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Grapefruit Sugar Scrub

Grapefruit Essential Oil This simple grapefruit sugar scrub takes advantage of commonly available table sugar as an exfoliant and the properties of Grapefruit Essential Oil (an astringent) and Jojoba Oil (skin conditioner). 
November 1, 2017 |

DIY Pumpkin Body Moisturizer

DIY Pumpkin Body Moisturizer This is a terrific and so-simple (3 ingredients!) DIY pumpkin body moisturizer recipe to calm and sooth wintery dry skin. This treatment keeps well in the refrigerator to get you through the dry winter skin phase.
October 29, 2017 |

DIY Silky Rose Dusting Powder

Rose Dusting Powder Roses are so commonly associated with Valentine’s Day, we are sharing this recipe to either get a head start on sweet smelling Valentine’s Day gifts for your BFFs, daughters, and mothers, or, for those of you lucky enough to receive a dozen roses from your beloved — a project using those wonderful rose petals after the blooms have faded.   This DIY  recipe for Silky Rose Dusting Powder relies on both rose petals and Rose Essential Oil. Around 1000 A.D., Avicenna, a physician is believed to have been the first person to incorporate the process known as distillation to distil the…
October 28, 2017 |

Plantain Cream for Bites and Stings

Plantain Weed Plantain (the botanical, not the  starchy fruit) is a common weed in your yards and garden — but did you know it also serves as an excellent medicinal remedy?  It’s a wonderful treatment for bug bites and stings, but also minor burns and abrasions, rashes, eczema, and psoriasis.     Make some of this healing plantain cream and keep it on hand this summer.   This natural cream help bites and stings.  
March 25, 2017 |

DIY Lemon Lavender Bath Melts Recipe

Lavender Bath Melts DIY Recipe These wonderfully moisturizing and aromatic Lemon Lavender Bath Melts are just the ticket for softening and soothing dry winter skin, which can be worsened with hot baths.   Now you can enjoy a warm bath and a moisturizer in one.  
February 25, 2017 |

DIY Healing Herbal Wrap

ginger_healing_wrap Ginger tea is commonly recommended to relieve symptoms of colds.  Here, it’s being used as a Healing Herbal Wrap to help ease the symptoms of sore muscles and to reduce inflammation. 
July 19, 2015 |

Beach Sand Scrub

Beach Sand Scrub for Feet and Body The next time you decide to spend the day at the beach, take advantage of the “on location foot treatment” with Beach Sand Scrub. Brazilians, particularly, are known for scrubbing their entire bodies, particularly the feet, deep into the sand while they relax on the beach.
July 31, 2014 |

Summer DIY Tips from Lake Austin Spa Resort, Texas

Peppermint Essential oils can help with many of the problems we encounter in summer months. Treating sunburn and insect bites, repelling insects and controlling fire ants are all possible with plant derived oils. Here are some recipes courtesy of Lake Austin Spa Resort in Texas to help you have a more fragrant and enjoyable summer season.
June 22, 2014 |

Guide to Essential Oils

Spa Index Essential Oils Guide For the benefit of our visitors who are considering a spa treatment which calls for ingredients in a mask or wrap which are unfamiliar, “read below before you go.” This Guide to Essential Oils provides some basic information, but it’s also helpful for selecting a new or different combination of oils based on a profile that piques your interest.
March 30, 2014 |

End of Summer Almond Body Scrub

Almond Body Scrub - DIY As the end of the summer season approaches, many of us are sporting that attractive tell-tale sign of fun in the sun: Peeling skin. We have an excellent recipe for an Almond Body Scrub to gently and thoroughly exfoliate the top layer of dead skin cells. Body scrubs feel wonderful and relieve the itch of flaking skin.
September 12, 2013 |

DIY Sunblock Recipe

DIY Sunblock Sunscreen Recipe - High SPF Our esthetician experts say “If you can see your shadow, you need sunblock.” However, did you know the active ingredients in sunblock often dissipate after the season? You should always use a sunblock, but, don’t purchase it in bulk or save that last little bit in the bottle for the next season. Buy it fresh every season, or, make your own if you don’t have access to your favorite brand.     Read a review and a great “tweak” for this recipe by BellaSugar — adding Essential Oil First publication on Spa Index April 10, 2005
June 10, 2013 |

Coffee Body Scrub

DIY Coffee Body Scrub This is a wonderful way to repurpose used coffee grounds from your coffee maker. We’ve tried this with both fresh ground and with used coffee grounds from our coffee maker and both worked equally well. After all, you’re after the exfoliating effect and the fact you’ve used the grounds to brew coffee doesn’t lessen this effect. In fact it makes the grounds a tad softer.  
April 12, 2013 |

Citrus Salt Glow

This DIY spa treatment Citrus Salt Glow was shared with us after it became a customer favorite during classes for home soap making and crafts, by “Between Friends Too” (now 1 Raw Plant). This DIY spa treatment Citrus Salt Glow was shared with us after it became a customer favorite during classes for home soap making and crafts, by "Between Friends Too" (now 1 Raw Plant). Photo:  Miriam Wickett
December 19, 2005 |

Reader Inquiry: Can we make our own deoderants and anti-perspirants?

aloe “I like your spa at home recipes — I make them with my Aunt once a month when we house sit together.  This may be a dumb question, but can you make your own deodorant/antiperspirant at home, too?  We were laughing that it’s the only body thing we have not made on our beauty weekend.” — Emily K.  Emily — I’m glad we are contributing to a fun way to spend a weekend.  You didn’t ask a dumb question at all, and yes, you can make your own hygiene care at home — however, let’s distinguish between the two products…
December 19, 2002 |

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