natural beauty products

Simplest hand softening moisturiser

With all the frequent hand-washing and hand-sanitising over the last few months - and still continuing - my hands are pretty dry and scaly to be honest.

So I asked friends for recommendations for their favourite (cruelty-free and natural) hand creams.

I have some great suggestions that I look forward to trying, but one of the suggestions I was able to try right away.

Like within a couple of minutes of reading it … because it’s simple and natural and uses two ingredients that most of us will have at home already.

And I do love a natural home made beauty product as you’ll probably know!

This lovely suggestion was given by my friend Leah who also said it’s the only thing that cleans her hands after making her resin jewellery.

Side note: I have some of her earrings and love them. In fact I think I have now about five pairs! Some of the resin studs and some drop silver leaf earrings. She makes lovely things and they’re super good value too. Her Etsy shop is HERE.


Ok, back to the magical dry hands saviour!

This is it.

Olive oil. And sugar.

That’s all.

Mix together and then just massage into your hands, and round the nails and up onto your wrists. It’s a really good scrub and feels great.

Rinse off and wash hands with a nice gentle soap and that’s it.

I have been doing this every couple of days since hearing of it and my hands are already so much better - and they feel so, so good when you’ve just finished it too.

Literally, I dry my hands after the soap washing stage and then can’t stop stroking them!

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Gratuitous hand photo included as I just had my nails done for the first time since lockdown and am ridiculously happy with them.

Do try this lovely, simple olive oil and sugar hand scrub - it really, really works.

It feels amazing. I’m sure you’ll love it too.


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DIY rose coconut sugar body scrub

I love making home made beauty treatments, always have done.

Even as a child I’d read all the herbal and natural remedies books on my parents’ bookshelves and make anything I could …. honey face masks, or chamomile tea hair rinses, or well, anything I heard about and could find the ingredients for really.

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I’d had this rose essential oil on my Christmas list this year and was so pleased to receive it! I’ve recently discovered this brand and am really happy with the oils I’ve tried so far, they’re really good value too.

Realised yesterday that I hadn’t yet tried it, so decided to make a body scrub for my bath later that evening.

This is very simple, smells amazing, made my skin incredibly soft and moisturised and also left floating rose petals in the bath which was just lovely and luxurious.

Rose is nurturing, comforting and just right for when you need to be gentle and take care of yourse

You’ll need:

approx 3/4 - 1 cup white sugar

approx 1/3 - 1/2 cup coconut oil (mine was solid as it’s quite cold but you can use liquid of course)

a small handful of dried rose petals (mine are actually a ‘cooks’ ingredient’ from Waitrose, but you could dry your own or they’re easily available online)

10 drops rose essential oil

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Mash it all together until it’s completely mixed in and the oil and sugar combined and then put into a clean jar …. and that’s it.

In the bath take a good handful and just enjoy that beautiful scent, the scrub of the sugar and the indulgent moisturising of the coconut oil and then just relax for a while in the rose petal water …

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