Homemade Beauty Products

Alright, ladies and gents, it's almost my bedtime. I've been staying up and sleeping in, so I gotta get back on track. I haven't made a post in a while, so I thought I'd update everyone.

First of all, I made a couple new videos on YouTube, so go check them out.

Next I wanted to talk a little about my homemade beauty product endeavor. I got my stuff that I ordered from coastal scents and the stuff that I ordered from Mountain Rose Herbs on the same day, so I was able to get started on everything! I got the stuff on monday and I've been playing around with that for a couple days. First of all, here's a link and a picture for coastal scents and mountain rose herbs.

Alright, so I ordered quite a bit of stuff from coastal scents because I hadn't found the mountain rose herbs website yet. I'll probably continue to buy all of my beauty products (plus more) from mountain rose herbs instead of coastal scents. But I did buy quite a bit of fragrance oils, essential oils, and oils from coastal scents. So! Starting out with the fragrance oils, I bought Apple Extreme, Coconut, Swiss Chocolate, Honeysuckle, Lily of the Valley, and Sweet Pea. All of those are $2.99 for 2 oz. Then I bought some essential oils, 5ml each; cinnamon leaf ($3.99), vanilla blend ($9.95), tea tree ($3.99), Lavender French ($3.99), Peppermint ($3.99), and Ylang ylang ($3.99). A couple notes about those. The vanilla blend is really thick. At first I thought there wasn't anything in it, but if you hold it upside down for awhile some will drip out. I don't know if I got a bad batch or if it's just like that, but it works well enough, so I'm not complaining. I HATE the Ylang Ylang. I always thought it was supposed to smell good, and maybe it's worse because it's so concentrated, but it's awful. I can't stand it. Whenever I smell it, it always smells worse than I remember it smelling. I also got 3 bath bomb molds (60 mm) for $2.99. Then I got around 14 oz of Jojoba oil for $16.45 and 1 lb of vegetable based glycerin oil for $4.49.

Then I got a lot of stuff from Mountain Rose Herbs, too. I got 4 oz of cocoa butter for $4.25. This stuff smells soo amazing. I haven't used it yet, but I could just sit and smell it all day. Then I got some sea salt and epsom salt. One pound and $3.50 each. Now, just to give you a comparison of the prices to coastal scents. 1 lb = $3.50 to 3 lbs = $6.95. So, coastal scents is a little cheaper, but I'm so obsessed with this website, that I don't even care, lol. Plus, I just like it a lot better. The website seems more professional, it's an environment conscious company, and the order was perfect. Everytime that I've gotten a shipment from coastal scents, there's been a problem with it. The shipping with this website is safe, fast, and cheap. Plus, they have a HUGE variety of items. A much bigger variety in oils and such than coastal scents. So, besides all of that, I bought some teas and a new teapot! I got the glass tea pot in the signature style (which reminds me of the genie's lamp on Aladdin) for $16.95. One of the teas that I got is a flowering tea called Evening stars. I'll show you what I mean by flowering tea.

It has a slightly fishy smell when you make it. It tastes more like a campfire to me. A little ashy with some woody flavors. But if you put a little honey in there it sweetens it up perfectly. It actually tastes amazing with a little honey. You can learn to like it plain, just like you can learn to like coffee, but honey eases the taste for sure! That came with 5 buds and you can reuse them 2 to 3 times, so 10 to 15 uses, and it was $9.25. I'm definitely going to buy some more of these. Maybe a different flavor, but the price doesn't bother me at all. I think it's really worth it. You can make your own decision about it, you can see what it looks like, but I'm really into to tea at the moment, so it's worth it for me! I bought another tea, called Dawn Chorus. I haven't tried it yet, but I'll post an update on how it is when I do. But it's on a special right now for 15% off. I got 3 oz for $4.20. I ordered another tea, but it was backordered, so I'll post yet another update when I get that.

So, the first thing I made was an "antiseptic cleansing gel". Well, it doesn't look much like a gel to me. It's very liquidy, maybe I made it wrong, I don't know. I love the product *in theory*, but I haven't used it long enough to tell if I like it in reality. It has all the right ingredients where you would assume that it works perfectly. It uses aloe vera gel, which would help heal any open blemishes. It uses lemon juice, which helps to reduce redness and smooth out discolorations. It uses tea tree oil, which has great healing and cleansing properties for your face. It uses witch hazel, which is a great toner and astringent to just go that extra mile in cleansing. And it uses glycerin, which acts as a cleanser. So, in theory, this is an amazing product. It seems to be working so far, but I've only used it like two and a half days, so time will tell.

Next I made a bath mush, which I haven't used yet. I made some apple pie bath salts, which I also haven't used yet. I made a chocolate body scrub, which works beautifully. It only uses sugar, olive oil, liquid soap, and cocoa powder. The liquid soap is a nice addition because it makes it a lot easier to get it off. Oil doesn't come off with just water, so this almost makes the wash stage obsolete. You could probably just rinse and go with this and it would leave a wonderful chocolate scent... maybe, lol. But the scrub is great, it made my skin really soft. I made a chocolate milk bath, which was nice. It made my skin a little softer, but the scrub worked miracles where the bath only worked wonders, so, it smelled nice, but not necessary. Although something about the bath made my toenails look fantastic, lol.

I started a new hair routine today, it seemed to work great. All that I did was put some honey on my hair while I was sitting in the tub, and then when I turned the shower on to rinse everything off, I just washed my hair with some baby shampoo. It made my hair really soft and shiny and clean. I think I'm going to keep doing that.

I also made a lip scrub with just a little sugar and jojoba oil. Oh, and I decided that instead of buying a makeup remover, I would just use some olive oil. Sure, that may be kind of bad for your skin, but I figure, "hey, my eye area gets dry anyway and I'm just going to wash it off in about three seconds, so no big deal." It seems to be fine so far. My makeup comes off like a dream. So, the nightly routine is as follows. Use olive oil to remove makeup. Cleanse with antiseptic cleansing "gel". Rinse with warm water. Use a mixture of vitamin e oil and tea tree oil as a moisturizer. Use lip scrub until sugar melts away. Apply Burt's Beeswaz chapstick. And I just take off my makeup and cleanse with cotton balls.

So, I'm super tired right now. I'm gonna go to bed and I'll come back and finish this tomorrow. I think I'll go back to some of my older posts and spruce them up a little more with videos and pictures, yay!