Soooo whats happening in life today? Well, my finances suck because my job doesnt pay very well (I quit my 2nd job because I hated working there). I would like to get a job at a nursery, but everyone already has their staff for the season *sigh* And I really, really, really dont want another retail store job (customers are straight up idiots).
Ive been busy creating a woodland garden in the backyard.
Pics will come later.
hmm, what else was i going to write about? Oh well, my life is boring anyways. All I do is garden and work. And browse Facebook. And watch Netflix (Anyone seen the Amazing Planet series? its, well, amazing!)
No one reads this crap anyway...ta ta for now ya'll
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Sunday, January 6, 2013
For Christmas, I decided to make my mothers gifts spa-themed. In addition to giving her some store-bought facial masks and emery boards, I also gave her some homemade body scrubs. Store bought scrubs are not -that- cheap, and for the most part, you have no idea exactly what all those weird sounding ingredients are. I did sugar/oil and banana/sugar scrubs. I found these nice little glass bowls with plastic lids in the kitchen storage aisle of my local grocery store to put the scrubs in.
The first one, the sugar/oil was very basic. 1 cup of sugar (I used organic cane sugar which was on sale for cheaper than regular white sugar, was was great) to 1 cup of oil. I used olive oil, although you can use other oils such as grapeseed, sunflower, canola, etc. Vitamin E oil would be great to use, but because its rather expensive, I would use just a small amount in addition to another oil. Stir it up, and voilà, a simple scrub that works just as well as those store bought ones.
The banana scrub was also very simple. 1 banana to 3 tablespoons of sugar and 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla for a nice added scent. Blend together. An electric hand mixer makes this easy-peasy.
Here are the websites I browse through when looking for homemade beauty ideas (th efirst one is where I got the banana scrub from)
http://www.treehugger.com/organic-beauty/8-homemade-salt-and-sugar-body-scrubs.html
http://www.natural-homeremedies-for-life.com/homemade-facial-masks.html
http://allnaturalbeauty.us/hbr_ingredients.htm
http://www.pioneerthinking.com/beauty/
The first one, the sugar/oil was very basic. 1 cup of sugar (I used organic cane sugar which was on sale for cheaper than regular white sugar, was was great) to 1 cup of oil. I used olive oil, although you can use other oils such as grapeseed, sunflower, canola, etc. Vitamin E oil would be great to use, but because its rather expensive, I would use just a small amount in addition to another oil. Stir it up, and voilà, a simple scrub that works just as well as those store bought ones.
The banana scrub was also very simple. 1 banana to 3 tablespoons of sugar and 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla for a nice added scent. Blend together. An electric hand mixer makes this easy-peasy.
Here are the websites I browse through when looking for homemade beauty ideas (th efirst one is where I got the banana scrub from)
http://www.treehugger.com/organic-beauty/8-homemade-salt-and-sugar-body-scrubs.html
http://www.natural-homeremedies-for-life.com/homemade-facial-masks.html
http://allnaturalbeauty.us/hbr_ingredients.htm
http://www.pioneerthinking.com/beauty/
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