Articles tagged “Homemade Beauty Products”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

12 Brilliant Uses for Ice By Laurel House IN Food & Health Sep 1 2011 Sometimes known foods and ingredients have surprising uses aside from tasting good, like how beer has been shown to have pain-killing benefits and how conch is a known aphrodisiac. Well... same goes for ice. + READ MORE

Get Your Butt Ready For Your Vacation By Laurel House IN Food & Health Jul 16 2011 When it comes to getting your butt into vacation shape, there are two things you must do: -Get a Fanny Facial -Do a Quickie Workout in Bed (daily) Exfoliated, lifted, and toned, you will soon be able to put your best butt forward and show off those assets on your beach vacation. + READ MORE

Get Your Feet Sandal-Ready with These DIY Pedicure Recipes By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Fashion & Beauty May 11 2011 Get your feet sandal-ready with these easy, natural, inexpensive beauty treatments you can make yourself! + READ MORE

Mid-Winter Mood Booster By Care2.com IN Fashion & Beauty Feb 9 2011 To keep hope alive during this season, it might be time to break out the power of scent to overcome any encroaching mid-winter blues. More specifically, by diffusing or dabbing a few drops of essential oils known to have an emotionally uplifting effect around your home, you might find a beautiful and much-needed mood booster to make the season more manageable. + READ MORE

Dull, Spastic, Out of Control? Winterize Your Hair Now! By Laurel House IN Fashion & Beauty Nov 29 2010 Do you get a little emotional with the change of seasons? Dull? Spastic even? So does your hair. We stick to routines because they are ingrained in us. It’s been two days—time to wash my hair. Wednesday is pony-tail day. We also listen to highly-advertised myths, like dry hair comes from over-shampooing, hair loss comes from too much product use. + READ MORE

10 Uses for Beer You Never Thought Of By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Home & Garden Jul 9 2010 For many, summertime is synonymous with cracking open a cold one.That is certainly true around here. Someone in my life whom I love dearly sometimes leaves partially full beer bottles around. I’ve always thought it was a pity to throw the remainder brew down the drain. But, who wants to drink warm, flat beer? + READ MORE

50 All Natural Beauty Products You Can Make Yourself By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Fashion & Beauty Jun 22 2010 Here are 50 easy, frugal, natural recipes for beauty products you can make yourself. + READ MORE

Get Gorgeous Summer Skin with Homemade Body Scrubs By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Fashion & Beauty Jun 18 2010 Here are five recipes for homemade, all-natural body scrubs to give you soft, smooth skin all summer long. + READ MORE

Ditch the Chemicals: Make Your Own Perfume from Flowers in Your Garden By Rachel Cernansky IN Home & Garden Jun 10 2010 Learn how to make your own natural, chemical-free fragrances from the experts who already are. + READ MORE

Banish Butt Blemishes With A Fanny Facial By Laurel House IN Fashion & Beauty May 6 2010 Savvy spa-goers know all about facials, they've cocooned their bodies in skin-satiating serums too many times to count, and have had their mangled muscles massaged into submission... and now they want more. Though not normally seen by the public eye (and even more rarely viewed by you), your fanny is about to strut it down the beach in a teeny eco bikini. Don't let it be an eye sore. Instead, treat it to a facial. A fanny facial. + READ MORE

Josie Maran Shares Her Favorite Tips for Flawless Beauty By Blythe Copeland IN Fashion & Beauty Apr 22 2010 Model Josie Maran has plenty of advice for green beauties; here, she shares her best ideas for homemade beauty treatments, must-have products, and ingredients to avoid. + READ MORE

Beyond Earth Day: 3 Easy Fashion and Beauty Ideas for Maximum Impact After Earth Day By Laurel House IN Fashion & Beauty Apr 21 2010 This Earth Day there are a few musts when it comes to greening your Fashion and Beauty, but the great thing is that they are small changes that make a big difference. As they say, 1 drop in a bucket makes merely a ripple, but hundreds of drops makes a wave. + READ MORE

