Posts Tagged ‘Beauty Recipes’

Beauty Recipe: Lavender and Almond Skin Cleanser!

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

Lavender and Almond Skin Cleanser (this is a good recipe for oily skin):

2 tablespoons beeswax granules

1 tablespoon almond oil (health foods store, Mountain Rose Herbs, Living Tree Community Foods, and other online sources).

1 tablespoon mineral water (grocery stores)

1 drop lavender essential oil

Melt the beeswax granules and almond oil together very gently. Take them off the heat and add the other two ingredients, whisking them all together rapidly. Once it has turned into a cream, put into a sterilized and dried pot (a glass container with a lid–I reuse the same container over and over again). Gently apply to your face with a washcloth or cotton cleansing pad. Remove with any gentle toner or water.

Lavender Farm Tasmania Australia

Beauty Recipe: More Natural Tips on Taking Care of Your Teeth!

Friday, April 15th, 2011

Caring for Your Teeth Naturally: More Toothpastes, Foods That Clean Teeth, Mouthwashes, More.

Last week I shared an awesome video on how to make your own tooth powder (or toothpaste, however you want to call it) as an alternative for the toothpastes you buy in the store. It uses all natural and organic ingredients and that’s what this blog is all about. We can naturally take care of our skin, hair, nails and more just from using ingredients in our cupboards or refrigerators. Not only will these recipes save you money, but they are natural too. Let’s start with two more recipes for a natural toothpaste.

Strawberry Toothpaste

Strawberries have gentle cleansing and bleaching properties, and help remove stains from the teeth (especially coffee and tea). Just crush strawberry and rub the pulp directly on teeth.

Hydrogen Peroxide Toothpaste

Mix 1/2 tsp of hydrogen peroxide with 1 teaspoon baking soda. Use this tooth-whitening mixture once a week. This formula is a strong stain remover and tartar reducer. If your teeth are really sensitive, do not use this recipe.

FOODS THAT CLEAN THE TEETH:

There are foods that stain the teeth such as coffee, tea, red wine, etc., and there are other foods that work on the teeth like detergents. Foods that require a lot of chewing like apples, celery, and carrots whiten teeth naturally.

Foods like spinach, lettuce, and broccoli prevent staining by creating a film on the teeth that acts as a barrier.

BRUSH YOUR TONGUE

Make sure to brush your tongue after brushing your teeth, as your tongue harbors germs and bacteria there. Just brush your tongue with a natural toothpaste as described above and save yourself the money of those overpriced tongue scrapers.

HOMEMADE MOUTHWASHES:

Tea

Boil a strong cup of peppermint or spearmint tea. Drink in a slow, deliberate manner while rolling the tea around in your mouth, or let cool and use as a regular rinse.

Clove Rinse

Heat one teaspoon of cloves with 1/4 cup of water. Cool and rinse.

Now let’s have some fun with our teeth the natural way! Your teeth enamel will thank you!

Royalty Free Picture of a Tooth

Beauty Recipe: How to Make Your Own Herbal Toothpaste!

Friday, April 8th, 2011

Beauty Recipe: How to Make Your Own Herbal Toothpaste (or rather your own tooth powder!)—using all natural ingredients!

With permission granted by Mountain Rose Herbs, I am very excited to present to you a video on how to make your very own teeth cleaner! With just a few ingredients you can clean your teeth without having to buy expensive toothpastes in the store. The ingredients that you will be using can be used for other beauty recipes and they store for a very long time, so no worries on the ingredients going bad quick.  Also these ingredients are all natural and organic, and there are no petro- chemicals or any bad substances in this tooth powder.

Many teeth cleaners (toothpaste) and including the so called natural toothpastes that you buy in the market are filled with harmful ingredients. Some of these ingredients include Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (same ingredient used in garage floor cleaners!–isn’t that gross?), artificial sweeteners (such as saccharin), preservatives, colors or flavors, amongst other dangerous substances which I will not list as that is meant for another post.  All you have to do is to look at the ingredient list on the toothpaste and you’ll see a whole list of bad stuff. Doing a bit of homework on what is in your beauty products, you’ll quickly find out that a lot of beauty products are loaded with cancer causing bad stuff!

