Rebecca D. Dillon is a soapmaker, DIY-er and blogger whose life is controlled daily by a dachshund. You can learn more about Rebecca by checking out her bio.
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Mermaid Shimmer Body Spray Recipe
This gorgeous mermaid shimmer body spray recipe leaves a touch of light reflecting, mica shimmer on skin so anyone feel like a mermaid for a day! Customize the recipe further with your own favorite scent. You can even use it on hair for extra shine! No one wants to douse themselves in heavy, greasy feeling oils, especially in summer. So I formulated my mermaid shimmer body spray as a dry…
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DIY Cactus Soap with Eco-Friendly Biodegradable Glitter
Learn how to make your own colorful DIY cactus soap using melt and pour soap! This glittery, colorful cactus soap recipe is easier to make than you might think! And it makes a great DIY back to school teacher gift, cactus favors or fun, homemade soap gifts for anyone year round! Crafted using a combination of detergent free melt and pour soap bases and eco-friendly, biodegradable glitter, my DIY cactus…
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Pitcher Sangria Recipe & Other Fun Things for Your Taco Tuesday
Planning a Taco Tuesday brouhaha? Why not pair some adult drinks to go along with the mischief? You’ll love these recipes for making both a pitcher sangria recipe and an adult summer punch! These adult drink recipes are both passed on from Ladles & Linens. The adult summer punch recipe I rediscovered in a Timehop from the Ladles & Linens facebook page a few years back. While the pitcher sangria recipe…
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Coconut Milk Facial Cleanser Recipe with Bamboo Extract
Looking for a vegan facial cleanser that’s both gentle on skin and easy to customize? Then give my new chamomile & coconut milk facial cleanser recipe a try! Made with soothing chamomile, coconut milk and colloidal oatmeal, this easy facial cleanser and scrub gently exfoliates with bamboo extract and tones with French green clay for a healthy looking complexion! Simply combine this dry facial cleanser with a small amount of…
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Pedicure Foot Scrub Recipe with Coconut Oil for Dead Skin and Calluses
Learn how to make a pedi foot scrub recipe at home. This DIY foot scrub for dead skin will leave your feet feeling like they just had a pedicure! Made using all natural ingredients, this foot care product with coconut oil helps remove dead skin and calluses and restore cracked heels. Try this natural skin care recipe to exfoliate and hydrate skin for soft, beautiful feet today. Let’s face it.…
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Unicorn Glitter Butter Recipe for a More Magical Summer
This magical unicorn glitter butter recipe is perfect for parties and summer festivals! Scented with a sweet candy crush fragrance oil, this lavender colored unicorn glitter butter leaves a lovely layer of iridescent sparkly glitter on skin wherever it’s applied! Magical Unicorn Glitter Butter Everyone once in awhile by a sheer stroke of luck, I think, I come up with a skin care recipe that I’m just head over heels…
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Matcha Body Butter Recipe for Sunburned Skin + Some Exciting News!
I’m super excited to announce, that beginning this month, I’m now a guest writer over at The Nourished Life blog! This amazing blog covers all the things you need to live a nourished life including nutrition, self-care, exercise, balance, natural living and similar relevant topics. I’ll be sharing more of my natural skin care recipes at The Nourished Life blog a few times a month so be sure to check…
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Summer Sweets to Treat Your Skin + Weekly Wrap Up
As much as I love making my own bath and body products, I simply adore buying them too! Sometimes perhaps a little too much. But there are just so many amazing and creative soapmakers and artisans out there, it’s sometimes hard to resist. So, to kick off the end of spectacular week, I thought I’d share a few of my favorite handmade bath and body products I recently discovered. Even…
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DIY Pressed Eyeshadow: Four Color Recipes for Back to School
Back to school is right around the corner. Whether you have teenage girls headed back to school or you’re simply just ready for fall, you’ll have a blast creating your own DIY pressed eyeshadow colors to kick off the new season! DIY Pressed Eyeshadow Following are four DIY pressed eyeshadow shades created by myself and my friend, Bambi, over cocktails recently. Whether you make one or all of these rich…
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Homemade Moisturizing Facial Toner Recipe
Don’t let your skin dictate your look. Instead, conquer your skin’s unpredictability with this homemade moisturizing facial toner recipe! This homemade facial toner recipe is made with natural ingredients that help to remove excess oil and dead skin cells, while also balancing your skin’s PH levels to help prevent dryness and breakouts. Homemade Moisturizing Facial Toner Skin care can be complicated especially when you have no idea what your skin…
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How to Throw a DIY Bath Bomb Party
I’ve hosted several craft & cocktail nights already this summer. One project in particular however that a lot of friends and acquaintances wanted to try was bath bombs. But the logistics of setting up a DIY bath bomb party for a large group of people was a bit daunting. As I only own one scale and everyone wanted to create their own custom bath bombs it took a bit of…
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New Soapmaking Book + A Triple Butter Silk & Agave Soap Recipe
I’m super excited to be able to share not only a new soapmaking book with you but a new soap recipe as well! This triple butter silk & agave soap recipe is from Jan Berry’s new soapmaking book, Simple & Natural Soapmaking! As the author behind both The Nerdy Farm Wife blog and her previous book, 101 Easy Homemade Products for Your Skin, Health & Home, Jan Berry brings her…
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Apple Cider Vinegar Cocktail Recipe + My Weekly Wrap Up!
