Creating your own signature scent is a lovely way to gently mark your presence in a room or bring your own character to any outfit. Use it daily or just on special occasions, when you want to feel really good. Blending it Yourself Natural Perfume Oil To start you’ll need to find a suitable bottle…
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Using Essential Oils to add scent
Essential oils are extracted through distillation, it’s a practice we’ve been doing for over a thousand years. Distillation creates a truly intense concentration of plant power to be used with care. Often they are included in skincare recipes for therapeutic benefits, but they may simply be added for their wonderful, natural scent and the character…
Fresh Skincare: what do the ‘Make By’ and ‘Use By’ dates mean?
Natural skincare is like food for the skin. So treat your skincare like your food. The best skincare (like food) is freshly made using fresh, natural ingredients (ideally sourced as locally as possible). As with fresh food, this will mean skincare has a lifespan (or ‘shelf-life’), after which it is considered not suitable for use.…
Elderflower lotion for rough, chapped hands
Elderflower was the go-to complexion enhancer on every dressing table in the past. They are widely used in skincare for their conditioning and skin-lightening, properties which can be handy for reducing freckles and sunburn and for treating greying hair. An infusion of elderflowers can be used for softening cleansers, toners and conditioners for hands, face and body. It is…
Quick BIY Facial Exfoliators
Here are some really simple facial scrubs using just two or three ingredients. Select the variation to suit your skin and make up as you want to use it. Once the ingredients are blended, simply use your fingertips to rub the paste over your face in small circles and then rinse off with warm water,…
Blend Your Own Pillow Mist full of natural scent to aid sweet dreams
Create the right sleep vibes with a pillow mist A pillow mist brings a calming freshness to your bedroom enabling you to still the day’s worries and settle into the night’s calm. What makes a good pillow mist? Naturally you’ll want your mist to be light and airy, it’s got to do its work in…
Blackberry Bath Splash for brightening your skin
Blackberry leaves for brightening the skin The blackberry plant scrambles through hedgerows putting on enormous growth each season, seemingly stretching out more and more each day. All this growth is fuelled by the powerhouse of energy contained in the blackberry leaves. Use these leaves in creating your own skincare and see that plant power taking…
Blackberry and Honeysuckle Lotion
Blackberry and Honeysuckle Lotion for oily skin When your skin is oily it needs bringing back into balance. This blackberry and honeysuckle lotion makes use of dry oils and a range of emollient and humectant ingredients to bring your skin into balance. You are producing oils to lubricate your skin, but if it seems over-oily,…
10 top to toe ways to enjoy chocolate
Here’s your top 10 zero-calorie chocolate indulgence recipes: Chocolate hair mask Dry shampoo for dark hair 3-ways chocolate face masks Chocolate orange lip balm Chocolate rose scrub (for face or body) Cocoa butter hand cream Chocolate milk bath Chocolate and walnut body scrub Chocolate wax Mint Chocolate foot scrub Find out why chocolate is so…
How and why to do a Patch Test
How and why to do a patch test Everyone has their own unique skin so it’s impossible to say how an individual will react to a particular ingredient. While many of the ingredients with known, more universal, sensitivities are avoided in natural skincare (the artificial fragrances in particular, as well as many preservatives and additives)…