Enough of the “bad” stuff! Let’s get to the “good” stuff! An instruction video on how to make your own teeth cleaner! Mountain Rose Herbs carries all the ingredients you need for this recipe, OR you can go on a hunt for these items, but to save time and energy I will using Mountain Rose Herbs. I trust what they stand for (being all organic and from quality sources, etc.).

Just in case you are not able to see the video I have written down the ingredients and instructions below:
Ingredients:

1/4 cup White Kaolin Cosmetic Clay

1/4 cup Baking Soda

1/4 cup Dead Sea Salt (or other good quality sea salt)

1 tablespoon dried organic Sage (off of your spice rack is fine too).

30 drops Spearmint Essential Oil

Small storage jar with lid

Instructions:

Mix the white kaolin clay, baking soda, and sea salt together in a bowl (you can use your clean hands for this). Grind sage down to a fine powder using a mortar and pestle  or you can try using a coffee grinder. Add sage to the mix and then add 30 drops of the spearmint essential oil mixing together well. Pour into your clean storage jar.

Just shake a small amount of this powder into one of your hands, wet your toothbrush and pick up the powder in your hand with the toothbrush.

Have fun with your teeth!!

 

Beauty Recipe: Parsley Juice Preconditioner for Hair!

Friday, April 1st, 2011

Conditioning is a very important part of the hair washing process. Some of us use blow dryers, curling irons and other gadgets on our hair to get it to do things for us and as a result this often DRIES out our hair.

Usually I condition my hair after I shampoo but apparently you can PRE condition your hair BEFORE you shampoo! This is a very simple recipe using ONE ingredient! (but two ingredients if you count water).

Parsley

Parsley Juice Preconditioner (for all hair types)

3 cups of fresh chopped parsley

1/2 cup of boiling water

This treatment conditions the hair and helps to balance the sebaceous glands. It helps any scalp problems and boosts slow-growing hair.

Infuse about a quarter of the parsley in the boiling water for 30 minutes. Then put the whole infusion, leaves and liquid, together with the rest of the parsley into a blender or food processor.  Blend the mixture into a runny paste. If necessary, add a little more of either ingredient  to correct the consistency.  Then massage it well into your hair.  Leave it on your scalp or hair for an hour or so to do its work. It is easiest to wear a shower cap  while you have got it in your hair,  as it does look a little strange!  Then rinse and wash your hair as usual.

 

 

 

Beauty Recipe: Cleopatra’s Milk Bath!

Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra, 1963

Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra, 1963

In honor of Elizabeth Taylor, (may she rest in peace), I am posting this beauty recipe! I remember her most in the movie CLEOPATRA when I was a kid. I thought she was absolutely stunningly beautiful in it and did a fantastic job playing the part.

I don’t know if indeed the real Cleopatra actually had milk baths but what’s a little fantasy to hurt? Maybe she did or didn’t! Let’s just have some fun!

From what I have read, milk is very soothing to the skin, and if you do a search on Google you will see all kinds of variations on milk baths, in adding baking soda, essential oils, etc. Do as you wish, but for this simple recipe it’s just plain old powdered milk and that is it. The reason for the powdered milk is only because it won’t spoil if you leave a jar of it in your bathroom. You can certainly use regular milk in the fridge though should you have some. Personally I do not drink milk, but I wouldn’t mind trying the powdered milk in my bath.

Ingredients:

You just use 1 and a half cups of powdered milk or 2 pints of fresh milk.

While the bath is running add the powdered milk under the fast-running tap.

This will help you relax and soften the skin! Lie back and pretend to be Cleopatra!

 

Beauty Recipe: Rosemary Foot Bath!

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

Herbal Foot Treatments: Rosemary Foot Bath

Ingredients:

1 cup rosemary leaves

1 cup salt

2 and a half cups boiling water

Simmer the rosemary and water together in a pan for 5-10 minutes. Then strain through a fine sieve. Fill two bowls with water, one with cold water and one with hot water. Stir the salt into the basin of warm water and add the rosemary infusion to the cool water.

