Homemade Self-Care (cleanser, mask, scrub, shampoo, bath salts)

Hey guys, welcome back to my channel. Today I am making some DIY herbal beauty treatments. I'm starting with a very easy cleanser that's just oatmeal and then I'm moving on to a face mask that's just two ingredients and then I'm going to be making some herbal concoctions or beauty treatments from herbs in my garden. These are really easy recipes and even if you don't grow and dry your own herbs you can find herbs from different stores online which I will share in the description below where I find a lot of my herbs and you can easily make these. Not only do they smell beautiful, they work really well for your skin and your hair. So I'm really excited to share these with you and I'm going to go ahead and just jump right in. As I have shared before on my channel we started a culinary herb garden a decade ago when we lived in an apartment. Our desire to grow herbs has grown more and more and I've really wanted to try medicinal herbs. I actually found this really great class from Herbal Academy and if you follow me on Instagram you will have seen that I have been taking this over the last few weeks. It's six units and it's a lot of reading and you have to take a test after each unit but I passed all the tests and I got a certificate and now I'm moving on to the intermediate herbal course which I'm really excited about. It was essentially a textbook of information about the human body and how we respond to our environment and plants and herbs, the proper doses for tinctures and teas, which herbs are appropriate for children, which are not. I learned a lot and felt like I gained a lot of knowledge on the herbs that I want to grow and start experimenting more with so I actually planted a lot including echinacea, calendula, valerian, black cohosh and a bunch more that I shared on my Instagram. So right here I'm actually harvesting some of my lavender and rosemary. Some of these recipes are actually adapted from my studies because they had an entire chapter on beauty treatments using herbs but of course they touched on both internal and external use of herbs. So right here I basically just have oatmeal. I'm using my mortar and pestle and I'm just going to go ahead and grind that. If you want to get the oatmeal really fine you can use a coffee grinder and that's really nice. It's a little easier on your sink. It's a good exfoliant as well and you'll notice when you add a little water it does kind of foam up a little bit. So if you're looking for a natural and easy and inexpensive cleanser, reach for this. You can keep a little bit next to your sink, add a little bit of water. It's a really gentle cleanser and also a very mild exfoliant. So I'm going to be making a really easy face mask with diatomaceous earth and aloe vera from my garden. Now diatomaceous earth is a unique type of sand that consists of fossilized algae and has tons and tons of uses including making homemade toothpaste with it, a DIY deodorant. You can use it for, I mean even you can put it in chicken coops. There's so many benefits to it. You can also make a very easy face mask. So I do highly recommend keeping some diatomaceous earth in your home. You can find it at local herb stores, beauty supply stores, or even online. So I just picked some fresh aloe from the garden. I'm adding that directly into the diatomaceous earth. I'm going to mix that up and I'm using that as a face mask. It's also very healing because of the aloe vera. So be sure to look for food grade diatomaceous earth when you're shopping for it and research online all the different benefits because there's so many different ways to utilize it. But yeah, today I'm using this as a face mask. My skin felt amazing after. And again, if you're looking for less expensive, more natural approaches to skincare, this is a really great option because it's just two simple ingredients. So I'm going to sit with this face mask on for a few minutes. I'm actually going to hop in my sauna which just got fixed. I'm so excited. This was a closet for the previous owner and I knew when I bought this house that I wanted it to be working. We got the heating unit. So to prepare, I had to sand and wash the entire interior and get it all ready. And I've been trying to use it as often as possible because there are so many benefits to using a sauna. I'm sharing more about herbs and beauty treatments and I shared a little bit about my sauna on my Pacific Time Instagram page. So I will link both of my Instagram pages below so that you can kind of get tips throughout the week when I'm not posting on YouTube. Next, I'm making a calendula and chamomile body scrub. This is very healing and gentle to the skin. I'm starting with some chamomile. We actually grow chamomile and then you can harvest and dry it. You can use it for teas or beauty treatments. I did start growing calendula recently, as I mentioned, but I of course don't have anything quite yet and I definitely don't have anything to harvest. So I picked up some organic calendula at a local herb shop called Mother Nature's Remedy. If I can't make it down to the valley to get my herbs from Mother Nature's Remedy, I order them from a place called Mountain Rose Herbs. I will also share that in the description. You can find all sorts of beautiful herbs and seeds on Mountain Rose Herbs. So