A wonderful way to end your day is with an aromatic bath. It can be relaxing, rejuvenating, and in the winter time it can be nourishing to the skin. The winter cold brings heated indoor areas, which can dry our skin. By adding a moisturizing bath into your routine once or twice a week, your […]
How to Use Herbs in a Bath
Herbs are a great substitute or addition to essential oils in baths. Herbs have been used in baths for thousands of years for health and for beauty – to relieve aches and pains, to improve sleep, to boost circulation, to fight colds, to energize or to relax. Use fresh or dry herbs: a teaspoonful of […]
Easy Natural Hair Treatments at Home
Cold-pressed vegetable oils nourish and moisturize the hair naturally. Many vegetable oils are good for an oil hair treatment at home, but some of the best and most commonly used include olive oil, jojoba oil or coconut oil. Add herbs or essential oils for your hair type or color, or to treat dandruff naturally. […]
How to Make Your Own Massage Oils
Make your own massage oil to relieve aches and pains, for self-massage or to massage others. Homemade massage oils are great gifts, too. Choose a single base oil or a few carrier oils, and add up to 3-4 essential oils. Base Oils for Massage Oil Blends Grapeseed oil is odorless and light and […]
Easy Homemade Face Mask Recipes
Natural facial masks are easy to make, and you can find most ingredients in your fridge or in your kitchen cupboards. Fresh (ideally organic) vegetables, fruit, honey and oatmeal are affordable, natural and safe ingredients for homemade beauty products. Use a homemade face pack just like you would a store-bought one: apply on cleansed […]
Making Your Own Face Oils
Oil on your face? Well, yes. Cold-pressed vegetable oils are nourishing to the skin, natural and free of all the preservatives and synthetic fragrances you find in typical commercial face creams. Vegetable, nut and seed oils also absorb well into the skin, unlike mineral oils that can clog the pores. By adding essential oils to […]
Essential Oils for Different Skin Types
When you make your own beauty products, you know exactly what you’ll be putting on your skin. Many commercial body lotions and face creams contain essential oils, but some of them contain just tiny amounts of actual essential oil, and you can’t always be sure of the quality of the oils. All you need […]
Choosing Essential Oils for Homemade Body Oils
When making your own body oils, you can choose essential oils for their therapeutic properties or simply for their scent. Blending, like perfumery, is an art: it takes time, and some trial and error, to create a good blend. If you really get into making your own homemade beauty products, it is a good idea […]
How to Use Ravensara Essential Oil During the Cold and Flu Season
Ravensara (Ravensara aromatica) is one of the best essential oils to use during the flu season. It is a good alternative to Tea Tree oil or Eucalyptus essential oil and because it is non-toxic and non-sensitizing, it is safe to use even for children. Its many therapeutic properties make it almost as versatile as Lavender, […]
How to Choose Base Oils for Homemade Body Oils
Making your own body oils is easy and fun. Choose one or more base oil(s) and add essential oils to make a moisturizing, nourishing or balancing oil for your skin type. Cold-pressed vegetable oils, nut oils and seed oils are the best bases for diluting essential oils. They have their own therapeutic properties, they are […]
Refreshing, De-Stressing and Energizing Foot Baths
A foot bath with essential oils or herbs relieves tired feet, softens the skin, relaxes and re-energizes. If you don’t have a bath tub, a foot bath is a good substitute for a full bath, and soaking your feet at the end of a long day is great way to de-stress. Choose essential oils to […]
Get Prepared: A Natural First Aid Kit
In addition to a home first aid kit, I like to keep an herbal “first aid” kit for emergencies. The following natural remedies are always good to have at home. Homeopathic remedies should not be stored next to strong smells, so keep your homeopathic tablets separately from your essential oils. Useful Natural Remedies for a […]
