Holiday Gift Ideas – DIY Homemade Scrubs

Below are easy DIY holiday gifts that will please and delight any recipient. In addition, they are eco-friendly.


1) Rejuvenating Body Scrub

3-4 drops of Peppermint Oil
5 tablespoons of sea salt
1/2 teaspoon carrier oil such as almond or grapeseed.

Mix the peppermint oil and sea salt together. Add the carrier oil and then add enough water to moisten the mixture.


2) Relaxing Lavender Sugar Scrub

1/2 cup of jojoba oil
3/4 cup of white cane sugar
1 teaspoon Vitamin E
1/4 cup almond oil

6 drops of lavender essential oil
Directions: Combine all ingredients in large bowl. Mix until combined, and then pour into desired container.


3) Candy Cane Bath Salts

3 cups of Epsom salts or sea salts
3 Teaspoons of Sweet Almond Oil
9 drops of Peppermint Essential Oil
1 drop of red food coloring (more if you like)
1 drop of green food coloring

Get three bowls, in each of the bowls add 1 cup of salts, 1 teaspoon almond oil, 3 teaspoons of peppermint essential oil. Add 1 drop of each of the food coloring to two of bowls. You will end up with a bowl of red, green and white. Let sit a few hours.
To create the candy cane effect layer layers of each color, a layer of red, a layer of green, a layer of white, over and over until you fill the jar.
Decorate the jar with red and green ribbon, candy cane gift tags or several small candy canes.


4) Euphoric Fizzy Bath Salts

Sea Salt--3 tbsp
Baking Soda--3 tbsp
Citric Acid--1 tbsp
Essential Oils--8 drops
Jar--4 oz

Choose 3 or 4 oils from these essential oils: Champaca absolute, Clary Sage, Grapefruit, Jasmine absolute, Linden absolute, Myrrh, patchouli, Rose, and Ylang Ylang. Add sea salt, baking soda, citric acid and oils to jar. Gently shake to mix ingredients. Add to tub of running water.

Homemade Beauty Tips – For Beauty Is In Nature's Grips

Beautiful people of all ages have maintained that beauty is not as much reflected in the rosy, youthful look of the skin. When inquired about the secret to their beautiful skins, they have always attributed it to a few homemade beauty tips and a healthy lifestyle.

Homemade beauty tips and healthy lifestyle are mostly based on the refreshing, detoxifying effects of natural and herbal products through the former fortifying the system’s internal strength and the later protecting outwardly.

Homemade beauty tips, as such, are based on judicial selection of herbal ingredients for external skin care. A number of home-based natural skin care tips would be as follows:

• Yogurt and buttermilk/cream make wonderful skin cleansers.

• After-bath application of almond oil is definitely a great treat for the skin – the suppleness and glow it brings to the skin is consummate by even the very best of moisturizers.

• Regular application of yogurt or honey makes the skin soft and has a gentle bleaching effect.

• Sea salt or sugar mixed with olive oil works amazing at-home body exfoliation preparation.

• Different natural and herbal products like Aloe Vera, Turmeric, Basil, Chamomile, Lavender, Marshmallow, Neem, Witch Hazel, Oatmeal, Tea tree oil, Sandalwood, etc. used as facial packs often help to dispose dead cells and impurities lodged in the skin to unclog pores. Side by side playing the roles of cleansers, the natural produces and elements strike water-oil balance of the skin.

How to make homemade goat milk lotion

It is rumored that Cleopatra used to soak in a tub of a milk and though this may be a bit of an extravagance for most of us, you can still get the benefits of a milk beauty treatment using a more subtle approach. Milk lotion is one the most moisturizing homemade lotions you can make. This homemade goat milk lotion recipe is great for the gentle exfoliation of skin. Here’s how to make a homemade goat milk lotion recipe. Milk lotion has a short shelf life, so make it in small quantities to avoid wasting the product.

Lotions are moisturizer for the body skin and thinner than face creams. They are easy to apply over the all areas of the body and absorbed quickly. One of the most popular body lotions today is goat milk lotion.

Most store bought goat milk lotions use cheap mineral oil that has a long shelf life. In fact, mineral oil does not absorb into the skin and has no moisturizing properties at all. Most manufacturers add silk powders into the lotion to make it seem silky. Therefore it is better to make goat milk lotion at home.

Natural homemade goat milk lotion is great for all type of skin. It is made with a special combination of goat milk and skin loving oils. This creamy lotion is full with vitamins, proteins, lipids and minerals giving it wonderful natural moisturizing properties. It also improves your skin by leaving the skin soft, smooth and silky. In addition, it is really safe because you know all the ingredients in the lotion.

Making homemade goat milk lotion is easy if you know the right way to make it. Here is a simple step-by-step procedure to make homemade goat milk lotion. Goat milk has a short shelf life, so make it in a small quantity to avoid wasting the product.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 tablespoon beeswax
2 tablespoons palm oil
2 tablespoons pumpkin seed oil
3 tablespoons sweet almond oil
1 tablespoon apricot oil
1 cup warm goat milk
1 teaspoon vitamin E oil
1/2 cup Aloe Vera gel

Instructions:

Melt beeswax and palm oil together over medium heat. Turn off the heat when the mixture completely melted.

Immediately transfer the mixture into a mixer. Add sweet pumpkin seed oil, almond oil, and apricot oil. Process the mixture in medium speed.

Slowly add goat milk into the mixture. Continue mixing in medium speed.

Put in vitamin E oil as the mixture begins to thicken. Continue mixing until the mixture thickens and cool to room temperature.

Once cooled, put in Aloe Vera gel and mix well.


Using a spatula and funnel, transfer the lotion into the bottles or jars. Tighten the lids and place the mixture into the refrigerator for overnight.

Now you can apply this lotion all over your skin. You will feel the satisfaction of using your homemade lotion.

Once you make your own goat milk lotion, you can alter the ingredients as you preferred. With some practice, you will know how simple to make goat milk lotion as you want.

How to make homemade body scrubs

Body scrubs have always been a beauty must. Cleopatra's slaves rubbed her down with granulated honey and myrrh, an upscale version of the scrubs of pumice, barley hulls and goat's milk used by lesser Egyptians of the day. Body scrubs have proliferated lately, with recipes including grains, nut shells, sea shells, salts and other minerals scrape-scrape-scraping away the layers and leaving fresh, new skin behind.

Most luxury body scrubs are simply salt or sugar blended with moisturizers. Why spend big bucks on something with such a simple recipe?.. Read more..

How to make homemade facial toner?

Using a facial toner is an important step in any skin care regimen. Not only is using an organic skin care toner an excellent opportunity to introduce an anti-aging treatment; facial toners also gently remove dead skin cells, excess oils, and any remaining impurities left on the skin after cleansing. Click here to know how to make homemade facial toner.