White Cane Glimmer Body Scrub- Make it Monday with Domino Sugar
December 21, 2009 by Karissa
Filed under Recipes: Home, Skin, Food
Domino Sugar has a great recipe site that gives you ideas for homemade presents. It contains ideas for not only food but recipes for ornaments, sugar scrubs and more! Sugar scrubs are great for anyone as they can smooth dry hands, feet and knees and elbows. Helps to scrub away dead dry skin and replace the moisture with soothing oils. Visit the Domino Sugar Gift Guide.
White Cane Glimmer Body Scrub
1 cup – Domino® Granulated Sugar
1 cup – vegetable oil (I actually used Jojoba and Almond, equal amounts of each)
Oil from 1 vitamin E capsule
1 or 2 drops – of essential oil, lavender or orange (I used both)
1 16oz. – glass container with lid
Combine all of the ingredients in a medium bowl until well blended. Using a spatula, transfer mix into the container and secure lid. Contents will settle, mix before using. Scoop a teaspoon or two of the scrub on your hands and gently massage in circular motions onto your skin. Leave on for 3 to 4 minutes before thoroughly rinsing. The scrub will tighten on your skin.
I do want to mention the glimmer comes from the oils not from added sparkles.
FTC Disclosure: Domino Sugar sent me a gift card so that I could make this myself. And I did just that last night!
Baby Bath Oil- Make it Monday
November 9, 2009 by Karissa
Filed under Recipes: Home, Skin, Food
Babies, especially newborns are susceptible to cradle cap and extremely dry skin. I know a lot of mom’s want to bath their new babies every day, but that isn’t a good idea.
When you do bath your baby try this recipe for kicking the cycle of dry skin. And you can use it yourself, because what mom doesn’t need a little bit of moisture love?
Calendula is a gentle and natural healer
Ingredients:
- ½ cup avocado oil
- ½ cup virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon dry calendula flowers (if impossible to find you can use Calendula Oil, 2 tsps)
- 2 drops chamomile essential oil
Instructions:
Boil the calendula flowers in 2 cups of purified water for 1o minutes. Let it cool. Use a cheesecloth to separate the flowers from the water. (OR boil in a reusable loose leaf tea container.)
Combine all the ingredients in a a glass jar and use about 2 tablespoons per bath. If you can’t find Calendula flowers, they do sell Calendula oil. Just see what the ratio is, most manufactures add Calendula oil to a carrier oil. Use about 2 teaspoons of Pure Calendula Oil.
And don’t forget to add about 1 1/2 cups of warm filtered water if you use the calendula oil.
This would also make a great hair & scalp conditioner, cuticle treatment and whatever else might be drying up at this time of year!
See some of my other recipes in the Home, Skin and Food Recipe Category!
Make Your Own Hand Sanitizer
October 29, 2009 by Karissa
Filed under Recipes: Home, Skin, Food
Sanitizer can be a necessity, especially during this crazy flu season. Sometimes you are places where just after you wash your hands, you have to place them somewhere questionable. OR maybe you just can’t get to water?
Just don’t overuse them!
I like to have wipes around me too, Avalon Organics makes a nice baby wipe that is flushable and biodegradable. It won’t clean you hands of germs, but if you have dirt caked hands, you probably don’t want to rub sanitizer all over them. Wipe can be so invaluable to travel with. Wiping knobs, seats, arm rests, toys you name it!
Keep in mind, you don’t need alcohol to kill germs, essential oils can take care of that. That is why inhaling them can be so good for you while sick. Tea Tree over a hot steamy sink, helps you heal and breath!
So I have a pretty simple recipe for you today. Some of you may have all the ingredients in your house. I almost always do minus the witch hazel. I pretty much always have a bottle around. I have been making this for years! it is great for camping, which is why I first created it!
DIY Hand Sanitizer
Ingredients:
3/4 cup of aloe vera gel (NOT liquid, get the gel!)
