DIY Oat & Geranium Toner

I've always love making my own cosmetics at home - face masks made of all ingredients found in the kitchen or making my own "lipstics" from crashed eyeshadows and vaseline as a kid ... My cosmetics preferences change a bit so today I'd love to share with you a recipe for all-natural face toner made of oats and geranium oil. Oats are one of my favourite ingredients for peelings, mask and toners. It moisturizes the skin perfectly, makes is much smoother and it also help really well against acne :)

DIY Coconut & Lavender Body Scrub

I've already written something about why you should use natural (and ideally homemade) cosmetics. But how to make natural cosmetics at home? That's what I'm gonna write about in a new serie of posts :) I started making my own cosmetics a while ago and I feel amazing about it - it doesn't only save a lot of money, but also my skin is also much healthier and looks better than when I was using conventional cosmetics. The first "beauty product" I made at home, was a body scrub. It's great for the whole body and for the face too. It removes dead skin, hydrates your skin and as a bonus - it smells like heaven.

Why Do You Pay For Destroying Your Skin?

Skin protects our body, it separates us from our surroundings. Every day it has to deal with weather and temperature changes, it's exposed to air contaminants ... And we often don't make it easier at all with all the chemicals we put on out face. A year ago I wouldn't believe I could ever give up my store-bought cosmetics and use vinegar and sugar instead. Now I see that was a great decision. What has using natural cosmetics brought me and why you should give it a chance too ?

Dangerous Cosmetics

We get so much dangerous chemicals into our bodies everyday - and very often we don't even know about that. Not only we breathe in the polluted air, and eat chemically treated fruit and vegetables - you can also find it in almost all cosmetics products, foundations, creams, shampoos, toothpasts and so on ...