Do you have delicate skin or skin that is beginning to show the marks of passing time? Rose hip soap may be the perfect bar of all-natural herbal soap to care for your skin! As a facial bar, it will leave you with a brighter, healthier complexion while combating the signs of aging! Rose Hip…
Herbal Bath and Skincare Recipes
Nourish healthy skin and practice self-care with DIY herbal bath and skincare products made from real, natural ingredients.
Discover our homemade skincare recipes for beginner's cold processed soap and Rosemary Mint Shampoo Bars. You can learn how infuse herbal oils like CBD Infused Oil. Then you'll be able to make your own herbal salves and forage for herbs and flowers to create restorative skincare like Dandelion Salve. Perhaps your skin is thirsty? With natural oils and botanicals, Calendula Cream and Rose Lotion Bars provide just what your dry skin is craving.
Foraging St. John’s Wort + How to Make St. John’s Wort Oil & Salve
When the sunny yellow flowers of St. John’s wort start to bloom, I know that summer is here! It is a great plant to learn how to forage, as it grows nearly everywhere and offers some lovely herbal qualities. After foraging St. John’s wort, use it to make infused oil and salve for sore muscles…
50+ Dandelion Recipes: Drinks, Sweets, Soap, Remedies + More!
Dandelion flowers are edible and medicinal and have many uses! Here are 50+ dandelion recipes for drinks, sweets, baked goods, savory dishes, bath and body, and home remedies. Harvesting Dandelions for Food & Medicine After a long winter, it can be a relief to see the first few signs of spring. Like a groundhog not…
Dandelion Soap Made With the Whole Plant
Celebrate spring with a dandelion soap made from the whole dandelion plant! This all-natural cold-processed soap recipe makes a beautiful bar loaded with blossoms, leaves, and roots of herbalists’ and foragers’ favorite “weeds”! I don’t know about you, but by the time February and March roll around, I am so over winter. As much as…
Comfrey Salve: Herbal Recipe
Learn how to make your own homemade comfrey salve. Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) has traditionally been used in herbal preparations. Some studies suggest that it contains allantoin, which may support skin cell regeneration, and rosmarinic acid, which has been explored for its potential anti-inflammatory properties. Medicinal Benefits of Comfrey I’m always amazed by the power of…
Rose Hip Lip Balm for Soothing Dry Lips
{This post is sponsored by Mountain Rose Herbs} Learn how to make rose hip lip balm with organic dried rose hips and rose hip seed oil. It is a soothing and moisturizing herbal lip balm for dry lips! Rose Hip Lip Balm Recipe Natural lip balms are easier to make than you may think, and…
Juniper Spice Beard Balm: Homemade Natural Beard Care
Learn how to make this DIY juniper spice beard balm for that bearded person in your life! This is a terrific homemade beard balm made with all natural herbal ingredients. This juniper spice recipe beard balm smells amazing! Homemade Herbal Beard Balm Last year I made a Rosemary Pine Beard Balm that was hugely popular,…
Kombucha Soap: Natural Face Bar Recipe
Most of us in the fermenting world know all about kombucha, whether we’ve made it ourselves or just purchase it at our local health food store. What I’ve only recently learned is that kombucha is also great for the skin and makes a wonderful soap! This kombucha soap face bar recipe comes from a brand…
Wild Rose and Yarrow Soap
Making homemade soap is one of my new favorite skills. I especially love soaps that are made with foraged and wildcrafted ingredients. This wild rose and yarrow soap is lovely and great for the skin! Wild Rose and Yarrow Soap Recipe My friend Jan Berry, blogger at The Nerdy Farm Wife and author of The…
DIY Herbal No Bug Balm (with Lemon Balm)
Summer is the time for bugs, and not always the good kind! There’s nothing worse than going on a relaxing camping trip near a beautiful river or lake, only to get eaten alive by mosquitoes the whole time. The only problem with commercial bug spray is that there is often toxic chemicals in them that…
