Beauty
Easy DIY Body Wash with Essential Oils
How to Make Easy DIY Body Wash with Essential Oils & Unscented Liquid Soap You can avoid the questionable ingredients in commercial body cleansers, shaving soap and hand soap and still get clean. There’s simply no need to hassle with all of the individual products when one bottle of unscented liquid soap works just as well.
Benefits of Mineral Sunscreen
Does Mineral Sunscreen Really Work? A Guide to Mineral Sunscreen and Finding the Right SPF If you’re looking for the most effective form of sun protection, you may think any old mineral sunscreen will do, but there is more to a safe sunscreen than minerals and the SPF number. Broad-spectrum sun protection means blocking not only the dangerous UVB and UVA rays, but also choosing a product that doesn’t feature a slew of yucky chemicals.
The Truth About Sulfates
Are Sulfates Bad for Your Skin & Hair? Increasing numbers of beauty products are hitting store shelves that market themselves as free of sulfates--but what, exactly, does that mean? If you're interested in avoiding chemicals or living a more natural lifestyle, should you be avoiding sulfates? Check out these answers to your most common sulfate questions. What Exactly are Sulfates? Sulfates are the chemicals most often used as cleansing agents in a variety of products that you may use on a regular basis.
5 Eco-Conscious Reasons to Buy in Bulk
5 Reasons Why Buying in Bulk Helps the Environment & Your Wallet Buying in bulk is the greenest way to buy, since it minimizes packaging that takes resources to make and becomes waste to dispose of. Bulk buying also saves money due to the reduced packaging, printing and advertising costs.
Natural Hair Care Tips for Summer at Home
How to Take Care of Your Hair Naturally In the Summer: Tips and Products The harsh conditions and dry air of winter can wreak havoc on our hair. As the weather turns warmer, the summer sun replenishes much-needed vitamin D to brighten up dull hair and add shine to tresses — but our hair craves more.
Baking Soda Baths: Benefits and Side Effects
A Guide to Baking Soda Baths Baking soda is an amazing ingredient that can help to improve your health, home, and wellbeing. From potentially helping to ease heartburn symptoms and whitening your teeth to cleaning surfaces and neutralizing odors, baking soda can be your best friend.
Emollients | Uses, Types, and Benefits
What is an Emollient? When you dab on that anti-aging wrinkle cream or smooth some lotion onto your dry, chapped skin, it's not necessarily the fancy-sounding ingredients or the expensive herbal extracts that improve your skin's health and restore your skin's natural moisture levels. It's actually your skincare product's emollient ingredients that do the heavy lifting to soften, soothe and improve the appearance of dry, rough skin.
Using Natural Hair Dye at Home
How to Dye Your Hair Naturally: Using Natural Dyes Without Chemicals Hipsters and natural-minded folks have been using henna and natural hair dye for years — this concept is nothing new. For me, though, finding a chemical-free, safe hair dye that worked was an adventure.
5 Benefits of Homemade Beauty & Skincare
5 Reasons You Should Make Your Own Beauty & Skincare Products DIY beauty and skincare products can be very rewarding for a variety of reasons. From having control over what goes in them, to customizing according to preferences, to reducing waste, saving money and more.
4 Natural DIY Skin Care Tips for Summer
DIY Natural Summer Skin Care Tips & Recipes When we think of summer, we're filled with visions of time spent outdoors enjoying the warm weather. It is very much in our nature to move our lives outside to soak up the sun like the plants that are heavily in bloom.
