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Homemade for the Holidays: Lucious Lotion Bars. Have you ever seen those fancy lotion bars at craft fairs or expensive beauty boutiques?

Homemade for the Holidays: Lucious Lotion Bars

They look so pretty and smell SO good! They promise all kinds of great benefits for your skin over the stuff you buy at the department store counter. But here’s a little secret: while they are fantastic for your skin, you don’t need to pay the high price! They are very simple to make, use only a few all-natural ingredients. You can make them yourself at home with only a few minutes of time! I’ve read a lot of recipes for making your own lotion bars, and frankly, I think most make it way too complicated.

As you can see I made mine in different shapes. Ingredients: 1 part beeswax1 part shea butter1 part almond oil30-40 drops essential oils (your choice)Silicone molds, like for ice cubes or baking Directions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Beeswax has a lovely soft scent of its own, and is a great protector against chapped, raw skin. I did keep a couple of these for myself, and love the soft scent of them. Natural Hair Rinse: Rosemary Herbal Hair Tea For Fast Hair Growth. How To Make Amazing Homemade Solid Perfumes Using All Natural Ingredients. Please be sure to Join our email list and receive all our latest and best tutorials daily – free!

How To Make Amazing Homemade Solid Perfumes Using All Natural Ingredients

Background images – Design Sponge (with permission) Ever wished you could make your own perfumes? This is a fantastic and fun recipe that uses all pure, natural ingredients – and will bring your inner perfumer to life! It’s so easy that you will wonder why you hadn’t done it before. One of the fantastic things about solid perfumes is that they can easily be carried around wherever you go… to be applied easily and at leisure. Making solid perfumes is very rewarding. Making Your Own Magical Blends Where it gets really exciting is that you can create your very own unique “blend” by choosing your own favorite essential oils! You will find that the aromas of some oils go well together, and others just seem… strange. You can get some basic ideas as to what might work simply by opening the tops of two (or more) essential oils together and breathing the “mixed” fragrance.

The Recipe… That’s it! 1. 2. Or. I Wash My Face With Oil - Cheeky Bums Blog. Howdy!

I Wash My Face With Oil - Cheeky Bums Blog

If you're new here, you may want to SUBSCRIBE so that you don't miss a post! Thanks for stoppin' in! I wash my face with oil. Yep, I do. And I brush my teeth with dirt. (Just wait til I tell you about my shampoo…) Yes, it’s completely true. I was totally skeptical about it the first time I read through Simple Mom’s confession that she uses the OCM as her primary skin care routine. By using the OCM, you are employing a chemistry rule of thumb that says that like dissolves like – in our case – oil dissolves oil. If you tend to use hard cleaners on your face, you know that tight feeling that comes right after you dry your face, and then the oil that seems to pool in your T-zone, yeah? So, how do you clean your face with oil? To start out, you want to use a high grade castor oil as your base. To balance the castor oil, you’ll also want a high quality secondary oil.

How To Wash with the No-Poo Method. The Oil-Cleansing Method - For The Love of Food. I am always looking for ways to eliminate toxic, unnecessary chemicals from my life and using natural beauty products is one of the easiest ways to do this.

The Oil-Cleansing Method - For The Love of Food

I’m super excited to share the oil cleansing method with you because I am convinced it’s going to change your life the way it has changed mine. And, it will also save you a ton of money and give you better looking skin in the process! If you haven’t heard of the oil-cleansing method before, it’s definitely time you did. The oil-cleansing method involves washing your face with, well, you guessed it: oil. Most facial cleansers brag about being “oil-free” and the beauty industry has certainly taught us that “oil-free” make-up and cleansers is the way to go. Here’s the problem though: when our skin is stripped of its natural oils, it produces more oil to compensate. Here’s a basic chemistry lesson: like dissolves like. The key to the oil-cleansing method is castor oil which comes from the castor bean.

2nd Funniest Thing : DIY and unique pieces: Suero Antiarrugas DIY - DIY Anti-wrinkle Serum. ¿Nos podemos fabricar nuestro propio Suero Antiarrugas DIY?

2nd Funniest Thing : DIY and unique pieces: Suero Antiarrugas DIY - DIY Anti-wrinkle Serum

¡Síííí! ¿Es difícil? ¡Noooo! En Marzo cumplí los 32 y ya iba siendo hora de empezar con potingues... Can we produce our own DIY Anti-wrinkle Serum? Es un VERDADERO PRIVILEGIO tenerla por aquí y además....tachán tachán...