Lavender Teabag. These teabag-shaped lavender sachets are so sweet - a fun and quirky way of keeping your clothes smelling sweet and deterring those pesky moths (just don't try to drink them!). I'm going to be making a few of these this Christmas for some fellow tea-obsessives (making use of the lovely lavender from my mama) & I thought they'd make a fun free tutorial to share... To make these you will need:- white felt- narrow white ribbon- white embroidery thread- light purple felt- some dried lavender & a teaspoon- tracing paper- white and purple sewing thread, needles, scissors, pins etc & an embroidery hoop (optional) A pattern sheet for this project can be found at the bottom of this post. 1) Using the pattern piece provided, cut out 2 identical white felt pieces for the teabag. 2) Cut a length of ribbon, approx 5 inches long. 4) Use the teaspoon to lightly stuff your teabag with lavender. 5) Stitch the word "tea" in small letters in white embroidery thread on your purple felt.
Solid perfume pocket watch locket. Try as I might, I cannot seem to grasp even the most basic of feminine beauty rituals. I’m constantly struggling to master rudimentary hair and makeup techniques, and my one-time foray into the “subtle” art of perfume left everyone in the room with burning nostrils. This DIY solid perfume locket from artisanal perfumer Mandy Aftel is something I can definitely stand behind, though. Mandy only uses pure and natural ingredients to create her perfumes, and this solid scent can be easily applied with no risk of over-dousing. The old pocket watch appeals to my tomboy side, and I love its versatility; you can wear it as a necklace or pin, or simply tuck it into your pocket or purse.
Read the full how-to after the jump! Creating your own solid perfume is extremely satisfying. Materials Instructions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. How to Make DIY Handmade Perfume Oils to Give as Gifts for Holiday Stocking Stuffers and Wedding Favors. Ever wondered how to make your own perfumes? Perfume oils are extremely simple to make unless you are creating your own unique fragrance blends from scratch. Otherwise it can get a little complicated perfecting a fragrance formula that you love. While the base oil for crafting your own DIY Perfume Oils is a little high, the end result is well worth it and you’ll never have to go without your favorite scent blend again.
DIY Handmade Red Velvet Cake Perfume Oil Recipe Ingredients: In a small glass container, weigh out 1/2 oz. – or approximately 14 grams – of jojoba oil. That you’ve fallen in love with! Finally, you can give your diy handmade perfume vials a decorative touch by adding a small strip of washi tape around the bottle. Dress your handmade perfume oils up even further by gifting them in Kraft Pillow Boxes you’ve decorated with scrapbooking papers and ribbon.
How To Make Perfume: {Recipes & Tips. Ever wonder about making unique perfumes and favorite scents? Here’s a collection of goodies to get things started. I have a free ebook download as well as a collection of online resources and tips. Enjoy! Here’s a 28 page report (pdf) to download, I found this sitting in some long forgotten folder on my computer and saw it came with full rights to distribute as I wish (including give it away free). The chapters include: IntroductionHistoryWhat Can It Be Made From? Here’s a sample from the report, the ingredients needed are as follows: 2 cups of water2 cup fresh chopped flower blossoms (such as lavender, lilac, orange blossoms or honeysuckle). Now for the directions: In a bowl, put a cheesecloth (make sure that the edges of the cloth hang over the side of the bowl). The report is pretty basic and might provide more info than needed (like the history or setting up a business to sell it), but it provides a great start for those wishing to delve into this as a hobby. indiefixx.com.
Homemade Beauty Products - Natural Beauty Product Recipes. Sure, we all know that beauty comes from within — but from within your refrigerator? Here, beauty experts share their secret formulas for a more beautiful you. The bonus: These recipes can be made with items found in your fridge and cabinets. Getting gorgeous has never been easier. Happy Hand Exfoliant Say good-bye to dry, cracked hands. Even if your gloves haven't been doing their job this winter, this easy-to-make exfoliant will slough off all those dead skin cells.
Plus, it cleanses and moisturizes, leaving hands soft and smooth. Ingredients: 1 ounce ground almonds1 teaspoon clear honey2 teaspoons walnut or sunflower oil1 teaspoon lemon juice Directions: Mix all ingredients together into a thick paste. From Natural Superwoman by food consultant Rosamond Richardson Peach-and-Honey Mask This revitalizing peach and honey mask is almost good enough to eat. 1 large peach or nectarine, skinned3 teaspoons honeyA pinch of lecithin powder or 2 tablespoons yogurt Apple-Pectin Toner Ingredients: Poplar. POPLAR (Aspen, Cottonwood) (Populus) Popularly speaking, Poplars, by virtue of their natural range into every province and territory of Canada, should be the Canadian National Tree, with the Poplar leaf waving in the wind on a green or yellow-gold Canadian Flag as the natural Poplar leaves flutter in every wind.
