25 Homemade Bath and Body Recipes
Below are some of my favorite homemade bath and body recipes. They’re all made from natural ingredients (of course!), and my favorite part is subbing in my favorite essential oils and dried herbs.
Bath + Beauty
You Should Make Your Own Soap
Homemade soap is easy, fun, and satisfying to make, and you can craft your soap to your exact specifications.
DIY: Upcycle Old Towels into a New Bath Mat
I cut up several old towels to piece together a cute applique mushroom, quilted it onto a couple other old towels, and now have a brand-new custom bath mat that the kids and I are delighted with.
20 DIY Reusable Products to Replace Single-Use Disposables
For every single-use disposable, there’s a DIY reusable option, and often one that you can make from supplies that you already own.
Make A Mason Jar Soap Dispenser
Now you have no excuses not be as clean as a whistle!
How to Sew a Sleep Mask
A soft and comfy sleep mask will block any ambient light that comes your way, letting you drowse in complete darkness.
Is Denatured Alcohol Eco-Friendly?
When you’re looking for an alternative to most commercial cleaning supplies, it’s important not to overlook one of the cheapest, most readily-available cleaning supply out there.
27 Eco-Friendly, DIY Mother’s Day Gifts
Get a jump on your mother’s special day with these eco-friendly, DIY Mother’s Day gifts
The 2016 Aromatherapy Injury Report is Super Scary, Y’all!
Essential oils are no joke.
12 Sugar Scrub Recipes to Beat Winter Skin
Treat yourself to some of these sugar scrub recipes for winter skin. The sugar and oils soften your skin while the scents improve your mood.
Maple Lemongrass Energizing Sugar Scrub
Aromatic sugar scrubs are my favorite remedy for dry skin. You get to exfoliate, moisturize, and treat yourself to a little aromatherapy all at the same time! This Maple Lemongrass Sugar Scrub is energizing and revitalizing.
Warming Ginger Spiced Sugar Scrub Recipe for Winter
Gentle, spiced sugar scrub is perfect for warming and soothing winter skin. Make this winter sugar scrub recipe for yourself or as a holiday gift. Or both!
14 Amazing DIY Scrub Recipes for EVERYTHING
We’ve got DIY scrub recipes to exfoliate and moisturize you from your head to your toes. Let’s get scrubbing!
The Crayon Lipstick Experiment
IT TOTALLY WORKS!!!
How to Make a Sachet: 21 Projects
I’m not saying that your home is smelly.
But… it could smell nicer, couldn’t it?
How to Make Candles with Poured Beeswax
There are lots of different ways that you can make a candle. Here’s how to make candles using poured beeswax that you dyed yourself!
Winter Beauty Tips: 9 DIY Recipes for Healing Winter Skin
Winter is rough on my skin. Without a moisture boost, it gets super dry and painfully cracked. Here are DIY winter beauty tips to help you kick your winter skin and get ready for spring.
DIY Makeup: Fix Your Broken Eye Shadow
Did you try to apply eye shadow before having coffee and drop it on the floor? You don’t have to toss that crumbled color. Try this DIY makeup fix instead!
Spotted: How to Make Toothpaste (no, really!)
Conventional toothpaste is full of harmful chemicals. Shocking, since this is stuff that’s supposed to go into your mouth, right? Most conventional toothpaste contains artificial colors and flavors along with chemicals that might even weaken your teeth over time. And the worst of the bunch also contain triclosan or triclocarban. Instead of agonizing over a long ingredients label, you can save some cash and learn how to make toothpaste yourself. At home. With ingredients that you pick!
How to Make Mouthwash with Two Ingredients
Store-bought mouthwash often contains nasty chemical ingredients, and natural brands of mouthwash can be on the pricy side. Here’s how to make mouthwash with ingredients that you probably have in your house already.
Make Homemade Eye Cream with Only 2 Ingredients
This is my new favorite night cream. It’s a homemade eye cream, and it only uses two ingredients. I bet you even have one or both of them in your house already.
Spotted: Kids’ Detox Bath from The Paleo Mama + 7 Other Kid-Friendly Herbal Recipes
Detox baths aren’t the only place where you can gently sneak some of those healing herbs and oils into a kid’s system.
Gibson Tuck: An Up-Do How-To
If your hair is long enough for a ponytail, you can don the Gibson tuck. My hair is almost shoulder length, but it works with longer styles as well.
How to Make Hand Sanitizer with Two Ingredients
Hand sanitizers are nice to have around, but they can contain toxic ingredients. Here’s how to make hand sanitizer with only two ingredients!
DIY Lotion With Only Four Ingredients
Have the beach and pool left your skin dry and your hair with split ends? Check out this two-in-one DIY lotion for skin and hair!
DIY Beauty Products from Kitchen Ingredients
Do you need recipes for DIY beauty products? We’ve got you. Check out this list of food-based beauty ideas for everything from herbs and oils to fresh fruit.
Spotted: Homemade Antibacterial Hand Soap
Most antibacterial soap is bad news, but you can whip up homemade antibacterial hand soap that’s safer and gets your hands just as clean.
Southern Lights Homemade Bath Salts (+ printable label!)
Do you have a hard time coming up with Valentines Day gifts for men on your list? These manly homemade bath salts are simple to make and smell like heaven.
Rosemary Lemonade Bath Salts to Melt Away Holiday Stress (plus free printable label!)
I made these homemade bath salts as Christmas gifts and saved a little extra for myself!
Soaps to Live by Giveaway Winner
Did you win the giveaway from Soaps to Live by?
Giveaway: Win Three Handmade Soaps from Soaps to Live by
Soaps to Live by is giving away, to one lucky winner with a United States address, three of their handmade soaps of the winner’s choice. Yesterday I reviewed the Bliss oatmeal cloves soap, the Dream peppermint rosemary organic soap, and the Shine citrus lavender soap, but perhaps you’re more into patchouli orange–then Hope is YOUR soap! Prefer thyme lemongrass? You’ll want to ask for Live.
Whatever your preferences, get your wish list ready, and then read on to see how you can enter to win your own three soaps from Soaps to Live by.
Crafty Green Review: Hand-Crafted, Eco-Friendly Soap from Soaps to Live by
Soaps to Live by soaps are made by real people, using real ingredients, in small batches, with eco-friendly practices. Read on to see how I liked them, and how Soaps to Live by is going to give even more soap away to one of you!
How-to: DIY Travel Toothbrush Holder from a Washcloth or Stash Toweling
This travel toothbrush holder isn’t the kind of fancy holder with a pocket for your toothpaste and another pocket for your floss. It’s not monogrammed, it’s not sewn from cute fabric, and it doesn’t match anything.
What it is, however, is functional and quick to make. It’s the kind of travel toothbrush holder that you sew the day before your trip when you need a break from packing, the kind of travel toothbrush holder that you’ll actually use because you can just throw it in your bag, the kind of travel toothbrush holder that, if you accidentally forget it in your hotel room, won’t break your heart because you’ll know you can sew another one in about ten minutes.
Here’s how to make THAT kind of travel toothbrush holder.
