Wondering what are the best essential oils for poison ivy? This post covers the best essential oils for poison ivy to use in natural poison ivy remedies to soothe poison ivy rashes and itching. Discover ten essential oils that help to reduce swelling, itching and pain caused by poison ivy rashes. Plus three easy poison ivy home remedies for making a homemade poison ivy gel, a poison ivy relief spray…
Bath & Beauty Recipes
How to Use Hydrosols: Plus Hydrosol Recipes for Skin, Face and Hair
Hydrosols are a wonderful way to add the benefits of plants to your natural skin care and beauty routine. Learn how to use hydrosols for skin, face and hair and explore my collection of unique hydrosol recipes to craft plant based toners, lotions and soaps. Hydrosols are essentially flower waters. You may be most familiar with rose water, which is created using the same process. Like rose water or rose…
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Calendula Face Oil Recipe for Natural Anti-Aging Skin Care
Learn how to make a natural calendula face oil recipe and discover calendula benefits for skin. This easy skin care recipe helps moisturize and nourish the skin and can help prevent acne and the signs of aging. Customize your calendula oil for your face based on your skin type by using different carrier oils and essential oils for their specific benefits for the skin. It’s now easier than ever to…
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DIY Hair Masks: Easy Hair Mask Recipes for Every Hair Type
Nourish your hair with these easy hair care recipes for DIY hair masks. Created for every hair type, these easy hair mask recipes can be made at home using simple ingredients from your kitchen. Discover how to create DIY hair masks for damaged hair, dry hair, hair growth, frizzy hair and curly hair. Plus DIY hair masks with coconut oil as well as avocado to add extra hydration to your…
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DIY Hair Lightener Spray Recipe Plus How To Lighten Hair Naturally
Want to learn how to lighten hair naturally? Discover different ways to naturally lighten your hair with everyday ingredients, such as honey, chamomile, lemon juice, and salt. You will also learn how to create a DIY hair lightener spray, that sets soft highlights and gives your mane a healthy, sun-kissed glow. These simple, natural hair care recipes are perfect for summer. However, you can use them year round to give…
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The Best Essential Oils for Menopause and Hot Flashes
Don’t suffer through menopause and hot flashes. Find natural relief through aromatherapy. Learn about the best essential oils for menopause and hot flashes and how to use them. Plus discover easy ways to get natural relief with a simple, hormone balancing bath soak recipe and an easy DIY cooling hot flash spray with essential oils. You can make these products in just minutes at home for natural relief of menopause…
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Dandelion Cleansing Balm Recipe: Easy Natural Clean Beauty Recipe
Learn how to make a dandelion cleansing balm recipe with dandelion infused oil! This all natural, makeup melting facial cleanser nourishes skin as it removes makeup, dirt and grime for a wonderful, clean beauty alternative. It’s the perfect fit for your natural skin care care routine. Keep reading to discover how to make this DIY dandelion cleansing balm, and to learn about its natural skin care benefits, additional uses and…
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DIY Egyptian Magic Cream Recipe for Natural Beauty & Skin Care
This DIY Egyptian Magic Cream recipe makes a magical all purpose skin and hair treatment that moisturizes and nourishes skin, tames frizzy hair and even removes makeup naturally. Now you can make this natural beauty product at home and save money while reaping the benefits of this wonderful cream. Discover how to create your own dupe of the original Egyptian Magic Cream to enjoy all of the natural beauty benefits…
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What to Expect from a Henna Hair Treatment & Benefits of Henna for Hair
Learn about the amazing benefits of henna for hair and what to expect from a henna hair treatment. Following I share my experience with using henna over the years, plus before and after photos of my own henna hair treatment. You’ll also find in process photos of the subtle changes your hair goes through during the hours following rinsing henna out of your hair! It’s always a hoot when I…
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DIY Clay Masks (How to Make Spa Quality Face Masks at Home)
Learn how to make clay mask recipes for a spa quality facial at home. DIY clay masks are easy to make and work to exfoliate and rejuvenate the skin. Learn about the different types of clay and how to use them to create a mask for your skin type. Homemade Clay Masks for Skin Care DIY clay masks are my favorite types of masks. They exfoliate, brighten, and absorb toxins…
