How To Wash Your Hair With Clay

I Wash My Hair With Mud And I clean my face with oil. Seriously, I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried. The thing is, in an age where ramen noodle spa bath’s are not out of the question, the fact that a beauty treatment exists is not really saying much. So, rather than try …

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The Oil Cleansing Method: A How-To Guide for Clear, Radiant Skin

A Note From Mommypotamus: Today’s guest post comes from Jennifer Nervo of 20 Something Allergies And Counting . . . Down. If you love this tutorial, check out my new ebook, DIY Organic Beauty Recipes. The Oil Cleansing Method (OCM) is the most ah-mazing way to clean your face. It rocks my sensitive, acne-prone, dry, …

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Mint Chocolate Whipped Body Butter (A Recipe & Giveaway)

Remember When You Were In The Fifth Grade . . . And it was fun to smash bananas in your hair, rub avocado all over your face and talk your bestie’s dad out of a foamy lager for the perfect shine boosting rinse? I do, and it’s not because of all the explaining I had …

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Homemade Face Paint Tutorial – So Safe You Can Eat It!

Sometimes, after you’ve seen more . . . Than your fair share of frog gonads filled with eggs, you just might begin to feel a bit paranoid. You may find yourself making your own shampoo because, yeah, you happen to think future generations of men should get to have descended testicles and stuff (thanks a …

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Leftover Lemon Peels? Make Make A Skin Brightening Scrub, Gourmet Infusion And More!

Ready To Bring A Little Sunshine Into Your Life? Well then, take the lemon peels left over from your newfound gummy star addiction and whip up a skin brightening scrub, gourmet oil infusion, lustre boosting furniture polish or all-purpose cleaner! It’s a great chance to flex those expense-busting DIY muscles without investing a lot of …

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The “Naughty” Skin Care Ingredient You Absolutely Must Try!

Pop Quiz! What Beauty Ingredient . . . Do many beauty product manufacturers vilify while selling you on their expensive, patented formulas? If you compare labels between the “naughty” skin care product and theirs, which one would have a toxic slew of chemicals including, say, 5 ingredients linked to cancer, 3 penetration enhancers that may …

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How To Make Non-Toxic Hand Sanitizer

I Exfoliate In My Sleep That, mamas, is the beauty of motherhood. Kids wake you up in the dead of night because they need to nurse, or can’t find their favorite purple dinosaur, or wrecked your car the first day you bought it (sorry, mom!) But on the other hand they teach you power of …

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Rosemary Mint Shampoo Bar Recipe {Video Tutorial}

Lotions. Potions. Elixirs. Oh my! Do you love the idea of homemade spa goodies but think they are “too much trouble” to make? Or maybe it worries you that the exact form of sodium laurel sulphate in your bottle of suds is used to degrease car engines. (Don’t see it listed? It has about 150 …

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