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    Home / Natural Beauty / Christmas Beauty / Four homemade beauty gifts to give this Christmas

    Four homemade beauty gifts to give this Christmas

    Christmas is the perfect time of year to offer up beauty treats of a hand-crafted variety. Not only are they quick and inexpensive to create but your fondest of friends will radiate Christmas cheer for an oh-so thoughtful addition to their bathroom cupboards. Here are four of the best homemade beauty gifts:

    1. Gingerbread lip scrub

    For a festive tingle that lasts long after Christmas day, this gingerbread goody is the ideal offering.

    Ingredients:

    • 300g sugar
    • 150g coconut oil
    • 1 tbsp honey
    • 1 tsp molasses/black treacle – this will be perfect
    • 3/4 tsp ginger
    • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
    • 1/2 tsp nutmeg
    • 1/4 tsp cloves

    How to make it:

    Combine sugar and solid coconut oil in a bowl. Pour in your honey and molasses and stir well. Pop your festive spices in and mix together until all are folded in. Once your sugary scrub is made, decant into a tub and tie with a festive bow.

    1. Santa’s sea salt spray

    If you know a friend who is after tousled locks for Christmas, look no further than this secret recipe from Santa himself…

    Ingredients:

    •  A spray bottle
    • 1 tbsp sea salt
    • 1 tbsp melted coconut oil
    • 1 tbsp leave-in conditioner
    • 300g warm water

    How to make it:

    Pour the water and sea salt into your spray bottle and give it a shake. Mix the melted coconut oil with the leave in conditioner and once the salt has dissolved, pop in the mixture.

    Shake the bottle again and there you have it. 

    1. White Christmas bath milk

    For a relaxing festive soak, give this bath milk a go:

    Ingredients:

    • 200g powdered milk
    • 150g Epsom salt
    • 20 drops Lemon essential oil
    • 4 drops Camomile essential oil

    How to make it:

    Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl, then add the oils. Once mixed, pop into a glass bottle of your choice. For a super kitsch feel, you could try a traditional glass milk bottle – washed first of course!

    1. Charcoal face mask

    Far from its lumpy and undesirable counterpart, this impurity-lifting face mask is the prefect post-Xmas skin treat.

    • 2 capsules of activated charcoal
    • 1/2 tsp of bentonite clay
    • 1 1/2 tsp water

    How to make it:

    Gently twist and pull apart the charcoal capsules to empty. Mix all ingredients together with a wooden spoon to form a paste and voila! Pop into a container and nestle under the tree.

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