I’ve wanted to make my own chapstick for some time now but one thing was always holding me back. I didn’t need a recipe that makes 25 tubes of chapstick! Or even 12 tubes of chapstick! But those are the kind of recipes you’ll almost always come across in yourRead More

It’s been several years since I first shared my recipe for a homemade glycerin and water moisturizing spray. It’s a super simple mixture but it’s an option I think many people don’t realize is available to them. It can give your skin a different kind of moisturizing than the storeRead More

Once before I’ve written about how to make a semi-homemade moisturizer by mixing Baby Lotion, Vitamin E Cream, and Vaseline Jelly Cream, but wanted to take another look at this recipe – because it’s still one of my favorites! I’ve taken to calling this mixture “semi-homemade” as it’s really justRead More

When we think about moisturizing our skin, most of us think about a soft lotion, not something that’s in a bar form. But I think you’ll be as pleasantly surprised as I was to discover that homemade lotion bars are an easy item to use on dry skin (especially hands)Read More

Homemade hand and body scrubs are one of the simplest things you can make, and yet the final result is always something that feels much more expensive and luxurious.  I love their interesting combination of exfoliating and moisturizing at the same time and I’ve become a total convert.  When IRead More

A few weeks ago I finally got around to making some homemade body butter for the first time.  And when I was all done I thought to myself . . . What a nice batch of homemade body lard. Because that’s just what it looked like to me!  Just aRead More

It’s always good wisdom to not make things harder than they really are.  Sometimes a simple solution gets overlooked because . . . well because it was just too simple.  Sometimes the simple solution feels like we just didn’t try hard enough. And so it was when I started experimentingRead More

Are you a person who’s been buying those little bottles of eye makeup remover at the store?  If you are, then you also know that you can expect to pay somewhere between $4 to $9 for a tiny bottle of the stuff. Booooo.  Who wants to save some money instead?Read More

Winter time for me is always a battle with dry skin. Dry, itchy, winter skin.  Yuck. In years past, I’ve been known to resort to just smearing some petroleum jelly on my hands to try to give them some lasting moisture but that’s such a greasy option. The other optionRead More

  For most of my homemade recipes I try to use common and ordinary ingredients that most of us have in our cupboards.  I like to use things like vinegar, rubbing alcohol, or baking soda that most of us can just pick up off the grocery store shelves without muchRead More

We love Dove soap at our house.  It’s been our favorite brand for years and I rarely buy anything else.  So when I saw that some folks were making their own Dove body wash from a bar of Dove soap, I knew I wanted to test it out to see ifRead More

A couple years ago I discovered that it was easy to make your own foaming dish soap and hand soap.  It was all about the dispenser!   Once you have the dispenser (either by buying a new one or recycling one) you just need to mix some liquid soap with waterRead More

  I heard an interesting comment the other day about using make-up to add some color to your cheeks.  I was told . . . . Older women think “Blush”.   Younger women think “Bronzer” True?  Yeah, I think I could agree with that.  Bronzer is the newer choice andRead More