Quaking Aspen (Populous tremuloides) has the greatest range of the Poplars, and, with its many cousins, helps bring the Populus family into nearly every area of the United States, reaching also into Mexico. In many areas it is the only tree that will grow naturally, and many a settler has felt blessed by its presence, though the logger generally snubs his nose at Poplar except for pulpwood or when all else has been logged out. As can be imagined, a tree that has such a wide area of distribution, thus availability to people, will have been tried for many a bodily condition.
Poplar has stood well the test of Popular Medicine. Poplar root has also found a place in Popular medicine. DIY Natural Organic Skin Care Recipes - 18 Bath, Body and Beauty Recipes You Can Make at Home for Healthy Skin and Hair. Natural Home Remedies for 8 Common Beauty Problems. It would be grand to just roll out of bed every morning looking glamorous and fresh, but it requires serious maintenance to stay sexy. Here are eight easy and eco-friendly tricks for dealing with some of the most frustrating beauty predicaments.
Tired Eyes Everybody knows about sliced cucumbers, but I recently discovered a more effective method. Steep a couple of green tea bags, put them in the refrigerator until they’re cool and place them over your eyes. Blemishes Apply a touch of toothpaste overnight and dab blemishes with lemon juice before putting on makeup in the morning. Oily Skin If you start your morning off with a hot bowl of oatmeal, this one’s a cinch. Dull Hair Next time you pop the bubbly, save a glass of champagne to rinse through your hair for brighter locks. Bad Breath Add several drops of lemon juice to that reusable water bottle you carry around all day. Wet Nails Who has the time to wait for nail polish to dry, especially after a couple of coats?
Image: clickflashphotos. DIY: 10 Things To Do With an Old T-shirt. Ten great DIY projects you can make from an old T-shirt. If you’re anything like me, you have tons of old T-shirts laying around in your drawers collecting dust. Instead of dumping them all in a collection bin, turn them into something useful. You’ll be amazed at how many things you could actually make from a humble tee.
Here are ten of our favorites. Wrapped Bracelets You can never have enough bracelets, and there are so many great ones you can make yourself. Market Tote Plastic bags are slowly but surely being banned in cities around the country. Scarf If you have a sewing machine, this DIY scarf is very easy to make following this tutorial by wienerdog tricks.
Knotted Headband This stylish headband is super easy to make, with nothing but a few cuts, knots, and glue. Knotted Rug I love DIY projects that look like they came straight out of a fancy design store, and this knotted flokati-style rug is a great example of that. See Also: 10 DIY Bracelets You Can Make This Weekend. 20 Unusual Ways to Use Milk. Got milk? You don’t have to just drink it. Love it or hate it, milk has a place not only in your diet but also in your tool box and cleaning closet as well as among your toiletries. Raw goat milk, in its unadulterated and probiotic-heavy state, is the best to use. But seeing that unpasteurized milk is outlawed for sale almost everywhere in the U.S., pasteurized goat milk is second best. While not all milks are created equally, you can use any animal milk to successfully benefit from these tips.
From curing a hangover to tending to those stained linens, milk has got your back. Appetite Suppressant To prevent overeating at mealtime, drink a glass of milk 15 minutes beforehand. Hair Conditioner and Mask With its vitamin and mineral content, milk works great on smoothing and shining your hair. Hangover Cure Milk helps to settle the stomach, rehydrate the system, and raise blood sugar levels. Fish Freshener Place frozen fish in a milk bath and let sit until the fish thaws.
Make-Up Remover. Chemical Recycling & Disposal Services, Environmental Solutions for Laboratories and Universities. Moisturizing Spray [Homemade and Non-Greasy] I love making my own products, especially a creamy, luxurious moisturizer. However, the onset of summer brought a small predicament. I needed a non-greasy moisturizer. All summer long I have played with different moisturizer recipes looking for one that didn’t leave me oily and glistening (although the radiant sun-goddess thing is appealing sometimes).
My summer skin needs moisturizing, especially after overexposure to sun, wind, or sand, but it always feels like overkill to slather a thick lotion onto my already overly-oil-producing skin. I came up with a recipe for a moisturizing spritz more than a month ago, and have been using it with great results every day since! Enjoy the light feeling of this non-greasy moisturizing spray during the warm months, or all year long! About the Ingredients Distilled water: Any time you make your own moisturizers, added water is a breeding ground for microorganisms. Moisturizing Spray Ingredients: Directions: Variations and Recommendations Final Thoughts.
