Try this DIY overnight face mask for acne prone skin to help reduce stubborn zits and freshen your face! What is an overnight face mask? It’s a face mask you apply before going to bed and remove when you wake up the next day! The purpose of an overnight face mask is to deliver nutrients at night time (or rather all night long), which is when the skin takes time to regenerate and repair itself. These masks, rich in nutrients, help renew skin cells, plump up skin, soften it and encourage collagen production so you can wake up to healthy glowing skin! Overnight is a very important time to treat your skin Continue Reading
DIY Hemp Seed Oil Lip Balm Recipe
Treat your lips to a nourishing DIY hemp seed oil lip balm recipe that’s moisturizing and healing! Hemp seed oil is very nourishing, without being too greasy on the skin. It’s obtained by cold pressing hemp hearts, also known as hemp seeds. These seeds are edible and filled with essential fatty acids that are good for you! A hemp seed oil lip balm recipe is just the thing you need to keep your lips soft, smooth and kissable this winter! Try this simple recipe out and let me know how things go! Note: I’d have loved to add raw honey or manuka honey to this recipe but because I’m using beeswax, I know the Continue Reading
DIY Deodorant with Activated Charcoal
Activated charcoal is an amazing detox ingredient to add to your DIY deodorant! Check out this DIY deodorant with activated charcoal! There are many beauty benefits of activated charcoal but the most exciting one is that it detoxifies skin. It sucks out impurities and is known to adsorb 1000 times its own mass in harmful substances. Adsorb is a term that means to hold molecules of a gas or liquid or solute as a thin film on the outside surface or on internal surfaces within the material. Using activated charcoal in your DIY deodorant is good for removing impurities, toxins and heavy metals (think aluminum Continue Reading
DIY Hair Serum for Frizzy Hair
Whip up this DIY hair serum for frizzy hair to get the shiny & silky locks you’ve always desired! Frizzy hair is often unmanageable and changes with the weather - you may notice in the winter, the frizzes get frizzier! What can you do? Why make yourself a DIY hair serum for frizzy hair, of course! Many hair serums are designed to keep hair moisturized, smooth and shiny. But most hair serums in the market also contain countless unnecessary chemicals and preservatives. These can leave your hair in a bad condition after long-term use. Think icky product build-up! Gross! That’s why it’s easy to whip up Continue Reading
DIY Probiotic Face Cream | All Natural Recipe
If you have severe acne, eczema or psoriasis on your face, a probiotic face cream might just be your miracle cure! First off, probiotics are live bacteria or yeast that are good for health. They naturally occur in the body. In fact, the body is filled with both good and bad bacteria. The good bacteria keep the bad bacteria at bay so they don’t cause any harm. But when an imbalance occurs, that is, the bad bacteria multiply very fast that the good bacteria can’t control them fast enough, that’s when health issues form. Even stuff like acne is caused by bad bacteria taking over. That’s why it’s important Continue Reading