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

BODY:

• 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?

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Post from: Thrifty Mommy

Having so many blogs, I’m always posting stuff at one blog, while thinking, “Hey, the folks at so and so blog might like this too.” In this case I recently posted two items at Tree Hugging Family that may interest thrifty folks….

First up you can save money with, Homemade Eco Gifts You Can Make for the Holidays! Many cool goodies you can make on the cheap. Plus, these actually are great gifts, not silly stuff no one would want.

Also I’ve got the 2008 “10 Worst Toys” List – a great list for parents, because a dangerous toy is neither safe (obviously) or a good bargain.

Enjoy!

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Post from: Thrifty Mommy