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. 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. Mix well. and You’re done. If you find it a little watery from the oil, just add more sugar and or coffee. This recipe can be tweaked to your liking. A few tips: ◦ If you have sensitive skin, do not add coffee grounds and use brown sugar (as it is less abbrasive)
How to Make Your Own Beauty Products from Scratch | Diy on GOOD 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. Simple body scrub Many body scrubs, even the ones that claim to be sugar- or salt-based, actually contain beads made out of polyethylene, which is environmentally deplorable (it all goes down the drain, remember)—to say nothing of the preservatives, fragrance, penetration enhancers, and sulfates that typically bulk up these products. Honey face wash One-ingredient eye liner Perfume Shave oil Yogurt face mask
DIY Cellulite-Fighting Massage Oil Vitamin HB | DIY Cellulite-Fighting Massage Oil! Mon, 25 Jun 2012 By Huda Heidi Kattan Cellulite SUCKS!! Even the thinnest girls have it, if you don’t have a dimple somewhere in your body, then your blessed! Ingredients 1/4 cup sweet almond oil (warm) 2 tablespoons instant coffee In a bottle, mix both ingredients together. Beauty Looking for a homemade anti wrinkle cream? This homemade anti wrinkle cream is easy to make and inexpensive. Now that I am in my 30’s I am thinking about wrinkles. My beeswax arrived! The secret ingredient in this homemade anti wrinkle cream? Rosehip seed oil is the best oil available for anti-aging and cellular regeneration. “The essential fatty acids in rosehip seed oil give it moisturising properties and the antioxidants and beta-carotene may help to prevent signs of ageing. “Through testing, rosehip seed oil has been shown to regenerate the skin, reduce scars and wrinkles, prevent the advancement of wrinkles and aging, and help skin to regain its natural color and tone. Anti Wrinkle Cream 2 tsp jojoba oil 1 tsp coconut oil 3 tsp apricot kernel oil 3 tsp Rosehip seed oil 1.5 tsp beeswax pastilles 6-10 tsp rose-water Place beeswax, jojoba, coconut, rosehip and essential oils (basically everything besides the rose water!) Stir well. You can find it HERE. GreenBootGirl
Minimalist Beauty Posted on July 23, 2010 by Dawn Michelle in DIY, Hair Curly hair can be very unpredictable, yet once you figure out the best way to manage your curls it can be so much fun. I have found that the products you use are only part of managing your curls. It is also about treating them well by not fighting with them, but allowing them to be themselves.As you know, I love making my own beauty products. I have found that it saves me a ton of money and works just as good if not better than products that I have bought. One of the best benefits is that you know exactly what is in the product because you made it yourself.
Homemade Hair Care: Flax Seed Hair Gel This is what flax seed hair gel looks like. Woo-wee! (Or is it “whewee?”) After recommending this little recipe to several people who’ve asked for homemade hair gel ideas, I thought maybe it was in my best interest to try it myself before continuing to pass it on. Flax seed hair gel. Easy enough. Only it wasn’t easy. That being said, I have two things to announce: It works. and I challenge you to figure out a way to make this recipe more productive and less messy. Here’s the recipe and the way I did it: Flax Seed Hair Gel from By Nature With Love 2 Tbsp whole flax seeds1 C. waterAloe vera gel (optional)Essential oil (optional, for yummy scent) Boil the water and then dump the flax seeds into it. So here’s the scoop. This what flax seeds look like before you do anything to them: Plain old flax seeds. Then you take 2 Tbsp of these babies and dump them into a pot of boiling water. Boil it until you’ve got a gel-like consistency. It starts to look like this: After that, drop it in a fine-mesh sieve.
» DIY: Blackhead Buster Face Mask KlairedeLys This mask I like for two things. One, for when your skin can’t seem to make it’s mind up on how it’s going to behave, and two, for clearing out spots brewing away under the surface of the skin. I like this one for regulating temperamental skin and attacking blackheads One down-side to this mask is that it can make dormant zits come to the surface. If you want to avoid that possible outcome then just don’t use charcoal (or use less of it) since that’s what pulls the rubbish out, the other ingredients are all fantastic for the skin if they have the charcoal with them or not. Hope you like the tutorial :)
25 (more) clever ideas to make life easier . We heard you loud and clear. When we published our first list of clever ideas to make life easier last year, we received an overwhelming response. Source: chezerbey.com Got an empty kitchen shelf? Source: maillardvillemanor.com Wall mount cutlery trays and add a cup hook in each compartment for brilliant jewelery storage. Source: apartmenttherapy.com Avoid messy dresser drawers by “filing” your clothing side-by-side instead of stacking items on top of each other. Photo: William Warby on flickr.com Has putting Toy Story on constant repeat finally taken its toll? Source: realsimple.com Packing tip: Protect breakables such as wine bottles or food containers with children’s inflatable floaties. Source: whatiwore.tumblr.com Rather than bundling them in your drawer, loop tights over a coathanger and store them in your wardrobe. Source: bakedbree.com Pre-bake your cakes and keep them fresh overnight by placing a slice of bread on top. Source: blog.craftzine.com Source: marthastewart.com Want more?
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