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Chocolate Sugar Scrub

Ingredients:

2- 3 tbsp Sugar-any kind, white, brown, raw

Oil-just a bit-any kind, olive, sunflower, safflower, almond

1 tsp Honey

couple drops Chocolate Extract

1/4 tsp. Cocoa Powder

Directions:

In a small bowl, gently mix sugars, cocoa powder, extract and honey. Drizzle in your oil of choice, just enough to make your desired scrub consistency, not too much, just a bit, mix. Apply to clean feet and hands using a circulation motion to exfoliate and moisturize, rinse and pat dry

 
I used Oatmeal and Honey on my face last night to help my acne. It does work for me. It tastes good, too. My dog kept trying to lick it off my face, then my cat came and ate some too.

 
I found that washing your face with green tea works really well.. you've heard about lots of products use green tea cuz it's antitoxi

its asian thing that we use natural ingrediant to make the skin glowing..

anyway.. you can put the tea bag in cold water over nite.. (cuz if you use hot water like you would drink the tea.. the water color will be changed to brown)

and wash your face nomarly then for the last time you wash... use cold green tea DONT RINSE WITH WATER... it calms my redness alot...and cuz its cold, makes my face refreshing in the morning and nite

 
I just happened upon this thread and I can't wait to try some of these skin and hair care recipes! Thanks so much for all your hard work preparing these recipes.

 
This is a really easy lip balm:

1.5 tsp Beeswax

1 tsp Cocoa Butter

2.5tsp Oil (I like Almond oil for lip balms. Virgin Coconut is also very nice because it's smells naturally of yummy coconut)

4 or 5 drops of essential oil (orange / lemon / lime are nice in lip balm) or you can use flavour oil.

Melt the beeswax, cocoa butter and oil together over a double boiler (or gently in a microwave)

This is a firmer lip balm and is good for tubes as well as pots. You can up the liquid oil if you want a softer balm.

If you prefer not to add cocoa butter you can make a nice lip balm with 1 part beeswax, 2 parts oil and some essential oil. This is a softer balm, better for pots than tubes.

I don't sweeten my lip balms (unless the flavour is pre-sweetened) as I find that I just lick my lips all the time and that contributes to dry winter lips!! I have tried adding honey but it is water soluble so doesn't completely mix in with the oils and it is quite time consuming (and impossible to get into tubes!!)

Sometimes I make myself a really simple body scrub (measurements are approximate as I tend to just bung stuff in a bowl):

Couple of tablespoons each of: Honey and Macadamia oil (or any other vegetable oil you prefer, almond and olive are both nice)

One or two teaspoons of liquid soap, I make my own but any unscented is fine (this won't make the scrub foam but will just cut the greasy feel and the oil slick in the bath / shower)

Couple of slack handfuls of sea salt or brown sugar

Few drops of orange essential oil

Mix altogether in a big bowl – makes enough for one full body scrub.

Sometimes I omit the orange oil and use peppermint instead and sometimes I add some coffee grounds. Coffee grounds are apparently good for cellulite!! And sometimes I empty the contents of a green tea bag or chamomile tea bag… etc in, just to mix it up.

Don't keep any leftovers of the scrub, just make enough to use it all in one sitting as it's not preserved.

 
(i didn't know where to put this, so sorry mods if it's wrong placed).

i found those videos on Expert village, there's a few masks recipes. they're really easy to follow and look fantastic.

there's also a toner recipe involving green tea (i have to try it !).

Expert Village- Nili Nathan

 

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