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How-to: DIY Body Glitter from Healthy Ingredients
Need some sparkle? DIY body glitter takes just seconds to make, is perfectly customizable, and works even better than expensive, store-bought body glitter with freaky ingredients.
And, by using the secret ingredient that you probably already have in your cupboard as the base agent, your body glitter not only won’t be freaky, but will actually be healthy for your skin.
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How-to: Homemade Solid Body Lotion for Natural Skin Care
Solid lotion contains all the ingredients that are really good for you, like coconut oil and shea butter, but none of the artificial ingredients that make it squeezable through a plastic bottle. A solid lotion bar just sits on your dresser looking pretty until you need it, and then melts with your body heat into your skin right where you want it.
Store-bought solid lotion bars can be REALLY expensive, but DIY solid lotion is an easy homemade project–all you have to do is melt, stir, and pour!
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Treat Yourself: DIY Scented Bath Salts to Bust Your Stress
Is holiday stress getting you down? Indulge in a little self care and whip up some soothing bath salts to relax your muscles and help quiet your mind.
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10 DIY Beauty Recipes using Household Ingredients
Who says you need to buy expensive beauty products at the big box store? From deodorant and perfume to facial masks and scrubs, you can whip up these DIY beauty recipes using materials that you probably already have at home.
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DIY Beauty: Make Your Own Perfume
You don’t need harmful chemicals to smell great. Instead of relying on the perfume counter, grab your favorite all natural essential oils and make your very own perfume from scratch! Here’s how.
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Summer Craft: Soap Carving for Kids
A bar of soap is easy to carve even with simple, blunt, household tools, which makes it an extremely satisfying activity for a kid, who probably doesn’t get a lot of chances to carve something these days. If you make or buy organic, natural-ingredients soap, soap carving is also a wholesome activity, and it won’t add anything to the waste stream.
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How-to: Sew a Soothing Scented Buckwheat Eye Pillow
For headache or stress relief, or just a nice, long nap, an eye pillow weighted with natural buckwheat and sewn from soft fabric is just the thing you need to help you really relax. You can fill your eye pillow with your favorite herbs, sew it from silk or organic cotton, store it in the freezer to keep it soothingly chilly, and make a few extras to give as gifts later on.
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DIY Beauty: Homemade Lip Balm with Herban Crafts
Former CAGW writer Karen Lee and green beauty pro Mary Kearns have teamed up on a brand new endeavor: Herban Crafts. The duo is creating eco-friendly craft kits for folks who want to make their own beauty supplies but don’t know where to get started. Herban Crafts was kind enough to send me a kit to try out, so earlier this week I tried my hand at making my own lip balm.
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Crafty Uses for the Mint from Your Garden
There are a ton of crafty uses for mint, ways to add it into your bath and beauty routine, and medicinal aspects to it, so much that once the cupboard and freezer are full, you still have plenty to do with all that hardy mint growing in your garden all summer.
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Eco-Friendly Craft Kits from Herban Crafts
Ever wanted to make your own beauty supplies but wasn’t sure how to start? A couple of my favorite crafters are launching a line of DIY beauty craft kits, but they need your help to get started!
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Make Your Own Liquid Soap: Natural Recipes for Liquid Hand Soap, Dish Soap, and Laundry Soap
Read on for several recipes for liquid soaps that you can make yourself–some are very frugal, some are very fancy, and some will clean your dishes or your laundry as well as your hands.
From Cloth Pads to Crocheted Tampons: DIY Menstrual Supplies
Even though there are a lot of great manufacturers of reusable menstrual supplies out there, if you’re feeling crafty, there’s no reason why you couldn’t make nearly everything that you need all by yourself. When you DIY, you can make your stuff extra comfy, extra cute, of just the right absorbency, and even completely from stash, if you’re super-resourceful.
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Vegan Crafting Made Easy: A Vegan Beeswax Alternative
We have been all about the beeswax this week! Julie shared a recipe for natural beeswax furniture polish on Monday and then a whole roundup of beeswax crafts yesterday. I’ve got to say that as a vegan crafter, I want to get in on all this eco-friendly waxy action! But since beeswax comes from bees, that makes it off limits for vegan crafting purposes. So! I did a bit of digging and turned up a great vegan beeswax alternative!
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Bath and Body Beeswax Recipes (and a Few Recipes to Keep Your House Honey-Sweet, Too)
Because I’m always looking for a way to reduce the toxic chemicals that we keep in our home, I also like to make my own cleaning and bath supplies, and beeswax has proved itself to be just as versatile, and just as useful, in recipes that keep our house and bodies clean and happy as it is in all the other ways that we use it. Here are some of the best beeswax recipes for bath, body, and cleaning supplies that you can make yourself.
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Reader Question: Eco-Friendly Containers for Beauty Products
It can be tricky to scale your production up and keep that packaging green. Minimal packaging is always best, but when it comes to beauty products there are some things that just need a package. You can’t exactly spoon a glob of lip gloss into your customer’s hand, right?
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Five Crafty Projects to Make for Stocking Your Natural First-Aid Kit
You’ll feel better soon with these five projects that craft some homemade comfort into all your ouches and illnesses.
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How-to: Sew a Rice Pillow to Use as a Heating Pad or Cold Pack
A homemade rice pillow is an easy project to create for your natural first-aid kit. You can use a rice pillow as a heating pad or a cold pack!
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DIY Eco-Friendly Bath Remodeling Part 3
The final installment of my DIY bathroom ordeal.
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How to Make Crockpot Hot-Process Soap
If you have an old crockpot ready to dedicate to the crafts-only cause, then there’s no reason not to try your hand at making homemade, natural, crockpot hot-process soap.
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The Best Must-Read Soapmaking Resources
Interested in learning how to make cold-process soap, or ready to stretch your soapmaking skills? These resources are invaluable for every well-researched soaper.
Where Did the Eco Go?
Not long ago local store shelves were filled with green products, now they’re nowhere to be found. What happened?
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4 DIY Beauty Recipes for a Healthier Planet and a Healthier You
Not only are homemade beauty supplies less expensive, they’re better for you and for the planet. Try these DIY beauty recipes!
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