Most hair sprays and hair gels are loaded with icky ingredients and packaged in wasteful plastic. Making your own all-natural hair spray and hair gel will not only save you money, but do wonders for your health. Here's how to DIY your own and save a buck.
Seeing strawberries at the farmers market tells me one thing: Spring is here. Strawberries are typically the first spring/summer fruit to show up after a long cold winter so I welcome them with open arms. However, they're not just great for eating: Here are 3 ways to use strawberries in your beauty routine.
Need one night to unwind? Try hosting your own DIY spa night: You can invite a bunch of your friends over, or just keep it a solo party. Either way, you're bound to have fun and get pampered!
This mask is great for all skin types, especially dry, maturing, and sun damaged skin. This mask is completely edible and tastes like chocolate pudding – so no worries if some gets in your mouth!
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Once crocuses and hyacinths begin to bloom, I’m itching to scrub my floors, vacuum my carpets, and otherwise shed the layer of dust that winter has brought. It’s spring cleaning time!
Your garden doesn’t have to be perfectly manicured to look nice—the one thing that makes a garden really stand out is using little quirks of your own to give it personality. Likewise, your garden should not look like your neighbor's garden—so it needs to carry forward your personality and its own quirk within the green.
After a long and cold winter, springtime is certainly a blessing. It brings warmer air, beautiful flowers, and baby animals into our lives. Unfortunately, spring flies away much too quickly, so it's important to really savor the season and utilize it as much as possible. It's easy to miss the bounty of spring when you have all the luxuries of the modern world at your fingertips.
Cleaning your face doesn’t mean you have to bombard your skin with a hodge-podge of chemicals. To put your best face forward, go all natural instead with these DIY recipes of face wash and facial cleansers.
We primp and pamper our face to no end. We use the best of creams and treatments, plaster on DIY masks and treatments, and make sure our face glows with all the charm our age has to offer. What we very often forget in our pursuit of a youthful face is that our hands give away our age all too well—considering we don’t pay all that much attention to them in the first place! So how do we make sure that our face and hands (and nails even) look and feel the same age?
We all rely on store-bought beauty products. This New Year, do yourself and the environment a favor—start replacing one beauty product every month. Let’s start with January by replacing face masks.
