Save money with DIY beauty
August 31, 2009 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Doing it Yourself, Eco Simplicity
As a long time green advocate I’m a huge fan of homemade beauty products and body care products. But homemade beauty products and body care items are also an excellent thrifty habit.
Why make homemade beauty and body care products?
- To avoid toxins – Skin Deep reports that many companies who make beauty care and body care products use known human carcinogens or developmental toxins in the products (as many as one third). Homemade products allow you to avoid this completely.
- To save money. All that packaging and fancy advertising will cost you. It’s cheaper to make your own.
- To let your creativity flow. You cannot mess up homemade beauty products or body care in such a terrible way that there’s no going back. You get to be creative, and if you mess up, it’s no big loss because costs are seriously low for most homemade products.
- To be green. It’s greener to make non-toxic products and to reuse containers then it is to buy new stuff over and over again.
I LOVE posting homemade beauty and body care products and do so a lot, it’s just never here (sorry folks) so I thought I’d offer a nice round up of awesome products you can make, on the cheap, at home.
Before you start read: Homemade Beauty Products: Safety 101
HAIR:
- Homemade Milk & Honey Curly Hair Smoothie
- Homemade Organic Herbal Hair Conditioning Spray
- Homemade Healthy Hair Care – Hair Masques
FACE:
- Strawberry Face Mash
- Homemade Organic Facial Toner
- Homemade Organic Cleansing Creams
- Homemade Natural Cranberry Lip Gloss
- Fast Homemade Organic Fresh Kitchen Face Scrubs
- Homemade Organic Honey Beauty
- Lemon Bath Cookies
- Homemade Sugar Body Scrub
- Homemade Organic Liquid Handsoap
- Homemade Organic Facial & Body Cream
That should be enough to get you going. Do you ever make homemade beauty and body products? Is it to save money?
[image owned by Jennifer Chait]
This isn’t quite the same idea, but I’ve given up all the commercial concoctions and started using warm water and a good washcloth on my face.
I’ve never had great skin, but I can honestly say it’s never looked or felt better! The oily parts are less oily, the dry parts are not so dry, and it feels smoother than ever. My occasional acne is all but gone, too.
Nothing’s as thrifty as plain water.