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Clean Beauty Balm Recipe with Essential Oils for Healthy Looking Skin
This clean beauty balm recipe with essential oils is a wonderful way to create your own natural skin care products for beautiful, healthy looking skin. Discover how to make this natural DIY beauty balm now to get clear, soft skin when used as part of your daily beauty regimen. As we learn more about the effects that the ingredients in beauty and skin care products can have on our skin…
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DIY Hair Detangler: How to Make a Simple Detangling Spray Recipe with Essential Oils
If your hair is long or knots easily, getting a brush or comb through it can be a challenge. However, there is a simple and frugal beauty tip to remedy this dilemma — A DIY hair detangler. This simple detangling spray recipe for hair is naturally scented, is easy to make and requires just four basic ingredients. It’s also one of the many amazing natural botanical recipes found in Jan…
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DIY Hand Mask for Dry Skin: A Simple 3-Ingredient Hydrating Mask for Dry Hands
Whether you have dry hands due to dry climate, the season or excessive hand washing, this DIY hand mask for dry skin is a simple, easy way to hydrate dry skin and help to restore the appearance of skin health. Keep reading to learn how to make an easy DIY hand mask recipe to nourish and hydrate your dry hands throughout the year, when your skin needs extra attention. Plus…
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Manuka Essential Oil Salve Recipe: A Magic Beauty Balm for Natural Skin Care
This manuka essential oil salve recipe is a magic beauty balm that hydrates skin and promotes healing. Add mica to create a tinted lip balm or highlighting makeup primer. Stuck at home searching for ideas for a spa day at home? This manuka essential oil salve recipe is the perfect, natural skin care project! Unlike all those clay mask and bath bomb recipes, this all purpose salve can be used…
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Play Dough Soap DIY: A Fun Kids Activity That Encourages Hand Washing
Encourage hand washing and make bath time fun with this play dough soap recipe, made with liquid Castile soap. This DIY play dough bath soap is easy to make, and older kids can even make it themselves. Don’t have liquid Castile soap on hand? Try it with body wash or baby shampoo. You can even scent these with kid safe essential oils for aromatherapeutic bath time fun! A creative, kid-approved…
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DIY Hand Sanitizer with Alcohol: An Alternative When Hand Washing Isn’t An Option
This flu season is especially scary. As the Coronapocalypse continues to claim lives and spread throughout the world, it’s more important than ever to take protective measures against this new strain of the flu. The top two ways to do this include handwashing and the use of hand sanitizers when soap and water aren’t available. With hand sanitizer unavailable in many locations due to the outbreak, you can make an…
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Soap Sponge DIY: An Easy Way to Exfoliate Skin & Reduce Plastic Waste
Learn how to make a soap sponge to use as part of your daily skin care routine. These soaps are dual purpose with an exfoliating sponge and a soap in one product. With proper care, your homemade soap sponges will last about two months. And they offer a number of benefits, not just in skin care, but for the environment as well. Keep reading to discover the benefits of soap…
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Essential Oil Perfume Recipes + How to Make Natural Fragrances
Make DIY perfumes with this collection of essential oil perfume recipes. If you love fragrances, but want a non-toxic alternative to synthetic scents that can trigger allergies, headaches and skin irritation, then this post is for you! Learn how to make natural perfumes using essential oils with this collection of recipes, natural essential oil blends for perfumery, and tips on how to make perfume for beginners. DIY Perfume I love…
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Herbal Bath Soak DIY for Valentine’s Day Gifts, Mother’s Day or Wedding Favors
Create a simple DIY herbal bath soak for someone special in your life. It’s an easy way to remind best friend, mother or even your overworked coworker not just that they are important to you, but also that they are totally deserving of self care. Whether you need gifts for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s day or wedding favors for your friends and family, this easy herbal bath soak is ready to…
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Sleep Rollerball Recipe: A Simple Essential Oil Blend To Promote Restful Sleep
Learn how to make an easy, 2-ingredient sleep rollerball recipe with a simple essential oil blend for sleep. A natural way to promote restful sleep, this essential oil blend is kid-safe and can be used even if you are pregnant or nursing. Plus discover tips on how to get a good night’s sleep by simply changing a few of your daily habits. Using Essential Oils for Sleep There are a…
