I love the feeling of super soft hair falling across my shoulders – it’s so very silky, soft and feels so healthy! Keeping my bathroom stocked with deep conditioning treatments and healthy hair masks can be costly. Thankfully, conditioning treatments and hair masks are one of the easier products you can make in your kitchen.
Depending on the kind of hair you’ve got – be it dry, oily, chemically treated or “normal” with an occasionally itchy scalp – you’ll need different treatments for each kind of hair.
Oily hair can benefit most from the rinse-off (leave on for a minute or two …read more

Now that you’ve had a chance to grab all the stuff you need to actually make your bath and body products at home, at least from an equipment standpoint. So, before we get into recipes and ingredients, let’s talk about how you’re going to store all this stuff you make and where to source your green ingredients.
Think about going as green with your packaging as you are by making your own beauty products. Sustainable glass jars – which you can get from second hand stores, eBay or sometimes even Ikea – not only look beautiful in your bathroom, but they’re …read more

Making your own bath and body products can be a quick and easy way to make sure that you’re not getting preservatives or toxins in your products, and you can be sure they’re green, cruelty free and you can control the strength.
So, how do you get started? What do you need to have on hand in order to whip up a batch of facial cleanser, toner, or bubble bath?
You’ll need to keep the following tools on hand:

Marble pestle and mortar for smashing up granules of sea salt or sugar for face & body scrubs
Enameled simmering pan for melting wax and …read more