1 teaspoon of oil (jojoba or grapeseed is perfect)
3 1/2 tablespoons of Witch Hazel (try and find pure, 100% witch hazel, if you can’t that is fine)
1 tablespoon of Apple Cider Vinegar
8 drops of Lemon Essential Oil
8 Drops of Orange Essential Oil
8 drops of Grapefruit Oil
10 drops tee tree oil
Make sure you don’t use metal bowls, and if you have a spoon around that is plastic, or plastic coated use that for mixing. Mix very well. place into a small travel shampoo bottle. Preferably one that doesn’t unscrew, but you can use to squirt just a little out in your palm.
And Congratulations! add a dollop to your hands, and rub thoroughly!
Make a few of these, and tuck in lunch boxes, cars, purses, backpacks, and anywhere you might find yourself with out soap and water!
Good luck and stay healthy!!
Make It Monday! Rosemary Mint Refreshing Foot Scrub & Moisturizer
October 26, 2009 by Karissa
Filed under Recipes: Home, Skin, Food
Refresh hot feet!
I don’t know about everyone else, but the more cooped up my toes are in shoes and socks, the more they ache. I always feel like I need to let the dogs breathe!
So here is a very simple recipe you can use to refresh feet, and keep some circulation flowing!
Rosemary Mint Hot Feet Refresher
Ingredients:
1/2 cups sea salt. (fine)
1/4 cup of Coconut oil (or more if you have sensitive feet)
10 drops of Rosemary Essential Oil
6 drops of Peppermint Oil
Simply mix it all together. Wet feet, and massage in. This should last a few treatments, and feel free to do your legs too! Rinse off pat dry.
So now you have a scrub, but what about a moisturizer?
Same recipe, just subtract the sea salt! This Rosemary Mint Foot & Leg Energizing Moisturizer will make you feel like running a marathon….
Well maybe, but it does feel so good!
Take a Hot Chocolate Milk Bath to Warm Up! Make It Monday!
October 19, 2009 by Karissa
Filed under Recipes: Home, Skin, Food
This recipe, is easy peasy! Just don’t drink the bath water, make a cup to enjoy for yourself!
Do you remember hearing the Cleopatra took milk baths? Milk is great for your skin, as it contains Lactic Acid. Lactic Acid is a moisturizing acid, that helps to very gently exfoliate, and moisturize at the same time. Milk also contains proteins and vitamins that our skin just drinks in!
If you are vegan, try substituting Rice Milk. I haven’t tried that route, as Craig drinks regular milk, so I just steal his for this treat! Rice Milk also has some great compounds, so I would think it would provide some benefit!
Hot Chocolate Milk Bath
Ingredients:
2 Cups of Chocolate Milk (OR 2 cups of Milk and 2 packets of hot chocolate)
2 tablespoons of Vanilla Castile Soap, or plain (love Dr. Bronners for bubbles!)
2 tablespoons of honey
Add to a jar, and mix together. Makes one bath treatment. Start bath, add ingredients, and indulge! and don’t forget to take your mug of hot cocoa with you!
Jackson Sage Review and Giveaway PLUS a Recipe!
But Doggie Sage isn’t what I am here to tell you about today. Today I want to talk to you about their amazing facial skin care products, and handmade soaps!
I don’t think I have ever seen Lavender and Eucalyptus together. Maybe it is common, I don’t know. I am pretty sure i have never had anything with those two scents. And they work so well together. Lavender has that mesmerizing scent, that helps me relax, but that is counteracted almost completely by the awakening Eucalyptus. The lavender takes the bite out, and makes it comforting.
As much as I loved this creamy soap, my favorite item that sold me on Jackson Sage, is their Tea Tree MicroScrub. I like a very light exfoliation to my face, and neck. But I also want the exfoliation to be even. I don’t want to leave my cheeks my raw, and my nose to feel untouched! Not a worry here. Gentle is this Micro Scrubs claim to fame!
Key Ingredients:
*Rhassoul Clay: Rich in minerals, reducess dryness, improves skin clarity, improves elasticity, and skin texture.
