It’s no secret that what we put on our bodies is as equally important as what we put in our bodies. A few weeks ago, I let you snoop in my makeup bag and shared my favourite natural, non-toxic makeup essentials. Today, I want to share some of my favourite natural beauty care recipes for those of you who love to kick it from scratch like I do.
There are a treasure trove of natural beauty care products that you can whip up yourself using simple ingredients in your kitchen and pantry. Once you get on the homemade beauty train, it’s really hard to stop (or spend the cash on things you can easily make at home!). I love crafting these up and even devoted an entire chapter of The UnDiet Cookbook to edible beauty recipes. We cook up potions for our insides, we should also spend some time cooking up lotions and potions for our outside, too!
The natural beauty care recipes I highlight below use ingredients you likely already have in your home – coconut oil, lemon, organic sugar, citrus and oils. I am very excited to share these gems with you. Here are some simple edible, natural beauty care recipes for you to help you get started.
This how-to guide to creating a deep conditioning treatment is most awesome for your hair, and bonus: it doubles as a salad dressing. Just be sure to set some aside to use on your salad later!
Coconut oil is one of the most versatile ingredients, both in a culinary context and in beauty care. This moisturizing coconut oil and vanilla lip balm is amazingly effective – unless, of course, you lick it all off your lips.
This delicious mask (which resembles chocolate sauce) combines the antioxidant powerhouses of cacao and maca with mineral-rich bentonite clay, which draws out impurities.
How gorgeously pretty and pink is this recipe? This beautiful 4-ingredient sugar scrub is great to give away as a gift, but you can also hog it all to yourself.
With only 4 ingredients (are you catching onto the trend yet – edible beauty care is so simple!), this homemade toothpaste is flavoured with peppermint but you can easily swap with your favourite flavours.
Your smackers need gentle scrubbing and exfoliation, too! This lip scrub is perfect for smoothing out those scaly, winter chapped lips into something more kiss-able.
When the sun is shining, we often forget about protecting our lips. This sunscreen lip balm contains a whack of protective essential oils to help keep our lips sunburn-free.
Do you need convincing to make this? Come on – doesn’t the title say it all? Plus, if you added a bit of sweetener to this, it would make an amazing chocolate frosting.
I’m currently on the path of ditching shampoo completely – and my hair is SO amazingly more beautiful!
A very, VERY simple recipe you can use as shampoo:
3 – 4 tbsp. of rye flour (not wheat!!)
1 tbsp. spoon cinnamon (for the smell, can be )
Mix with warm water until you have a jellylike texture, not unlike shampoo. Massage into your scalp and leave in for a few minutes (while washing the rest of your body e.g. ;) ), then rinse. You can use a sour rinse (1tsp. cider vinegar or lemon juice to 1l cold(!) water, just rinse your hair after washing – but no warm water afterwards) afterwards but you don’t need to, as the pH of the rye shampoo is essentially the same as your hair.
It’s so fluffy, shiny and smooth afterwards!
You can also use flour or healing earth as dry shampoo. I also mix it with cinnamon for the smell (or put in dry lavender flowers or what you like). Just apply with a big powder brush and brush it out – no longer greasy hair without the need for showering or shampoo. For dark hair I’d take defatted cocoa powder or the aforementioned healing earth, as the flour could leave a greyish colour otherwise.
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Uh, awesome recipes! :D Thank you!
I’m currently on the path of ditching shampoo completely – and my hair is SO amazingly more beautiful!
A very, VERY simple recipe you can use as shampoo:
3 – 4 tbsp. of rye flour (not wheat!!)
1 tbsp. spoon cinnamon (for the smell, can be )
Mix with warm water until you have a jellylike texture, not unlike shampoo. Massage into your scalp and leave in for a few minutes (while washing the rest of your body e.g. ;) ), then rinse. You can use a sour rinse (1tsp. cider vinegar or lemon juice to 1l cold(!) water, just rinse your hair after washing – but no warm water afterwards) afterwards but you don’t need to, as the pH of the rye shampoo is essentially the same as your hair.
It’s so fluffy, shiny and smooth afterwards!
You can also use flour or healing earth as dry shampoo. I also mix it with cinnamon for the smell (or put in dry lavender flowers or what you like). Just apply with a big powder brush and brush it out – no longer greasy hair without the need for showering or shampoo. For dark hair I’d take defatted cocoa powder or the aforementioned healing earth, as the flour could leave a greyish colour otherwise.
And then: have fun with your beautiful hair! :D
I love this list….thanks Meghan!
The homemade foundation powder is a great idea. I especially love all these recipes are cruelty free. I love animals.
Nice natural beauty care recipes
These home made beauty recipes are excellent. Thank you.
Can you recommend any natural/homemade eye make up remover?