Making homemade things makes me happy. No secret there! And one of the things that always adds to my happiness is if all the ingredients are easy to find. Sure, I know that I can probably search out what I need on the internet if I have to, but ifRead More
Homemade Bubble Bath Salts
I’ve gotten in the habit of keeping epsom salt around the house because I use it in my favorite homemade laundry soap recipe. But I was reminded again the other day as I was looking at some of the info on my bag of epsom salts, that it can beRead More
Homemade 1-2-3 Chapstick {Small Batch Recipe}
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
Homemade Elderberry Syrup To Fight Off Colds and Flu
This year I’m trying something new (well, new to me anyway). I’m taking a daily dose of elderberry syrup during the winter months of the year to help fight off colds and the flu. Elderberry syrup has long been touted as a natural way to boost your body’s immunity systemRead More
DIY Rosewater Glycerin Moisturizing Spray
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
Homemade Eyeglass Cleaner
This post was originally published August, 2012 and was updated August, 2018. How do you clean your eyeglasses? With just plain old water? With window cleaner? Or maybe you just breathe on them to steam them up a bit and then grab the corner of your shirt and start rubbing?Read More
Semi-Homemade Body Lotion Mixture
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
Homemade Moisturizing Lotion Bars
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
Springtime Coconut Lime Hand Scrub
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
Homemade Body Butter
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
Lazy Day Cuticle Cream
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
Make Your Own Brown Sugar Body Scrub
I’ve discovered that one of life’s little pleasures is a good body scrub. Their abrasiveness and exfoliating combined with their moisturizing oils are a welcome treat for my skin. I feel just a little more pampered than when I’m only using ordinary hand or body lotion. But the price tagsRead More
Make Your Own Eye Makeup Remover
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
Skin Softening Hand Scrub {DIY Satin Hands}
I’ve come to really enjoy hand and body scrubs – and a couple of years ago I didn’t even know what they were! But now that I’ve discovered what a lovely thing they are, I’ve taken to always keeping some around and I make sure I pamper myself regularly withRead More
DIY Olive Oil Moisturizer
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
Make Your Own Blush
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
Make Your Own Dove Body Wash
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
How To Soften Hard Coconut Oil for DIY Soft Skin
My first introduction to virgin coconut oil was during the cold months of January when I received a sample to review from Tropical Traditions. That’s when I found out something important about coconut oil that I didn’t know before. Even though it’s an oil, it turns solid in coldRead More
DIY Natural Foaming Hand Soap
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
Make Your Own Bronzer
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