Body Care Recipes
Learn how to make your own body care recipes such as homemade body cream, body butter, scrubs and much more!
Main Ingredients for DIY Body Care Recipes
On this page, you will find several natural body care recipes that contain 100% natural and organic ingredients.
The main ingredients you will need to make your own body butter and creams are shea butter, cocoa butter, beeswax and safflower oil.
For scrubs, you can beat coconut oil, sugar and coffee for example.
Why are commercial body creams harmful?
They contain harmful chemicals that can disrupt hormones, creates infertility, develops allergies and cancer to name a few. You should stay away at all costs of ingredients you cannot read.
The most dangerous ingredients are parabens (on the labels, they can show as propylparaben, butyparaben, isobutiparaben) as you probably heard.
What you may not know is that “fragrance” is a common ingredient in most commercial beauty products. According to EWG “The word “fragrance” or “parfum” on the product label represents an undisclosed mixture of various scent chemicals and ingredients used as fragrance dispersants such as diethyl phthalate.
Fragrance mixes have been associated with allergies, dermatitis, respiratory distress and potential effects on the reproductive system.” Stay away from any products that include fragrance. Sadly some “natural” and even “organic” labeled body care products include fragrance and while you may think that it is such a low dose that it should not be harmful, the daily application and bioaccumulation in the blood can create a concentration over time that can cause health problems.
For all those reasons, it is a great idea to do your own body care recipes so you can control the ingredients that go into your skin and bloodstream. Plus, DIY body care is cost-efficient and quite fun!
My top 3 DIY body care recipes
My favorite body care recipes are this mango body butter, how to make lotion bars without beeswax, and my whipped shea body butter.
And don’t forget to check out my top 10 body scrubs here!
I hope you will enjoy these fun and easy DIY body care recipes you can do right in your kitchen!
I’ll share how to make DIY Shea butter soap recipes 2 different ways: the melt and pour process with a soap base, and the cold process. I’ll be explaining the benefits and pros and cons of each method. Method 1 – The Melt and Pour Process If you’re a beginner, this is the easiest, cleanest way to make soap. Usually, making soap requires working with lye, a strong alkaline solution. It’s a bit complicated and can be hazardous, so it requires safety gear. In the melt and pour process, the soap base has already gone through saponification (simply put: heating…
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Learn how to make DIY natural beauty products like
Body Butter,
Face Creams,
Lip Balms, Scrubs,
Shampoo and much more homemade beauty care products.
DIY Face Serum Recipe Anti Wrinkles
If you are looking for a simple and natural way of taking care of your face while preventing the appearance of fine lines, you should make this easy DIY face serum recipe. It’s as easy as blending
organic rosehip oil and essential oils together!
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How to make your own lipstick like a pro!
I wanted to make a homemade lipstick that looks like the one you get in stores. Turns out how to make your own lipstick like a pro is not as hard as you can imagine.
Packaging like this
high-grade lipstick tube and a few tools can sometimes make a world of difference!
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Top 3 Goat Milk Soap Recipes
Goat’s milk contains natural emollients, vitamins, and triglycerides, as well as capric-caprylic triglyceride which calms, moisturizes and rejuvenates sensitive, dry, and combination skin. It is easier than you would think to make your
own goat milk soap; you will find below my top 3 goat milk soap recipes, I hope you enjoy them!
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Where to Buy Organic Wholesale Ingredients For DIY Beauty Products
To get your started on your journey to a healthier lifestyle and to create your own body care products, you will need to get organic wholesale ingredients for DIY beauty products such as
body butters,
carrier oils and
beeswax.
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How To Find The Best Containers For Homemade Beauty Products
Find out where to get the cheapest and best containers for your homemade beauty products such as
lip balm containers, plastic or
glass jars,
amber glass bottles with a glass eye dropper or even
aluminium tins.