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Essential Oil Remedy for Cold and Flu: Cold Rollerball Recipe to Support Immunity
Tackle your cold and flu symptoms and get natural relief with this essential oil remedy for cold and flu. This easy cold rollerball recipe supports your body’s immunity. It can also help to soothe cold symptoms by offering congestion relief in addition to aiding focus and energy. (After all, we all feel run down when we’re sick!) Aromatherapeutic Essential Oil Remedy for Cold and Flu With cold and flu season…
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Whipped Sugar Scrub Recipe To Naturally Exfoliate & Hydrate Skin
If you have dull or dry skin, give it a boost with this homemade whipped sugar scrub recipe. Made with natural skin care ingredients, this DIY whipped sugar scrub naturally exfoliates and hydrates skin. So you get soft, beautiful glowing skin with a more youthful appearance. Say goodbye to tight, dry, itchy or even flaky skin today by adding this easy, homemade beauty recipe to your natural skin care routine!…
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Whipped Body Butter Recipe: Natural Winter Skin Care for Dry Skin Relief
Don’t let dry skin leave your skin a raw, itchy mess this winter. Nourish it naturally instead with this hydrating whipped body butter recipe! This recipe for whipped body butter is the perfect addition to your winter skin care routine for natural, dry skin relief. It’s also the perfect skin care recipe for your self care routine, and the second in a my series of self care recipes. Keep reading…
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Homemade Lip Scrub in Chocolate Mint for Natural Winter Skin Care
Using natural products is an important part of my everyday beauty regimen. This homemade lip scrub recipe in chocolate mint is an easy way to keep with the theme of natural winter skin care. Plus it’s also the perfect addition to your self care routine for the New Year. Read on to learn how to make a homemade lip scrub as an easy addition to your natural beauty routine. And…
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How to Make Homemade Shampoo & Conditioner with Essential Oils Customized for Your Hair Type
Ever wondered how to make homemade shampoo? Unsure about getting started? Now there’s an easy way to learn how to make homemade shampoo and conditioner with essential oils customized for your hair type! Learn about the different types of homemade shampoos, why they do or don’t work, plus how to create your own custom essential oil blends for your homemade shampoo and conditioner that fit your ever changing hair care…
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Bath Salt Ornaments: An Easy Essential Oil Gift for the Holidays
Discover how to make easy DIY bath salt ornaments with lavender essential oil in just 15-minutes for easy last minute holiday gifts for friends and family as well as teachers, coworkers, neighbors — or anyone else on your holiday gift list. Bath Salt Ornaments: An Easy Essential Oil Gift Idea for the Holidays Gift giving can be a challenge. Especially if you want to give a homemade gift that’s not…
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Hand Salve Recipe for Winter Skin Care with Essential Oils & Beeswax
Learn how to protect, hydrate and soothe dry hands with this simple, homemade winter hand salve recipe. It’s made beeswax, coconut oil and natural peppermint and pine essential oils. These ingredients then all come together to create a natural product that’s perfect for your winter skin care routine. Winter Is Hard On Hands: Care for Them Naturally As I’ve aged, my hands have aged as well. While the rest of…
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Bath Bomb Ornaments: Easy Homemade Gift Idea for the Holidays
DIY bath bomb ornaments are the perfect holiday gifts. Not only are these fun Christmas ornaments easy to make, they allow you to gift someone special an extra opportunity for self care. What better gift to give for the holidays, than a relaxing bath time staycation? Learn how to make your own homemade bath bomb ornaments for your friends and family with this simple tutorial from guest blogger, Melanie Sugalski,…
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DIY Coffee Body Scrub with Mandarin Essential Oil for Winter Skin Care
Learn how to make a simple 5-ingredient DIY coffee body scrub for winter skin care in just 5-minutes. This easy, natural beauty recipe with mandarin essential oil will help you achieve the look of naturally glowing skin. It exfoliates away dead skin cells, hydrates skin and helps to tone for firmer looking skin. Here’s the Skinny on DIY Coffee Body Scrubs for Winter Skin Care If you’ve even had your…
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Exfoliating Body Polish Recipe with Anti-Aging Essential Oils for Natural Skin Care
