One of the things I really love about making my own health and beauty products (besides knowing exactly what is going into them) is how SIMP...
HOW TO MAKE SUGAR SCRUB CUBES
I’m a big fan of shower scrubs. They’re fast, easy to make and leave you with a delightful pampered feeling. What I’m not a big fan of? Plan...
DIY Concealing Colour Corrector
The last time I was in Sephora I noticed funny little pots of distinctly non-face coloured goop. That you were supposed to put on your face....
HOMEMADE ROSE MILK BATH
I’m going to let you in on a secret: homemade beauty gifts are beyond easy. Take this rose milk bath, for example. I feel guilty (well, almo...
Translucent Mineral Veil
I’m super excited to share this recipe with you guys—I devised this because sometimes you just want something light for your skin. You’re go...
Strawberry Shimmer Stick
The base of this stick is a great blend of moisturizing oils that absorb quickly. You’ll have a bit of a healthy sheen on your skin, but it ...
Bronze Shimmer Stick
This shimmer stick is coloured with clay, oxides, and bronze mica. It’s light on the pigment so you can start slow and work your way up, rat...
DIY ROSE WATER TONER
I love the feel of using toner but gave it up ages ago because drugstore versions with alcohol were making my dry skin even worse. This tone...
GINGER DETOX BATH
First, I started with a detox scrub. Everything I read about detox baths included Epsom salts so I combined that with another detox favorite...
COCONUT-LIME SOAP
This soap is made with coconut milk and coconut-lime fragrance oil. With the added chopped coconut and lime zest exfoliant on the edge, thes...
ORANGE COCONUT WHIPPED BODY BUTTER
The oranges in my backyard were the inspiration behind this recipe. The light, happy scent of orange essential is perfect if you’re in a win...
DIY ROSE + VANILLA BATH BOMBS
The Valentine’s season has begun so we added dried roses and a few drops of vanilla extract. Mix everything together and then form into ball...
Rose & Silk Facial Setting Spray
I absolutely love my translucent airbrushing powder, but sometimes Calgary is so dry (drier than usual, that is) that is can look a bit powd...
HOMEMADE BLUSHER/BRONZER FOR PENNIES!
Well, it happened again. I forgot to reorder the mineral blush I have been using and now I’m running out! This would normally constitute som...
CINNAMON BROWN SUGAR SCRUB
Enjoy smelling a bit like pumpkin pie the rest of the day! :) Do you have any fun fall beauty treatments? Source: http://www.henryha...
PUMPKIN APPLE MASK
I had no idea that pumpkin was so great for your skin. But it has lots of antioxidants and alpha hydroxy acids that gently exfoliate and moi...
DIY PUMPKIN SPICE FACIAL
I remember reading last year about a fancy spa offering a pumpkin spice facial and thinking how divine that sounded. If you can make lip glo...
Pumpkin Spice Latte Body Scrub
Oh, I have been so excited to share this with you all! Several of my favorite blogs have been sharing their excitement with Fall and the fac...
COLD PROCESS SOAP MAKING FOR BEGINNERS!
The idea of knowing exactly what was going into my most frequently used bath product was definitely appealing, to say the least. I set out o...
MOISTURIZING GREEK YOGURT FACE MASK
Greek yogurt has lots of benefits for your body – you should definitely be eating it! It has lots of good probiotics as well as double the p...
DIY Healing Concealer
I’ve always thought concealer was a great big Catch 22. You start with an angry clogged pore that turns into a zit. So you cover it it up wi...
Coconut Sugar Scrub
I'm a girl. You know, in case you hadn't noticed. I like girly things. Makeup, dresses, pretty shoes, jewelry and spa treatments...
MAKE YOUR OWN SLEEP SALVE FOR “SWEET DREAMS” AND SOFT FEET!
This is very simple salve to make…but it does involve two steps. The first step is to make the DREAM BLEND of essential oils that you will t...
Clay Cream Blush
Allow me to start this blog off with a confession. This was supposed to be liquid lipstick when I made it. There. I said it. Unfortunately, ...
