DIY: Easy & Affordable Lip Scrub

DIY: Easy & Affordable Lip Scrub

Hello my Lovelies! I've got a new tutorial for you all: how to make a lip scrub! Exfoliating your lips is a simple step that people tend to either forget about or ignore in their beauty regimes, but it does have it's benefits. It only takes a couple of minutes and you only need to do it one a week, maybe slightly more frequently during the winter.

Using a good lip scrub every now and then helps to remove all those nasty dead skin cells. This leaves your lips fresh soft and smooth and this in turn helps lipsticks and glosses to adhere to your lips better, which makes them last longer! It also helps your lips to retain moisture longer, stopping cracked and chapped lips, especially helpful during the windy, cold season!

With that said, lets get on with the tutorial!

What you're going to need:

Sugar (white or brown)

Coconut Oil

A small tin for storage

Jojoba Oil

and some food colouring if you want

Okay, so first thing, take your container and fill it up to about halfway with your sugar. My container is pretty small and it ended up only being about two tea spoons worth.

Next take a heaped tea spoon of coconut oil and add it to the tin.

Add a couple of drops of the jojoba oil.

And stir everything together.

This can be all you do, but for an added bit of flare I added a few drops of food colouring to the mixture. Don't worry, I tried it out and didn't notice any staining or tinting of the lips.

Make sure you mix it all together, and that's it! A really simple, inexpensive lip scrub! These can make cute little gifts for your friends if you wanted, just decorate the tin or mix up the colour of the scrub!

I hope you found this tutorial helpful, let me know what you think!

Monday, 19 October 2015 Comments: 0

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LUSH Inspired Jelly Soap

LUSH Inspired Jelly Soap

Hello Lovelies! Here's another tutorial for you: how to make Lush inspired jellies. It actually really simple and fun to do! (Also, pretty inexpensive!) 

What you're going to need is:

Your choice of Shampoo and / or shower gel

Glycerine

Unflavoured gelatine

An ice cube tray

Rubbing Alcohol

A couple of mixing containers (make sure they're heat proof)

Boiling water

And a pinch of salt

First thing to do to take about one and a half packets of the unflavoured gelatine and place them in your mixing bowl. Then add 200ml - 300ml of boiling water and mix it all together until the gelatine is completely dissolved.

             

 

Now, split the mixture in half and put one half of the mixture aside.

Take half your solution and pour a cup of shampoo (I'm using Herbal Essence) and mix it in completely. Be sure to be gentle, if you stir too roughly or vigorously you'll end up with a very frothy mixture. If you want to make the colour stronger then you can always add in a couple of drops of food colouring.

Then, for a moisturising effect, pour in a few drops of glycerine and gently stir it in.

Once you're finished doing that, pour the mixture into your ice cube tray.

          

Repeat these steps with the other half of your mixture, except instead of shampoo, use the shower gel.

Now take your rubbing alcohol and spray the surface of the soap in the moulds. This will get rid of the bubbles that are floating on the surface.

If you've got excess mixture, don't worry, just do what I did. I poured mine into two small glasses I had in the kitchen. Once you're finished, just pop everything into the fridge for around four hours. I know it seems like a long time to wait, and if you're anything like me, you'll be at the fridge checking the progress every ten minutes, but trust me, it's so worth the wait!

When everything has set, take your soaps out of the fridge and gently prying the soaps out of the moulds. I did this by gently pulling the soap away from the sides before slowly easing them out of the moulds.

To get the soap out of the glasses I just used a toothpick and used it to separate the soap from the side of the glass. Once I'd done that it just popped right out.

And there you have it! Your own jelly soap! It was so much simpler and easier than I thought it would be and I really had fun making them. They smell great and are super fun to use! Just keep in mind that it's best to keep these in the fridge as they do tend to melt a little at room temperature.

I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial, let me know what you think!

Tuesday, 21 July 2015 Comments: 0

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