Soak your feet in the salt bath for 5 minutes, then soak them in the rosemary bath for one minute. Put your feet back into the salt bath for another 5 minutes and, finally, into the rosemary bath again for the last minute.

Briskly rub your feet dry with a towel and massage them with a little moisturizing lotion. This should cheer up tired feet!

At the end of a hard day’s work it feels good to pamper your tired feet!! Have fun soaking!!

 


Beauty Recipe: Lavender Foot Bath!

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Herbal Foot Treatments: Lavender Foot Bath

What a way to end a day! With a soothing foot bath, especially if you’ve been on your feet all day working or whatever.

Ingredients:

2 cups lavender flowers and leaves

1 and 1/4 cups boiling water

Simmer the lavender and water together in a pan for 5-10 minutes. Allow to cool, then strain through a coffee filter paper or a piece of muslin or cheesecloth draped over a sieve. Add half the finished quantity to a bowl of warm water and soak your feet for 15 minutes.

Happy Soaking!

GORGEOUS Lavender Fields!!

GORGEOUS Lavender Fields!!

Beauty Recipe: Almond Milk Scrub!

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

Beauty Recipe: Almond Milk Skin Scrub!

Ingredients:

4 tablespoons very fine almond meal (you can buy almond meal at Trader Joe’s or grind your own in a food processor using whole or sliced almonds–make sure to grind it down to a fine powder)

4 tablespoons white clay (Buy from Mountain Rose Herbs) or (Texas Natural Supply)

1 tablespoon organic milk powder (buy from health foods store or grocery store)

Add all ingredients to glass jar and shake well to mix the contents. To use, pour 1 tablespoon in the palm of hand, massage gently into the skin, rinse off with lukewarm water, and pat your skin dry.

Almonds are very softening to the skin, and fine almond meal makes this scrub gentle enough to use as a regular cleanser.

HAPPY SCRUBBING!!

Beauty Recipe: Gentle Rain Body Mist!

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

Gentle Rain Body Mist: taken from http://www.recipegoldmine.com/ where you can find all kinds of recipes from food, gardening, home, household, pets and more.

Ingredients:

2 cups distilled water

3 tablespoons vodka

5 drops sandalwood essential oil

10 drops bergamot essential oil

10 drops cassis essential oil

Mix all the ingredients together in a pretty spray bottle; shake well. Allow to settle for at least 12 hours.

Store in a cool, dry place.

SIDE NOTE: If you are wondering where you can find essential oils (which are made from plants, flowers, etc and contain no harmful petrochemicals or substances), you can go to the right hand sidebar of this website and scroll down to where you will see ESSENTIAL OIL GUIDES AND BEAUTY RECIPE SUPPLIES links. I do not make money from these as this is just something fun to post for the friends that love to make their own beauty products. I put the links there so I and others can find stuff online without having to do a search online for it. Some of these links are discount stores where you can find a better deal money wise than in a regular health food store. It is always better to go ORGANIC than not, but if you cannot find organic, then that’s ok too. It’s just not as pure.

Have fun and if you have a recipe you’d like to share, please leave it in the comments section below and I will feature it on my blog with your name and/or website address!

Beauty Recipe: Homemade Hair Conditioner!

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

Here are two simple homemade hair conditioner recipes that you can make in your own kitchen using all natural ingredients without the use of chemicals. It’s good to be natural! And the other good thing is, your hair will love it!

Rock Melon (another name for cantaloupe) Hair Conditioner

This recipe is good for oily hair!

1/2 cup mashed cantaloupe (use a fork to create a smooth consistency–it is all right if it seems a bit watery).

Massage the cantaloupe into your hair before or after you have shampooed. Leave the cantaloupe in your hair for ten minutes. Rinse well with warm to cool water.

Makes one treatment.

Caribbean Rum Conditioner

This recipe is especially good for dry and/or damaged hair!

3 tablespoons Rum

1 egg

Mix the rum and egg together and stir well. After shampooing, pour the mixture into your hair and leave it in for 1-2 minutes. Rinse well with the coolest water you can stand. Water that is too hot may leave you with scrambled eggs in your hair!

Makes 3 oz., enough for one application.