Milk is an amazing skin care product providing your body with cleansing and protective qualities. When add with chamomile, you are creating a soothing mix. This chamomile milk bath is a skin softening treat for dry winter skin. This is also designed for overloaded and stressy people. Not only that, a chamomile milk bath will encourage your little one to have a great night’s sleep.

To make this, you will need the following:

4 cups powdered milk
1 cup boiling water
1/2 cup dried chamomile or 5 chamomile tea bags

Instructions:
Steep chamomile in water for 20 minutes Strain liquid. Mix liquid with powdered milk and add to running bath water.

Looking for a natural remedy to beat cellulite at home? Look no further. The solution is sitting in your kitchen cupboard – coffee ground.

The method of using coffee grounds to remove or reduce cellulite has been around for a while. Many women claim success from doing this well known remedy.

Those expensive cellulite creams have one ingredient in common – caffeine! Rather spending hundreds of dollars on anti-cellulite product, you can make your own cellulite treatment with caffeinated coffee grounds that works beautifully.

Coffee grounds can also be used an exfoliant. The coarse nature of the substance helps tto remove the dead skin and reduce the size of your pores. The use of coffee grounds on your skin will also firm and tone your skin.

Coffee Body Scrub

2 cups of coarsely ground coffee

1/2 cup raw sugar or sea salt

2-3 teaspoon of olive oil

Direction:

• Put some newspaper on the floor of your bathroom.
• Mix all ingredients together.
• Take a hot shower to moisten your skin and open your pores.
• Stand on the paper and apply the coffee mixture to your cellulite areas using your hands or a loofah mitt. Using wide circular motions,rub the coffee exfoliate onto your skin with strong pressure.
• Shower off, pat skin dry and apply a thin layer of your favorite body lotion.

Honey has been used in beauty regimes since the time of Cleopatra and is just as popular today. Honey is a natural humectant, which means it attracts and retains moisture. It’s also an anti-irritant, making it suitable for sensitive-skin and baby products. The sweetness of honey will also gives a sweet and pleasant smell and flavor to this body scrub.

The lemon is rich in fruit acids and it’s all natural beautifying properties have been relied upon by many throughout the ages. The Egyptians, the Greeks, Romans and the people of Asia enjoyed the benefits of the lemon long before its use in the America. Lemon is prominent among nature’s beauty ingredients. In this recipe, the lemon will help smooth your body, gently remove dead skin cells, make your skin look fresher and younger and invigorate your spirit.

To delight yourself with this honey lemon sugar scrub, you will need the following ingredients:

2 1/2 cups sugar

1/2 cup sweet almond oil

4 teaspoons lemon juice

4 tablespoons runny honey

4 drops lemon essential oil

Directions:

Combine the sugar and sweet almond oil in a large bowl and stir well to combine. Add the lemon juice and stir again. Finally, add the honey and lemon essential oil and stir again to mix. You should have a grainy paste which can last a few weeks if fresh ingredients were used and it is kept in an airtight container.

The almond oil in this mixture will help protect the surface of the skin, acting as an emollient, skin soother and softener, while conditioning the skin and promoting a clear young looking complexion. It also helps to relieve muscular aches and pains. Almond oil is suitable for all skin types, but is especially good for dry or irritated skin.

Bath bombs are easy to make and provide a delightful fizzing adventure in the tub. If you do not know what a bath bomb is, it is a sweet scented mixture of citric acid, baking soda and other ingredients that fizz when you plop them into your tub.

As your bomb fizzes, the scent is released filling the room with a comforting aroma that lasts for hours.To make bath bombs, you will need 1/3 part citric acid, and 2/3 part baking soda as well as some witch hazel in a spray bottle.

First, mix the baking soda and citric acid together well, so that they are blended well. Next, add colorant if desired (you can use dried herbs for colour, just a pinch or so) and enough fragrance to scent the mixture well.

Now, grab your witch hazel, and work fast as the mixture will start fizzing once you start adding the hazel. Sprits with one hand, and stir well with the other hand until the mixture is thoroughly wet with a consistency of play dough.

