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Skin. Homemade Masks, Washes, Lotions, and Oils. Whipped Body Butter - Homemade Lotion. Yes.

Whipped Body Butter - Homemade Lotion

This homemade lotion is really as sensual and decadent as it sounds. For years I was disgruntled with my store bought lotion choices. The Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep Database had confirmed that even the most “natural” of body products I had found were still pretty toxic. I had spent an accumulation of hours standing in the health food store trying to find a lotion with ingredients that I was willing to slather on my body – always coming up empty handed. I will admit that I grew to love coconut oil after a shower, but I still longed for a fancy body lotion – one that smelled delicious and left me feeling pampered.

Then I discovered homemade body butter (inspired by this post that I discovered on Pinterest). My two year old calls it chocolate cream, for obvious reasons, and it’s particularly satisfying after a day at the beach. Concoct your own Potions. As a little girl I mixed up shampoos and lotions in my laboratory, trying to improve on the toiletries we had.

Concoct your own Potions

I never came up with anything worth mentioning, but I did once get scolded for spilling my mom's shampoo all over the bathroom rug. A friend of mine told me about the "laboratory" she'd had at age 12, in which she created, among other things, the cure for AIDs. You probably won't cure any diseases with your apothecary, but you will scratch that youthful itch to create something useful out of ordinary ingredients. narfmore I'll get your mad scientist career started with a list of ingredients to start a home apothecary, with which you'll be able to make herbal teas, salves, syrups, tinctures, eye pillows, and infused oils. I've also included a recipe for an air freshening spray you can make. Starter herbs and their properties You can find these herbs online or in stores with large bulk herb selections. So, oils. Starter oils AND! Storage Lavender Mint Room Spray & Linen Mist. *bellaMUMMA {inspiration for a beauty-full life!}: diy PROTEIN PACK for SHINY, STRONG hair.

Concoct your own Potions. DIY Projects. Tutorial: make a yummy natural sugar scrub. With the holidays around the corner and cold, dry winter weather upon us here in eastern Canada, I wanted to share a nice sugar scrub to make a great handcrafted gift for family and friends on your gift list this year.

tutorial: make a yummy natural sugar scrub

This scrub will tame the dry, flaky skin winter brings, and makes an excellent stocking stuffer. Here’s what you need to make your own Moisturizing Sugar Scrub: Equipment: Mixing BowlKitchen ScaleSpoonTowel (7)Heavy Bottomed saucepan (5)Pipette or measuring spoons (4) Ingredients: 90 g white sugar (1)30 g brown sugar* (2) *You can substitute turbinado or demerara sugar for a coarse scrub45 g shea butter (honey can be substituted) (3)5 g liquid vegetable glycerine (optional)5 g jojoba or extra virgin olive oil (6)25 drops essential oil of your choice (some popular choices are lavender, sweet orange, and clary sage)2 Vitamin E capsules, broken and contents squeezed into recipe 1. 2/3. DIY Aspirin Facial · Bath and Body. May Aspirin, a form of salicylic acid is an all natural skin care ingredient .

DIY Aspirin Facial · Bath and Body

Salicylic acid, a BHA (Beta Hydroxy Acid) has the ability to penetrate the skin deeply to unclog pores and effectively exfoliate dead skin cells reducing the incident of acne breakouts whilst stimulating cell renewal leaving you with smooth, vibrant looking skin. This is truly one of the best kept secrets, why pay hundreds of dollars on chemical laden products available on the market when you can do it yourself naturally for under $5.

You don’t have to buy expensive aspirin either generic aspirin works just as well. All Natural Homemade Skincare Recipes & Face Masks. I feel as though I should invest in a regular supply of plain yogurt. It seems to be in everything all-natural-eco-awesome (that isn’t vegan, anyway), from face masks to smoothies to a replacement ingredient to create more healthful recipes. When I began hunting for do it yourself face masks, I kept seeing it: oatmeal and yogurt face mask . Yogurt honey mask . Yogurt: the key to a DIY life. The problem is that every time I buy yogurt, plain or otherwise, it goes bad. If you’re like me, you have a similar problem: the “best” DIY skincare recipes , which are supposed to use “things you already have at home” aren’t actually made with things you have at home .

All Skin Types Homemade Cat Litter Mask : Hear me out. Yogurt and Honey Face Mask : A classic that I can never remember to make when I actually have plain yogurt. Brown Sugar Exfoliant : The ingredients for this one are always in my house. Oily and Acne-Prone Skin Rose Water by Chloe Price Combination and Sensitive Skin. Homemade oat recipes for smaller pores and better skin texture. Inexpensive Beauty Secrets - Mia Carmel. Seven Surprising Uses for Baking Soda - Lifestyle. Homemade Beauty Products/SPA.