Building Your Medicine Chest: First-Aid Antiseptic Ointment. Today I want to share with you an all-natural product that you can make easily at home in order to build your DIY medicine chest.
This homemade antiseptic ointment is packed full with germ-killing properties that will help treat everyday minor cuts, scraps, and abrasions. You can use this ointment just as you would a tube of that pricey commercially-prepared stuff. Homemade Toothpaste & Other Dental Products. Soap Making. Melt and Pour Beginners Guide. Melt-n-pour soap bases are a near neutral substance (ph neutral) and require no specific materials for the utensils you use when creating your soaps.
You can choose to make small batches, simply using a microwaveable bowl or jug, or larger batches, where a saucepan on a hob is more practical. Whatever you are doing, the most important thing to remember is not to overheat your soap base. You need only heat it until it melts and no further (exceptions to this rule are the Natural or Organic bases which should be heated to 75degC to avoid 'blooming' in the finished soaps).
Cutting the soap bases into small chunks will help this, especially if using a microwave, although small chunks will melt far easier with any method used, so it's worth the time in doing this. If using a microwave it is unlikely that you will be able to melt enough soap to make more than 3-4 bars. Once melted you need to work fairly fast, as a skin will start to form quite quickly on the surface of the soap. Oil Pulling Cures. "These are instructions from India in which only 2 types of oil can be used. However, as you will read below in our Reader Feedback section, people are experimenting with different oils, adding anti-bacterial and anti-viral oil essences. Soon we might have a purist vs. renegade oil pulling battle!
Homemade Toothpaste With Coconut Oil – and 38 other coconut oil cures!One Good Thing by Jillee. Slippery When Wet - Handmade Soap & Bath products for your entire family and even your pets. We use all natural ingredients with on artifical colors or presevatives." Here at Slippery When Wet, we try to take a more natural approach to healing common problems.
Please consult your Doctor for serious skin problems. We have found some recipes to work well for others like Sultana's Salve. Even the driest parts like your knees and elbows can't resist our our rich Whipped Shea Butter made with 100% Shea Butter and Jojoba Oil! Rub where ever you need some extra protection. This is a great gift idea. An acient recipe for Cleopatra, who is said to have bathed in milk to maintain her radiant complexion. Lip care is just as important to maintain as other parts of your body. Something NEW this year, Exfoliating Buffy Bars. Sultana's Salve - This recipe is named by the creator Sultana.
Sultana's Salve contains skin loving butter of Shea used to heal small wounds, burns and skin ulcers and conditioning your skin. Size: 2 oz Tin Cost: $6.00 each Ingredients: Beeswax, Jojoba Oil, Avocado Oil, Sweet Almond Oil, Wheat Germ Oil, Shea Butter and Vitamin E. Making Your Own Gardener's Hand Cream. By Bev Walker (Sundownr)December 10, 2010 (Editor's Note: This article was originally published on September 27, 2008.
Your comments are welcome, but please be aware that authors of previously published articles may not be able to promptly respond to new questions or comments.) Hand Creams of Yesterday and Today. A Guide to Stocking Your Natural Beauty Pantry. Keeping up with an all natural, handmade beauty regimen has its challenges.
Not the smallest among them being the gathering of ingredients. Let's say you are in the mood to whip up a fresh mask? Oats and Honey: My Top 10. I've listed below a list of my Top 10 favourite and staple ingredients that I have to have stocked in my soap pantry.
I'm sure some of these must be your favourites too! 10. Almond Meal picture from Dane International Commodities Inc. Some almond meal mixed with a dash of the liquid of your choice make for an excellent facial cleanser and scrub suited for the delicate skin of your face. 9. Oats and Honey: Make Your Own Solid Body Butter. My most popular blog post of all was the Make Your Own Bath Bomb post way back in November of last year.
I have yet to post anymore tutorials like that and decided it was certainly time to bring back a "make your own... " tutorial. This tutorial teaches you how to make your own exfoliating, solid body butter much like another most wanted Lush product called Buffy. IngredientsFair Trade Cocoa Butter (Theobroma cacao), Shea Butter (Butyrospermum parkii), Ground Rice (Oryza sativa), Ground Almonds (Prunus dulcis), Ground Aduki Beans (Phaseolus), Perfume, Lavender Oil (Lavandula hybrida), Lemon Oil (Citrus limonum), *Citral, *Limonene, *Linalool.
DescriptionScrub-a-dub-dub, get this body butter in the tub (or shower) and buff away the day's worries. Stress disappears as our lavender-scented body butter melts into your skin, making it way beyond silky. How to make Hand Cream. Homemade Hand cream and hand lotion recipes. Almond Hand Cream Recipe Ingredients: 1/4 cup of beeswax 1/2 cup of almond oil 1/2 cup of coconut oil 1/4 cup of rosewater Directions: Heat 1/4 cup of beeswax slowly in a double boiler.
Cocoa Butter Hand Cream Recipe 4 Tbsp. 4 Tbsp. The Wife Life: Lavender Love Lotion Bars. I have purchased a few "massage bars" from Lush before, so when I saw this recipe for homemade lotion bars on Crunchy Betty, I was excited to try it out.
What you need: -equal parts: beeswax, shea butter, carrier oil of choice (I used sweet almond oil) 3 oz or about 1/2 c each -15 drops of essential oil of choice (optional, I used lavender) The supplies. (I found a discounted 100% beeswax candle for a better price than beeswax.) Melt grated beeswax and oil completely together first. (This is my makeshift double boiler, just a smaller pot sitting inside a larger one with some water.)
Then add the shea butter just until melted. Immediately pour into mold of your choice. Add optional essential oil of choice, and quickly stir with a toothpick. Allow to set either on the counter for a couple hours or in the freezer for 15 minutes. I love them. Diy Natural – Do It Yourself Naturally. Sustainable Living and Health.