LUSH FRESH FACE MASKS DIY

This is going to become a powerhouse blog post of DIY Fresh Face Masks from Lush. If you haven't tried a beauty DIY, you're missing out. So drag your inner DIY'ist out (kicking and screaming if need be) and get yourself making these masks! Not only will you be saving money, you'll be doubling the product, win-win right? Right. 

Method;
Pre-blend all the ingredients, then blend all together.
Store container in fridge, use within 2-4 weeks. 



Oatifix (dry or sensitive skin)

1 cup oatmeal
1/2 cup almonds, blended (or sub raw or brown sugar, as both exfoliate)
1 banana
TBS olive oil
TBS honey 
Optional: 2-3 drops vanilla essence


Cupcake (oily skin)

4-6 sprigs of mint
TSP Fuller's Earth (subbed instead of Rhassouls Mud)
TSP cocoa powder 
TSP cocoa butter
1/2 TSP glycerin
3-4 drops sandalwood oil
1/2 TSP honey
Rose water*

* When blending all ingredients together, add a little rose water at a time until you reach a mask-like consistency.

Cosmetic Warrior ("calms and soothes" troubled skin)

TBS kaolin clay (or sub with Fuller's Earth)
1 cup of grapes
2 cloves garlic
1 egg
1 TSP glycerin
2 TSP cornflour 
1 TSP honey 
Optional: 2-3 drops of Tea Tree Oil


Enjoy!

Oatmeal and Honey Foot Mask.

Source: Google Images

With the warmer weather brings bare feet and with constant bare feet, there comes dry or cracked feet. Here is a simple recipe I found online for your tootsies this summer.

Oatmeal and honey foot mask.

   - Two cups of ground oats
   - One cup of all purpose flour

   - Half cup of honey
   - Half cup of olive oil

Soak your feet in warm water with bi-carb soda, as this makes exfoliating a lot easier but you don't have to. If you don't have anything to exfoliate with, whip up a simple oatmeal scrub (tbs sugar, tbs ground oats and two tbs olive oil. Double if desired, this makes a fantastic body scrub also).

Once exfoliated, then smear the foot mask over your feet and leave for 20-30 minutes. I personally found this recipe not sticky enough and ended up putting it in a bag, then squishing my feet into it. After 30 minutes, jump into the shower and rinse off, remember to apply a foot cream afterwards.

Honestly I didn't enjoy how messy this foot mask is, so I've made up my own which I've yet to try out. I wasn't overly pleased with the results, but it did it's job. If my own footmask works out nicely, I'll post it on here at a later date!

xx



DIY Lip Scrub

Summer is finally rearing it's searing-heated face! And if your anything like me, it's going to take toll on your lips. So I'm sharing this quick and easy DIY lip scrub to, well, scrub your nasty dry/cracked lips away.

It started the other day when I reached into the dark depths of my bathroom cupboards in search of my lip scrub only to find out that due to the fact it is food product, it's long expired. Since I've been recently chewing my lips apart due to stress (and I'm also blaming you, weather!) my lips are pretty dry and cracked. After using this little moisturizing beauty, I'm hands down swearing by it! It's been about thirty minutes since I used it and my lips still feel great, even without following up with a lip balm.

How do you get these super awesome feeling lips? Easy, all you need is three easy ingredients. Just follow this step by step (you really cant go wrong with making this).

DIY LIP SCRUB

- Get yourself some olive oil, agave nectar & pure cane sugar. In this case I used sunflower oil, honey and normal white sugar. Get a small mixing bowl and a teaspoon. I used a small plastic shot glass and one baby spoon.

- It's really simple, you just add one tsp spoon of oil and honey and two tsp spoon's of sugar (three tsp's if you wish, but two is fine). Mix it all together and done! Ended up using a chop-stick to stir it up since my boyfriend went away with said baby spoon - long story.

- Rub a decent amount onto your lips for a few minutes then rinse off. Dry lips and apply lip balm/gloss of your choice if you really want to (keeps your lips softer for longer after scrubbing).

- Ta-da! Your lips should instantly feel smoother and softer than before (also ready for kissing ^____^ ) you'll also notice that you have a lot of left over scrub, that's fine though, shove it in the fridge. Just remember that it has an expiry date! I probably wouldn't keep it for too long.

So that's it for this simple as lip scrub! I recommend it if you're short on cash or just need a quick lip fix up. I'll be posting more of these DIY's if you guy's seem interested :]

Ciao xx