Now firmly press your mixture into moulds (ice cube trays work well), then let your bombs sit overnight until dry.

If your bombs fizz in the moulds, just continue pressing them down, This just means that you used too much witch hazel resulting in a mixture that was too wet. Over time you will know what consistency is best for the humidity in your area. Until then, practice makes perfect.

The more you pack your mixture into your mould, the longer lasting and harder your bombs will be.

Your bath bombs can be used for yourself, as gifts to family and friends or sold to make some spare cash.

A nice way to package your bombs for gift giving would be to wrap them in cellophane and place a few in a large coffee cup, along with a sealed bag of hot cocoa, tea or coffee and a small candle.

Wrap this attractively in colourful wrap, add a bow, and you have a mini spa treat that is sure to please anyone

About the Author

Paul Duxbury is Head of Training for a major UK Charitable Organisation with a wealth of experience in personal development, management development, e-learning and operational management. In addition, he owns PK eBooks (http://www.pk-ebooks.co.uk) and has just published Tennis for Everyone which can be found at http://www.pk-ebooks.co.uk/tennis_for_everyone.htm
 

2 tbsp lotus powder (or 1 dried lotus root, cut into pieces and finely ground in a coffee dringer);

1 tbsp ginseng powder

1 tbsp ginger powder

2 tbsp sea salt

4 tbsp black sesame or sesame oil

1 tbsp rosehip oil

5 drops each of myrrh, Chinese star anise and mandarin essential oil

Directions – Mix all of these ingredients together and apply them in a circular movement on your body. Rinse in shower/bath

6 ginseng root pieces, dried

100g ginger, roughly chopped

4 pints water

Direction: In a non-metal pan, bring ginseng, ginger, green tea and water to boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Strain the herbal tea mixture through a sieve and add to your bath water. Soak for 20 mins

This detoxifying Sea Kelp and Dead Sea Salt Scrub will gives you the perfect spa experience that is invigorating yet refreshing. The Dead sea salt is a luxuriant sea salt extracted and solar dried from the saline and mineral rich marshes of the confined Dead Sea. Dead sea salt is a nutrient rich, extremely fine, and partially moist salt perfect for bath products and scrubbing blends. Because of its moisture content we have found it easily mixed with other ingredients with little or no separation. This salt is extremely wealthy in numerous key elements and has proven to be one of the best therapeutic salts available.

To make this therapeutic body scrub, you will need:

2 tbsp fine dead salt

1 tbsp kelp powder

1 1/2 tbsp coconut oil

1 1/2 tbsp almond oil

1 tsp spirulina powder

4 drops of each graprefruit, lemon, cypress and peppermint essential oils

Directions:

1. Mix all the ingredients together well.
2. Step into the shower and massage the blend into your skin starting witwh the feet and work your way up.
3. Turn on the shower and repeat the scrub all over the body by scooping water into your hands and massaging until the salt granules have disappeared.

The almond oil in this mixture will help protect the surface of the skin, acting as an emollient, skin soother and softener, while conditioning the skin and promoting a clear young looking complexion. It also helps to relieve muscular aches and pains. Almond oil is suitable for all skin types, but is especially good for dry or irritated skin.

The essential oil blend is essentially therapeutic to the wellness of your body:

Peppermint, Cypress essential oil have always been used to ease the mental health and it blends perfectly with lemon essential oil. By adding lemon essential oil, the blend created will be inspiring and relaxing. Thie is because lemon oils can have a gently uplifting effect on the emotions. It replaces negative emotions by creating a cheerful atmosphere of freshness and purity. It can help dispel mental fatigue and psychological heaviness. The aroma of lemon can inspire increased concentration and awareness.

Grapeseed oil has mildly astringent qualities which help to tighten and tone the skin, which makes it useful for acne and other skin complaints. It is also rich in linoleic acid, an essential fatty acid quite important for the skin and the cell membranes. Furthermore, Grape seed oil has regenerative and restructuring virtues and has great skin moisturizing properties.