This holiday season with increasing awareness of the toxic chemicals in many personal products and smaller budgets for gifts, this is the perfect time to consider handmade beauty products as gifts. Making your gift is a true gesture of love and a great way to give unique and personalized gifts.
Check out these ideas for handmade skin and body care gifts:
Crunchy Betty's 40 Hot Homemade Gift Ideas: 20 More for the Ladies! - Not all of these are skin and body care, but there are a lot of good ideas here. She includes such ideas as Fragrant Body Powder, Handmade Lip Balm, Sugar & Salt Scrubs, Lotion Bars, and much, much more! The chocolate lip balm is particularly decedant and great for girlfriends, Mothers-In-Law and even kids. And, you MUST try the Chocolate Chip Lip Balm! Know someone who loves to make beauty treatments at home? Consider giving them a copy of Crunchy Betty's e-book, "You've Got Food On Your Face."
Photo: Crunchy Betty. Her 3 Amigos Lip Balms
Martha Stewart's Handmade Bath & Spa Gifts - There are lots of great ideas here, and in typical Martha fashion there are lots of great packaging ideas too. She even has labels you can print out for some of them. Here are ideas for Bath Snowballs, Tub Teas, Bath Salts & more. Always be sure to read the ingredients as Martha Stewart is no exactly a green site so there may be some recipes that have ingredients that are less than desirable (such as the lip balm recipe that uses shavings from lipstick - make sure it's a natural, nontoxic lipstick). She also has this recipe for making Lavendar Body Oils.
Photo: Martha Stewart Omnimedia. Bath Snowballs
With just a few ingredients and some fun packaging, you can make really great, useful and thoughtful gifts for anyone. Do you make any handmade beauty gifts for the holidays? Share your ideas below.
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