12 Days of Christmas - DIY Beauty using essential oils

Why pay high prices for toxic chemical based beauty products when you can make your own all natural, non-toxic beauty products at your home for a fraction of the price! Here are 12 everyday beauty products I put together for the '12 days of Christmas 2015 - DIY Beauty using essential oils'. Here are the links to all twelve post. Search my blog for DIY beauty products, cleaning recipes, gift ideas, essential oil tips and more on this blog. Also check out my new eBook filled with tons of recipes coming in January 2016. Place your pre-order today and get more info: http://www.davetdesigns.com/eorecipebook.html

12 days of Christmas - DIY Beauty using essential oils links:

• Homemade Chocolate Mint Sugar Scrub
• Homemade Cocoa & Shea Whipped Body Butter
• DIY Cocoa-Mint Lip Balm
• DIY Relaxing Lavender Bath Salts
• DIY Homemade Face Toner
• DIY Homemade Face Moisturizer
• Homemade Deep Pore Cleansing Clay Mask
• Simple Homemade Shampoo
• Homemade Foaming Face Wash
• Gentle Lavender Makeup Remover
• Chocolate Mint Sugar Lip Scrub
• Homemade Lavender Lotion Bars

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HHomemade Chocolate Mint Sugar Scrub

Homemade Cocoa & Shea Whipped Body Butter

DIY Cocoa-Mint Lip Balm

DIY Relaxing Lavender Bath Salts

DIY Homemade Face Toner

DIY Homemade Face Moisturizer

Homemade Deep Pore Cleansing Clay Mask

Simple Homemade Shampoo

Homemade Foaming Face Wash

Gentle Lavender Makeup Remover

Chocolate Mint Sugar Lip Scrub

Homemade Lavender Lotion Bars

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Homemade Lavender Lotion Bars

Lotion bars are great for applying lotion without the mess. You can carry them around in a tin, container or bag (great for airplane travel). Lotion bars are solid at room temperature, but when rubbed on the skin or held in your hand, the heat from your body will melt the lotion onto your skin - similar to applying lip balm to your lips. You can make fun shapes and different sizes.

You will need:

• 1/2 cup Sweet Almond Oil {Amazon link}
• 1/2 cup Unrefined Ivory Shea Butter {Amazon link}
• 1/2 cup organic white beeswax pellets {Amazon link}
• 6-8 drops vitamin E oil - optional {Amazon link}
• 20 drops Young Living Lavender essential oil
• Silicone 24-Cavity Daisy Pan {Amazon link} or mold of choice
• Double Boiler or saucepan {Amazon link}

Instructions

In a saucepan or a double boiler, heat the shea butter, beeswax, almond oil and vitamin E oil (optional) on low to low-medium until all the items are melted. Stir constantly as they melt. Once everything is melted, remove from heat and add your essential oil and stir. You can play around with the recipe and find how many drops work for you. If you don't want almond oil, you can use any carrier oil you'd like such as grapeseed {Amazon link}, fractionated coconut oil {Amazon link}, jojoba {Amazon link}, etc. Or you can mix a few different carrier oils together to equal 1/2 cup of oil.

Fill your mold cavities with the liquid. This recipe will make about 14 lotion bars with a little left over if using the Wilton Daisy Pan {Amazon link}. If you don't have any silicone molds available, you can use silicone cupcake baking cups {Amazon link}.

Let the lotion bars cool for a few hours and then pop each one out of the mold. Package them in little bags or tins. Perfect for friends, gifts, party favors, giveaways, etc.

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Chocolate Mint Sugar Lip Scrub

It's that time of year again - for dry cracked lips! DIY sugar scrubs are the way to go. You can even customize the ingredients to your liking. Best of all, you probably already have all the ingredients right there in your own home. Rub some of the homemade lip scrub onto your lips to exfoliate your lips, leaving them soft and free of dry flakes. Rub off with a towel or wash off with water. Follow up with some homemade cocoa-mint lip balm.

You will need:

• 1 ounce sugar
• 1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon cocoa powder {Amazon link}
• 1 teaspoon raw honey (Texas) {Amazon link}
• 1 tablespoon grapeseed oil {Amazon link} or carrier oil of choice such as sweet almond oil {Amazon link}
• 1-2 drops Vitamin E oil - optional {Amazon link}
• 2 drops Young Living Peppermint essential oil
• 1 oz jar (glass or plastic is fine) {Amazon link}

Instructions

1. Mix together the sugar and cocoa powder in a small bowl.

2. Add honey, grapeseed oil (or carrier oil of choice), Vitamin E and 2 drops of peppermint essential oil and mix with the sugar/cocoa.

3. Spoon scrub into a jar with a tight fitting lid. Add decorative label or card including info about how to use the scrub, if desired.

To use: gently massage sugar scrub onto wet lips. Wipe off with a towel and rinse thoroughly.

This chocolate mint sugar lip scrub pairs nicely with my Cocolate mint sugar body scrub.

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Gentle Lavender Makeup Remover

For all my life, I've used toxic makeup remover. But thanks to some simple ingredients from around the house, the toxic remover is no more! This makeup remover is gentle and nourshing. You can use your carrier oil of choice. And did I mention CHEAP! This gentle makeup remover cost hardly anything to whip up.

You will need:

• Filtered water
• Sweet almond oil {Amazon link} or any carrier oil that you like on your face, such as fractionated coconut oil {Amazon link}, grape seed oil {Amazon link} or jojoba oil {Amazon link}
• Witch hazel {Amazon link}
• Young Living Lavender essential oil
• 1 oz plastic bottles with flip top pour spout {Amazon link} or 4 oz bottle {Amazon link}

Instructions

Fill bottle 1/3 full with water, 1/3 with carrier oil of choice and 1/3 with witch hazel. Add 1 drop of Young Living lavender essential oil per ounce of makeup remover and shake well. I like the little 1 oz bottles because I like to make small fresh batches of homemade products, but the 4 oz would work just as well.

To use: Shake well before using. Moisten cotton ball or cotton round {Amazon link} with makeup remover. Wipe on closed eyelids with moisten cotton ball or makeup pad and swipe over closed eyelids.

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