easy skincare DIYs, beauty crafts and soap making
A nourishing mango butter soap recipe enriched with lots of shea butter, coconut milk and an exotic blend of essential oils. Such a delight!
What I love about making your own soaps is that you get to choose exactly what natural ingredients you want to use to create the perfect recipe. This cold process soap recipe is filled with high quality, nourishing oils and butters. It's gentle enough for sensitive skin and makes for a great hand soap.
...An easy-to-follow tutorial on how to make breast milk soap. Making your own soap is a great way to use up any extra milk you might have.
Here you'll find two different methods (melt and pour/ cold process) to make breast milk soap. The first is perfect for beginners that want to make soap without lye, the second is for more experienced soap makers.
Both are a great way to make beautiful soaps using your own milk as a fresh ingredient. And you can customize them both to your heart's desire with essential oils, honey and oatmeal.
[feast_advanced_jump_to] ...Homemade Lavender Soap - elegant, timeless and a real crowd-pleaser! This cold process soap recipe is infused with lavender essential oil and lavender buds and packed with skin loving shea butter, hemp and olive oil.
Don't be fooled by the ease and simplicity of this mango body butter recipe. Sure, it comes together in a cinch and requires only a few ingredients, but boy is it luxurious.
Call me lazy, call me minimalistic, but when it comes to making body butters, I'm not a fan of unnecessary steps or an ingredient list that resembles the receipt you get when checking out at CVS. The challenge I gave myself for this whipped body butter was to create the silkiest, non oily, softest recipe possible with only a few ingredients. And ta-da: 3 ingredients is all it takes to make this body butter that is nothing short of AMAZING!
...Mysterious, woodsy, yet bright and refreshing is how I would describe the scent of this wonderful charcoal soap. Certainly more a masculine kind of scent, but one that might appeal to men and women alike. The best thing: YOU can make this soap, no matter if you're a beginner looking for a melt and pour soap recipe or a veteran soap maker who's comfortable working with lye. Here you'll find detailed instructions for both: an easy layered soap (using a soap base) and a more advanced swirled cold process soap.
Oatmeal baths can bring much needed relief for those suffering from dry skin conditions especially in the wintertime. This easy oatmeal bath DIY combines the skin benefits of ground oats with rich moisturizing coconut milk - a match made in bathtub heaven, if you ask me 😉
Winter weather can be rough on your skin. The cold air outside, the dry air inside and the back and forth between the two oftentimes leads to dry, cracked and itchy skin. None of us can escape this completely and we end up reaching for that lotion bottle pretty often. But folks with dry skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis in particular can really suffer this time of year.
...Super fast absorbing, a gorgeous dry satin finish, dreamy cloud-like fluffiness and a scent so sweet and juicy it's going to make you want to eat it (don't!). This non greasy shea body butter recipe is out of this world! I'm going to say it one more time: non-greasy shea body butter- how's that even possible? I'm going to show you how, right here.
Last month I experimented with different ways to use bananas in soap. I wanted to find a visually pleasing outcome for today's banana soap recipe. The results ranged from light cream color with a little bit of specks to really brown with lots of specks. You can check out the full post here or see the the picture below for a quick side by side comparison.
For this banana soap recipe I decided to use a fairly ripe banana since I knew from my experiments that I would get this awesome speckled effect which would contrast well with the white piped top. After I was done making the soap I put it in the freezer since I absolutely wanted to avoid gelling.
...Goat milk soap is one of the most popular kinds of handmade soaps out there. If you've ever had the pleasure to try a bar you know why: goat milk makes for a very gentle, nourishing and decadently creamy soap. Give this easy goat milk soap recipe a try - you'll love it!
Today I'll show you how to make a wonderfully rich and soothing goat milk soap. And whether you're a veteran cold process soap maker or a newbie who prefers melt and pour soap (without handling lye), I've got you covered with these easy step-by-step tutorials. The result with both techniques is a gorgeous oatmeal, milk and honey soap that everyone in your family will want to get their paws on!
...This whipped body butter recipe with shea butter, cocoa butter and lavender essential oil is easy to make and produces a dreamy, fluffy and rich body butter that smells amazing!
