More DIY Bath and Body Recipes!

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com DIY: Not only is it cheaper, it's cleaner. Why spend loads of money on products with long lists of unbeautiful ingredients you likely can't pronounce? Especially since those chemicals often end up doing the opposite of what you want them to do, drying things up. Get the best ingredients by mixing them yourself. And plus, there's a lot of leeway here to play around with different oil bases and organic essential oils. Consider this recipe as a launch pad into the world of do-it-yourself body oils for a smooth and supple you.

ACNE TREATMENT

For minor acne flare ups, look to honey for help!
1/2 cup warm water
1/4 teaspoon salt
Pure honey

1. Mix together warm water and salt and stir well until salt dissolves. Apply a cotton ball soaked in the solution directly to blemish and maintain pressure with cotton ball for several minutes.
2. To use: Use a cotton swab to dab pure honey on blemish. Leave honey on for 10 minutes and rinse well with warm water. Honey also makes an excellent weekly facial mask; simply spread on your face and leave on for 20 minutes.

Body Oil for Dry Skin

Your skin will look healthy with better results than with lotions or creams. In fact, body oils added to a luxurious bath and/or applied to the skin, just after bathing (and towel drying), can be rubbed in flawlessly for a nourishing and moisturizing effect that is anything but greasy.
2 fl. oz. jojoba oil
2 fl. oz. almond oil
2 tablespoons of vitamin E oil
10 drops sweet orange oil
6 drops lavender essential oil
4 drops lemongrass essential oil

Add all of the ingredients into a glass jar or plastic bottle and shake. Its that easy!This also is superb after shaving!

Simple Brown Sugar Body Scrub

So sublimely sweet you'll want to rub it all over your body. And by all means, please do! This brown sugar body scrub and polish creates a sumptuous take-the-spa-home experience.
1/2 cup Organic Brown Sugar
1 Tbsp. Honey
1 Tbsp. Jojoba, Coconut or Almond Oil
1/4 tsp. Fresh Lemon Juice

In a large bowl, begin by lightly stirring your sugar and oil together, just until combined. Next, add the honey and lightly stir again. Lastly, pour your lemon juice in and mix it all up until you're happy with the consistency. And that's it! Store in a mason jar. Makes a budget friendly gift!
Well, that's it for now. Will be adding more soon!

~Gypsy

Guerrilla Gardening!!! Coolest Ever!!

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com Ok, so I was on Etsy and was writing my orders and all that down and started looking around in the plants and edibles section... I found the coolest thing!!! SEED BOMBS!!! Ok, maybe you are already in the loop, but I had never seen them before. Wow, where have I been?
Ok, seed bombs are like balls or disks, that are packed with seeds, like wildflowers and such with compost and a planting medium that are added with water and formed into balls and thrown to give areas a burst of color. These would be awesome in urban areas! How f'in cool would that be?
Theres some sellers that have veggies, flowers and something else, I cant remember cuz I was just so excited to see such a cool thing.

This would be a super cool thing to make with the kiddies. They loved playing in the dirt with mommie when we had a big garden. they would LOVE this! Just think about how many places you walk by or drive by in your day that could use a burst of new life, some color! People get inspired when they see things that may not belong in a vacant rundown lot, but look at those beautiful wild flowers! How cool?

I must admit that for a second the movie, A Color Purple popped in my head when I thought about this. Especially when your watching the movie, yes they were farming and all, and there are lots of shots and scenes in the movie where there was land with dirt roads and sparatic grass here and there. Then you get the most beautiful scene where Miss Ceilie and Shug are walking among beautiful purple wild flowers and just soaking up their beauty. Its a stunning image really when you think about it.

I dont know about you, but when Im on the highway and on a long ride, the one thing that always makes my head turn is a patch for wild flowers or tiger lilies in all their wonderful glory. Life is so much better when theres some beauty in your world. Sow some seeds, make someone else's day when they walk or drive by . Think about it.

~Gypsy~