Simple Eyelash Serum
Castor oil is said to be great for many things, especially hair growth. It’s a thick, sticky oil said to help regrow eyebrows, eyelashes, an...
Deluxe Homemade Eye Make-up Remover
I’ve already written about my super easy, incredibly cheap eye make-up remover. It certainly lives up to its name. Ever since I got my hands...
Homemade Eyeshadow Trio
I recently made some mineral makeup, and then branched out into blush and bronzer. Since all of those things are in the fluffy coloured cate...
DIY Benefit Eye Bright
As I generally do, I got to thinking about what Eye Bright might be made of. The ingredients proved a bit iffy, as is to be expected with st...
DIY Eyebrow Filler/Fixative
As I’ve said about a million times, I am pretty low maintenance and I like it that way. When I first made mineral make-up I had no idea what...
Super Gentle Homemade Eye Make-Up Remover
I’ve made a few forays into homemade eye make-up remover. My latest version worked really well, but as it sat on my vanity, the strength of ...
Brightlighter
I’m really excited about this one! I know I seem to be saying that a lot these days, but it’s true. I feel like I’ve figured a few great thi...
Fairy Dust Highlighting Powder
One of my only claims to some sort of familiar fame is a distant relation to J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan. Cool, eh? I remember telling ...
Homemade Shaving Soap
When I first started using shaving cream I thought it was the equivalent of chocolate mousse for my skin, except it smelled like fairy farts...
DIY Eye Lash Growth Serum
Today, I have a super easy and fast DIY for you to try at home. I recently tried a product to grow my eye lashes. It worked but it was terr...
DIY FRESH FACE MIST
Facial mists have been around for a long time, but I never really bought into them until recently. When my daughter and I got our hair and m...
How to Make Polka-Dot Soap
First off, you’ll make your dot batch of soap. Scent and colour it however you want, keeping in mind that they are only part of the end resu...
DIY baking soda exfoliator
Exfoliating your skin will help prevent acne, refine your complexion, tighten your pores and keep your skin looking radiant and smooth. Ha...
DIY green clay mask
If your skin is looking more oily and congested than normal it's time for a green clay detox mask! Green clay is is an all natural orga...
Snowdrift Soap
Blue oxides add the blue, and while I added some titanium dioxide for the white, it would appear I didn’t add quite enough. Oh well. ...
DIY Skin Smoothing Mask
One of my most popular treatments when I was running my own esthetics business was a hydrating chocolate wasabi mask (a professional treatm...
How to Naturally Lighten Sun Spots
Sun spots or hyperpigmentation is very common. Almost all women experience some sort of hyperpigmentation (areas of the skin that is dar...
DIY Natural Lactic Acid Mask
Lactic acid treatments in a spa can be pretty pricey and since not everyone has the time or budget to fit in a facial I am going to share a ...
Instant Dark Circle and Puffy Eye Reliever
No one really needs to know (or notice) if you stayed up a little too late watching Mad Men (guilty), had too much wine, or if you were wok...
DIY Spirulina Face Mask
Spirulina, which is a blue green algae is a skin (and body) superfood that can help rejuvenate and repair damaged skin and give you back tha...
How To Beat a Cold With Oil of Oregano
With the changing of the weather and cold and flu season quickly approaching, I wanted to share a new to me natural remedy called Oil of Ore...
Dirt Soap
A bit of an oxymoron, perhaps, but the idea of a dark, earthy scented bar was quite intriguing. Something to use up all the Ucuuba butter an...
Healing Acne with Garlic
Acne breakouts can be annoying, embarrassing and just plain old inconvenient when they happen. If you have ever experienced acne I am almos...
Vinolia Soap Re-Creation
It was only a matter of time before my love of Titanic merged with my new soaping hobby. The first class soap on the RMS Titanic was called ...
Treating Acne Breakouts With Turmeric
Random acne breakout's can put a real damper on your otherwise good face day. The problem with most over the counter spot acne treatmen...
Grapefruit & Calendula Soap
There’s something about citrus that makes it perfect for morning showers. Bright, happy, clean, and refreshing. Grapefruit is a nice quasi f...
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