when i started wearing my hair ‘au naturale’ the majority of the time, i decided to pay attention to what was actually in my hair products and i started reading product labels. i switched to buying mostly, all natural products, except for a few staples. i even started attempting to make my own hair products using left over products i don’t plan to buy anymore. i woke up this morning and went straight into the kitchen…no, not to cook breakfast, but to concoct my new products. i have never used a body scrub but decided to make my own because my “exfoliating” body wash was not doing the trick.

i read few recipes and decided to create my own:

erocka’s homemade body scrub:

1/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup oatmeal (optional *read below)

3 tbs. grapeseed oil

3 tbs. coconut oil

i mixed all this together and stored in a washed out container from another product. i looks so tasty, but i wouldn’t eat it, it’s kind of oily. i used a little on my arms and hands and washed it off, it left my hands soft and moisturized. next time i will leave the oatmeal out of it because it makes the scrub flaky and it doesn’t stay on the skin like the sugars do, it just kind of falls off causing a little mess.

UPDATE:  after showering and using this scrub, i have come up with how to best use it. first of all LEAVE OUT the oatmeal, in the shower it looked like i was bathing in breakfast, and the oatmeal gets stuck in places you don’t want oatmeal. so i would do half sugar/ half brown sugar. i would definitely use this in the shower after washing with soap, it leaves skin very soft and mositurized, and i feel soooo clean, i didn’t even have to put on any lotions or oil after getting out the shower, my mom always told me to add oils onto my skin before drying off so it would seal in the moisture, with this you just wash the scrub off and go. i used it on my face too, my nose is usually a little rough on the tip from small bumps that appear, after scrubbing they are gone and my whole face is smooth.

my daily hair mist i have been using a for a few months, i made another batch this morning.

erocka’s homemade conditioning hair mist:

1 part (favorite conditioner, mine’s Aussie Moist)

1 part water

1 part aloe vera juice (optional)

2 vitamin E capsules

1 tsp. honey

about a tbs. coconut oil

about a tbs. castor oil (optional)

5- 10 drops essential oil (i used grapefruit)

these measurements are all guesstimations, depending on how much i wanna make, i make enough for one to two 12 oz. spray bottles. i put all the ingredients in a small pot on the stove and heat it, this  mixes everything pretty well when i heat it, except for the essential oil, which you will see seperate once you put it in a spray bottle, you will have to shake it with each use. then i pour it into the bottle(s) and let it chill in the fridge. and use daily. it smells like a pina colada, because the Aussie Moist smells like coconut, and the grapefruit essential oil i chose smells great with it.

then i made some homemade deodorant, i know sounds weird right?

i got this recipe off   Amy Karol’s  Angry Chicken blog.

homemade deordorant:

3 tbs. shea butter
3 tbs. baking soda
2 tbs. corn starch
2 tbs. cocoa butter
2 vitamin E oil gel capsules
essential oil (i used orange)

“I melted all the ingredients (except the oils) and gave it a good stir. This only took about 30 seconds in the microwave.

Then added the oils, stirred again, and poured it in a jar, then placed it in the fridge to set. This recipe filled the jar

in my hand, which is a 1/4 pint.”

i will modify if i need to later, i just want to see how this works compared to my store bought deodorant.