Skip the synthetic foaming agents, fragrances and other artificial ingredients in Dove exfoliating body polish and make your own! My natural exfoliating body polish with anti-aging essential oils is a natural alternative that you’ll absolutely fall in love with. Plus discover more natural ways to care for your skin through whole body care using natural plant-based ingredients, botanicals and essential oils. If your skin is like mine, you probably grew…
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Simply Earth Essential Oils: A Review of Their Essential Oil Recipe Box
Curious about Simply Earth essential oils? If you’ve not tried them yet, here’s a breakdown of what to expect. Plus natural essential oil recipes and essential oil diffuser blends you can make using the Simply Earth essential oils in the Simply Earth essential oil recipe box. Eucalyptus Essential Oil Is the Bomb The November Simply Earth Essential Oil Recipe Box couldn’t have arrived at a better time. Caught in the…
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Breathe Easy Essential Oil Blend: Make A Homemade Vapor Rub Cold Remedy
Try this natural breathe easy essential oil blend recipe to make your own homemade vapor rub cold remedy for symptom relief from nasal and chest congestion. A simple and effective home remedy for fast cold relief when you’re fighting a cold or the flu. How to Use An Aromatherapeutic Breathe Easy Essential Oil Blend When I get a cold, there’s nothing worse than not being able to breathe through my…
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Beauty Benefits of Ginger Essential Oil: Plus Natural Skin Care Recipes
Ginger oil anyone? There’s a reason ginger essential oil is a favorite among natural skin care enthusiasts. Ginger essential oil offers a number of natural skin care and beauty benefits when used as an ingredient in your skin care formulations. Learn about all the ginger essential oil benefits for your skin! Plus discover a collection of my favorite natural skin care recipes made using ginger essential oil. Ginger Essential Oil…
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Pumpkin Spice Body Spray Recipe with Essential Oils for Fall
Enjoy the scent of fall whenever and wherever you like with this easy essential oil DIY body spray recipe that smells like seasonal pumpkin spice! It’s a simple way to create your own custom fall fragrances for yourself or to gift as easy DIY holiday gifts throughout the season. Make Your Own DIY Fall Body Spray I love fragrances. Unfortunately, it’s rare that I can shell out $40+ for a…
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Botanical Skin Care Course Review (Plus A Vanilla Whipped Body Butter Recipe)
Expand your knowledge of herbal skin care and discover the relation between nutrition and your skin with the Botanical Skin Care Course from The Herbal Academy. Keep reading to learn why I recommend this in depth course, plus how to make a vanilla whipped body butter recipe for dry skin. This post is sponsored by The Herbal Academy. All opinions are my own. When we think of back to school,…
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Homemade Daily Face Wash Recipes for Your Natural Skin Care Routine
It’s important to care for your skin. A homemade daily face wash is an easy way to do just that. There are a number of benefits to making your own homemade daily face wash. Not only is it an effective way to cleanse your skin as part of your natural daily beauty regimen, it can also save you money. Homemade Daily Face Wash Recipes Benefits of Making A Homemade Daily…
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Aromatherapy for Sleep: 3 Ways to Make An Insomnia Sleep Spray Recipe
Sometimes, falling asleep, much less getting a good night’s sleep can be a challenge. Without proper rest, however, we suffer not just physically but emotionally as well. Luckily there are ways to help combat sleeplessness and enable you to get a good night’s rest. By utilizing aromatherapy for sleep, you can promote a restful night’s sleep. Not only can my easy DIY aromatherapy sleep spray assist in helping you fall…
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DIY Shower Steamers Recipe with Menthol Crystals
Learn how to make DIY shower steamers with menthol crystals and eucalyptus essential oil as a natural home remedy for stuffy noses caused by colds, flu and seasonal allergies. For natural relief from congestion caused by colds or allergies, this easy shower steamer recipe is a must for back to school season. Learn more about this home remedy as well as the benefits of menthol crystals when used to promote…
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bath Bombs with Coconut Oil & Buttermilk Powder
Learn how to make moisturizing chocolate chip cookie dough bath bombs with coconut oil. Scented with a sweet cookie dough fragrance, these homemade bath bombs are made with richly hydrating buttermilk powder and coconut oil for a calorie free self care treat. Cookie dough is my jam. Specifically chocolate chip cookie dough. I admit, Ben & Jerry’s makes me a swoon a little. And when my hormones are taking the…
