How to Use Honey as a Cleanser

I’ve been using raw honey as a face cleanser for the past month and it’s been the softest and clearest my skin has felt in a long time (maybe ever in my adult life?!). I used to apply it as a face mask, which I liked, but after struggling to find a good exfoliating face…

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DIY Essential Oil Perfume

We’ve touched a little on natural/green beauty products, but some of my favorite synthetic chemical-free beauty products are the ones that I can make using what I already have at home. When I started exploring essential oils, I quickly felt the need to make perfume sprays with oils like sandalwood and rose geranium. While this…

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23 of My Favorite Natural Beauty Products

All the natural beauty (natch beaut?) products that I use regularly. I’ve been in the process of converting my beauty products to the natural side for the past couple of years. Some things have been so easy they seem silly (like washing my face with raw honey — more on that later), while other things…

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The Best 1-Ingredient DIY Face Mask

When I was a pre-teen, I thought those obnoxiously green drugstore-bought face masks were what all sophisticated ladies used. If I could find a couple of cucumber slices for my eyes, I was in business. Never mind I had no idea what sort of function all of this was supposed to perform, I just basically wanted…

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5 Oils for Beauty & Wellness

Confession: I’m one of those crazies that uses coconut oil for everything except cooking, but I wasn’t always this way. All I thought I knew about essential oils was that they gave all those new age-y stores a weird smell, but now I find them fascinating. (And I realized that was incense. I still hate…

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