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I’m sharing with you an easy version of my favorite DIY perfume creations – Firefly. Also, you will learn how to make an all-natural DIY perfume with essential oils that last for hours…Hint: it’s all about the blending! It includes magnolia, cardamom, patchouli, ho wood, and labdanum essential oils. I use only middle and base notes in this perfume as I bend the rules of conventional perfumery! The result is a deep bewitching scent… Firefly is an aphrodisiac homemade natural perfume that keeps you grounded yet brings out the goddess within you. In terms of scent, think of sweet figs…
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Here is a collection of 24 easy shea butter recipes you can make in your kitchen that I have created over the years. One of the best natural skin moisturizers, shea butter is nothing short of a miracle for all homemade beauty recipes. You’ve bought some shea butter and wonder what to do and make with it? Well, you have come to the right place to can get those crafty juicy wheels turning! Shea butter is called “Mother Nature’s Conditioner” because of its deep moisturizing and softening properties. Also nicknamed “women’s gold” because it has been used by African women…
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With the change of season upon us, essential oil diffuser recipes are a great way to adapt and impact positively our moods. For a lot of people, the dwindling hours of sunshine in the cooler months might bring dampened spirits. I’m going to share a little secret I learned to cope with the change and beat the winter blues—my essential oil diffuser recipes with lavender, lemongrass, frankincense, grapefruit, bergamot, and cedarwood essential oils! I’ve created my favorite top 5 essential oil diffuser recipes: essential oil diffuser recipes for sleep essential oil diffuser recipes for relaxation essential oil diffuser recipes for…
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Making your own DIY sunscreen with zinc oxide is easy as long as you have the right ingredients: safflower oil, raspberry seed oil, beeswax and zinc oxide. Summer is my favorite season and while I am an adept of responsible natural sun tanning without applying sunscreen to soak all that well needed vitamin D, sometimes sunscreen is required, more particularly when you have fair skin or when you are traveling to an exotic location. Read on to see how I make my very own DIY natural sunscreen! DIY sunscreen with zinc oxide ingredients This DIY sunscreen calls for the following…
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I created this very easy yet highly effective and safe homemade repellent for mosquito recipe with only two ingredients, soybean oil, and lemon eucalyptus essential oil. Mosquitoes love me but I am afraid this kind of love is not reciprocal! The next time you plan a trip to the countryside or to an exotic location (yes, I do have hope that one day we will be able to travel again!), carry this DIY bug spray with you, and hopefully; you’re going to thank me for it! Homemade Repellent For Mosquitoes Ingredients Soybean Oil A common ingredient in manufactured insect repellent,…
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Do you ever feel like your skin is so parched, that body lotions just don’t seem enough to rehydrate it? Well, this is when I whip out (quite literally) my DIY whipped body butter recipe! It has only 4 ingredients, shea butter, safflower oil, vegetable glycerin, and arrowroot powder. The arrowroot powder helps to reduce greasiness and the vegetable glycerin is optional but helps with soothing skin irritation and is a humectant, which means it helps to preserve moisture. I’ve also included of my favorite essential oil blend with lavender, patchouli, howood, and rosewood essential oil if you would like…
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Who doesn’t love a nice healthy tan? I’ve created this DIY tanning oil recipe so that you can get that glowy, bronzed look with all-natural ingredients including grapeseed oil, coconut oil, olive oil, and jojoba oil (and most are available in your kitchen right now!). Let’s be honest, with the current world situation, most of us (including me) had to cancel their long-awaited travel summer plans, so a beach day seems like a far-fetched fantasy right now… However, it surely doesn’t mean we have to deprive ourselves of the goodness of tanning and all that vitamin D available from the…
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Trying to win your hearts by sharing my very own pink homemade exfoliating body scrub. It’s super easy to make, requires only a few ingredients, such as coconut oil, sugar, pink clay, and shea butter and it’s going to leave your skin feeling smooth, replenished, and luscious. It’s also noncomedogenic, cruelty-free, vegan, and 100% natural. Oh, and did I mention that it’s also going to be 100% light on your pocket? I think that reason should be enough for you to at least try this recipe at home, hopefully! My natural DIY body scrub is a copycat of Herbivore’s popular…
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