I used to LOVE making homemade soap! With a few simple ingredients, you'll be on your way to making this easy to make Handmade Gemstone Shaped Soap. These decorative shaped handmade soaps you can create at home makes a great gift idea or the perfect creative addition to your ...
DIY Body Sugar Scrub Recipe
This DIY sugar body scrub recipe, made with essential oils, makes a fantastic exfoliating and moisturizing body scrub. Learn how to use a sugar scrub to exfoliate and moisturize your skin. I have been a long-time fan of body scrubs! I've been making my own salt and sugar scrub recipe ...
Free Printable Fitness and Wellness Planner
I know it's almost the end of January, but if you're like me, you're just now getting around to those new year resolutions! This Free Printable Fitness and Wellness Planner will keep you on track all year. Keeping a food journal and a workout log is proven to help you reach your goals. See my post ...
Great Uses for Witch Hazel
Do you have a bottle of witch hazel sitting unused in a closet somewhere? You should put that bottle to use! Witch hazel is a natural astringent with a lot of great health and beauty applications! Take a look at these 10 Great Uses for Witch Hazel and see if witch hazel could be benefiting ...
Homemade Body Wash
This Homemade Body Wash was so simple to make and didn't take more than 5 minutes! Why haven't I been making DIY body soap all this time? Making homemade spa products... like this Orange Sugar Body Scrub saves money and you know exactly what ingredients you're using! Homemade Body Wash ...
Home Remedies for Teen Acne
I'm the mother of a teen boy and may or may not have an obsession with his hygiene. The minute he started with the oily skin and breaking out with blemishes and pimples, I started researching Home Remedies for Teen Acne! When I became a mother, there were many things that I vowed I would ...
Sports Feet Gift Basket
This Sports Feet Gift Basket is a unique but welcomed gift for the athlete in your home. Who doesn't love a gift basket? Baskets or packages full of self care beauty products are always welcome! My son plays soccer and has the worst feet, full of calluses on his toes and heels. If he'd ...
Christmas Grinch Sugar Scrub
It's the Creative Girls Holiday Soiree! I'll have a few guests each week sharing creative ways to celebrate the holidays! Don't miss the Holly Jolly S'mores gift idea! Please welcome my friend Jenny from The Melrose Family! This girl has all the ideas you need for a creative holiday! I think ...
Blessing Bags for Women
The Brawny® symbol of resiliency is really about standing up to life’s challenges, and coming out stronger on the other side. Nothing breaks my heart more than to see people begging for money or food. That awkward glance at the off ramp, that pang of guilt, that feeling of wanting to do something ...
Pumpkin Pie Sugar Scrub and Free Printable
This Pumpkin Pie Sugar Scrub is the perfect bath time treat or diy gift idea for the upcoming holidays! I can't live without homemade spa products, especially body scrubs! I'm excited to try this pumpkin recipe! This easy to make sugar scrub makes a quick homemade gift idea. Shared by Boxwood ...
Homemade Mimosa Sugar Scrub
While I'm traveling to New Orleans (follow along using hashtag #TCBinNOLA), please welcome Alexis from Jaco'lyn Murphy as she shares this delicious Homemade Mimosa Sugar Scrub! We LOVE love love our sugar body scrubs around here! Homemade Mimosa Sugar Scrub I think my favorite thing about ...
DIY Detox Bath Recipe Homemade
This DIY Detox Bath Recipe for soaking in the tub will help you feel relaxed and healthy. We use a detox bath for relaxation, muscle soreness, and more. This is an inexpensive gift idea, too! In my old home, I had a large claw foot tub that this DIY Detox Bath Recipe would have been SO perfect for! ...
I’m Comfortable!
As I've mentioned, I was asked to speak at BlogHer14 this past July. It was interesting to see the reactions from a few fellow bloggers, with most offering an overwhelming "congratulations" to "are you nervous?". The more I received the "congratulations", the more I realized this was an ...
DIY Sea Salt Body Scrub Recipe
Anyone else have summer skin? Summertime is hard on my skin and that's why I've whipped up this decadent 3 ingredient DIY Sea Salt Body Scrub with Coconut oil and Cocoa Butter. I can't live without this and my DIY Sugar Body Scrubs! DIY Sea Salt Body Scrub Recipe I am sad to see Summer ...
DIY Tattooed Soap
DIY Tattoed Soap Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return If you're a Wizard of Oz fan (who isn't?), or you've got little kids, then you are over the moon waiting for Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return to come out in theaters May 9th 2014. I've been asked to help promote this upcoming film by creating ...
DIY Vicks Shower Soothers
Both my husband and son have been hit by Spring colds which gave me a reason to try making DIY Vicks Shower Soothers. Remember those? We used to use them when my son was small, but I wasn't able to find them this past week. DIY Vicks Shower Soothers My husbands cold was a couple of ...
Coconut Oil Sugar Scrub
Making your own body scrubs with sugar or salt is easy and economical. This Homemade Coconut Oil Sugar Scrub exfoliates and moisturizes any skin type and only has 2 ingredients. It can be scented with essential oils if desired. I've been talking a lot lately about dry skin remedies. I ...
Dry Skin Remedies – Keeping Your Skin Moist
Early I posted on the TCB Facebook page about how to get rid of dry cracked hands, so I thought I'd share my dry skin remedies. This time of year is tough on skin, let alone with the freezing temps much of the country is having. With all the time I spend in the pool, I am always battling dry ...
Whipped Body Butter Recipe
Get dry skin relief when you make your own whipped body butter recipe with 3 simple ingredients. Coconut oil, cocoa butter, and almond oil which are excellent for moisturizing and hydrating the skin. These ingredients help to replenish moisture in the skin and prevent dryness and flakiness. Your ...
Building Blocks from Dove
As my niece heads off to college this fall, it was nice to spend a bit of time with her this summer. We took her to Zion with us last year, and she joined us on our Yellowstone trip this year. My sister and I couldn't help but wonder if this would be one of the "last" family trips. I'm sure it ...
Warm Vanilla Sugar Scrub
Easy to make homemade beauty products like this Warm Vanilla Sugar Scrub make great DIY gifts for birthdays, Christmas, or for yourself! Exfoliate and moisturize with turbinado sugar and coconut oil. Please welcome my friend Melissa from No.2 Pencil. Her talent amazes me and it looks ...
DIY Gardening Hand Scrub
This DIY Gardening Hand Scrub has saved me! Our back yard is in full bloom! We've got apple trees, pear trees, Asian pear trees, tomatoes, cucumbers, lemon cucumbers, raspberries and blueberries, not to mention the beds and beds of flowers and shrubs. I'm usually running outside in my bare feet to ...
Peppermint Sugar Scrub – Body Scrub Recipe
I'm sharing 5 Gifts from the Kitchen ideas this week on my AMNW segment. All ideas are super simple, but fabulous, like this Sugar Scrub Recipe! Body Scrub Recipe - Peppermint! I make my own Sugar Scrub monthly using this Body Scrub Recipe to keep my skin protected from winter dryness, ...
Sugar Scrubs in 10 minutes
Making sugar scrubs in 10 minutes is easy to do right in your own kitchen. Body scrubs are great for exfoliating and moisturizing all in one step while you shower. I make up one every other week for my own use, so when I want a quick sugar scrub with minimal products, I choose this sugar body scrub ...
