A New Year

HAPPY 2014!!
I know that it has been a ridiculously long time since I posted anything but my New Year resolutions is to keep this blog up to date!

For Christmas I was very creative and finally tried out a couple of make-your-own recipes that I'd seen; hand scrub and lip balms. I was pleasantly surprised by how straightforward they were to make so I would definitely recommend giving it a go!

There are numerous recipes online but these are the ones I used:

Lip Balm

• 4 tablespoons of coconut oil
• 3 tablespoons of petroleum jelly
• 1 tablespoon of beeswax

Essentially all you have to do is melt the beeswax, petroleum jelly and coconut oil and mix them together. Then you add the flavouring - I used honey, and weirdly Herbes de Provence but I have seen recipes that use anything from kool-aid to essential oils. The trick is to pour it into the storage container before it starts cooling, but it seems that if this happens you can just heat it up again.

Hand Scrub

• 2 cups of granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup of coconut oil
• 2 lemons

Again, this is super easy! I juiced two lemons and mixed everything together, melting the coconut oil a little. I also added lemon zest, just to make it look pretty.

These recipes really are a easy as they seem, sometimes the ingredients may be a little difficult to get hold of but I ended up buying everything I needed on eBay - the beeswax, coconut oil and little pots for the lip balm. If you want to start making your own cosmetics definitely give try these out, I was impressed by how good they looked and how well they actually work!

If you have any suggestions of recipes I should try please drop me a message!