Great 'Home Made Beauty Tips' Hunt

psychic_sidekick

I've just found these really great bath recipes that could be good presents if you're stuck and broke! Just made the jelly- easy as pie! a jelly pie!
I found them on athomewitharista.com

Bath Jelly!
1/2 cup water
1 envelope unflavored gelatine
1/2 cup bubble bath or liquid soap
Food coloring (optional)

Heat the water until boiling and dissolve the gelatine in it. Add the bubble bath or soap very slowly and do not beat because it may become foamy. Stir gently and blend. Pour the mixture into a container with a lid.
If the jelly is going to be used by children you can drop in a small toy or seashells. Put in the refrigerator to gel.
To use, place a small amount of jelly under tap water or use as a shower gel.
I put some coloured sugar sprinkles in it to make it extra pretty!!! :beer: I also used some old bubblebath that I'd had since my teenage days!!

Bath cookies!!!!
2 cups finely ground sea salt
1/2 cup baking soda
1/2 cup cornstarch
2 tablespoons light oil
1 teaspoon vitamin E oil (squeezed from capsules)
2 eggs
5 or 6 drops essential oil of your choice

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Mix together all ingredients. Take a teaspoon of the dough and roll it gently into a 1-inch diameter ball. Continue doing this with all the dough and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. You can decorate the cookies with clove buds, anise seeds or dried citrus peel if you wish. Bake the cookies for about 10 minutes, until they are lightly browned (do not overbake ). Allow the cookies to cool completely. Store in a decorative tin marked Bath Cookies.
Yields 24 cookies - enough for 12 baths.

Woohoo! Should keep me busy most of the night (though I should have gone to bed hours ago!)
Love love!!! :rotfl::rotfl:

Suzkin

rosepink wrote: »

I love pawpaw and once I have eaten them with a spoon, I turn the skin inside out and rub it over my face.Leave it for a while to dry and then rinse off with lukewarm water. A wonderful skin brightener!!
Blonde hair can be rinsed with cold chamomile tea/infusion - it restores the golden lights!
I add a little foundation to a blob of moisturiser to make a good tinted moisturiser.Mix on back of hand and apply all over face as needed.
My grandmother always washed her hair in rainwater, collected in a rain butt. Gives lovely shiny hair!!

I've also noticed that rainwater makes my hair softer than ordinary tap water! :T

Suzkin

flippin36 wrote: »

After finding out from this website about Coconut oil I simply couldn't live without it now. There is so much you can use it for. Body moisturiser, face cream, night cream, eye cream, hair mask/conditioner, dry end defrizzer, make up remover, handcream, deodrant, mixed with sugar it can be an exfoliater.... and a large tub lasts ages and ages.

Hey, this sounds great! Can you recall where (i.e. any links?) did you read about its uses (and how exactly to do it...!)? :j

Suzkin

Lily-Lu wrote: »

When we girls were in our teens back in the 70s, my mum told us that if we wanted a shine to our hair, use some vinegar in the rinsing water

Would this be white, or malt vinegar? (I'd like to try this).

hrvoon

Once tried a mix of honey with olive oil for a hair conditioner. For best results leave in for at least 10 minutes. Bit tricky to wash out but hair was super soft and shiny afterwards. Haven't done it in a while - might have to do it tonight!

lsowersby

Aqueous cream - most chemists have their own brand pretty cheap. It's so long ago that I bought my current tub, I can't remember the price!

It's a reasonable moisturiser (I found it best to bulk out my fave body lotion) and you can add essential oils easily. It can be used in many of the ways the oils can.

It also works as a gentle cleanser and make-up remover (although I found it a bit much hard work for waterproof stuff).

Both my husband and I use it as a shaving cream as well.

jools0001

I have oily spot-prone skin, and I've been known to spend serious amounts of money on skincare, but I've been using the Oil Cleansing Method for over a year and I can honestly say my skin has never been healthier. It's counterintuitive but oil cleans oil so you actually end up controlling the greasiness.

Right now I'm using a mix of 50% Extra Virgin Olive Oil, 30% Sweet Almond Oil and 20% Castor Oil with a few drops of tea tree thrown in, but there are plenty of variations.

I keep this mixture in a small pump bottle and one pump is enough to clean my face including taking off full makeup. I massage the oil into my face and run a flannel under hot water, wring it out, put the flannel over my face for a few moments until it cools, repeat, then use the flannel to wipe off my make-up.

Google for "OCM" - there's loads of information on the topic. The only downside I've found so far is having to clean the washbasin every single night!