It’s a crazy week, so instead of sharing some of my recipes, I’m going to share some of my favorite recipe links. Now, here’s the deal. I don’t always find organic body care recipe links. Do I make the item organic – why yes, and you can too. Almost any homemade beauty care recipe can be converted to organic easily. Also, if an item in a recipe doesn’t suit me, I’ll change it up.
Don’t forget to read Homemade Beauty Products – Safety 101 before you get started.
My fave links:
Channel your inner princess with homemade body glitter: I don’t …read more

Honey is awesome for most skin types. It leaves your skin feeling really clean, it can firm, its natural antibacterial properties make it great for blemishes, and as a bonus your skin smells great, very honey sweet, and the scent lingers.
Here are a few plain old honey skin applications. If you’re using it on your skin, I’d use organic.
Plain honey for the honey pat or tap: Pour a little honey into a cup, use your fingers to scoop honey onto your face. Tap your fingers all over your face until the honey stops dripping and becomes tacky (it will …read more

These are fresh face scrubs – meaning you make it, you use it or lose it. I suppose you could refrigerate for a bit, but not more than a day or so.
Both of these work on all skin types except ultra sensitive. If you have very sensitive skin you can omit part of the scrubby ingredients (i.e. almonds or bran) but try a little on your arm before using.
Almond, Apricot, & Honey Face Scrub
You need:

1/2 organic apricot at room temperature
1/4 cup ground almonds
1/2 tablespoon Honey
Optional – a teaspoon of dried lavender

To make:
Put everything in a blender and blend …read more

Some recipes for homemade creams and lotions are really complicated. This one below has a lot of steps, but is relatively easy in comparison to most.
Any herb face and body cream:
Pick a herb. You can use most any herb, but I suggest choosing one that’s good for your particular skin type. You can use elderflower, calendula, linden blossom, and more. If you’d like to make a cream for children I suggest comfrey or chamomile, which are gentle.

Gather supplies:

4oz fresh organic herb of your choice (or 2oz dried) – fresh is best
150 ml almond oil, or if olive oil …read more

It seems like people would like more homemade beauty product posts around Tree Hugging Family, which is fine by me. I love homemade beauty products. However, it does concern me a little to post more homemade products without first discussing some basic safety.
I’ve written this basic safety sheet that you can follow regarding the safety of homemade beauty products; products either with or without therapeutic benefits. If you’re going to make your own homemade beauty products, please make sure to read this all the way through. From now on, this important post, will be posted in the sidebar pages to …read more

As promised, one solution to overpriced, way over packaged, chemical laden, body care products. I make a lot of homemade body care stuff – but this one is my favorite because it’s so good it’s gift worthy. Perfect to make in bulk, and give away to friends. Some people I know make this with salt – I have this lame tendency to try and chop veggies like a knife pro (which I’m not) and cut my fingers – salt and cuts don’t mix. That’s why I use sugar. But you can use salt.
Supplies:

2 cups sugar – I like a mix …read more