The Natural Facelift - No Knife Needed! By Laurel House IN Fashion & Beauty Apr 14 2010 The average exerciser runs to trim the fat, tones muscles with resistance, does yoga for the mind, or does double duty by bonding with nature on a hike in order to keep their skin taut and their stress at a mere simmer (as opposed to bubbling over at the boiling point). So why, when we spend so much time tending to the areas of our body that we keep covered up all day in clothing, do we so blatantly neglect the most exposed section of skin- our faces. Yes, we slather on specially formulated soaps, scrubs and serums to maintain its exterior glow, but what about what lies beneath? Stop automatically turning to plastic surgery to downsize your jowls or open your eyes, and give your facial muscles a stress reducing, muscle toning, skin tightening workout. + READ MORE

Forget About Sushi; Rub Wasabi On Your Skin! By Laurel House IN Fashion & Beauty Apr 12 2010 You mix a pin-size amount with soy sauce to add some oomph to sushi. Turns out, more than stimulating your taste buds wasabi is good for the skin too. + READ MORE

This, Not That, Skincare: Wrinkles and Bags By Laurel House IN Fashion & Beauty Mar 11 2010 "Eat This, not That." We know. But what about the stuff that you slather all over your face? When it comes to gravity and the indisputable fact that, yes, it's working against you, what can you do about those wrinkles and bags without stuffing your pores with chemicals that are both harmful to your body and the planet? That's where This, Not That: Skincare comes in. I know, we've all got our tried and true go-tos that we've been using for years, decades, many of us even taking it to the next level as we follow our mom's skincare footsteps. But technology and knowledge have come a very long way and there are lots of new solutions to our old age issues. Some of the best of them being Natural. + READ MORE

This, Not That, Skincare: Cleansers By Laurel House IN Fashion & Beauty Mar 10 2010 When it comes to skincare, natural or not, lots of women have their favorite products that they tend to stand by, finding it hard to switch to the more natural solutions. Why? Old habits often die hard, and, when it comes to the face (the most visible area of the body), many of us simply aren't willing to test out something new that, let's face it, might not work. And that's the problem. + READ MORE

This, Not That, Skincare: Dull, Dry, Irritated and Burned Skin By Laurel House IN Fashion & Beauty Mar 9 2010 We've all heard the "this, not that" concept when it comes to what and what not to eat. But what about what your skin eats? Yes, like a sponge, what you slather onto your skin is sucked up through your pores, entering your bloodstream and finding its way into your cells. So what exactly is your skin eating anyway? While we may scour the nutrition facts of every morsel of food that we put into our mouths, when it comes to our favorite old skincare standbys, if you take a second to check out the ingredients you will likely find that you can't pronounce the majority of them. Yup- they're made up of a menagerie of chemicals. And while old habits may die hard, you're smarter than to continue to feed your face stuff that you would never even think to spoon onto your tongue (but really, it's just a different delivery system). + READ MORE

This, Not That, Skincare: Pimples and Pores By Laurel House IN Fashion & Beauty Mar 8 2010 When it comes to skincare, natural or not, lots of women have their favorite products that they tend to stand by, finding it hard to switch to the more natural solutions. Why? Old habits often die hard, and, when it comes to the face (the most visible area of the body), many of us simply aren't willing to test out something new that, let's face it, might not work. And that's the problem. + READ MORE

Truly Gifted: An A-Z DIY Holiday Workshop For The Handyperson On Your Holiday List By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Home & Garden Dec 14 2009 People who love to work with their hands have their fair share of aches and pains. For those who work outside, their dry, cracked and chapped hands cry out for moisture. Heat applications and moisturizers are the perfect soothing gift for all the handy people on your list. + READ MORE

Truly Gifted: An A-Z DIY Holiday Workshop For The Chocolate Lover On Your Holiday List By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Food & Health Dec 10 2009 Hitting the sleigh ride trail or the slopes this holiday season with a chocolate lover? Protect those lips from the elements with a yummy and rejuvenating moisture-rich lip balm. + READ MORE