Household Beauty Secrets. Sometimes we beauty enthusiasts spend shameful amounts of money on the brightest new colors and bling-iest products, and forget the folk remedies that could change our look for just pennies.
Here are a few of my favorite beauty tricks that use stuff you may already have in your house, right under your nose. In The Kitchen Tea Bags Everyone knows that tea bags can help eliminate eye puffiness (steep two tea bags, freeze them, then place on the under-eye area for about 10 minutes.) But did you know you can use them to repair broken nails, too? Olive Oil Olive oil has always been a staple in the beauty regimes of Italian women because of its moisturizing properties. Cherry Jello There is always room for Jello, especially cherry! Teaspoons In The Bathroom Swiss Kriss Technically, this product is an herbal laxative (available on Amazon), but if you throw some of the flakes in a pot of boiling water, it’s great for steaming the skin and deep-cleansing pores.
Maalox Toothbrush In The Home Office CDs. Pink lip balm. This is a re-post of my guest post from the Color My Summer series Kojodesigns and I co-hosted in May….
Today I’m going to share a spin off my beeswax lip gloss. Instead of gloss, today we are going to make: The key is the amount of beeswax you include. The more you put in, the less glossy and the more firm and balmy it gets. The great thing about beeswax is that it has natural sun protection qualities. As you can tell…I haven’t been in the sun much yet. Disclaimer: This recipe is just me experimenting and sharing what I did with you. Alright… let’s get started.
Gather your supplies: 2 Tablespoons of grated beeswax Grate it with a dollar store or old cheese grater. 1 Tablespoon Coconut Oil {the kind you cook with} 2 teaspoons sweet almond oil. Hand-made sparkly strawberry lip balm. This year I want to make my own hand-made Christmas crackers to match my Winter Wonderland colour palette and theme.
This got me thinking it would be nice to fill them with hand made gifts. The gifts would have to be small enough to fit inside the crackers and ideally match the theme. So, I decided to make pink coloured strawberry lip balm with a smattering of pink glitter. To fit in with my theme, I added a vanilla flavoured mini deer shaped lip balm piece which I placed on top of the strawberry lip balm. I finished them off with a pretty printed label I designed that I covered in clear film to protect and to make it shiny. Christmas gift : Sparkly strawberry lip balmIngredients Sparkly strawberry lip balm, How-to step by step Start by placing the beeswax pellets and oil in a glass jug in the microwave. DIY Lip Balm. Hemp & Honey Lip Balm. This week I tried another recipe from the current Book Club selection, A Green Guide to Natural Beauty, Hemp & Honey Lip Balm.
For ages now I’ve been making manuka honey lip balm because of the extraordinary healing properties of the magical golden goop. Hailing from New Zealand, manuka honey comes from bees that pollinate the Leptospermum scoparium, a shrub or small tree that can grow up to 4m tall with profuse star-shaped flowers. Manuka honey is claimed to have anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-microbial properties. Applied topically, it is said to promote healing and reduce inflammation, with some sources saying it even prevents or heals the cold sore virus. While I’m not able to quantify these claims, I can say that it makes a darn good lip balm and that’s good enough for me. Raw manuka honey is rated using “Unique Manuka Factor” (UMF) that rates the antibacterial factor. Ingredients: Equipment Instructions: 1. 2. 3. 4. Review 4.5/5 Almost perfect!
The Beauty Gypsy - Where ancient beauty secrets meet modern science. Beauty Tips, Product Reviews & Beauty Trends. The Beauty Department: Your Daily Dose of Pretty. Beauty Makeup Magic.