Bronzing Moroccan Oils Lotion Bars
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Ever since I made my first basic lotion bars, I’ve been experimenting with fun variations and natural scents. Lotion bars are wonderful because they are used on dry skin and…
Beauty
Conventional beauty products contain harmful chemicals and additives. These natural beauty recipes are alternatives to popular products and contain beneficial ingredients for your skin.
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Coconut Oil Lotion Bar Sticks
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I’m a huge fan of coconut oil and its many uses. At our house, we use it in everything from cooking to toothpaste. These coconut oil lotion bar sticks are…
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Natural Shimmer Lip Balm Recipe
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I love making my own cosmetics. I’ve made foundation, natural bronzer, homemade lipstick and even mascara (recipe coming soon!). In the comments of my homemade lipstick post, I had multiple…
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Shea Butter Lotion Bar Stick
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I’m a natural skin care product addict. In college, my bathroom was filled with dozens of hair products, skin products and make-up that were likely filled with hundreds of chemicals.…
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Deep Cleansing Mud Mask Recipe
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Writing a book is stressful! It caused my first autoimmune flare in months and the first time I’ve had a skin breakout in years. I’m back on the autoimmune reset…
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Spray Deodorant Recipe
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My homemade natural deodorant recipe is several years old and is one of the most popular on my site with almost 800 comments. I still use it and it is…
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DIY Hair Growth Serum Recipe
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Hormones affect every aspect of health, and lately I’ve seen the affect of hormones on hair and scalp health. After eight years of pregnancy and nursing, my body was tired…
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Sweet Salt Texturizing Spray for Hair
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I’ve shared my natural hair spray recipe and my Beach Waves Sea Salt Spray before. I like both of them but wondered if I could combine them to make one…
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Eczema Relief Lotion Bars
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I get a lot of emails about eczema, and I know many people who struggle with it personally. I’ve talked before about how there is often a connection to a…
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How to Make Lotion Bar Sticks
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What Are Lotion Bars? Lotion bars are a very moisturizing body lotion in solid form. They look like a bar of soap but are used on dry skin. My original…
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Vanilla Latte Sugar Scrub Recipe
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I love the smell of coffee and I love drinking coffee (but only this way!) Turns out, coffee can have benefits when used externally! I talked about this in my…
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Soap Nuts Shampoo
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I’ve written before about how I use soap nuts for laundry, and I’ve gotten several questions since that post about how I also use them for shampoo. Finding a natural…
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Mud Shampoo Review
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I’ve written before about how I use homemade shampoo, but I’ve found that many people don’t do well with this option. I recently discovered a way to use bentonite clay…
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Natural Hairspray Recipe
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Hairspray is one of the worst offenders when it comes to chemicals in beauty products. It typically has aerosol, plastics, VOCs and more. Luckily, like most beauty products, there is…
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How to Detox Your Hair
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A reader emailed me and asked if I’d ever heard of using clay to wash or detox your hair. I hadn’t, but was intrigued, so I started researching… Mud in…
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Nourishing Hair Oil Recipe
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Hair can get dry and brittle, especially in the summer months during time spent outside, at the beach, or swimming in a chlorine laden pool. Use of harsh chemical products…
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DIY Natural Blush Make-up Tutorial
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I’ve written about natural homemade makeup options before, but I wanted to share a specific recipe for homemade blush as I only vaguely touched on this before. Cosmetics are a…
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7 Ingredients – 20+ DIY Natural Beauty Recipes
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Cosmetics and beauty products are a major source of chemical exposure for most people. An average beauty product contains dozens of harmful chemicals, many of which have not even been…
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Homemade Shaving Options for Men
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Most of my posts are geared toward women, but I’ve gotten several requests on Facebook for natural skincare and shaving options for men, since shaving is one of the biggest…
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DIY Dry Shampoo for Dark or Light Hair
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Dry shampoos have been all the rage, and I can understand why… A beauty product that makes your hair look clean when it hasn’t been washed in the past three…
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Homemade Natural Makeup Recipes
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I get a lot of questions about natural makeup options, and this was definitely one of the tougher things for me to find natural alternatives for. In college, I practically…
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Homemade Shaving Soap Recipe
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At my house, we make almost all of our own toiletries, including deodorant and toothpaste. I’d read plenty to convince me that conventional shaving soaps were relatively toxic, but for…
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Seven Natural Beauty Tricks From Your Kitchen
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There are many natural beauty tips, tricks, and recipes that you can make at home, and your kitchen contains all the ingredients you’ll need. 1. Oil Cleansing Use olive, coconut,…
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Natural (Homemade) Substitutes for Conventional Beauty Products
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Outer beauty is at least partially a reflection of inner health and a healthy, well-nourished body will shine with great skin, silky hair and bright eyes. It seems ironic then,…