This weekend I wanted to share my new apple cider vinegar cocktail recipe! It’s a refreshing and light cocktail that can be made with either vodka or gin. Plus it’s a great way to sneak in those extra probiotics. I know not everyone particularly enjoys the taste of apple cider vinegar, but it’s surprisingly easy to hide. Just to be sure, however, I had my friend Cathy also give my…
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Foaming Oat Body Scrub Recipe with Frankincense & Tamanu Oil
This foaming oat body scrub recipe is homemade with skin soothing oat butter, tamanu oil and frankincense essential oil. Both frankincense and tamanu oil are purported to have anti-aging skin care properties and are therefore used in a variety of products that help to diminish the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Tamanu oil specifically possesses a variety of properties useful in skin care applications. It is a powerful anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial,…
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Manuka Oil Deodorant Recipe with Detoxifying Sea Clay
This manuka oil deodorant recipe is a great choice for anyone wanting to switch to a natural, non-irritating deodorant. Made with antifungal and antibacterial manuka essential oil as well as detoxifying, mineral rich sea clay, this natural manuka oil deodorant recipe fights body odor without synthetic or toxic ingredients and offers a fresh, uni-sex scent perfect for summer. What is sea clay? Sea clay is a dark greenish-gray clay derived…
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DIY Beauty Stick for Lips, Eyes & Cheeks: Vegan Plant Based Makeup
Learn how to create a DIY beauty stick for lips, eyes and cheeks. This vegan plant based makeup stick is naturally scented with a rose fragrance and glides onto skin with ease. It blends beautifully, and it also makes a great eyeshadow base! Vegan Plant Based Makeup Formulating vegan makeup is a fun and rewarding way to create fresh new makeup looks. There are lots of ways to make your…
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Mermaid Bath Bomb Recipe for a Self Care Bath Time Treat
Learn how to make DIY mermaid bath bombs for a fun and colorful addition to your bath time ritual! This mermaid bath bomb recipe yields two large bath bombs with moisturizing cocoa butter shells. When placed in water, your DIY mermaid bath bomb will spin, fizz and sparkle releasing a beautiful blue color, eco-friendly rainbow glitter and skin loving ingredients including kelp powder, oat butter and coconut oil. The cocoa…
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DIY 4-in-1 Plant Based Makeup: Rose All Over Cream Makeup Stick
Learn how to make an all over cream makeup stick without beeswax with this plant based makeup formulation. Naturally scented with a rose fragrance, this four-in-one makeup stick can be used all over as a bronzer, eyeshadow, blush and lipstick. Cream Plant Based Makeup Stick Plant based makeup is the new trend. However, you don’t have to spend a fortune investing in premiere brand cosmetics to get it. Instead, try…
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Scented DIY Unicorn Eyeshadow in a Tri-Color Pressed Palette
Learn how to make your own scented DIY unicorn eyeshadow. This fun trio of scented pressed eyeshadows offers lasting pastel color and shimmer that’s perfect for eyes. Once you’ve mastered these colors, be sure to try out your own custom DIY unicorn eyeshadow in custom colors and scents! Ready to jump right into creating your own unicorn inspired eyeshadow? There are a few things you’ll need for this mineral makeup…
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Matcha Green Tea Lotion Bar Recipe
This matcha green tea lotion bar recipe is made with skin nourishing tea seed oil and matcha green tea. These natural ingredients combine to create a luxurious non-greasy solid lotion bar that melts onto skin upon application. Unlike recipes for traditional solid lotions bars, these natural hard lotion bars made with green tea absorb quickly and won’t leave your skin feeling greasy. Ingredients for Making Matcha Green Tea Lotion Bars…
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DIY Nail Polish: A Fun Women’s Craft Night Idea for Entertaining Friends
Learn how to make custom color DIY nail polish with this fun women’s craft night idea. The first of a number of women’s craft nights I have planned, I used this opportunity to create custom DIY nail polish with some of my very favorite people! It’s a really easy project that I’d been wanting to make for a while, but just hadn’t gotten around to. Luckily having friends over for…
