A Green Guide to Natural Beauty + Mango Citrus Body Butter Recipe. It’s time to review our very first Garden Therapy Book Club book, A Green Guide to Natural Beauty: 35 step-by-step projects for homemade beauty by Karen Gilbert. There are many different types of books we will be looking at in Book Club, but when the book is DIY or project-based, then the best way to test it out is to give the projects a try. As the title suggests, A Green Guide to Natural Beauty boasts 35 different natural beauty projects, which made it very appealing given that I’ve been aiming to make as many of my bath and body products as I can. As part of the Natural Skincare Series I’ve shared recipes and tutorials for soap, scrubs, and bath products all made with natural ingredients, and where possible ingredients from my garden. First and foremost this book is beautiful. The photography is stunning and while those who love lots of bright colour may find the pages a tad on the beige side.
Apricot Face Scrub Recipe p. 60 Review 2/5 Mango Citrus Body Butter p. 78. » What is your acne telling you? The Beauty Gypsy. Because I always get a huge zit at the worse - Popular DIY & Crafts Pins on Pinterest. Get Rid Of Black Heads In 5 Minutes Honey and lemon for black head removal Honey and lemon for black head removal Blackheads on face are a common problem which all of us face, especially the blackheads on nose and areas around it.
Though scrubbing helps to get rid of black heads to some extent but the results are not much satisfactory. My Yellow Sandbox: the burning face mask. DIY Clean eyes! Eye make-up remover is so darn expensive!
Here is a quick and cheap DIY Eye Make-up Remover recipe. If you have kids, you’ll have the materials! Joy-Filled Days » DIY Dry Shampoo. Do you wash your hair every day?
I don’t. I have to admit that I use dry shampoo and love it. I have extremely thick hair and it takes me so long to dry. So, washing my hair every other day saves me a lot of time. On the days when I don’t wash my hair, it gets a dry shampoo treatment. Dry shampoo sales are soaring, because it is a great product! 1/2 cup baking soda 1/2 cup corn starch Just mix it together in a glass jar. Mud Scrub: DIY. What is Mud Scrub you ask??
Well... basically it’s a sugar and coffee scrub. I love it! Especially because the coffee has such great benefits for your skin. Coffee and Caffeine are showing up all over in beauty products due to their tightening and antioxidant effects on the skin. Caffeine, works on skin in the three primary ways: as a vasoconstrictor, an antioxidant, and a diuretic. Guess what! What you will need: 1 C Sugar (white, brown, cane) 5 TBSP Coffee grounds 1/4 C oil (veggie oil, almond oil, extra virgin olive oil, baby oil…) 1 tsp Peppermint Extract 1 tsp Vanilla Extract Mix: Mix sugar and coffee. Add small amounts of oil to the sugar/coffee mix until everything is coated. (You may not need the full 1/4 C, I didn’t use all of it) Add any fragrance you like. Coordinately Yours Entertaining & Design that Celebrates Life: Gifts. I enjoy making gifts for those dear to me.
When contemplating what to give one of my friends for her birthday, I knew that I wanted to give her something natural. After all, we often talk about taking a step back and looking at products we use and the things we consume and considering chemicals, artificial flavors, etc. Years ago, a friend got me into making my own bath products. I immediately recalled the scent-rosemary mint! It’s so invigorating for winter! Labels {Paper Bag Rectangle from Paper Source} sugar grapeseed oil {health food store/Trader Joe’s}…can substitute EVOO rosemary spearmint essential oil {health food store} mixing bowl spatula ice cream scoop Mix 3 cups sugar, 1 cup oil thoroughly.
Add the mixture to your containers using an ice cream scoop. Coordinately yours, Detoxification Part I : Healing Waters - Healthy Living How To. A detox bath is one of the easiest healing therapies we can do to facilitate our body’s natural detoxification system.
In today’s post I am going to tell you why you want to take a detox bath as well as show you how. There is no doubt in this day and age, our bodies are subject to more toxins than ever. Toxins are in the air we breathe, the food we eat, the medications we take and in the water we drink. Toxins cause irritation, harm and destruction in the body if left unchecked. Detoxification is the body’s way of removing and metabolizing these dangerous compounds. A detox bath encourages the body to efficiently flush out toxins. Our toxic burden is a result of the toxins we are exposed to and our body’s ability to naturally detox. When we take a detox bath, we not only boost our health and well-being, but also strengthen our immune system and prevent disease.
Our exposure to toxic substances is on the rise. When metabolic waste from toxins builds up in our body, we get sick. 1. 2. 3.