Deep Cleansing Strawberry Facial

Here’s a strawberry deep cleansing facial you can do with what you have in the kitchen. This is great for oily skin.

Strawberries are rich in Alpha hydroxyl acids or AHAs that are used to exfoliate the skin to reveal the softer younger skin beneath the flaky dead skin cells.

Get ready the following before you begin

• 1 washed strawberry
• 1 tablespoon rice flour
• Spring water
• Boiling water
• A basin
• A bath towel
• 1 handful of dried honeysuckle flowers or 1 handful fresh mint leaves
• freshly brewed chamomile tea without sugar or any additives
• clean face towel

Are you ready?

Wash your face.

1. Soak clean face towel in chamomile tea.
2. Scrub face clean with the towel.

Facial steam

1. Put mint leaves or honeysuckle flowers in basin.
2. Pour boiling water over it
3. Form a tent over your head and basin with the bath towel to trap the steam to cleanse your face, with your face 12 inches or 30cm above the basin
4. Let the steam cleanse your face for 10 minutes

Prepare a strawberry exfoliating mask

1. Crush the strawberry
2. Add 1 tablespoon of rice flour
3. Mix into a spreadable paste
4. Add spring water if necessary so that the mixture can spread easily over face
5. Apply on face, avoiding the eyes.
6. Leave on 5 minutes
7. Rinse off completely with water

You’re done. If you like, cleanse and moisturize your face with your usual skin care regime. Face should be really clean and glowing by the end of this.

http://womanht.com/beauty/deep-cleansing-home-facial.html

Gardener’s Salt Scrub

½ cup sea salt
½ cup olive oil
Essential oil or Fragrance oil to scent

Mix altogether and store in a canning jar by the sink. Use a spoon to scoop out a small amount and scrub your nails and other areas of your hands that are in need. Rinse with warm water. It will leave your hands smooth and clean!

Thank you Renee!   ;)

Homemade Nopoo and Conditioner

Wash

In a squeeze top bottle mix together:

1 part baking soda

6 parts water

Shake Well before each use.

Squeeze onto dry scalp and massage in. Let sit a minute or two and rinse thoroughly.

Vinegar Rinse

In squeeze top bottle mix together:

1 part apple cider vinegar
8 parts water

a few drops of essential oil- (optional) I like to put a drop or two of Lavender essential oil in mine.

Squeeze onto scalp, massage in, let sit for a minute or so and rinse well. A cool water rinse is said to make the hair shiny.

Lovely Homemade (frugal) Foot Balm!

Tired Feet? Aching Feet? Dry, Cracked Feet? Here is a SIMPLE, frugal, homemade recipe to quickly soothe and heal those feet!

Take a pint canning jar (or any glass container that will hold 1 1/2 cup liquid volume) and measure
1 cup of Coconut Oil into it and place carefully into a warm oven to melt or slightly warm until warm /liquefied, remove from the oven
add 20 drops of peppermint essential oil and 10 drops of mandarin orange essential oil.
Mix, and pour into a decorative glass jar with lid or the lowly canning jar works too!
Set aside, allow to cool and harden back into solid.

Thank you Renee!

Homemade Hair Detangler

This recipe is from Renee over at The Simple Life 2015.  Thank you Renee for sharing the recipe! :) 

Homemade Hair Detangler

Ok this stuff WORKS!

Ok I was thinking about a tip I seen before, not sure where exactly online,but I had jotted this down.

Well my hair is getting longer ,and with that comes MORE TANGLES!

So half way through drying my hair tonight I ran ,and made some, and it WORKS!

You will need 3 simple things:

A spray bottle

Hair conditioner of your choice

Water

To make it

1.  Fill your spray bottle two-thirds full with water.

2.  Add conditioner of your choice to finish filling the bottle.

3.  Shake the bottle real good.

4.  Spray the mixture into your hair  lightly, you honestly do not need alot.

*Shake before each use :)