I’m on a roll with candy canes! Last week I shared a candy cane lip scrub and since I had loads of candy canes left over, I decided to just keep this train rollin’! This is such a cute DIY and I’m sure your friends and family would love a lip cream tucked in their stocking! This is your typical lip balm recipe.…
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Happy Holidays!! Today I’m feeling especially festive and thought we could make a super fun and easy lip scrub out of candy canes!! Not only is this recipe and effective scrub, it tastes good too! This recipe comes from Vital Proteins. You might remember my post on Collagen Peptides. Well, they are my collagen/gelatin source. When Katie from Vital Proteins emailed me this…
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I LOVE creating DIY skin care products but coming up with effective ingredients is not the only thing I love about it. I love searching out unique containers and creating beautiful labels! I think your personal products should not only beautify your skin, they should also look beautiful in your bathroom! I’ve been collecting unusual containers in my Amazon list for years…
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I often get asked where I get my labels for my Etsy products. Sometimes I create labels via the Avery template and print them myself but when I want to create professional looking labels, I always us Sticker You. Printing labels at home typically don’t last. They aren’t durable and it takes so much ink to create a vibrant, readable label. Just…
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This week I posted about infusing oil with coffee to make an effective ingredient for fading dark circles and de-puffing eyes as well as reducing the appearance of cellulite. Today I’ve prepared a DIY coffee bean eye cream recipe that I adapted from 100 Percent Pure’s Coffee Bean Caffeine Eye Cream. It turned out really lovely, smells amazing and my skin loves…
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Did you know that caffeine has major benefits for the skin when applied topically? You probably knew that caffeine can majorly help cellulite but it also helps with de-puffing and reducing inflammation as well as fading dark circles and smoothing fine lines! For today, let’s learn how to get make coffee infused oil then once that’s done I’ve got a super good DIY or…
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Animal testing is heart breaking. I can barely research it without feeling sick. As we’ve discovered, the United States is notorious for unsafe ingredients in our skin care as well as cruelty towards animals all in the name of beauty and money. It’s time it stops. Animal testing is barbaric and heartless and should be outlawed. I’ve got great news on the U.S.’s…
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The shea butter benefits for skin are vast. Raw shea butter that is unfiltered has powerful anti-inflammatory properties, is soothing to sensitive skin, encourages collagen production, has intense moisturizing properties and can even reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles! Most skin types and skin conditions can benefit from shea butter. In this post you’ll learn everything you need to know…
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Back in my facial days I used Dermalogica. Speaking of green washing….. Anyway-that’s another post but while under the disguise of being natural, they had some really creative products that I enjoyed using in my treatments. One that I clearly remember were their additives. They came in these small (1 ounce) tin bottles and had somewhat of an oily consistency. This…
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