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DIY Geometric Glass Terrarium with Faux Plants
Learn how to create your own DIY geometric glass terrarium filled with faux plants! This easy tutorial will walk you through the steps to creating your own unique terrarium arrangement for your next home accent piece – all without the worry of watering and maintaining your plants. I’ve been wanting to create my own faux terrarium for some time as I have a particularly poor green thumb. I’ve been known…
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Vegan Solid Lotion Bar Recipe with Soothing Oat Butter & Lavender
This vegan solid lotion bar recipe is made with soothing oat butter, plantain infused olive oil and lavender essential oil. Crafted without beeswax, this hard lotion bar is the perfect treat for sunburned skin this summer. Also be sure to try this vegan friendly body moisturizer DIY on dry or rough feet, hands and elbows! Because plantain is currently growing wild in abundance this time of year, I chose to…
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DIY Unicorn Body Glitter for Summer Festivals & Parties!
Learn how to make your own DIY unicorn body glitter to wear to summer festivals and parties! Probably one of the easiest things you’ll make this year, this super sparkly unicorn body glitter is made with a combination of iridescent fine rainbow colored glitter and tiny heart & star spangles. DIY Unicorn Body Glitter What makes this DIY unicorn body glitter so easy? Well, it only requires you purchase a…
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DIY Succulent Container Garden
Learn how to make your own DIY succulent container garden. Not only do these succulent container gardens make a beautiful home accent, but they are also extremely low maintenance! In fact, my succulents tend to fare best when I forget to water them. (Go figure.) So whether you have a green thumb – or a not so green thumb – you’ll love the natural beauty a succulent container garden offers!…
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Moisturizing Sugar Scrub Recipe for Dry Skin
This moisturizing sugar scrub recipe is formulated for exceptionally dry skin. Made using luxurious and richly hydrating moringa oil and skin soothing oat butter, this moisturizing sugar scrub can help to calm and soothe dry, itchy skin and inflammation. And it’s scented with a jackfruit & kiwi fragrance oil for a to-die-for tropical fruit fragrance that’s perfect for summer. What is moringa oil? Moringa oil is a nutrient dense, extremely…
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How to Throw a Unicorn Party for All Ages
How to Throw a Unicorn Party! Whether you’re planning a unicorn party for a child or simply a crazy fun cocktail party for adults, here’s how to throw a unicorn party that everyone will love! My friend Cathy and I have birthdays just three days apart. Cathy really wanted to have a birthday party for our 42nd birthdays. So I threw her a unicorn party! While unicorn cakes and other…
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How to Make Blueberry Sugar Scrub with Tea Seed Oil (Emulsified Recipe)
This emulsified blueberry sugar scrub recipe with tea seed oil is perfect for summer! This DIY sugar body scrub is so easy to make and is perfect for your weekly skin care routine. It gently exfoliates and moisturizes skin. So, it looks healthy all season long. Plus, it smells absolutely amazing! Discover how to make it now. Read on for the full skin care recipe and to learn about the…
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Rose Body Balm Recipe with Just 3 Natural Ingredients & Printable Labels
This natural rose body balm recipe is not only super luxurious, but it only requires just 3 simple ingredients to make! Crafted using camellia tea seed oil, rose wax and shea butter, this rose body balm recipe is all natural and makes a lovely homemade gift! Learn how to make this natural skin care recipe for a homemade rose beauty balm. You can easily create stunning winter gifts for Valentine’s day or…
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Awesome Father’s Day Gifts to Buy or DIY
Father’s Day is right around the corner! Don’t get stuck fumbling around last minute to come up with amazing Father’s Day gifts the night before! Buy or DIY one of these awesome Father’s Day gifts now to remind your dad just how pretty crazy awesome he is to you! Awesome Father’s Day Gifts to Buy or DIY Craft this DIY Beer Bottle Opener Sign via Dawn Nicole Designs and gift…
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Apple Cider Vinegar Hair Rinse Recipe for Shiny Hair with Yerba Mate
