Model : Talia

You can make most of these amazing natural beauty treatments in your own kitchen! They are so much better for your skin & hair than commercial products which contain chemicals & preservatives. When using fresh perishable ingredients, please keep in fridge in a sealed container and toss out if not used in a few days. More natural beauty recipes coming soon!

by Traci

Dream Cream
3 TB raw natural (undeodorized) Shea Butter
1 TB raw natural (undeodorized) cocoa butter (optional)
1 TB raw natural Babassu oil (optional)
1 TB raw virgin coconut oil

Put ingredients together in a container and melt in the sun, or in warm water. Stir together. To make a softer, more spreadable cream
 or body lotion add more coconut or babassu oil. You can also substitute more coconut oil for the babassu if you don't have it. For a thicker,
 creamier consistancy, use more Shea butter. This is my FAVORITE hand cream ever!!

Lime So Lovely
juice from 1/2 lime (or lemon)
1 TB honey (optional)
 1/4 C olive oil

Shake or stir ingredients together in small container, store in fridge, should last a few days. Apply to face and neck, leave on, blot off later. 
Orange juice can also be used. Make sure to wear sunscreen if you're in the sun after using citrus acid on skin,
 because it makes skin photo sensitive.


Sun Salvation
 1 - 2 TB Vitamin C powder (or from capsules)
 2 TB Spirulina and/or Chlorella powder
 3 TB milk powder (or milk & omit water below)
1-2 drops Lavender essential oil

Mix dry ingredients with water (or milk instead of powdered milk)  to make a thin paste, smooth on skin for 20 min.
OR add ingredients to your bath and soak. Reduce recipe if just using for face. Milk, green algae, and vitamin C are supposed to help
 reverse the damage from a day of too much sun, and lavender oil is very soothing. Similiar to Green Goddess, below, but with more punch.


Flower Power 
 1/2 oz. Rosehip Seed Oil (cold pressed)
 1/2 oz. Evening Primrose Oil (cold pressed)
1 tsp. Calendula Oil
 1 tsp. Vit. E oil (optional)
3 - 5 drops each lavender, petigrain, palmarosa, chamomile, and geranium essential oil

Mix ingredients together, and store in a cool place. Rosehip seed oil is very good for wrinkles, but has a short shelf life (3 mo.)
along with Evening Primrose oil, and needs to used quickly and stored in the fridge.

Tropical Body Butter
 1/2 C shea butter
1/4 C coconut oil
 1 TB mango butter (optional)

Mix in wide mouth container, melt in sun, then stir together.

Alligator Body Balm
1/2 C shea butter
1/4 C mango butter
1 TB hempseed oil
3 TB avocado oil

Mix in wide mouth container, melt in sun, then stir together.

Silky Arctic Seal Sunscreen
1/2 C coconut oil (for a less greasy lotion, use sesame or grapeseed oil)
 2 TB shea butter, mango butter or lanolin (mango or lanolin will make it firmer)
 1 TB of zinc oxide powder (test on skin, to make sure it won't turn you totally white)

Mix together, melt in sun. Warning, Very Greasy!

Green Goddess Sun Saver
1 TB heavy whipping cream from happy cows
1 tsp spirulina, chlorella, and or blue green algae

Mix together, smear on skin! Increase recipe if using for body. These ingredients are supposed to reduce sun damage,
if applied after a lot of sun exposure

Desert Diva Shimmer Shine

4 oz. golden jojoba oil
1 tsp ultra fine glitter, any color
5 - 10 drops each geranium, palmarosa, and roman chamomile or sandalwood essential oil

Shake together in small squirt bottle, apply sparingly to ends of hair for super shimmer and shine!

Goddess Hair Repair

1 - 2 TB. golden jojoba oil
1-2 drops your favorite essential oil (optional)
            

Simple & miraculous! Apply to length of hair, leave in overnight if possible (put towel over pillowcase)
Wash out. Makes fabulous conditioner!

Mermaid Hair Potion 
1/2 C melted coconut oil
4 TB avocado oil
1 tsp kelp or seaweed powder
5 drops blue chamomile essential oil (optional)

Shake together in small squirt bottle, apply to length of hair, leave in for a couple hours or overnight, wash well