The holidays are a great time to make DIY gifts for friends and family. Whether you are making a special present for a certain someone or mass producing small tokens for teachers, co-workers, and stockings, homemade bath and body products are a good choice. While everyone else hands out cookies and peppermint bark, bestow something a little more unexpected. Scrubs,… Continue Reading Sixty Recipes for Handmade Bath & Body Gifts
Every year as the holiday season arrives it seems that our entire world is saturated with spicy, woody, and citrusy scents. Cookies are baked, potpourris are simmered, and candies are devoured with reckless abandon. It’s only natural that we should join the fun with a batch of luxurious bath truffles. These deliciously scented dollops of Cocoa Butter and Babassu are… Continue Reading Holiday Spice Bath Truffles
Antioxidants, fatty acids, vitamins, and phytonutrients: these are the things that keep our skin and hair (not to mention the rest of our body) in great shape from the inside out. Working super foods packed with beauty boosting nutrients into your everyday diet is easy with salads. Start with a bed of dark, leafy greens. Kale, spinach, and other greens… Continue Reading Eight Superfood Salads for Natural Beauty
Chickpea Flour, also called Garbanzo Flour, has been a traditional ingredient in Indian beauty and skin care for generations. It has a soft, gentle texture that lends itself perfectly to body scrubs. When paired with sugar, Chickpea Flour can polish your arms, legs, back and torso to a silky, soft finish. Light, moisturizing Sweet Almond Oil helps keep your freshly… Continue Reading Chickpea Almond Sugar Scrub
Rose Hip Seeds are packed with goodness, and their cold-pressed oil is one of the best all-around ingredients you can have in your natural beauty stash. Add Rose Hip Seed Oil to hair care recipes to pamper your scalp or to bath and body recipes to condition your skin. Rose Hip Seed Oil is even useful in facial care. How… Continue Reading Five Reasons to Love Rose Hip Seed Oil