DIY Natural Beauty Tips & Recipes

Cocoa Butter vs Coconut Oil – Which to Use for Skin Care
If you want healthy, beautiful skin, you likely have heard that using coconut oil or cocoa butter can offer several benefits. When you compare cocoa butter vs coconut oil, you might wonder whether one of these natural products might offer some advantages over the...

Pumpkin Spice Body Butter Recipe
Fall is one of my favorite times of the year. I love the fall colors of the trees, weather cooling down and of course the smell and taste of pumpkin spice! This year I put together a nice recipe for a pumpkin spice body butter. It is packed with ingredients your skin...

Vegan Balm Recipe – Using Carnauba Wax
Balms are great for dry skin or lips or for healing damaged skin. A balm gives concentrated moisture and is usually applied to a specific area in need. You most commonly find vegan lip balm, hair balm or healing balms. This recipe is great as a multipurpose balm as...

Simple DIY Kits – Make Your Own Natural Skin Care
Making your own natural skin care is easy and very beneficial. By doing this you know every ingredient that is in your product and can avoid the chemicals or unwanted ingredients found in some store bought skin care products. To help get you started we have made...

African Black Soap Ingredients – What’s in Black Soap?
Many people suffer from skin problems, including acne, eczema, psoriasis, or dry, itchy skin. Finding the right soap can help you to enjoy smoother, healthier skin. One all-natural soap called African black soap contains all-natural ingredients that deeply cleanse the...

DIY Candle Recipe Using Natural Ingredients
I made my first homemade candle when I discovered the chemicals store bought candles can have in them such as paraffin wax and synthetic perfumes. Making it myself gave me peace of mind knowing everything in it was natural and non-toxic. The best part is candles are...

How to Make a Bath Soak at Home
A DIY Bath Soak is a great addition to a warm bath after a long days work. It is composed of a few simple ingredients that transform your humble bath into a heavenly spa-like experience. The best part is you can make them easily at home with just a few ingredients and...

How African Black Soap Can Help With Acne & Dry, Itchy Skin
For someone who is trying to avoid getting medical treatment for breakouts of acne, African black soap may be the answer. It is also extremely effective at treating dry, itchy skin. African black soap, also known simply as "black soap," is all-natural, and it...

How to Make Large Batches of Body Butters at Home
So you’ve started a small business making homemade skin care products, and you’ve realized how impractical and chaotic it can seem to make body butter at home in large batches. Unfortunately, not everybody has access to a commercial size kitchen or industrial sized...

Tips From Our Designer: How to Open an Etsy Shop
You’ve got your business name, logo and product labels and products, now it’s time to start selling! Most people don’t start out selling through their own website for multiple reasons including cost, time investment, lack of technical know-how, and lack of brand...

Tips From Our Designer: How to Design a Label
You have a business name, a logo, all your products figured out, decided on your jars/containers, and now it’s time to figure out a label. The label is potentially one of the first things from your business that a customer will see and provides pretty much all the...

Tips from our Designer: How to Design a Logo
You’re wanting to start a business selling your skin care products. One of the first things most businesses need, besides the name, is a logo. In this post I will give an overview of how to design a business logo. Logos are important, they provide a visual...
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