Rosebud Salve from Sephora
Judy got married before anyone else, and although we all envied her happiness and her handsome hubbie and their beautiful home, when she had her first baby, all envy stopped. She ballooned up and couldn’t wear her clothes: even her gorgeous shoe collection was rendered obsolete by hormonal horrors. She was sick every day for three solid months, she got moody and no one could get along with her, and once the baby came along, she had a terrible time getting back to her pre-baby weight.
Still, she went low-carb and worked out like a fiend. She stuck to her plan, and eventually the weight came off, and those cute tangerine suede loafers (from J. Crew) slipped smoothly back onto her perfect size seven feet.
--Editors Tip ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Why Rosebud Salve is the Ultimate Beauty Product Every Woman Should Have
Great smiles start with great lips, smooth, soft and well-conditioned. Lips are sensitive, and often don't get the sort of attention they need. In winter and summer, lips are chapped by cold weather, sun and windburn, heat and spicy foods. Particularly if you have delicate skin, you need to pay attention to the care of your lips. Start by drinking plenty of water, since dehydration shows up in dry, chapped or cracking lips.
You can use all kinds of cosmetics on your lips, and you could spend a lot of money, but what you really need is a good, all-purpose moisturizer—a balm. And an all-purpose salve that also softens elbows, hands and heels, is much more cost effective than lots of little pots of specialized creams (with remarkably similar ingredients). Remember, fewer ingredients mean a lessened chance of allergic reaction, and simpler products tend to be the best. One ideal lip and body salve is Rosebud Salve.
See where you can purchase your stock of this all-purpose Rosebud Salve.
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Judy swears by several things that helped her regain her post-baby beauty. One was the support of her hubbie Mike, who changed his work schedule so she could have afternoons to herself four days each and every week. This helped her get to the gym and the salon, while Mike and Baby Emily bonded. The second thing was her mom-in-law Freddie, who baby-sits once or twice a week so that Mike and Judy can go out and pretend to be normal people again. (What a nice woman –is Judy the luckiest, or what?)
The third thing Judy swears by is called Rosebud Salve, a family-company retro-classic that comes in a groovy rose-labeled tin and smells like a little bit of heaven. Judy uses it for everything, from lip balm to burn ointment. She says it kept her nursing days smooth and pain-free by using it morning and night, you-know-where. And when little Emily developed a babyish but unattractive rash in a tender place, Judy hauled out the tin of Rosebud Salve and slathered it on.
Rosebud Salve from Sephora
Rosebud Salve from Sephora
Judy got married before anyone else, and although we all envied her happiness and her handsome hubbie and their beautiful home, when she had her first baby, all envy stopped. She ballooned up and couldn’t wear her clothes: even her gorgeous shoe collection was rendered obsolete by hormonal horrors. She was sick every day for three solid months, she got moody and no one could get along with her, and once the baby came along, she had a terrible time getting back to her pre-baby weight.
Still, she went low-carb and worked out like a fiend. She stuck to her plan, and eventually the weight came off, and those cute tangerine suede loafers (from J. Crew) slipped smoothly back onto her perfect size seven feet.
--Editors Tip ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Why Rosebud Salve is the Ultimate Beauty Product Every Woman Should Have
Great smiles start with great lips, smooth, soft and well-conditioned. Lips are sensitive, and often don't get the sort of attention they need. In winter and summer, lips are chapped by cold weather, sun and windburn, heat and spicy foods. Particularly if you have delicate skin, you need to pay attention to the care of your lips. Start by drinking plenty of water, since dehydration shows up in dry, chapped or cracking lips.
You can use all kinds of cosmetics on your lips, and you could spend a lot of money, but what you really need is a good, all-purpose moisturizer—a balm. And an all-purpose salve that also softens elbows, hands and heels, is much more cost effective than lots of little pots of specialized creams (with remarkably similar ingredients). Remember, fewer ingredients mean a lessened chance of allergic reaction, and simpler products tend to be the best. One ideal lip and body salve is Rosebud Salve.
See where you can purchase your stock of this all-purpose Rosebud Salve.
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Judy swears by several things that helped her regain her post-baby beauty. One was the support of her hubbie Mike, who changed his work schedule so she could have afternoons to herself four days each and every week. This helped her get to the gym and the salon, while Mike and Baby Emily bonded. The second thing was her mom-in-law Freddie, who baby-sits once or twice a week so that Mike and Judy can go out and pretend to be normal people again. (What a nice woman –is Judy the luckiest, or what?)
