I don’t know about you, but as it gets colder out, my feet tend to get dry and crackly. Even when I moisturize regularly, the dry weather wins out. The only thing that really helps is a good exfoliation.

Well now that it’s winter time and I’m committed to making my own cosmetics, I figured I could make my own foot scrub. With only 3 ingredients, this foot scrub exfoliates, deodorizes, and can even help draw toxins from the body. Like the toxins from harmful ingredients in other beauty products you might use…

And now after using it, my feet are happy. No more dry, peely skin. I followed up the scrub with my cocoa butter body lotion, and my feet are so silky smooth right now.

With only three ingredients, this scrub couldn’t be easier. The ingredients work together to form a soothing scrub:

• Baking Soda: Gentle exfoliant, cleans and deodorizes
• Epsom Salt: Draws toxins from the body, exfoliates, helps relax muscles
• Chamomile Tea: Soothing scent, full of antioxidants

Besides brewing the tea, this scrub takes less than a minute to make.

If you wanted to make the scrub even more relaxing, you could add a few drops of essential oils. Peppermint or citrus oils would go nicely with the camomile. Lavender is a great relaxing scent. Eucalyptus would smell great. Adding oils is totally optional because the chamomile smells great on its own. But it doesn’t hurt to add the benefits of essential oils to most beauty products.

Another great thing about this scrub is that it feels so gentle. It does the job without being a rough exfoliant. You know how some scrubs feel like they’re scratching your skin? This scrub is much gentler while still being effective.

Now all winter I will get to enjoy my soft feet without any of the guilt of using harmful ingredients. Baking soda, epsom salts, and camomile tea make a great combination that really couldn’t be any easier.

Try this scrub out at home and let me know how it goes for you!

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There’s something about your hair when you spend time on the beach. It just gets an awesome effortless wave to it. Well, naturally, it makes sense to want to replicate that effect at home. You can’t make a trip to the beach every time you want cute hair.

So, I came up with this recipe for beach hair spray. Not only does it create the salty, textured, wavy effect that the beach gives you, it also moisturizes your hair in the process. It has no bad chemicals and will only make your hair healthier.

And it’s fun to use! You want to make sure you have a good spray bottle that will mist your hair rather than dampen it- otherwise this won’t be so effective. The mist is a key part of what causes the beachy effect in real life so you have to replicate that too.

Here is why I chose each of the ingredients in this beach spray:

• Epsom Salts: Replicates beachy effect, volumizes hair, adds texture
• Himalayan Sea Salt: Replicates beachy effect, adds texture
• Aloe Vera Gel: Moisturizes hair and scalp, helps hair hold shape
• Argan Oil: Non-oily moisturizer for hair
• Essential Oils: Natural scent

And here is how you make it:

When you look at it up close, it looks like beach salt water. You can already hear the waves crashing. Almost. And seriously, could it be easier to make? It’s so easy. It took me less than 5 minutes. Most of that time was spent waiting for the water to warm up.

The spray not only helps encourage beachy waves, it will hold your hair in place, make it shinier, add texture, and moisturize it in the long run. You really can’t go wrong here.

It makes me want to go to the beach even more. Around here we have Lake Michigan, which is even better than an ocean, but it doesn’t give you beach hair because it has not salt. So this hair spray will fill that gap for me! One step away from summer fun and beach hair.

Try making your own beach hair spray and let me know how it goes!

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