Coconut oil is a multi-purpose home remedy and natural beauty treatment for the skin and the hair. Virgin or extra virgin coconut oil is higher quality than the cheap refined commercial grade coconut oil (but there are no internationally monitored quality standards for coconut oil like there are for olive oil, so “extra virgin” and […]
Natural Beauty Recipes on The Untrained Housewife
Take a look at the list of ingredients on a typical body lotion or face cream bottle. It can be scary: synthetic fragrances and colors, chemical preservatives, stuff you have never even heard of. With homemade beauty products, you’ll know exactly what you are going to put on your skin. Making your own natural beauty […]
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 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 […]
Basic Ingredients in Homemade Beauty Products
Making bath and beauty treatments from scratch is a great way to save money and cut back on potentially harmful chemicals found in some store-bought products. There are many recipes and variations for making “DIY” bath and beauty products- everything from homemade deodorant, shampoo, conditioners, facial masks and scrubs or even cleansers. But almost all […]
