The idea for Valentine's gift

While a day at the spa is good for you, it's not always possible. Bring the spa to your home and give your loved one and yourself some pampering with soothing spa products - healthy and funny Bath Bomb.

These Mango Bath Bombs contain luxury mango butter which is known for its fabulous moisturizing and nourishing effects. In contact with water this butter will turn into cream (because we added emulsifying wax) and leave your skin feeling silky smooth without greasy on your tub.

Or you can choose Lemongrass Bath Bombs with Almond oil which will leave your skin feeling silky smooth. Sea Salt and Epsom Salt remove toxins from the body and also help to relax muscles.

These are Lavender Bath Bomb. Made with a generous amount of pure lavender essential oil they will create a relaxing atmosphere in a bath.
Our Lavender Bath Bombs contain Apricot oil which will leave your skin feeling silky smooth. Goat milk is natural moisturizer. It contains many vitamins, but is particularly high in Vitamin A, which and necessary to repair damaged skin tissue, and maintain healthy skin.

All of our Bath Bombs always freshly made for each order. Each bomb comes individually wrapped and decorated. Perfect for gifts or just treating yourself.

Please go to my Etsy shop and enter code LOVES to get discount price - $1.00! You can buy it for her or for him and I will decorate your order for free to be gift-ready, because I love to do it!

Looking for Valentines gift? Handmade Cupcake soaps are fun, useful and creative gifts for such occasion!

Why cupcake soaps are great gifts for Valentine’s Day?

# 1. It's suitable gift for all who love sweet. Zero calorie cupcake while using this! What more does a girl want? ...And boy too?  Actually, you can give these pretty little “desserts” away as gifts for loved ones on any occasion.

  # 2. All soap cupcakes are cute and glamorous!

# 3. When you know, he’s/she's going to appreciate something aside from the standard thing. Something that’s thoughtful and creative. Luxury soap with universal appeal of the cupcake is amazing idea!

Other idea:
DIY project: Chamomile and Calendula Bath Salt Tutorial. Simple idea for handmade gift!

 

Red Moroccan Clay & Goat Milk Handmade Natural soap

Perfect gift for Valentine’ s Day for him and for her!
You will get:
- nice natural handmade product,
- discount price
- artistic decoration just for ready to gift!
Moroccan Clay deeply cleanses pores, adds nutrients, stimulates and tones the skin and draw out toxins and impurities that tend to age the skin. It also gives nice color for soap.
Goat milk is natural moisturizer. I love to add goat milk to my cold process soaps to getting  nice texture and soft feeling!

Ingredients: Saponified oil- olive, sustainable palm, coconut, castor, grape seed, shea butter; organic goat milk; red Moroccan clay; sodium lactate; fragrance(phthalate-free).
I've used a touch amount of phthalate-free fragrance to give a tiny aroma of fresh, complex fragrance beginning with top notes of white tea, lemon, bergamot, and ginger; followed by middle notes of Earl Grey tea, rose, nutmeg, and geranium; sitting on base notes of woods, musk, and berries. It’s suitable for men and for women.
Go to my Etsy shop and enter code LOVES to get discount price - it will be only $3.50!You can buy it for him or for her and I will decorate your order for ready to gift!

Lavender and Goat Milk Handmade Natural soap

Made from fresh goat milk, this soap is wonderful for all skin types and highly recommended for people with dry skin, eczema, psoriasis, acne, and sensitive skin. I love any soaps with goat milk! Goat milk gives nice texture for soap and soft feeling when you use it.

This soap is handmade with 100% natural plant oils by cold process soap making. As I'm an artist, I wanted to create some art design and to decorate these soap bars by dried lavender flowers and soap flowers/leaves (which I made before from soap leftovers).

I've used natural indigo powder for coloring - it's a little bit blue. Next time I will try to use higher amount of indigo, because I've got very pale tone.

Ingredients: Saponified oils - olive, sustainable palm, sustainable palm kernel, coconut, soybean, corn; organic goat milk; lactic acid; titanium dioxide (for coloring); natural indigo powder (for coloring); lavender essential oil.
You can buy Lavender&Goat Milk soap in my Etsy shop. It's also a good idea for gift! 

Carrot & Ginger Handmade soap

This handcrafted soap has bright orange color and positive fresh aroma of mix fruit and woody notes. It is perfect to nourish your skin because it contents fresh carrot juice and puree, sea buckthorn oil and shea butter.
This soap is handmade by hot process.

Ingredients: Saponified oil- olive, palm kernel (sustainable), palm (sustainable),coconut, grape seed and shea butter; enriched by sea buckthorn oil and shea butter; carrot juice and puree; fresh ginger; carrot extract; silk proteins, sodium lactate, fragrance (phthalate-free).

Chocolate and Goat Milk Handmade Natural soap

Goat milk contains many vitamins, but is particularly high in Vitamin A, which is necessary to repair damaged skin tissue, and maintain healthy skin. Also bear in mind that the Vitamin A reduces lines and wrinkles, control acne, and provide some psoriasis relief. Goat milk is natural moisturizer.

Unsweetened, raw cocoa powder is considered good for skin because it is rich in antioxidants. Cocoa is loaded with iron, calcium, magnesium, manganese, potassium, phosphorus, selenium, etc. It rejuvenates dull skin and makes your skin soft, smooth, and glowing.

 Ingredients: Saponified oil- olive, coconut, sustainable palm, sustainable palm, castor, corn, canola; cocoa butter; organic goat milk; lactic acid; unsweetened raw cocoa powder.

Banana & Honey Natural Soap

This handcrafted soap is perfect to nourish your skin because it contents fresh banana puree, honey, and shea butter. This soap is handmade by hot process.

Bananas are full of vitamins and minerals and they act as a humectant on the skin (meaning they help it retain its moisture). Alex has enjoyed bananas in everything from fresh fruits to breads, but my favorite place to use them is in handmade beauty treats. You can mix bananas with just about anything else with a creamy, rich texture to create a skin soothing product - especially for dry skin. We like to use fresh banana in our everyday soap.

Shea Butter is naturally rich in Vitamins A, E, and F, as well as a number of other vitamins and minerals. Vitamins A and E help to soothe, hydrate, and balance the skin. They also provide skin collagen which assists with wrinkles and other signs of aging. Vitamin F contains essential fatty acids, and helps protect and revitalize damaged skin and hair. Shea Butter is an intense moisturizer for dry skin, and is a wonderful product for revitalizing dull or dry skin on the body or scalp.
 Rice bran oil has long been successfully used in cosmetics due to the presence of natural antioxidants in it, prolonging youthfulness of the skin. An excellent moisturizer, it nourishes and protects the well-any, even the most sensitive skin. Rice oil helps to regenerate skin, prevents wrinkles, improves firmness and elasticity of the skin, has anti-inflammatory, hydrating and softening effect.

Sodium Lactate is the sodium salt of natural L(+)-Lactic Acid, produced through the fermentation of sugar, an alpha hydroxyl acid that occurs everywhere in nature. Sodium Lactate is one of the Natural Moisturizing Factor (NMF) constituent of skin, required in the maintenance of natural hydration. Sodium Lactate is a superior moisturizer, increasing the moisture content of skin by up to 84%.

Silk amino acids give additional smooth, “silky” feeling and create creamy bubbles.

No color and fragrance we added in this soap.

 Ingredients: Saponified oil- olive, palm kernel, coconut, corn, castor, enriched by rice bran oil and unrefined shea butter, distilled water, silk amino acid, banana puree, honey, stearic acid, sodium lactate.

Guinness Beer soap

Beer handcrafted soaps are luxuriously moisturizing and rich with lather.
This soap is handmade with fresh beer by hot process, so, we could add beer (Guinness), luxury shea butter and grape seed oil after saponification was end and all useful caring ingredients will not react with lye, keeping their compassionate function.

Beer is a unique source of all vitamins B, trace elements and minerals, which significantly support skin regeneration and boost its resistance to adverse environmental effects. The hops clean, calms and softens skin. The combination of beer yeast extract (Saccharomyces Cerevisiae) and hop vine (Humulus Lupulus) has excellent moisturizing, antiseptic and mild healing and anti-inflammatory effects.

Ingredients: Saponified oil- olive, palm ( sustainable), palm kernel ( sustainable) , coconut, corn, canola, castor; enriched by grape seed oil and unrefined shea butter; beer Guinness; silk; sugar, fragrance(phthalate-free).

This listing is for 1 bar soap. Each bar is about 4 ounces (4-5 oz.). Due to the handcrafted nature of the bars, they will differ slightly in appearance.

Shea Butter is naturally rich in Vitamins A, E, and F, as well as a number of other vitamins and minerals. Vitamins A and E help to soothe, hydrate, and balance the skin. They also provide skin collagen which assists with wrinkles and other signs of aging. Vitamin F contains essential fatty acids, and helps protect and revitalize damaged skin and hair. Shea Butter is an intense moisturizer for dry skin, and is a wonderful product for revitalizing dull or dry skin on the body or scalp.

Grape seed oil has mildly astringent qualities, which help to tighten and tone the skin, making it a good cosmetic ingredient for anti-aging products. Grape seed oil contains proanthocyanidins, which are very potent antioxidants that are helpful for diminishing the sun's damaging effects and lessening free radical damage.

Silk give additional smooth, “silky” feeling and create creamy bubbles.

We’ve used a touch amount of phthalate-free fragrance to give a tiny aroma of malt liquor straight from the tap, and light fruity twist.

CHEERS!!!

Dead Sea Mud & Sea Kelp Soap

This handcrafted soap is perfect to nourish your skin because it contents Dead Sea mud, sea kelp, kukui nut oil and shea butter. This soap is handmade by hot process, so, all nourishing ingredients have added after saponification was end and did not react with lye, keeping their compassionate function.

