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.
Homemade Dishwasher Detergent and Rinse Agent - $ave Naturally Why do we make our own homemade products? It all started with our first batch of homemade laundry detergent, since then we’ve been hooked! Now we’re on a mission to make as many household products as we can. How to make Hand Cream. Homemade Hand cream and hand lotion recipes Almond Hand Cream Recipe Ingredients: 1/4 cup of beeswax 10 Health Benefits of Honey Honey is more than just a delicious treat — it's good for you, too!There is something undeniably enchanting about honey; the product of flower nectar transformed by bees, as if by alchemy - but in fact through the far less-poetic act of regurgitation - into a sweet, golden elixir. Honey has held sway over humans since ancient times. But aside from honey's seductive color and flavor, it has some scientific superpowers that add to its appeal. Honey has an unusual chemical composition, one which makes it keep indefinitely without spoiling; as is seen whenever ancient pots of honey, still perfectly preserved, are found during excavations of early Egyptian tombs. It is uniquely low in moisture and extremely acidic, making it a forbidding environment for bacteria and microorganisms.
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.
Center for Environmental HealthCenter for Environmental Health By Center for Environmental Health It’s quick and easy to make your own inexpensive and effective cleaning products from ingredients like white distilled vinegar, baking soda, liquid soap (castile, vegetable-based, or glycerin), liquid hand dishwashing detergent, olive oil, and club soda. A steam cleaner filled with vegetable-based fragrance-free dish detergent works great for cleaning carpets. There’s no need to use commercial carpet cleaning products that may contain harmful chemicals. Add vinegar to the last rinse water to dissolve any remaining detergent. The vinegar odor goes away quickly.
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. Homemade Beauty Products for Mother's Day By Maggie Young This Mother’s Day, instead of giving dear mom any number of gifts that may contain harmful toxic chemicals, such as flowers sprayed with pesticides, a fashionable brightly colored purse that is laced with lead, or even a singing card from Hallmark, celebrate your love for her in a way that doesn’t threaten her health or pollute the environment. One popular Mother’s Day gift idea meant to generate some TLC is a day at the spa, or for those more budget-conscious, an assortment of therapeutic beauty products. However, too many personal care products may contain chemical ingredients linked to cancer and hormone disruption, and even some products that claim to be “organic” are deceptively mislabeled.
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? Do you have all of the ingredients on hand? What if you're hair is looking a little lack luster. An herbal vinegar rinse or a hot oil treatment might do the trick, but have you got all the ingredients in stock? Do you know the numbers on bottom of plastic bottles indicate? When shopping in the supermarket, there are massive products are filled in plastic containers. Check out the store room of your apartment, how many product with plastic bottles are you using? Open your garbage bin, how many plastic bottles do you discard every day? The answer must be “many”, “a lot”, “countless”, “massive”. Right, in our daily life we face plastic bottles time to time.
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 Hand cream has been made using the same techniques throughout history. People used the resources handy to them, and sometimes imported special ingredients from far away places.