I love soap. I have a real thing for pretty, beautiful smelling bars of soap. I also hate lye and stay as far away from it as I can. If you are the same way, you will LOVE this DIY Citrus Soap recipe. It's so easy that a monkey with microwave could do it!DIY Citrus Soap Prep: Here are some things you should do a few days before planning to make (Amazon Affiliate Links below)Order Goats Milk Base in cubes Order silicone soap mold (look around for cute shapes if you want) Grate 1/2 cup citrus peel. I used lime, grapefruit, orange and lemon. I found that zesting did not give me big enough chunks to make the soap look pretty. Leave on a cookie tray lined with parchment to air dry for 1-2 days.DIY Citrus Soap Ingredients:14 cubes of Goats Milk Base (link above) 5 drops of Citrus Fresh Essential Oil (you can buy Young Living oils here) 1/2 cup dried, grated citrus peelsDIY Citrus Soap Directions:Place cubes in glass bowl. I use a Pyrex measuring bowl. Melt in microwave for 2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds. Once fully melted, stir in grated citrus peels and add 5 drops (do more or less depending on how strong you want it-5 gives it a light ...
4th of July Jello Shots With Ningxia Red
It's almost the 4th of July and I was looking for a fun way to present a treat on the dessert table that I could feel good about! Enter this Ningxia Red play on the 4th of July Jello Shots. This powerful Wolfberry (or more commonly known as Goji) blend is a staple at our house. What is it? NingXia Red® combines the extraordinary wolfberry superfruit with pure Orange, Yuzu, Lemon, and Tangerine essential oils, along with blueberry, aronia, cherry, pomegranate, and plum juices to deliver a whole-body nutrient infusion. This powerful formula includes wolfberry, which is touted for its health-supporting benefits, while ongoing research continues to reveal exciting new properties on this ingredient. Enjoy NingXia Red daily to energize, fortify, and revitalize the body and support overall health and wellness, from head to toe. - YoungLiving.com With all that power and yumminess it just makes sense to make a part of our picnics. Here's how!4th of July Jello Shots With Ningxia Red What You Need:1/4 cup juice (I used Bai 5 Pomegranate for the red color) 1 and 1/4 small packet of unflavored gelatin 5 drops Orange Essential Oil 1 packet of Ningxia Red (equals 1/4 cup, ...
How To Make a DIY Glass Spray Bottle
Have you heard that when using citrus essential oils in any recipe (like Bug Off - Extra Tough) that you need to use a glass spray bottle instead of plastic? It's true. Citrus essential oils leach chemicals out of plastic! If you already knew this you may have gone searching on Amazon or your local store for a glass spray bottle only to find that they are kinda crazy expensive! Stop the madness and make your own DIY glass spray bottle with what you have in the house. How To Make a DIY Glass Spray BottleClean any glass bottle that originally contained a natural ingredient (white vinegar, Bragg's vinegar, Perrier) with a narrow screw top opening and clean and dry it thoroughly. KEEP CAP! Fit with a clean and dry plastic spray trigger. The bottles above fit spray triggers I had in the house from other cleaners/projects. If you don't have any you can (affiliate link) buy spray triggers from Amazon here. Do NOT store the plastic trigger spray in the bottle. Cap it off with the original lid so that your spray trigger is not sitting in essential oil mixture leaching chemicals for long periods of time. Remove the original label with a little bit of Lemon Essential Oil (Young ...
Easiest Way to Remove Jamberry Nails
I love Jamberry Nail stickers. I don't sell them or anything....they are just a ton of fun to use as accents to a manicure or pedicure. I usually wear them over gel nails and they honestly only last maybe 5 days on me this way so I needed to figure out the easiest way to remove Jamberry nails without ruining my manicure underneath. This also works just as well on natural nails.Easiest Way to Remove Jamberry Nails-Step 1: Take an orange stick and gently lift the sticker around the outer edges...its usually peeling up there for me anyway when I am ready to remove.Easiest Way to Remove Jamberry Nails-Step 2: Drop a very small amount (like half a drop) of Lemon Oil under the lifted area. Lemon Oil comes in the Young Living Premium Starter Kit which is a great value (hint: I also have a coupon code there to save you $25).Easiest Way to Remove Jamberry Nails-Step 3: Let the oil sit about 30 seconds on the nail. Slide nail off and rub with a paper towel to remove any excess oil and adhesive residue.Voila! That's it. No damage. Super quick and easy way to remove those cute little nails!Disclosure: I don't sell Jamberry but I linked you to the person who ...
DIY Summer Lip Balm: Spearmint Vanilla Lime
Summer is off to a great start and we needed some new DIY summer lip balm flavors to help us enjoy the season. I had a lot of fun asking for suggestions on my Facebook page, Crafty Side of Essential Oils, and came up with this Spearmint Vanilla Lime lip balm mixture.DIY Summer Lip Balm Ingredients: (contains affiliate links)1/4 cup refined coconut oil 2 tbsp & 2 tsps beeswax pastilles or grated beeswax 10 drops Lime Essential Oil (Get a discount on Young Living Premium Starter Kit) 8 drops Spearmint Essential Oil 5 drops organic Vanilla extract-optional 14 lip balm tubes 1 pipette (glass is safest but hard to clean, long plastic are easier to just throw away but get very hot) washi tape, duct tape or scotch packing tape for decoratingDIY Summer Lip Balm Directions:Line up all your empty lip balm tubes in a safe place next to where you will be making this. This is a good pattern to put them in (obviously these are already filled) Melt together beeswax and coconut oil in double boiler. Some people make one by putting a mason jar in small pot of water or setting a glass or metal bowl over a small pot of boiling water. When completely melted ...