Sugar & Oatmeal Facial Peeling

This facial peeling/scrub is super easy and cheap, and a 100% natural.

sounds almost too good to be true right?

Sugar Lip Scurb

Being a big fan of Lush products I was checking their website, looking at their lip scrubs. I heard a lot of great stuff about them, but as I was checking the ingredients I thought to myself  "I'm not going to pay over 9 euro's for some sugar and jojoba oil, with added color and flavor!" So I decided to make some of my own. It's 100% natural and super easy :)

Dip dye/Ombre jacket

The description of my blog says "steffi's interests" so I thought it was time to share something else than recipes.
I have fallen absolutely in love with ombre and dip dye. For now my hair's a bit too short for that, so I'll have to stick with clothing for now.

Click to see what I did to this magical white jacket

Body Butter Bar

Butter bars are cute and very easy to make. With silicone molds in all shapes and sizes you can create a variety of bars. Spoil yourself or make them a personal gift!

Body Lotion

Body lotion, for some it's necessary to keep their skin in good condition, for others it's a product they use from time to time as something extra, to pamper your skin.

This recipe I made is great for oily skin like mine, but with some simple tricks you can make it suitable for normal or dry skin.

for this bottle of about 250 ml I used

*100 gr of rose water
*100 gr of oil: 30 gr calendula, 50 gr sweet almond oil and 20 gr wheat germ oil.
*I used lysolecithine for my emulsifier, it's great stuff, can be used hot and cool, doesn't leave a film and just work with about anything, and makes your skin absorb stuff better. It looks like a red syrup, but in the end it doesn't really add too much color to your cream
*10 drops of essential eucalyptus oil
*10 drops of essential orange oil
Note: citrus can make your skin more sensitive to light.
*1,5 teaspoon of bee wax (or any other wax if you want to go full vegan)

Heat the oil and let the bee wax melt in there, heat the water to about the same temperature. I added the emulsifier to the oil too. Mix it all together, poor it in the bottle and just shake it for a minute or 2. Then add the essential oils, and shake it a bit more. Let it cool and enjoy!

As you can see it's a pretty liquid body lotion, it spread out really easy. If you want you can add a thickening agent to make it a little more solid, I think it all depends on your personal preferences, there are thickening agents out there that also make the cream a little more caring. It's just a basic body lotion I tried to show here, you can add extracts or butters if you like, it's all up to your personal preferences. Just experiment, get to know your own skin and enjoy the journey.

A winter recipe: Lipbalm

A common winter related problem: chapped lips.
Today I want to show you a very simple natural way of making your own lip balm.

For this recipe you just need
1 teaspoon of liquid honey
2 teaspoons of bee wax
7 teaspoons of any oil, calendula, almond or even olive oil will do just fine.

Put it all together in a bowl and heat it Bain-marie untill the bee wax starts to melt and you can mix it together. Once the wax has melted you can take the mixture and put in an old chap stick tube or little pill box like I've done. This was enough to fill both of them. The wax will start to harden quickly once you put it in. The bee wax will give it a nice yellow color, brighter than the picture shows, and smells pretty nice.



Untill next time, love!

Create your own Deodorant

Today I want to share with you a recipe for deodorant. Finding the right deodorant can be tricky when there are so many decisions to make; perfume, alcohol, aluminium salts and so on. For this deodorant I've used as many natural ingredients as possible to ensure a minimum amount of irritation.