotion.