Monday 14 April 2014

Review of my own balms!

Today I'm going to review my own hand made beauty products! Last Saturday I attended a course on how to make my own balms. It was so fun and interesting! I made three products using only natural and ecological ingredients. No conservatives or artificial ingredients! I felt like a proper chemist doing them but it was not hard. Timing and measurement was important though.

Best of all is that I'm so pleased how well the products are working on my skin! I've used them every day this past week and here are my reviews and thoughts :)

First up to be tested was the lotion which I've been using as a hand cream. It's quite oily and you need to work it in a bit but OMG how soft my hands got once it was in! Long lasting too and my choice of scents was spot on! Grapefruit with a hint of orange. Mmmmm!

The pot marigold cream has the scent of lavender and something similar to rosemary and I've tried it for dry red spots, pimples, skin irritations, enlarged pores, dry cuticles and it has worked on every single one of those issues! Even though it's quite oily it actually makes my skin more matte once the skin has absorbed it and it doesn't take long for it to be absorbed. Amazing! The pot marigold seems to have magic qualities!

The lip balm is the best one I've ever tried! I'm addicted to lip balm and I have applied my ordinary lip balm like twenty times a day but with this one I only need to apply it perhaps three times a day! I can feel it sink in instead of just laying on top of the lips. Our course teacher informed us about this but I didn't believe her until I tried it myself. Now I believe her and she also said that after a while using this balm the lips won't need it at all anymore! They get saturated with moist. I also tried this balm on my cuticles and it works great there too! They get so soft! For this lip balm I chose a pure grape fruit scent.

I'm so going to make more of these balms! All three of them! My top choice is the lip/cuticle balm. I'd like to do it with different scents like peppermint, orange and toffee perhaps. Yummy!


Have you tried making your own skin care?

10 comments:

  1. Salvan tycker jag låter riktigt intressant!

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  2. Men guud såå spännande och roligt. :-)

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  3. Alltid kul med Äkta varor. Säg till om du börjar sälja :) xoxo

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  4. Det låter jätteroligt, jag vill också gå en sån kurs! :-)

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  5. Great review on them. They sound nice. Never tried making my own skin care but I bet its very fun.

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  6. Very interesting! Many times these kind of hand-made balms function better then those that you can buy in shops :-)

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  7. Låter fantastiskt! Jag har gjort salva på ringblomma och lite sånt när jag hade trädgård men inte nu. Dina salvor låter fantastiskt bra! Jag skulle behöva dem nu för jag har världens torraste händer just nu,

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  8. Men Gud vad roligt det låter! Och vad härligt att det blev så bra resultat!:)

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  9. Hi doll, how exiting to be the manufactorer of your own beauty well!!! I am awed at your skills and give you a standing ovation!!! I have found such a lipbalm too - by now I need it over all sorts of bodyparts and wherever applied it works miracles, next to lips I love it best on my cuticles!! Hava a wonderful day - viele Küsschen xxx

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  10. wow så kul! Spännande läsning. Jag skulle också vilja gå en sån här kurs, synd att jag inte bor i samma stad som du! Tror nämligen inte det finns där jag bor. Man kan ju visserligen läsa på nätet men är inte samma sak. Jag skulle vilja göra en mjukgörande kräm till min pojkvän som har kliande eksem. Vanliga krämer på apoteket får han smörja hela tiden och de funkar inte så bra. :/

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