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!
Oh the smell of coffee…While I don’t drink it, the smell always leaves me sniffing the air and wanting for more! This coffee body scrub recipe will leave yours skin smooth and well hydrated. Coffee basically “buffs” your skin and gives it a nice golden glow. Plus it can reduce the appearance of cellulite! One coffee body scrub application won’t get rid of cellulite, but if you keep this as a routine once or twice a week along a healthy diet and regular exercise, it should help getting rid of the orange skin appearance. How does that work? The caffeine in…
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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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Making your own homemade body oil recipe blend is the easiest thing you can make in your kitchen; even if you don’t know how to make a simple vinaigrette, I can assure you can make this body oil recipe! I’ve chosen organic oils that are lightweight, non-greasy yet deeply moisturizing in this body oil recipe: jojoba oil, camellia seed oil and safflower oil. This body oil recipe blend is best applied right after your shower so you can lock in the moisture for the day. Oh and its super kind on your wallet too, details of price below! Jojoba oil is actually a liquid…
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Melt and Pour Soap Recipe How to make lavender soap is easier that you would think! It’s also a great homemade gift for the holidays. The trick for this lavender melt and pour soap recipe is to get alcanet root powder which will give a beautiful lavender purple-blue color to your soap. Don’t bother trying to use dried lavender flowers directly inside your soap because 1: they will turn brown 2: they will not give any lavender color to your soap. Believe me, I tried! Natural Ingredients for soap coloring Alkanet is an herb in the borage family and…
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This shea butter lotion recipe is quite sinful and great for the change of season and to protect your face from cold, dry weather. Shea butter is packed with vitamin A, E, F and K. Always look for organic raw shea butter, grade A. Sometimes, I also like using organic refined shea butter as it does not have any strong nutty smell. Just keep in mind, the refined shea butter won’t be as packed in vitamins as the raw organic shea butter. Now you must ask yourself what is more important for you? Smell, texture and comfort or getting the best available product…
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Sometimes I like to play Cleopatra in my bathtub…did you know that a little goat milk on your skin will make it smooth like silk? 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! You know something’s got to be really good when a legendry beauty queen of yore literally used to bathe in it. Yes, the queen of Egypt really was onto something when she took baths in goat milk “to preserve her beauty and youth”. While, of…
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This whipped shea body butter recipe is great if you are out of beeswax. It can be done in your kitchen for less than 20 minutes. Shea Butter comes from the nut of the African shea tree and has many benefits for the skin and is naturally rich in Vitamins A, E, and F, as well as a number of other vitamins and minerals. Vitamins A and E help to soothe, hydrate, and balance the skin. They also provide skin collagen which assists with wrinkles and other signs of ageing. Vitamin F contains essential fatty acids, and helps protect and revitalize damaged skin…
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Its been years since I have used painkillers (knocking on wood…); I have decided to switch to a more natural alternative method to fight occasional headaches: my own blend of essential oils against headaches. There are many essentials oils that can be used to relieve headaches way more safely than painkillers; If doubtful, I suggest you try this essential oil blend recipe and make up your mind after that! Commercial pain killers can have undesirable seconds effects; they can also can become addicting. did you know that many of the painkilling drugs have a slightly sedative and sometime even a…
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Last winter I traveled to Jamaica and stayed at the wonderful Jamaica Inn Resort, what an amazing experience… especially when I woke up one morning to find a batch of freshly hatched baby turtles on the beach, experiencing the miracle of nature as they were making their way to the big blue sea, that moment I will remember forever… But this is not the only good memory I have of Jamaica inn, in fact everything was a bliss! I treated myself to a massage and natural body polish treatment at the Ocean spa with fresh pineapple and coconut oil. Sometimes…
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This Jamu (ancient Indonesian traditional medicine) treatment is a centuries-old recipe using herbs and spices which increase the blood circulation and ease aches and pains. It was given to me by a healer in Bali. This Balinese Boreh scrub recipe is used by Indonesian on their body when they are sick as it is warming and help lower fever down. While this balinese boreh scrub recipe has a lot of ingredients, you will find most of them in your kitchen. And if you are missing one of them, here is a good excuse for you to get it and inspire you…
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