The third thing Judy swears by is called Rosebud Salve, a family-company retro-classic that comes in a groovy rose-labeled tin and smells like a little bit of heaven. Judy uses it for everything, from lip balm to burn ointment. She says it kept her nursing days smooth and pain-free by using it morning and night, you-know-where. And when little Emily developed a babyish but unattractive rash in a tender place, Judy hauled out the tin of Rosebud Salve and slathered it on.
Judy got married before anyone else, and although we all envied her happiness and her handsome hubbie and their beautiful home, when she had her first baby, all envy stopped. She ballooned up and couldn’t wear her clothes: even her gorgeous shoe collection was rendered obsolete by hormonal horrors. She was sick every day for three solid months, she got moody and no one could get along with her, and once the baby came along, she had a terrible time getting back to her pre-baby weight.
Still, she went low-carb and worked out like a fiend. She stuck to her plan, and eventually the weight came off, and those cute tangerine suede loafers (from J. Crew) slipped smoothly back onto her perfect size seven feet.
--Editors Tip ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Why Rosebud Salve is the Ultimate Beauty Product Every Woman Should Have
Great smiles start with great lips, smooth, soft and well-conditioned. Lips are sensitive, and often don't get the sort of attention they need. In winter and summer, lips are chapped by cold weather, sun and windburn, heat and spicy foods. Particularly if you have delicate skin, you need to pay attention to the care of your lips. Start by drinking plenty of water, since dehydration shows up in dry, chapped or cracking lips.
You can use all kinds of cosmetics on your lips, and you could spend a lot of money, but what you really need is a good, all-purpose moisturizer—a balm. And an all-purpose salve that also softens elbows, hands and heels, is much more cost effective than lots of little pots of specialized creams (with remarkably similar ingredients). Remember, fewer ingredients mean a lessened chance of allergic reaction, and simpler products tend to be the best. One ideal lip and body salve is Rosebud Salve.
See where you can purchase your stock of this all-purpose Rosebud Salve.
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Judy swears by several things that helped her regain her post-baby beauty. One was the support of her hubbie Mike, who changed his work schedule so she could have afternoons to herself four days each and every week. This helped her get to the gym and the salon, while Mike and Baby Emily bonded. The second thing was her mom-in-law Freddie, who baby-sits once or twice a week so that Mike and Judy can go out and pretend to be normal people again. (What a nice woman –is Judy the luckiest, or what?)
The third thing Judy swears by is called Rosebud Salve, a family-company retro-classic that comes in a groovy rose-labeled tin and smells like a little bit of heaven. Judy uses it for everything, from lip balm to burn ointment. She says it kept her nursing days smooth and pain-free by using it morning and night, you-know-where. And when little Emily developed a babyish but unattractive rash in a tender place, Judy hauled out the tin of Rosebud Salve and slathered it on.
Homemade body scrub recipes you can make at home with simple sugar and salt ingredients. - Perfect for skin exfoliation
Homemade body scrub recipes you can make at home with simple sugar and salt ingredients. - Perfect for skin exfoliation
Body scrubs have always been a beauty must. Cleopatra's slaves rubbed her down with granulated honey and myrrh, an upscale version of the scrubs of pumice, barley hulls and goat's milk used by lesser Egyptians of the day. Body scrubs have proliferated lately, with recipes including grains, nut shells, sea shells, salts and other minerals scrape-scrape-scraping away the layers and leaving fresh, new skin behind.
It is so simple to make your own body scrub
You may have noticed that you're paying a lot of dough for a handful of scrub. Read the ingredients: you're paying for sexy packaging! Most scrubs contain salt, sugar or nut shells and you can buy any of those things for well under fifty cents a pound. But the seven ounce coconut scrub from The Body Shop sells for $17. How long does it take to use up less than one cup of body scrub? Not long!
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Make Your Skin Glow With Smoothing Salt Scrubs
Salt scrubs should be an integral part of any woman’s regular beauty regimen. Using salt scrubs as a body treatment can help to exfoliate, moisturize, and smooth dry and damaged skin, leaving it feeling soft and virtually glowing. Go ahead, you can easily turn your very own bathroom into a relaxing spa experience by adding luxurious, oil-free salt scrubs with natural extracts to your bath or shower a few times a week. Whether you have a problem with dry or oily skin, or you’re just looking for some added bliss in your beauty routine, you’ll find that a salt scrub can help make your skin feel smoother and silkier. Have a summer-ready body all year long. Get your skin ready for shaving or for tanning by exfoliating first with a salt scrub. Follow up with a good moisturizer and you’ll have that smooth, silky feeling last for days!
Treat yourself to a smoothing salt scrub today!
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You choose the natural ingredients to exfoliate
Make your own body polish! Choose your favorite fragrances, control the granularity of the scrub, avoid ingredients that you may be allergic to, and create a big potful of body polish with about $10 worth of ingredients. Or you can make a cupful for under a dollar and decide if you like the recipe. It's a breeze: you'll need a spoon, a bowl, and a container for storage.
Sugar as the Exfoliating Ingredient
Try it sweet. Sugar isn't as harsh as ground nut shells: it melts fast when it hits moisture, so if your skin is delicate, you're probably not going to over-scrub it. The other benefit is the fact that sugar, unlike pumice, ground shells and other insoluble ingredients, will melt instead of sticking in your bathtub drains. Here's what you need to make a large batch:
Homemade Sugar Body Scrub Recipe
8 Cups turbinado (raw) or light brown sugar
1 ½ to 2 Cups avocado, untoasted sesame oil or jojoba oil
½ to 1 Cup apricot or peach kernel oil
essential oil (we used ginger and vanilla)
honey for smoothing the texture
If you use turbinado, you will probably want more oil because turbinado has a coarser texture than light brown sugar. Turbinado, being a specialty ingredient, also costs a lot more than brown sugar. You can use either form of sugar, just make sure that with the brown sugar, you're keeping a careful eye on the liquid ingredients so your scrub doesn't dissolve into a thin paste. Use honey only if you find your scrub is too dry, or just increase the amount of oil you use instead. Mix oils into the sugar slowly, stirring to keep the consistency smooth, and stop when you can form the mixture into a slightly wet ball without it dripping through your fingers. Add the essential oils last: they are for fragrance, not moisture, and you'll only need a few drops—maybe eight—to get the aroma strong enough. Never use "fragrance oils"—they are chemical fakes that have never been near a plant and can cause irritation or even allergic symptoms. Instead, make sure to use essential oils, which are the true plant oils expressed by pressing or by steam distillation from the actual plants. Before choosing an essential oil, make sure that it is considered to be good for the skin—some essential oils are irritants and are meant for other purposes. Some skin friendly oils include rose, rosemary, lemon, mandarin, lavender and chamomile.
Salt to exfoliate your skin
Salt recipe. In this body scrub, you can substitute 8 cups of coarse or kosher salt for the sugar in the recipe above. The nice thing about do it yourself scrubs is that you can then vary the ingredients to make your own favorite scents. Instead of essential oils, you may decide to add cocoa or coffee for a chocolate or mocha body scrub. Add vanilla; your scrub will smell fantastic. Here's how:
Salt Scrub Recipe
8 Cups coarse pickling or Kosher salt.
2 Cups avocado, untoasted sesame oil or jojoba oil
1 Cup apricot or peach kernel oil
1 Cup unsweetened cocoa or ¼ Cup freeze dried coffee crystals
2 Tablespoons vanilla extract
honey for smoothing the texture
When you make your own scrubs, you can afford to use the best ingredients. Add a handful of ground dried white tea leaves to your body scrub and follow it up with natural cucumber extract for a soothing, summery fragrance. With some practice, you'll understand how to make practically any scrub you want. And they make terrific gifts: buy some pretty jars and labels and package your own recipes for your friends!
Body scrubs have always been a beauty must. Cleopatra's slaves rubbed her down with granulated honey and myrrh, an upscale version of the scrubs of pumice, barley hulls and goat's milk used by lesser Egyptians of the day. Body scrubs have proliferated lately, with recipes including grains, nut shells, sea shells, salts and other minerals scrape-scrape-scraping away the layers and leaving fresh, new skin behind.