Dead Sea mud will effectively remove the harmful toxins and dangerous pollutants from the unseen skin pores. Unclogging pores will result in purified skin, healthier textures and younger looks. Mud from Dead Sea is idyllic for people who suffer from extreme dryness and skin irritation. Adverse skin conditions like psoriasis can be cured with the help of Dead Sea minerals. The effective composition will balance moisture, strengthen the protection system, improve the skin’s condition and regenerate cells at a faster rate.

Sea kelp is a type of seaweed or marine algae that is available in powder form. It contains acids that can bind to toxins in your body, in combination with Dead Sea mud penetrates your skin and draws out impurities.

Shea Butter is naturally rich in Vitamins A, E, and F, as well as a number of other vitamins and minerals. Vitamins A and E help to soothe, hydrate, and balance the skin. They also provide skin collagen which assists with wrinkles and other signs of aging. Vitamin F contains essential fatty acids, and helps protect and revitalize damaged skin and hair. Shea Butter is an intense moisturizer for dry skin, and is a wonderful product for revitalizing dull or dry skin on the body or scalp.

Grape seed oil has mildly astringent qualities, which help to tighten and tone the skin, making it a good cosmetic ingredient for anti-aging products. Grape seed oil contains proanthocyanidins, which are very potent antioxidants that are helpful for diminishing the sun's damaging effects and lessening free radical damage.

Silk amino acids give additional smooth, “silky” feeling and create creamy bubbles.

For enhance green color of soap we added chlorophyll. We’ve used a touch amount of phthalate-free fragrance to give a tiny aroma which brings together notes of citrus and amber which make it a clean, tropical, floral scent that can easily match the interests of both men and women.

Anti-stress facial mask with pomegranate.

Dry weather in winter can make your skin look dull and dry so during the cold days nourishment of your skin is much needed. Skin treatments are widely offered at different beauty salons but why not you do it at home to pamper your skin and give yourself a wonderful time? 
This is a nourishing regenerating facial mask with moisturizing and anti-stress effects you can prepare at home.

You need:
- 4 teaspoons of pomegranate powder (you can find it in health food stores),
- 3 teaspoons of rice proteins (also you can find it in the health food stores/departments),
- 4-5 teaspoons of aloe gel.

Natural antioxidants from pomegranate powder will absorb/neutralize free radical and take calm effect of a stressed skin types. The rice proteins are great ingredient to nourish your skin. And aloe gel will give your skin moisture and can help improve the skin's natural firmness.

 1. Cleanse your face before applying the mask.
 2. Combine all of the ingredients in a small container.

The mask will have a thick consistency, but you need to add enough aloe gel (may be more then 4-5 tsp.)  to give it a whip creamy texture.

3. Apply the mask on your face using brush or your fingers, avoiding your eyes and mouth. Relax, sip some herbal tea and let the mask get sit for 15-20 minutes. By the way, this is a perfect time to soak in the tub!
4. Gently rinse off the mask after about 15-20 minutes and enjoy your soft, moisturized skin!

Matcha Green Tea Handmade Natural soap

I love drinking matcha powdered green tea! Matcha powdered green tea is better than regular green tea because they are derived from green tea plants with leaves that are shaded prior to picking. In addition, they retain more of the vitamins and antioxidants because their leaves are steamed and not exposed to oxygen.

Matcha powdered green tea offers tremendous health benefits when consumed but they’re also good when used topically because of the antioxidants from the polyphenols. Apart from soothing the skin, green tea powder offers anti-aging properties, and are often said to exert sun damage protection by quenching free radicals and reducing inflammation.

Ingredients: Saponified oil- olive, coconut, sustainable palm, castor, corn, canola; kukui oil; distilled water; lactic acid; matcha powdered green tea; fragrance (phthalate free).

Effective DIY Moisturizing Facial Mask

The holidays are coming to an end and many of us ate too much, partied a lot, and didn't work out enough. After all of the late-night parties, stress that surrounds the holidays and dehydration brought on by salty foods or alcohol intake, one of the homemade facial treatments might be just what the doctor ordered to refresh and moisturize your skin.

You need:

½ of a cucumber,

`1/4 orange,

1 tsp.  plain yogurt. 

1.       Peel the cucumber.  

2.        Puree cucumber in a blender or just grate it.

3.        Combine 1 teaspoon plain yogurt, 2 teaspoons orange juice and 2-3 teaspoons cucumber puree in a mixing bowl. Stir the mixture until it thickens.

4.        Wash your face and neck with mild cleanser and pat your skin dry, leaving just a little bit of moisture on your skin.

5.        Apply the mask over your face and neck evenly, avoiding your eyes, nostrils and mouth. Allow the mixture to sit on your skin for 20 minutes.

6.        Rinse the mask off with warm water, dry your face gently and apply a thin layer of moisturizer to boost this mask's hydrating benefits. 

 The cucumber pulp will help hydrate your skin and the vitamin C in the orange juice can help minimize the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

You can freeze leftovers of cucumber puree (or squeeze it and freeze only juice) in ice cube tray.

The use of such ice cubes gives much better result washing the face in the morning. This pleasant procedure rejuvenates the skin; tightens pores, and moisturizes your skin.