What is it about mixing up a homemade face mask that is so much fun? Especially when you can raid the refrigerator or the kitchen cupboard for all of the ingredients. My fascination with Kitchen Beautician secrets started with turmeric and coconut oil, and now I’m hooked on these all-natural (and usually super inexpensive) homemade concoctions.
I’ve been hoarding a few homemade beauty recipes to try when all of the boxes get unpacked and I thought I’d share 25 favorites. Have you given any of these a try? I’m dying to try going shampoo free!
1. Chocolate facial – Beautiful with Brains
This one might be difficult to make because who can spare chocolate?
2. Karly’s fall facial – Lauren Conrad
For skin exfoliation, brown sugar is king. Mix it with honey and milk for an easy face mask.
3. How to clean up your complexion – She Knows
Nourishing and hydrating, this face mask is based on bananas. And apparently it helps with acne and scars.
4. Dry shampoo spray – Hookable Designs
Who knew you could make your own shampoo with ingredients from around the house? Then you can wash your hair without taking a shower!
5. Baking Soda Hair Cleansing Mud + Apple Cider Vinegar Rinse – Little Quiver
Baking soda and essential oils can make your hair lovely again. And the results are visible in a matter of weeks.
6. Homemade bath bombs – Petit Elefant
Nothing compares to a relaxing bath! But it’s even more relaxing when you know how much you’ve saved by making your own bath bombs!
7. Watermelon cleansing rinse – Elle & Blair
Watermelon has quite a bunch of benefits on your skin, and you can use it in several ways: cleansing rinse, moisturizing mask or glowing mask.
8. Hey sugar lips – Pink Pistachio
Your lips will love this sugar and coconut oil scrub.
9. DIY homemade rose water recipe – Green Earth Bazaar
With rose petals and distilled water, it’s super easy to make your own rosewater. And it smells divine.
10. Olive oil hair treatment – College Fashion
More than just an ingredient for healthy cooking, olive oil is the only ingredient of this hair mask. Your hair will turn luscious!
11. Avocado orange mask – She Knows
If your skin feels dry, you need to hydrate it ASAP. The quickest and most efficient way: avocado and orange juice.
12. How to make your own pore strips – Petit Elefant
Who knew gelatin and milk had anything to do with pores? An easy mix of the two will clean your face in 15 minutes tops.
13. Moisturizing orange face mask – Food Plus Words
To moisturize your face, a mask based on oatmeal and orange juice. Rumor has it you can eat it, too.
14. DIY eye soothers – Whole Living
Chamomile tea is a natural anti-inflammatory, so using it around the eye area helps with redness and puffiness.
15. Fix your cracked heels with rice vinegar – Viva Woman
Not the most pleasant of smells, but the properties of vinegar will change the skin’s PH and soften the skin. You can make a pedicure soak or a heel scrub just as quickly.
16. DIY body scrub: orange peels – Total Beauty
It doesn’t get any easier than this: you just use orange peels and you see the results almost immediately. Vitamin C and the acid in the peels help tone the skin, making it firm.
17. How to clean your hair without shampoo – Simple Mom
Baking soda and vinegar are the main replacements of shampoo. Use them to clean your hair chemicals-free.
18. Mrs. Scrub – Mrs. Lilien Styling House
Make a body scrub with refreshing lemon juice, salt and olive oil — then enjoy soft and supple skin!
19. DIY oatmeal lavender bath soak – Always Order Dessert
To cool your skin, make an oatmeal and lavender bath soak. Candlelight and soft music are optional but recommended!
20. Vitamin rich face mask – The Glossy Life
Would you put eggs on your skin? Does knowing that they’ll make your face glow change your answer?
21. Oatmeal face mask – U Look Haute
It’s important to use organic products in your beauty DIY. Like yogurt, for example, which can be turned into an amazing face mask.
22. Put your coffee grounds to good use – Inspiring Pretty
Don’t throw them out! There are many things you can do with leftover coffee grounds.
23. Sweet and spicy brown sugar body scrub – Care 2
Is it a cake or is it a body polish? Sometimes it’s tough to tell.
24. Refreshmint Stimulating Hair & Scalp Rinse - Bath Body DIY
Refreshing mint, delicious carrot and some warm water on top can make for a hair and scalp stimulator. Use it if you have any hair growth issues.
25. Lavender and chamomile cleanser – Handmade Cosmetics
Mixing yogurt, honey, lavender and chamomile, you can get an efficient face cleanser. However, you can only store it in the fridge for a few days.
awesome tips :) I personally learned a lot from this book called homemade beauty heres a link http://www.lulu.com/shop/keiri-diaz/homemade-beauty/ebook/product-20992348.html
Just bought this and its actually pretty good thx 4 the link!!!
Oh I am definitely going to try some of these! I love making my own products that way I know exactly what I’m using on my body!
I love this! More beauty please!!!! I love making banana honey facials with raw oats, and mint sugar scrub:)
I would love to try that rose water. It must have such a beautiful aroma. Have a great week! come check out my new “Perpetual Parades” linkies -I’m sure you have lots of great things to link up!
I can only assume that is smells wonderfully. will check out the links, thanks!
Some wonderful sounding, and some very interesting ideas there! I’m with you on the chocolate one though – think I’d rather eat it!!
Thanks for linking to a Round Tuit!
Hope you have a fabulous week!
Jill @ Creating my way to Success
http://www.jembellish.blogspot.com/
it’s the easy way to feel good! :)
I am in need of some pampering and “me” time and have the house to myself this Sunday, so I may just give a few of these a go. Thanks for sharing.
Coming to you from Evelyn’s hop :)
I love doing my nails in my “me” time :)
Great list. Thanks for putting it together.
Wonderful collection! I predict my eight year old daughter and I are going to have some fun this weekend!
This is a really nice post. I like the way you shared links to your own past articles and to other sites’ articles, too. Thanks for the new ideas!
That is a lot of awesome ideas. I have tried the gelatin/milk one, my daughter made it for me and it worked good. I want to try the olive oil for the hair as mine is pretty dry. TYVM!
I hope that turns out great for you, I am still to try it myself!
What a great collaboration! I can’t wait to try some of them out!
Great round up!
taking notes!
Xo Megan
Who knew you could make your own dry shampoo?!! Such a fun, informative post! Hope that sweet little baby is doing well.(And that you are getting some sleep.)
Amy
Fashion and Beauty Finds
thank you Amy, I’m doing my best in this respect! And i can’t wait to try the dry shampoo myself.
I love all of these ideas! I’ve been wanting to make homemade bath bombs for so long. I have all these herbs growing in the backyard, I really need to start using them in DIY beauty treatments!
I haven’t tried many homemade beauty recipes but I really want to! I feel like my “pamper/me time” is limited these days – ha! so I haven’t tried the ones I’ve bookmarked/saved. That orange moisturizing one sounds good!
it does sound good and I think it would have an energizing effect, too!
Great list! Some of these I have never heard of but definately piqued my interest. I have done the sugar lip scrub (love when you have dead skin!) and the olive oil hair treatment.
they sound easy enough to do regularly!
Thanks for the great list! I am going to have to try some of these out!
make sure you send me feedback if you do, I’m really curious as to how these work!
I have been thinking about lace quite a lot myself, I really want to redo some of my husbands old clothes and see if I can make them into something I would actually wear :)
combining masculine clothes with lace? that sounds interesting!
Mmm looking at all of these makes me hungry too, lol! Definitely want to try the banana face mask!