I'm adding that to some sugar and then I'm just gonna go ahead and add some olive oil. This makes a really simple body scrub. Again, feel free to put this in the coffee grinder if you want it to be really smooth. I prefer a little texture, but if you're concerned about your drain, you can always have it really, really, really smooth by grinding it up in a coffee grinder. So I'm adding the olive oil, mixing it together, and you can use this all over your entire body as a gentle body scrub. Next, I'm going to make an herbal shampoo. This was an adaptation from my herbal studies and it's a really beautiful recipe. I wasn't sure how I would feel about it as a shampoo, but it's actually really nice. So I would highly recommend trying it. It's made with calendula. So I have calendula and some hot water. I'm going to let that brew as if it were like a tea. And calendula is really great for hydrating the scalp, removing dandruff, improving the condition of the scalp overall. It has a lot of antioxidants, so it's just really great for the hair and the scalp overall. And I'm going to take the leftover calendula after I brew it and strain it and I'm going to give that to my chickens because they love it and it's really good for them as well. It will give them a really lovely orange color to their yolk and they love it. So it's a nice treat for them as well. So then I'm going to come back and finish making with the tea that I made or that I brewed. I'm going to go ahead and put that into a container. I like to use a glass container whenever I'm using herbs or essential oils, but you want to be careful of course using glass in the shower because if you slip and drop it you don't want to step on glass. So I'm using some castile soap added to the calendula brew. I've added a few drops of essential oil to a carrier oil. So I have coconut oil and I'm going to add that together. So the essential oils that I used were lavender and I also have some peppermint just to kind of stimulate the scalp as well. And so it's about two or three drops for both the lavender and the peppermint and then of course the carrier oil. Coconut oil will harden so you'll see at the top there that it does kind of get that hard oil. So once you have the steam going in the shower you can just put the bottle under the hot water and then use the shampoo. If you can handle it I always recommend turning your shower to cold right before you get out. It's just a nice burst of energy for the skin and the hair. It just kind of wakes everything up. And then next I'm going to be making an herbal and essential oil bath salt. And these are really easy to make. I highly recommend taking Epsom salt baths as often as possible. It's really really good for your body if you're feeling sore or achy or you're sick. It's just such a wonderful wonderful thing to do for your body and you can find Epsom salts pretty much anywhere for just a few dollars. So I'm crushing up some rose and chamomile and then I'm going to add that to some Epsom salt. You can use Himalayan salt but Epsom salts are really great for just a deep soak when you're not feeling well, when you're PMSing. After having two kids and carrying them around, my body and my lower back just I get times where my joints just don't feel quite right and I'm feeling sore and achy. So I love to take an Epsom salt bath. I'm mixing this together and then I'm going to add my essential oil favorites at the moment that I'm using for bath time. Again I'm going to add with a carrier oil, so with coconut oil. Right now my favorites for bath time are sweet orange, black pepper, and frankincense mixed together. I add a few drops of the essential oils to the coconut oil and then I mix that with the bath salts and then I just put that in a really pretty jar. This will last for several weeks so whenever I plan to take a bath I can go ahead and add that to the bath and again I highly recommend it. Very easy to make and bath salts can be expensive but you can make them for have different body oils that I purchase. I like to keep the ingredients as clean as possible especially if they're going all over my body but you can make a very easy DIY body oil with calendula. Again you're going to need dried calendula. Go ahead and put that in a jar and then cover it with olive oil and you're going to let that soak for about 24 to 48 hours. Calendula oil is fantastic for the skin and also this can be used as a base for many other recipes as well. A lot of people use calendula on their children just because it's very gentle for eczema and it's just very healing overall for the body and very easy to make so you're basically just infusing the oil with the calendula and you get the many benefits that calendula has on the skin. So then if you want you can go ahead and basically strain it. I left the calendula in there and I'm just going to use a little oil all over my body whenever I can after every shower just because it keeps my skin supple and healthy looking and my skin does get dry especially in the summer so I like to stay hydrated with a body oil. This one's really easy to make, inexpensive, and great for the body so I hope you guys enjoyed these recipes and I'm excited to share more with you in the future as I continue to grow herbs and yeah thank you so much for watching. I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye!