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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Natural Eczema Treatment for Real Relief from Eczema & Dry Skin
Learn how to make an eczema treatment that works. This eczema relief balm recipe uses ingredients that soothe inflammation, itching and dryness. If you’ve ever suffered from eczema then you understand how awful it can be. Finding relief from over-the-counter topical eczema treatments, however, can be a challenge. Often times, I’ve found, these products make my eczema worse. This natural eczema treatment is different. Formulated using only natural ingredients known…
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Natural Shaving Soap Recipe with Lanolin for a Smooth, Skin Hydrating Eco-friendly Shave
Learn how to make a skin hydrating natural shaving soap for a smooth, eco-friendly shave — even if you have sensitive skin! A wonderful addition to your natural skin care routine, this homemade shaving soap recipe is made with skin conditioning shea butter and lanolin, a humectant, to help lock in moisture and aid in glide. Keep reading to learn how to craft your own lanolin shaving soap recipe, plus…
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Peppermint Lip Balm Recipe with Lanolin for Dry, Chapped Lips
Don’t let chapped lips ruin your day! My peppermint lip balm recipe with lanolin is crafted using only natural ingredients that work in tandem to promote skin health. Tackle your dry, chapped lips with this easy lip care recipe this winter. This natural DIY lip balm is a great way to nourish, moisturize and protect lips all season long. You’ll love the velvety smooth glide of this lip balm almost…
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Homemade Salve Recipe for Eczema with Honeybush Tea Infused Pumpkin Seed Oil
This homemade salve recipe for eczema is made using all natural ingredients including honeybush tea infused pumpkin seed oil. Prized in skin care for its ability to soothe skin irritation, honeybush tea is a wonderful pantry staple for whole body health both inside and out! As someone who suffered from eczema throughout childhood and at times into adulthood, I know how challenging it can be to find something that calms…
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Palmarosa Lime Natural Body Balm Recipe for Dry Chapped Skin
This palmarosa lime natural body balm recipe helps to protect, soothe and replenish dry chapped skin with natural ingredients like oat butter, hemp seed oil and lanolin. Making it the perfect addition to your natural skin care routine for your dry skin or eczema. Keep reading to learn more about the benefits of the natural ingredients used in my natural body balm recipe. Plus learn how to craft your own…
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Dead Sea Salt Face and Body Scrub Recipe for Glowing Skin
Get glowing, healthy looking skin with this homemade lush face and body scrub recipe. Formulated with nourishing body butters, coconut oil and Dead Sea salt, this Dead Sea salt face and body scrub recipe exfoliates skin and offers dry skin relief. It’s the perfect addition to your natural beauty regimen for sensitive, maturing or dry skin! Keep reading to learn how to make this amazing Dead Sea salt scrub for…
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Cracked Heel Salve Recipe with Essential Oils for Natural Skin Care
Learn how to make this easy cracked heel salve recipe with essential oils for your foot care routine. If you’ve been dreaming of ditching your calluses, dead skin and rough heels for good, then this natural skin care DIY is a must. Formulated with natural ingredients to help promote healing, this DIY foot salve for cracked heels helps hydrate, soften and soothe dry skin for beautiful, healthy looking feet. Ultra…
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Homemade Lanolin Skin Care Recipes
Learn about the benefits of lanolin and discover sixteen fantastic homemade lanolin skin care recipes that can help to protect and moisturize skin all winter long! What is lanolin and what benefits can be gained from lanolin in skin care applications? So, what is lanolin? Lanolin is a naturally occurring wax that is secreted by the glands of sheep and other wool bearing animals that helps them shed water from their coats. When…
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Homemade Winter Body Balm Recipe
This homemade winter body balm recipe contains ingredients that work together to help promote healing for damaged skin while also locking in much needed moisture. The end product of this winter body balm recipe makes wonderful homemade gifts for anyone who suffers from persistent skin conditions. It’s also appreciated by anyone who washes their hands continuously throughout the day such as hairdressers, crafters and teachers who work with children. Check out my homemade…
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DIY Holiday Gifts for Mom: Chocolate Orange Body Butter & Sugar Scrub Recipes
Learn how to make a DIY holiday gift set! This pairing of chocolate orange body butter and sugar scrub recipes is perfect for DIY holiday gifts for mom. Not only does this homemade skin care combo smell amazing – who can resist the sweetness of chocolate & orange? – it’s also a wonderful treat for mom’s dry skin throughout the winter holiday. Keep reading to learn how to make this…
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Cinnamon Sugar Homemade Non-Greasy Body Butter Recipe
This cinnamon sugar homemade non-greasy body butter recipe is simply perfect for the holiday season! Made from a combination of three natural butters and pumpkin seed oil, the rich moisturizing formula of this homemade non-greasy body butter recipe creates a product that melts into skin on contact. Once absorbed, this cinnamon sugar scented body butter will leave skin feeling luxuriously soft and supple – not greasy – with a warm cinnamon scent. These cinnamon sugar…
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DIY Holiday Gifts: Vanilla & Fig Non-Greasy Body Butter Recipe for Winter Skin Care
This DIY vanilla & fig non-greasy body butter recipe with hemp seed oil is perfect for DIY holiday gifts. Made using natural plant based ingredients, this homemade body butter recipe moisturizes & protects dry winter skin without ever feeling greasy! Keep reading to learn how to make your own homemade non-greasy body butter recipe scented in vanilla & fig – or any of your own seasonally favorite fragrances – for…
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Natural Rosemary & Neem Oil Foot Salve Recipe with Lanolin
Treat your feet with my all natural rosemary & neem oil foot salve recipe. It’s perfect for dry and even cracked feet and helps to prevent fungal growth and infections caused by diabetes or ingrown toenails. This handy little homemade foot salve recipe is made using the same calendula, comfrey and plantain infused olive oil as my natural homemade black drawing salve recipe so don’t be afraid to make up more of…
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A Generic for Dr. Lipp Original Nipple Balm for Lips?
I first learned about Dr. Lipp Original Nipple Balm for Lips through a sample I received in one of my orders from Birchbox. It’s touted as an all natural hydrating, healing product that later gained notoriety as the ultimate lip gloss, primer and multipurpose balm among London makeup artists. In addition, it also works great as a nipple cream for nursing moms, soothes and smooths dry patches of skin, repairs…
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Natural Lanolin & Neem Salve Recipe
As neem oil is such a great natural carrier oil, I chose to make a natural neem salve recipe that highlights neem’s skin care properties. Neem oil has been shown to be effective in assisting those suffering dry itchy skin, redness and skin irritation as well as psoriasis, eczema, scabies and even head lice. It is also naturally anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and anti-fungal and works great in natural dog products to help discourage…
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Natural Lanolin Shaving Soap Recipe
In my previous post I shared a natural homemade lanolin salve recipe and explained the benefits of using lanolin due to its moisturizing properties. As a natural humectant able to attract and retain water, it’s also valuable in soapmaking when creating natural shaving soaps. (Learn more about lanolin.) This natural lanolin shaving soap recipe combines natural moisturizing ingredients to help prevent skin from drying out even with repeated shavings while at…
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Natural Lanolin Salve Recipe for Dry, Damaged Skin
This natural lanolin salve recipe makes a wonderful alternative to commercial lotions and creams for hydrating and protecting extremely dry skin. So, what is lanolin? Lanolin is a naturally occurring wax that is secreted by the glands of sheep and other wool bearing animals that helps them shed water from their coats. When sheep are sheared in order to use their wool for textiles such as yarn or felt, the…
