DIY Organic Beauty Skin Treatments: Natural Toner and Astringent. Organic lifestyle expert Eliza Sarasohn - author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Organic Living - tackles the ins and outs of living la vida organica.
Below, Sarasohn shares a few recipes for treating your skin to some all-natural TLC... Skin need a little freshening up after a long day? Feel like pampering yourself with a little extra tender loving care, but don't want to spend big bucks at the spa? Make a clarifying skin toner : Vintage Amanda. I was always envious of those girls with luminous, smooth, glowing skin.
10 homemade natural beauty and spa treatments found right in your kitchen - Special Sections. 10 homemade natural beauty and spa treatments found right in your kitchen BY JANUARY THOMAS For Sun-Times Media Reprints Forever searching for the Fountain of Youth, many people may find themselves spending hundreds, even thousands, of dollars on beauty products, salons and spa treatments each year hoping to achieve the latest and greatest skin, hair and body.
You'd be amazed to find many natural and low-cost ingredients found right in your kitchen cupboard that produces amazing results and often work better than the expensive brands. Refrigerator of Youth, anyone? Brown Sugar Lemony Body ScrubThis particular scrub has lemon, which works as a natural disinfectant. Milk Foot SoakAdd 4 cups of warmed whole milk, 2 tablespoons of Epsom Salt and 6 drops of your favorite essential oil such as lemon, sandalwood or lavender to warm footbath.
Invigorating Coffee ScrubCoffee contains Magnesium and Vitamin E. Strawberry Bleach MaskCelebrities, such as Catherine Zeta-Jones, swear by this. 9 Pretty Simple Pimple Home Remedies. A few weeks ago when I was digging around for a post to “revive” from way in the depths of Crunchy Betty, my first thought was a very, very old post titled 27 Quick and Crunchy Home Remedies for Pimples.
It’s a great post, full of fun little ideas for when you have a giant monster on your face and want to treat it quickly. I even used several of the ideas in the Simple Pimple Remedies section of Food on Your Face for Acne and Oily Skin. There’s just one problem with it. The picture I used to accompany that post is horrendous. Terrible. So it was kind of like a creepy clown that’s been baked in the oven at 125 degrees for about 3 minutes. 10 homemade natural beauty and spa treatments found right in your kitchen. 5 Relaxing, Rejuvenating Bath Recipes - Perfect Alternatives to Bubbles. So, by now you’ve probably come to terms with bubble baths not necessarily being the healthiest , most nourishing alternative for your skin.
C’est la vie, crunchy people. C’est la vie. Life goes on, and in much more luxurious, relaxing ways. Here are your 5 ideas to turn your bathtime into a grown-up spa fit for a queen. Or a Kardashian. Or you. Each of them serve a beautifying purpose, and each of them are (of course) environmentally friendly and 100% natural. Make your OWN eyeshadow primer! I have been using Urban Decay Primer Potion for years.
I love the stuff. It is awesome. The problem is when I go to Sephora to get it, I get lost in a sea of sparkling new glosses and shadows and treasures I NEED to try, suddenly eyeshadow primer doesn’t seem very exciting. I start trying to rationalize. Banish Blemishes, Fight Flaky Skin and 8 Other Ways to Get Gorgeous Skin This Summer! 10 Facials You Can Make at Home. Kool-aid lip gloss. Disclaimer – please try this craft at your own risk.
I had absolutely no trouble making this, but so many of my readers who have tried it have not had success. KITCHEN BEAUTICIAN: HOMEMADE LIP STAIN. Photos + post by amy nadine, graphic design by eunice chun For those of you concerned about what chemicals we’re putting in and on our bodies, you can’t get more natural than this homemade berry lip stain!
We love it because it adds the perfect “just-bitten” hint of color to fake that Snow White luscious lip! Here’s how to do it yourself: INGREDIENTS: 3 Blackberries (for their bright berry color), 1 Raspberry (for its feminine pink color), 3 Pomegranate Seeds (for their vibrant red color), 1/2 teaspoon edible oil (I used Extra Virgin Olive Oil), a small Bowl + Spoon (or mortar + pestle if you have them), Fork or Sifter to drain, small 5-gram Pot/Jar with screw top from any craft store. How to Make Your Own Beauty Products from Scratch - Lifestyle. Let's keep things simple this week.
When it comes to personal-care products, we are big believers in streamlining what you use—see "Eight Products You Think You Need But Don't" for a refresher—buying less in general, and getting creative. We have both always loved experimenting in our kitchens and our bathrooms, checking ingredients in products we love, isolating the main ones, and then trying them on their own. Sometimes it works: A favorite hair leave-in contained aloe, for example, so one day we tried aloe alone and found that, lo and behold, it worked just fine on its own. How to Make Your Own Beauty Products from Scratch - Lifestyle.