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Natural, Homemade, DIY recipes and tips for natural Beauty. This includes makeup recipes, lotion and lip balm recipes, and much more.

How to Make Healing Cold Sore Lip Balm

How to Make Healing Cold Sore Lip Balm

Cold sores can be so frustrating and embarrassing. If you get cold sores, then know that there are amazing natural remedies that stop it in its tracks and give you the help you need. This healing cold sore lip balm is easy to make and is great to have around for those times you need...

How to Make Homemade Toner for Acne Prone Skin

How to Make Homemade Toner for Acne Prone Skin

Because of the amount of skin products that I make, I get a lot of questions about acne, whether for teens or adult acne. Through study, as well as trial and error, I’ve discovered the herbs and essential oils that really help deal with various skin concerns. This homemade toner for acne prone skin is...

11 Sunburn Remedies with Ingredients from Your Kitchen

11 Sunburn Remedies with Ingredients from Your Kitchen

Accidents happen.  And even though we are vigilant about not getting burned, sometimes we need homemade sunburn remedies to sooth burned skin. Sun blocks and sunscreens have a lot of toxic chemicals in them. There are some ok brands out there though, or you can make your own.  I’ve put together 4 Homemade Sunscreen Recipes,...

Chocolate Truffle Lip Balm Recipe: Great Handmade Gifts

Chocolate Truffle Lip Balm Recipe: Great Handmade Gifts

Following this Chocolate Truffle Lip Balm Recipe is easy and is a great craft that any beginner to homemade products can make. Plus, lip balms make wonderful gifts. I’ll walk you through step by step how to make these for yourself, your family, or friends for the holidays. These are lip licking good so resist...

How to Make a Shampoo Bar with Coconut Milk

How to Make a Shampoo Bar with Coconut Milk

I tried using shampoo bar soap before and it did not work. No one told me that you usually have to wait about 2 weeks for your hair to stop overproducing oils from being stripped consistently with store-bought shampoos or that sometimes hard water makes it difficult, or that you need to use a conditioner...

Natural Hair Gel – Make an Easy and Natural Recipe

Natural Hair Gel – Make an Easy and Natural Recipe

I’ve only had to use hair gel on certain occasions. I’m a low maintenance gal. But there are times when I want to use natural hair gel, because I, of course, want it to be a healthy product. I also recently discovered that teenage boys and sometimes girls in dance performances need to use hair...

DIY Face Toner for Aging Skin with Rose Water

DIY Face Toner for Aging Skin with Rose Water

I absolutely LOVE this face toner recipe. I get very dry skin during the winter and after I wash my face my skin feels tight. I used to say I have crocodile skin and would rush to get lotion, when really the balance of my skin needed to be dealt with first. This DIY face...

How to Make Aftershave for Him or Her

How to Make Aftershave for Him or Her

Aftershave’s are not just for men. They close pores and sooth irritated skin, making them great for women as well. You can learn how to make aftershave as a gift or for yourself as another DIY you’ve mastered. When I first started making natural skin care products, I didn’t think anyone else would be interested....

How to Make a Detoxing Charcoal Face Mask

How to Make a Detoxing Charcoal Face Mask

It’s well understood now that our skin is our largest organ and it absorbs toxins from everything around us. So what better way to cleanse our pores than with a charcoal face mask made with activated charcoal, aloe, honey, bentonite clay, and essential oils. Those of you who have been around me for a while...

Easy Lip Balm Recipe with Herbs and Essential Oils

Easy Lip Balm Recipe with Herbs and Essential Oils

This winter has been dry. I always have a lip balm in my purse, pocket, car, kitchen, bed side…you get the picture.  You need to take care of your lips. I mean, they’re right there in the middle of your face and just shouldn’t be neglected.  That’s why this easy lip balm recipe with herbs...

Easy Detoxing Homemade Clay Deodorant Recipe

Easy Detoxing Homemade Clay Deodorant Recipe

I apparently love tinkering with my deodorant recipes. This homemade clay deodorant recipe had to go through many tests in order to make it glide nicely, work wonderfully, and also not be a melting mess. My coconut oil and baking soda deodorant recipe is easy, frugal, and fun because you get to add the scents...

Amazing Charcoal Tea Tree Soap Recipe

Amazing Charcoal Tea Tree Soap Recipe

A lot of people have shown interest in these Acne Detox Soap Bars that I sell in my shop. After all, a good activated charcoal soap recipe is amazing in and of itself. The added good ingredients, including bacteria killing tea tree essential oils, makes it an important recipe for any soap maker to have....

Learn how to Make an Anti Aging Serum with Essential Oils

Learn how to Make an Anti Aging Serum with Essential Oils

An anti aging serum with essential oils is a wonderful choice for those looking for something that really and truly hydrates and nourishes the skin, something frugal, and something that a serum that smells great. Concoctions found in the store are very expensive and, as far as my research has gone, do just as much...

My Nourishing Beard Oil Recipe with Essential Oils

My Nourishing Beard Oil Recipe with Essential Oils

A lot of us have a man in our lives who has a beard, whether it be a husband, grandfather, boyfriend, or uncle. This natural handmade beard oil recipe makes a wonderful homemade, natural, organic gift. It’s a wonderful idea for Father’s Day, birthdays, and other holiday gifts, or even just an everyday bath and...

How to Make Anti Aging Eye Cream with Essential Oils

How to Make Anti Aging Eye Cream with Essential Oils

Given that this anti aging eye cream recipe with essential oils has been a huge hit, I thought now was the perfect time to update it and give it a fresh look. I love-love-love my Anti-Aging Essential Oil Blend, which is an oil combination of 10 essential oils. Adding this cream with similar nourishing benefits...

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