Making Homemade Deodorant: {Easy Recipes. Making deodorant is not only cheap & surprisingly easy, natural ingredients can be used that will cut back on harsh chemicals coming in contact with your skin. To store the cream versions, small glass or plastic jars work well. If solid/stick versions are preferred, find them online (even eBay) by searching for “empty deodorant tubes” (or containers).
Containers can also be salvaged from purchased products by cleaning them out really well. Here are a couple different recipes to get started with. I have also listed several more homemade options that I’ve handpicked from around the net (both creams and sticks) that include items such as cocoa and shea butter, bentonite clay, a variety of essential oils (lavender, lime, etc.) and more. Powder Version: 1 part baking soda 1 part cornstarch tea tree Directions: Combine well.Put into a shake box with a puff.Apply daily or as needed.
Updated notes: The general tea tree/ratio is about 10 drops per 1 cup of total mix. Petroleum Jelly: This one’s easy! Natural Homemade Deodorant. I recently reported on dangerous chemicals in cosmetics, and the information I uncovered in writing that article really affected me. If my friends thought I was a little eco-freak before, they need to prepare for a whole new level of glorious, fabulous ever-so-exciting neo-hippieness. I was appalled, absolutely astounded by the questionable additives found in almost all commercial self-care products. I resolved, then, to purge each product as it ran out (no waste), and to derive my own amazing alternative. A few days later, my deodorant was running low, and I came up with this solution.
OH MY GOD you guys, this stuff works SO GOOD. Sayward’s Homemade Deodorant Recipe 1/3 cup Corn Starch 1/3 cup Baking Soda 10 drops of Antibacterial Essential Oil (tea tree, lavender, or eucalyptus) 10 drops of Antifungal Essential Oil (tea tree, peppermint, sandalwood, or eucalyptus) 2 tablespoons Vitamin E Oil 3 tablespoons Coconut Oil Mix everything up in a bowl until it forms a thick paste.
How To Make Deodorant [Homemade Easy and It Works] Making your own personal products is a blast, and you can control the ingredients. Today we share yet another way to help you live a healthy, more sustainable and self-sufficient life. diyNatural reader Samantha said, “I was extremely, extremely skeptical. I think even a little part of me wanted to be able to come back and say – no it doesn’t work. But, it really did!
Like others here, I already feel that I’m sweating less, but as much as I’m excited about not smelling anymore (who wouldn’t be), I’m more excited that I won’t be throwing away shirts that are ruined by deodorant stains. Why Homemade? I like to address this up front to displace the common assumption that homemade products are made simply for the savings… savings is just one handsome benefit. In reality, the benefits of making your own stuff go far beyond saving a few bucks. It’s Sustainable If you are a frequent follower of our homemade endeavors you should know that I require homemade products to be easy to make.
The Recipe. Rosemary Mint Shaving Cream: Homemade Gift Ideas. How to make homemade shaving cream with coconut oil and shea butter that smells of a delicious rosemary-mint pairing. Great for personalized Christmas gifts or just to pamper yourself. 44K+Around the same time that I started washing my face daily with the Ginger Coconut Oil Body Scrub I had concocted in the kitchen, I also had the revelation that post body scrubbing, you could shave your legs without using shaving cream. Shaving cream and I are lifelong enemies. I have to buy some pretty expensive slathering lotion for it to do its job without leaving me looking like I had a run-in with a barbed wire fence, and I, frankly, am complaining about it. <--me complaining.Shortly thereafter, my husband, who sports a perpetual 5 o’clock shadow (you don’t believe me, just click, click, and click), was distraught when said expensive shave cream ran out, leaving him standing in the shower, the water streaming down with nothing but bar soap and a dull razor to do the job.
Notes: Homemade Toothpaste Recipe – Easy and Frugal. Why make your own toothpaste? It saves money, gives you a feeling of accomplishment, and allows you to leave out all the harmful ingredients commercial toothpaste is made of. Oh yeah, and it takes less than 5 minutes to prepare. Simple Ingredients 2/3 cup baking soda1 tsp fine sea salt (optional – direct application of the minerals in sea salt is great for teeth, but can be left out if the taste is too salty)1 – 2 tsp peppermint extract or 10-15 drops peppermint essential oil (or add your favorite flavor – spearmint, orange, etc.)filtered water (add to desired consistency) Cost Breakdown & Savings Here is the breakdown in cost analysis for 5.33 oz of homemade toothpaste (same amount as one tube of our old toothpaste): baking soda @ 16 oz = $1.00 | 2/3 cup is 5.33 oz which = $0.33fine sea salt @ 22 oz = $2.00 | 1 tsp is .17 oz which = $0.02peppermint extract @ 1 oz = $3.00 | 2 tsp is .33 oz which = $1.04 | Better yet, use peppermint essential oil @ 1 oz = $13.00 | 15 drops = $0.28!
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