* Rice Bran: A gentle exfoliate that is said to prevent wrinkles, heal blemishes, absorb dirt, balance oils, and moisturize.
* Adzuki Bean Powder: Gently exfoliates.
* Sodium Bicarbonate Crystals: Removes dead skin cells.
Since I am on Carley’s Skin care regimen right now, I am using handmade soap to cleanse my face. The Tea Tree Micro Scrub is perfect with that, suds my face up a little, add a dime sized amount to my palm, work up to my finger tips then smooth all over face. So gently I can actually use it every day! I haven’t been using it daily, since Carley’s does have some scrubbers in it, but it feels soft and soothing on my skin, no stinging, itching, or dryness during or after rinsing off.
I think I could probably use it as a mask too? Maybe add a little honey?
All of Jackson Sage’s products are all natural, petroleum free, phalate free, gluten and paraben free, plus Vegan!
I have also been using Jackson Sage’s Tea Tree Serum. Not on my facial skin, but broke out on my back and chest. The problem was, I had a chemical rash, or at least a major reaction from something. I am currently trying to find the right laundry soap, and apparently Craig decided to do the same thing. So I am not sure which one it is! yikes! OR if that was even the culprit.
Anyways… I started getting these red bumps all over my shoulders (almost to elbows) and they covered my chest and back. Somewhat itchy, but they were painful! Not acne. I started using this Tea Tree Serum a few days after and it really helped them to start drying up and going away.
Check out the soothing, repairing ingredients:
Oil Free Serum with Skin Healing & Repairing Aloe Vera.
Fight Bacteria with Anti-Inflammatory Willow Bark.
Repair damaged skin with anti-microbial Helichrysum.
Normally I would have applied some diaper rash cream and then broken out with acne all over for the next few weeks! This serum soothed and healed!
So I have a very unique giveaway today, that also includes a Fall Recipe! These products are perfect for any skin type, especially those that get dry in the winter!
The winner will receive, everything included in this recipe that comes from Jackson Sage. So everything but the Apple Cider, honey and Apples!
Apple Lavender Masque
- STEP 1. Make the Apple Paste
- Cut up one apple
- But apple into blender, and add 1/4 cup Apple Cider (not vinegar)
- Blend until smooth
- STEP 2: Clay Masque
- 1.5 tsp Jackson Sage Lavender Daily Scrub
- 1.5 tsp Jackson Sage Lavender Toner
- 1/4 tsp Honey
- 3 pumps of Jackson Sage Lavender Serum
- STEP 3: Put it all together
- Clean face using Jackson Sage Cleanser
- Mist face with Lavender Hydrating Mist. If you have combination or oily skin, use Lime Mist.
- Apply Apple Lavender Masque, avoiding eye area, gently in a circular motion
- Leave masque on for 15 minutes.
- Remove with a wash cloth and warm water.
- Apply Jackson Sage Lavender, or Tea Tree, Skin Cream
Included is the Lavender Skin Care Package:
That folks, is a $95 Value! To enter, please go browse Jackson Sage, and tell me one item, not already mentioned here, that you would love to have!
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Aromatherapy Bible: The Definitive Guide to Using Essential Oils, Review and Giveaway
Whether is be oils for clearing my sinuses or oils to heal and protect, that is where you will always find my nose. Deep hidden in a book on Aromatherapy. Whenever I get to feeling ill that is the first thing I run to, and the first thing I research for treatment.
Inside that bottle of essential oil lies the key to beauty, health, and wellbeing-and the The Aromatherapy Bible: The Definitive Guide to Using Essential Oils
It teaches you to be gentle with practicing with the elderly and especially babies, that they should really be treated by a licensed practicing Aromatherapist. But it does teach you more then just the basic fundamentals. It is a beautiful small book, that has loads of useful imformation jam packed between exquisite pictures.
I have two of Aromatherapy Bible s by Gill Farrer-Halls up for grabs. To enter, please tell me your absolute favorite essential oil. You can find a list at Aromatics International.
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