Winter is in the air, and with it comes dry skin and nails. I have made several personal care products for winter-weather: lip balm, body butter, lip scrub, sugar scrub, coffee scrub (lots of scrubs :) )... but I have never made anything specifically for nails... at least not until today. So let's make our own homemade cuticle oil to help moisturize the cuticles and strengthen our nails. I … [Read more...]

We are wrapping up the Twelve Days of Christmas Gifts series in my essential oils Facebook group and I think this gift-giving idea might be one of my favorites... And no, it's not just a gift to be given at Christmas-time. Maybe it's my psychology background or the fact that I love goal-making activities, but none-the-less, here was my idea: a DIY Diffuser Bookmark. That's right... A diffuser … [Read more...]

Did you know there is a list of every ingredient used in making "fragrance"? Care to guess how many items are on that list? 100?... 1,000?... Try 3,999 (as of December 2017). And here's the crazy thing: companies do not have to disclose which of these 3,999 ingredients they use in their fragrance formulations because they are considered proprietary. If you look at a bottle of hand soap or lotion … [Read more...]

One of my favorite smells in the world is coffee, so testing homemade coffee scrub recipes was pretty much the best thing ever :) ... Any other coffee lovers out there? As the holidays roll around, I love trying out new recipes that can be given as gifts; and this peppermint coffee scrub certainly fits the bill! *If you’d like a little more information on making your own homemade coffee scrub, … [Read more...]