It is so simple to make your own body scrub
You may have noticed that you're paying a lot of dough for a handful of scrub. Read the ingredients: you're paying for sexy packaging! Most scrubs contain salt, sugar or nut shells and you can buy any of those things for well under fifty cents a pound. But the seven ounce coconut scrub from The Body Shop sells for $17. How long does it take to use up less than one cup of body scrub? Not long!
--Editors Tip ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Make Your Skin Glow With Smoothing Salt Scrubs
Salt scrubs should be an integral part of any woman’s regular beauty regimen. Using salt scrubs as a body treatment can help to exfoliate, moisturize, and smooth dry and damaged skin, leaving it feeling soft and virtually glowing. Go ahead, you can easily turn your very own bathroom into a relaxing spa experience by adding luxurious, oil-free salt scrubs with natural extracts to your bath or shower a few times a week. Whether you have a problem with dry or oily skin, or you’re just looking for some added bliss in your beauty routine, you’ll find that a salt scrub can help make your skin feel smoother and silkier. Have a summer-ready body all year long. Get your skin ready for shaving or for tanning by exfoliating first with a salt scrub. Follow up with a good moisturizer and you’ll have that smooth, silky feeling last for days!
Treat yourself to a smoothing salt scrub today!
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You choose the natural ingredients to exfoliate
Make your own body polish! Choose your favorite fragrances, control the granularity of the scrub, avoid ingredients that you may be allergic to, and create a big potful of body polish with about $10 worth of ingredients. Or you can make a cupful for under a dollar and decide if you like the recipe. It's a breeze: you'll need a spoon, a bowl, and a container for storage.
Sugar as the Exfoliating Ingredient
Try it sweet. Sugar isn't as harsh as ground nut shells: it melts fast when it hits moisture, so if your skin is delicate, you're probably not going to over-scrub it. The other benefit is the fact that sugar, unlike pumice, ground shells and other insoluble ingredients, will melt instead of sticking in your bathtub drains. Here's what you need to make a large batch:
Homemade Sugar Body Scrub Recipe
8 Cups turbinado (raw) or light brown sugar
1 ½ to 2 Cups avocado, untoasted sesame oil or jojoba oil
½ to 1 Cup apricot or peach kernel oil
essential oil (we used ginger and vanilla)
honey for smoothing the texture
If you use turbinado, you will probably want more oil because turbinado has a coarser texture than light brown sugar. Turbinado, being a specialty ingredient, also costs a lot more than brown sugar. You can use either form of sugar, just make sure that with the brown sugar, you're keeping a careful eye on the liquid ingredients so your scrub doesn't dissolve into a thin paste. Use honey only if you find your scrub is too dry, or just increase the amount of oil you use instead. Mix oils into the sugar slowly, stirring to keep the consistency smooth, and stop when you can form the mixture into a slightly wet ball without it dripping through your fingers. Add the essential oils last: they are for fragrance, not moisture, and you'll only need a few drops—maybe eight—to get the aroma strong enough. Never use "fragrance oils"—they are chemical fakes that have never been near a plant and can cause irritation or even allergic symptoms. Instead, make sure to use essential oils, which are the true plant oils expressed by pressing or by steam distillation from the actual plants. Before choosing an essential oil, make sure that it is considered to be good for the skin—some essential oils are irritants and are meant for other purposes. Some skin friendly oils include rose, rosemary, lemon, mandarin, lavender and chamomile.
Salt to exfoliate your skin
Salt recipe. In this body scrub, you can substitute 8 cups of coarse or kosher salt for the sugar in the recipe above. The nice thing about do it yourself scrubs is that you can then vary the ingredients to make your own favorite scents. Instead of essential oils, you may decide to add cocoa or coffee for a chocolate or mocha body scrub. Add vanilla; your scrub will smell fantastic. Here's how:
Salt Scrub Recipe
8 Cups coarse pickling or Kosher salt.
2 Cups avocado, untoasted sesame oil or jojoba oil
1 Cup apricot or peach kernel oil
1 Cup unsweetened cocoa or ¼ Cup freeze dried coffee crystals
2 Tablespoons vanilla extract
honey for smoothing the texture
When you make your own scrubs, you can afford to use the best ingredients. Add a handful of ground dried white tea leaves to your body scrub and follow it up with natural cucumber extract for a soothing, summery fragrance. With some practice, you'll understand how to make practically any scrub you want. And they make terrific gifts: buy some pretty jars and labels and package your own recipes for your friends!
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