A recipe for a very fragrant herbal soap, with exfoliating properties. Rosemary and lavender, two of the most well known and used herbs in natural cosmetics, provide with the most natural and wonderful scent to this soap. Poppy seeds are added, turning this soap into a mild exfoliant, where you can rub it directly against […]
Recipe of a natural herbal soap, made with rosemary and eucalyptus. Both plants contribute with very pleasant herbal camphor aromas, and very useful medicinal characteristics, to obtain a cool, refreshing and invigorating soap. Eucalyptus The star of this herbal soap recipe is eucalyptus. Eucalyptus essential oil, Eucaliptus globulus, is the one whose scent we associate with […]
This is a recipe for a deliciously fragrant and fun cinnamon soap enriched with shea butter and colored with turmeric. Turmeric and cinnamon are both well known for its anti-inflammatory, dissinfectant, anti-fungal and anti-oxidant properties. Using Turmeric in Soap as Colorant Although I’ve started using micas and minerals as colorants when starting to make soap, […]
A simple recipe for a classical soap – a natural homemade lavender soap! A very foamy, creamy, and lightly scented soap with lavender that also has floral notes like rose and ylang ylang. What’s So Good About Lavender Lavender is well known for its two specific traits: its fragrance and its color. It’s filled with memories […]
Healing balms or healing salves was one of my greatest surprises when starting to make my own natural cosmetic products. They are just too simple to make and very versatile, not only being very conditioning, but also having several medicinal properties, such as anti-septic, anti-inflammatory, or skin regenerating. They can be as much as the […]
This is a basic recipe for a homemade natural carrot soap, naturally colored with carrots. In the first recipes presented on this blog, only an oil/fat was used per recipe: see Homemade Olive Oil Soap Recipe, Homemade Coconut Oil Soap Recipe or Homemade Lard Soap Recipe. With one oil only to deal with, the recipes […]
Easy recipe of a homemade natural rose soap, a olive oil soap scented with rose geranium essential oil and colored with french pink clay, making a very gentle, conditioning and wonderfully scented soap. Rose is one of the most popular flowers in the whole world. It has been cultivated by humankind since Ancient times. Scientifically, […]
Basic recipe of handmade natural olive oil soap with green clay and essential oil of lemongrass. This essential oil, used to cleanse oily skin, combined with green clay and the softness of olive oil, will create a natural handmade soap ideal for purifying and cleaning any type of skin, especially oily skin. With delicious citrusy […]
Tutorial about how to make a natural lip balm at home following a very simple lip balm recipe. In this article, I am going to show how simple it is to make a nourishing lip balm at home. We are going to follow a very simple recipe with beeswax and olive oil. You can also […]