Learn how to make a natural apple cider vinegar hair rinse recipe for shiny hair that looks and feels healthy. Plus a bonus herbal ingredient that help deter graying hair. A must have natural hair care recipe for your beauty routine. How to Make & Benefits of An Apple Cider Vinegar Hair Rinse This Apple Cider Vinegar Hair Rinse Recipe with yerba mate tea not only helps to strengthen hair…
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Cucumber Mint Sugar Scrub Recipe
Learn how to make a cucumber mint sugar scrub recipe to add to your skin care routine. This homemade body scrub recipe is a wonderful way to exfoliate and moisture skin. It also makes lovely homemade gifts for friends and family. Cucumber Mint Sugar Scrub This cucumber mint sugar scrub recipe is made with ingredients skin loves! Formulated using quality natural ingredients like cucumber seed oil and aloe, this homemade…
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Lemon Ginger Spritzer Cocktail Recipe
This lemon ginger spritzer cocktail recipe requires just three ingredients for the perfect summer drink! I hope everyone is having a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! I came up with this simple, yet delightful lemon ginger spritzer this past week and loved it so much I wanted to share it! I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I do. It’s super simple to make and requires just three ingredients. It…
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Rose Body Butter Recipe without Beeswax: A Vegan Friendly Moisturizer
Looking for a vegan friendly moisturizer DIY? This rose body butter recipe without beeswax fits the bill! Made with only natural ingredients, this rose body butter nourishes skin without leaving it feeling greasy. How to Make Rose Body Butter without Beeswax Inspired by Nourish Organic’s Rejuvenating Rose Butter, my rose body butter recipe without beeswax contains refined shea butter and coconut oil, rosehip seed and sunflower oil, and natural rose…
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Yogurt Face Mask Recipe for Anti-Aging Skin Care
This anti-aging DIY yogurt face mask is suitable for all skin types. However, it’s especially nice for those of us trying to fight the appearance of aging. Because yogurt contains lactic acid, an alpha hydroxy acid that dissolves dead skin cells, the use of yogurt in a facial mask can help to diminish the appearance of lines and wrinkles as well as fight breakouts. Yogurt Facial Mask for Mature Skin…
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Fun Bath & Body Recipes to DIY This Weekend
Looking for fun bath & body recipes to DIY this weekend? Here are just a few of many favorite bath & body recipes that I’ve either collected on Pinterest or created myself to help your creative side get into the spirit! Fun DIY Bath & Body Recipes These DIY glitter cupcake bath bombs from Aww Sam! blog are easier to make than you might think and make bath time more fun…
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Pink Lemonade Lip Scrub with Sugar for Natural Summer Skin Care
This pink lemonade lip scrub with sugar is simply luscious! Made with lip safe mica and a sweetened pink lemonade flavor oil, this homemade lip scrub recipe with sugar is suitable for both your body and your lips! Give it a try today for a delicious addition to your summer skin care routine for natural beauty. Why Use a Lip Scrub with Sugar? Believe it or not, your summer skin care…
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How to Make Orange Soap with Blood Orange Essential Oil
This orange soap recipe is made with real orange powder and blood orange essential oil. Similar to other citrus essential oils, blood orange essential oil has anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and antibacterial properties. This makes this DIY citrus soap especially suitable for acne prone and combination skin. Keep reading to discover how to create this orange cold process soap for your natural skin care routine this summer. DIY Orange Soap These DIY orange…
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How to Make Apple Soap with Apple Fruit Powder (Cold Process Recipe)
Discover how to make apple soap using real fruit powder. My green apple soap recipe is created using the cold process soapmaking method. Formulated using real apple fruit powder for its skin care benefits, this homemade soap makes a wonderful addition to your summer beauty routine. Learn how to get gorgeous glowing skin today when you make this natural summer soap for your face and body. DIY Apple Soap If…
