Make your own skin care products
When I was making and selling DIY kits, one of the most popular was for bath bombs. For good reason – who doesn’t love a bath with some fizzy goodness? I’ve often been asked for the recipe and here I am finally getting it online to share with you all. This has been tweaked over the years which is why it contains exact measurements rather … Continue reading Bath Bomb Making Recipe
You’re about to make your own skin-care product and have a great recipe but what else do you need to know? After safety, one of the biggest things to consider is clean-up. Unused melted beeswax and oils will leave a residue in whatever you’ve used to melt the ingredients so I’ve included some ways to help with this. When melting ingredients you can use the … Continue reading Tips for making skin care products
I’ve been making my own skin care products for years. I started writing this blog in 2015! Since then I’ve made and sold kits for people to make their own products – I spent alot of time experimenting with ingredients and methods to make it as easy as possible for people to make their own. Here’s three recipes for you to do the same – … Continue reading 3 easy recipes to make your own balms
There are loads of diy sunscreen recipes on the internet (see some links which contain further reading below). The reasons for making our own are to create an organic nano-particle free product that’s cheaper than buying it. After reading all these recipes I combined a few things and came up with the recipe below. Proof would always be in the application for me – I burn if I just think about the sun and I didn’t suffer one burn with this. The downside – without preservatives it needs to be kept in the fridge, it’s not overly water resistant and even after rubbing it in you can still see it a bit on the skin.
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