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!
Beard balm is a must-have to keep your husband, father or grandfather beard looking neat and tidy. It conditions hairs and helps them to stay in place so that your loved one looks well-groomed and handsome! This beard balm recipe helps to soften, condition and repair dry or coarse hair as well as nourish new hair growth. In this recipe, I’ve chosen to use castor oil, sunflower oil, beeswax, and shea butter as all natural ingredients. It makes a great gift as well and beard balm has the same benefits as beard oil with the addition of added styling…
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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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Fifteen years ago I had an awakening and became really concerned about the ingredients in my antiperspirant and the increase of breast cancer. Sweating under the armpit is a natural way to detox the body – and it became clear to me that conventional deodorants were not a healthy part of my self-care regimen. When I stopped using Dove commercial antiperspirant, I was left with excessive sweat, bad odors and I became really frustrated. It took me a few months to adjust to the change – this entailed a lot of patience and trial and error. I tried many different…
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Do you like to feel a little extra special on St. Valentine’s Day? – it’s always a good excuse to pamper yourself with DIY beauty products! I’ve gathered my top 5 DIY beauty products you can make for St Valentine’s day. You will need a few ingredients like shea butter, cocoa butter and candelilla wax for example. DIY beauty products enable you to limit exposure to toxic ingredients in conventional beauty products and to customize them to your unique taste and preferences. These are my top 5 favorite easy-to-make DIY beauty product recipes below. Top 5 DIY Beauty Products For…
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Using organic carrier oils are an important part of moving towards a healthier lifestyle and making your own beauty products. An organic carrier oil may be the most prevalent ingredient in any natural beauty recipe, so you want to make sure that you are choosing a high-quality cost-effective oil to blend with your other ingredients. I’d like to make you discover my top 5 rare and organic carrier oils, acai oil, chia seed oil, moringa oil, rosehip oil and tamanu oil. How to choose organic carrier oils There are a number of things to consider when choosing organic carrier oils. First,…
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Do you wonder how to make calendula oil at home? There are two methods for making homemade infused calendula oil: The patient method and the “I don’t have time for mother nature to do its job” or “I want it now” method! I am more inclined to do the second method but I’ll let you judge of that! Calendula oil is made from infusing the beautiful orange flower of marigold native to southwestern Asia, western Europe and the Mediterranean in olive oil or jojoba oil. It has a number of benefits for the skin and body and has been used…
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DIY beauty books can be a great source of both information and inspiration. When I started on my journey to making my own beauty products, I struggled to find good recipes online. Some wear unclear, others were full of nasty chemicals or animal products… I got pretty frustrated with failed recipes that were getting me nowhere! So I decided to look for DIY beauty books on Amazon in the hope that it would give me some insights I could not find online. UPDATE ABOUT MY DIY BEAUTY BOOK NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON (Released September 2020) 10 years after starting this…
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I’ve recently discovered Ucuuba butter which is a rare seed butter made from the ucuuba plant of South America. The plant is also known as baboonwood and wild nutmeg. It is most prominent in the Amazon river basin, but is also found throughout the wetlands of Central and South America. This uccuba butter is brown and has a specific sweet yet nutty smell. It is made from the seeds of this versatile plant can be used on both the skin and hair. Benefits of ucuuba butter The ucuuba plant has been used in indigenous medicine for treating ailments ranging from…
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Once you have made my mango body butter recipe below, I think you will have trouble making anything else….This mango body butter melts right away on contact with your skin, leaving it silky smooth and not greasy. Mango butter is a powerful and natural ingredient in body butter recipes and perfect for dry or sunburned skins. It moisturizes and nourishes the skin almost instantly and is frequently used with or as a substitute for cocoa and shea butter. I’m sorry to disappoint you but mango butter does not smell like mangos! The reason is that the mango comes from the seed…
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When I started making my own body butter and cream 15 years ago, one of my struggles was to find out how to make body butter less greasy. Often my legs would end up looking way too shiny and greasy. Through the years, I learned tips to make creams and body butter less greasy and heavy on the skin, which I will share and discuss in this blog post. As someone with dry skin, I cannot skip a day without applying body butter and body cream. They’re my only hope at keeping the dryness at bay, especially during the harsh…
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