Learn how to craft quick and easy natural massage melts with this simple, natural skin care recipe. A natural substitute for massage oils, this quick and easy natural massage melts recipe is an eco-friendly, green beauty alternative. As there’s no packaging to contend with, this holistic beauty recipe lowers your personal carbon footprint as it reduces the need for plastic packaging. Thereby these DIY natural massage melts reduce landfill waste…
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DIY Aloe Vera Soap Balls: An Easy Hand Milled Soap Recipe
These DIY aloe vera soap balls are scented with essential oils and include skin soothing aloe vera gel, rosewater & evening primrose oil for dry skin relief. If you love the look of traditional New England soap balls, then you must try this soap crafting project for making DIY aloe vera soap balls. An easy hand milled soap recipe, these homemade soaps are made using a rebatch soap base so…
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Natural Dog Shampoo Bar Recipe that Repels Fleas
Here’s an all natural cold process homemade dog shampoo bar recipe for your furry friends. This homemade dog shampoo bar recipe is gentler on your dog’s skin than commercial dog shampoos so it won’t dry out your dog’s delicate skin like traditional sulphate filled shampoos. The essential oil blend makes it great for repelling fleas without chemicals. Natural Dog Shampoo Bar Recipe Ingredients: 8oz coconut oil 6oz olive oil 1.5oz castor oil 6.5oz…
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Bug Away Handmilled Soap Recipe with Citronella Essential Oil
Try this easy bug away handmilled soap recipe with citronella essential oil and wash your way to superhero bug repelling power! Bug Away Handmilled Soap Recipe with Citronella Ingredients: 1 cup grated Castile soap 1/2 cup water 10 drops citronella essential oil 5 drops eucalyptus essential oil 1 T. dried, crushed pennyroyal leaves Instructions: Mix the ingredients into the melted soap/water mixture. With an electric mixer, whip the soap until…
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DIY Gel Air Fresheners
Craft project courtesy of Blossom Farm. DIY Gel Air Fresheners Ingredients: 1 packet of unflavored Knox Gelatin 3/4 cup water 1/4 cup vodka of grain alcohol 1-2 TBSP. fragrance oil (or half the amount of essential oil) Instructions: Bring the water to a boil. Then, dissolve the gelatin in the boiling water. Remove from heat Allow your DIY gel air fresheners to cool to room temperature then add the vodka,…
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Natural Shampoo Recipes + 15 Homemade Hair Care Recipes
You’re going to love this collection of easy natural shampoo recipes. Plus discover 15 fabulous hair care recipes to condition, strengthen and add shine to your locks. Natural Shampoo Recipes Create these natural shampoo recipes in your kitchen using simple, all natural ingredients. For quality organic herbs and botanicals, I recommend shopping with Mountain Rose Herbs. Soapwort Natural Shampoo Recipe Ingredients: 1 Tablespoon Soapwort Root 1 Tablespoon Dried Chamomile Flowers 1…
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Kick the stink! Handmade Natural Deodorant Recipes for a Sniff Worthy You.
Kick the stink with your own natural deodorant bars. Here are a few recipes you can try. You can purchase ingredients for these projects at Mountain Rose Herbs. Natural Deodorant Stick Ingredients: 1/2 cup cocoa butter 1 cup coconut oil 2 tbsp thyme 2 tbsp rosemary 9 oz. beeswax 1 Tbsp tea tree oil 2 tbsp lavender essential oil 2 tbsp castor oil 1 cup baking soda, sifted Instructions: Infuse…
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Rosemary Honey Hair Conditioner Recipe: A Simple Green Beauty Recipe
Discover how to make a simple, rosemary honey hair conditioner recipe for your natural hair care routine. It’s the perfect remedy to moisturize dry or damaged hair. The extremes of heat and cold we endure from summer into winter can make even healthy hair look and feel like straw. And who wants that? Remedy dry hair with this natural, nourishing rosemary honey hair conditioner recipe. This simple green beauty recipe…
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Melt and Pour Coffee Soap Recipe: Orange Mocha Dream Gardener’s Soap
This melt and pour coffee soap recipe works great as both a gardener’s soap and a kitchen soap. Scented with a fragrance blend of coffee, orange and mocha, this easy melt and pour soap recipe for beginners is a great way to add some fun to your hand washing routine! Use this easy DIY coffee soap to gently exfoliate skin and tackle tough kitchen odors like garlic and onions. Or…
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Facial Mask Recipes for Your Natural Skin Care Routine
Learn how to make natural facial mask recipes for every skin type as part of your everyday natural skin care routine. Four easy facial mask recipes to try for dry skin, normal skin, dehydrated skin and acne prone skin. Face masks are a simple beauty hack for healthy looking, clear beautiful skin. Learn how to make these homemade facial mask recipes for your natural beauty routine now! Natural Facial Mask…
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Handmade Lip Balm Recipes for Healthy Looking Lips
Forget store bought lip balms! Make your own handmade lip balm recipes instead! A special for your lips, these handmade lip balms not only moisturize lips, they also soothe chapped skin and promote healing. Keep reading to try one of three easy handmade lip balm recipes. Handmade Lip Balm Recipes Basic Lip Balm Recipe Ingredients: 1.25 oz Beeswax 1.5 oz Shea Butter 1.1 oz Apricot Kernel Oil 1.1 oz Sweet…
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Cucumber Loofah Soap DIY: An Easy Hand Milled Soap Recipe
If you love making homemade soaps, but don’t don’t to work with lye, then you must try this easy cucumber loofah soap DIY. An alternative to melt and pour soap making, making hand milled soaps involves grating traditional soap bars down into small pieces. The grated soap is then gently heated with a liquid, such as water or milk to create a custom soap bar with the desired scent and…
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Handmade Bath Bomb Recipes
I get lots of requests downtown for Bath Bombs or Bath Fizzies. Unfortunately these items are finicky and don’t deal well with heat and humidity. They are best kept in a cool, dry place around room temperature and let me tell you the Farmer’s Market offers the least ideal conditions for that. Therefore I’ve put together a few recipes so you can try your hand at creating your own! For…
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Natural milk bath recipes to soothe dry, itchy skin this winter.
Even if you don’t normally have dry skin, the dry winter can suddenly make your skin feel awful. There’s nothing worth than dry skin that feels tight and itchy. However, a simple natural milk bath recipe can help soothe dry skin naturally. Not only will you scratch less, you’ll be able to focus on your favorite winter activities! Natural Milk Bath Recipes Here a few natural milk bath recipes you…
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Chocolate Skin Care Recipes to Make Using Ingredients In Your Kitchen
Learn how to make two natural orange & chocolate skin care recipes using ingredients in your kitchen! Delicious orange & chocolate recipes for homemade melt and pour soap and a brown sugar coffee scrub! Original chocolate skin care recipes from my first experiments in making homemade beauty products. Yum, yum, yum! Here are two bath and body recipes that make a fabulous gift when paired. Try your hand at crafting…
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Orange & Eucalyptus Bath Salts Recipe
One of the first bath salt recipes I ever made, this natural orange & eucalyptus bath salts recipe is the perfect DIY for beginners! Bath salts are a wonderful luxury. Commonly made from sea salts, epsom salts, or a combination of both, they can help to relieve aches and pains, as well as relax the muscles to help prevent stiffness. They also soften the water, and help to naturally cleanse…
