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!
An essential oil spray is one of the safest (and easiest!) ways to use essential oils to revitalize your living space and enjoy the numerous health benefits that they have to offer. I will show you how to make an essential oil spray in 3 different ways and recipes, one essential oil spray for deep sleep with lavender, chamomile and valerian essential oil, one for deodorizing the bathroom, and another one to make your home smell like a spa and feel zen! Benefits of aromatherapy and essential oils A popular treatment that dates way back to the 11th century, essential…
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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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If you are struggling with the damage that winter has done on your skin, which is made even worst with frequent washes, your hands are dry and sensitive, then I have the perfect DIY beauty product to make: my homemade hand lotion. You can learn how to make your own hand moisturizer and easily whip up batches of homemade hand lotion with only 4 ingredients, beeswax, almond oil, rosewater and shea butter. Homemade Hand Lotion Main Ingredients Almond oil Made from bitter almonds, almond oil is one of nature’s many gifts. Not only does it have numerous health benefits (helping…
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Ever wonder how African women keep their skin looking young and flawless and what is their best-kept secret? African Black Soap! I will show you how to make African black soap recipes 3 different ways, from easy recipes to well…more complicated if you are up for a challenge! This miracle handcrafted face and body soap is said to be better than any skin treatments, toners, lotions, astringents, gels & creams you will ever try. Don’t get turned off by the look of black soap, it is well worth trying. Authentic black soap is handmade from plant-based ingredients in Africa and…
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I’ll share some aphrodisiac essential oil blends on this blog post as well as insights on which essential oil can help you be “in the mood”. My essential oil blend has only 3 essential oils, ylang-Ylang, vanilla, and cardamom essential oil, you can make it in just 10 min! Aromatherapy is a holistic way of healing a person’s mind, body and soul. Many ancient civilizations like Egypt and India have used essential oils for at least 6 000 years! Ancient Egyptians have been great perfume makers. We have some documents recording that Cleopatra was very fond of Neroli for its…
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How to make bath salts is a fun, quick and easy task and I will share what you need to craft up some amazing bath salts recipes at home from scratch in just 5 minutes! Nothing better than a relaxing bath coming home after a strenuous day at work. Bathing is as therapeutic as it is healing, especially when you use all-natural ingredients, healing salts like Himalayan salts and include essential oils like lavender essential oil! Which Salt to Use for a Homemade Bath Salt Recipe? Some of the most common homemade bath salts recipes used include Himalayan salt, Celtic…
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When it comes to DIY recipes, you need to be mindful about using essential oils and ensure you are diluting them before use because they are a powerful concentration and essence of herbs. Essential oils do not become less effective with the use of carrier oil like almond, jojoba, grapeseed other oils. In fact, they delay the absorption of essential oils into the skin, which means they will have a long-lasting effect. I’ve created this easy essential oil dilution calculator where you just have to input the total amount of carrier oil or hydrosol, select the carrier unit (ounces, drops…
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With so many sunscreen products on the market filled with toxic ingredients, I wanted to make a great quality natural homemade sunscreen recipe alternative using all organic products and without titanium dioxide. The ingredients I used are pure cold-pressed jojoba oil, 100% organic red raspberry seed oil and raw shea butter that all have natural SPF. Since Jojoba and Red raspberry oil are a little on the pricey side, I recommend using this shea butter sunscreen only on your face. This DIY sunscreen is without zinc oxide and without titanium dioxide. Also, my DIY sunscreen recipe does not contain beeswax so…
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Lush has quite the collection of bath bombs but the problem is that most of them have synthetic colorants, fragrance and citric acid, which can be irritant for your skin. I will teach you how to make DIY bath bombs like lush but 100% natural and without citric acid. In my recipe, I’ve used the following natural ingredients: baking soda, cream of tartar, arrowroot powder, pink Himalayan salt, and essential oils. And of course, you will need some bath bomb molds like this one! How to make DIY bath bombs like lush Homemade bath bombs can save you tons of…
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Instead of relying on baking soda, which often causes skin irritation, my homemade deodorant without baking soda recipe focuses on nourishing oils like shea butter, gentle drying powders like arrowroot, and a blend of essential oils for an effective formula that will keep bacteria at bay and keep your armpit nice smelling! Conventional deodorants have a harmful effect on our health, both from the toxic ingredients and from completely blocking one of our body’s best detoxification processes: sweat! Of course, no one wants wet, stinky pits – but by using a homemade deodorant without baking soda you get a non-irritating…
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