Eight excellent eco-friendly beauty blogs
Get crafty and treat your skin with these delightful beauty tricks.
Image source: Anna Ok
Everyone loves a good pamper session. But many beauty products are super expensive and harmful to the environment. If you want to get amazing results that are kind on your pocket and on the planet, why not try some eco-friendly beauty DIY?
With ingredients straight from nature, or sourced from your kitchen cupboards, you can create luxurious hair, face and body treatments that you’ll come back to time after time. Here are eight excellent, eco-friendly bloggers to show you the way.
April Lily Rose
Fancy a gentle homemade deodorant that smells like lemon meringue pie? Try Sophie’s lemongrass, bergamot, grapefruit and arrowroot version. Sophie is the organic beauty enthusiast behind April Lily Rose - a blog about making, discovering and trying out non-toxic makeup, skincare & remedies.
‘What could be more delicious than some tropical inspired mango and coconut body lotion bars?’ she asks? We say: your rosewater face toner comes a close second, Sophie!
DIY Beauty Diva
This skin-firming mask contains just three delicious ingredients
Image source: denio109
A face mask made from chocolate, double cream and honey? Yes, please! This recipe is by Lorraine Dallmeier, AKA the DIY Beauty Diva. “Cocoa powder contains lots of minerals including calcium, potassium and zinc as well as high levels of caffeine and theobromine. These compounds are able to break down fats and can have a draining effect”, she explains.
Also on our list of favourite DIYs from Lorraine’s blog are her coconut-oil hair mask and her gentle, nourishing lip gloss with calendula and chamomile, both of which are easy to make and smell divine.
Ethical Unicorn
‘I feel like a coffee goddess as the smell is still faintly lingering around me as I walk, and I’ve been moisturised and exfoliated brilliantly,’ writes Francesca Willow of Ethical Unicorn, about her DIY coffee and coconut body scrub.
Artist and writer Francesca blogs about living life in the slow lane, wherever that may be. She posts on zero waste, ethical fashion and sustainable beauty. Try her non-toxic dry shampoo recipes with added turmeric, cinnamon or cocoa, to flatter any hair colour.
Lovely Greens
‘Sea salt of any kind can be beneficial for skin and is said to balance oil production and control bacteria,’ writes Tanya of Lovely Greens. If you’d like to try the benefits of sea salt for yourself, Tanya has a fabulous recipe for soleseife - a natural sea-water soap - on her blog.
American-born Tanya now calls the Isle of Man her home, and its rolling green hills and forested glens inspire her eco lifestyle. She adores making soap and has some excellent tutorials including a gentle goats’ milk soap for sensitive skins, and a soapless face cleanser with raw honey and lavender.
Mamalina
‘I love the idea of making something from scratch, and knowing exactly what goes into it,’ writes slow-living mama Emma, AKA Mamalina.
Describing herself as ‘a (not so secret) hippy at heart’, she shares tips on everything from zero waste to healthy food and, of course, eco beauty.
If, like Emma, you’re fed up with trying to find a toxin-free baby cleanser that doesn’t cost the earth, her DIY baby wash could be just the thing you’re looking for. Blending aloe vera, sweet almond oil and lavender, it’s fantastic for a pre-bedtime bath. Check out her hand sanitiser recipe too, containing tea tree, witch hazel and absolutely nothing nasty.
The Diary Of A Frugal Family
Beautiful bath salts make any bath better
Image source: Shutterstock
‘I didn’t set out to make unicorn bath salts at all this morning!’, writes frugal mummy Cass. When she came across bottles of pretty food colouring at the back of her baking cupboard, Cass immediately put them to good use making these super-cute unicorn bath salts.
Cass started her journey to frugal living when she wanted to reduce her working hours to spend more precious time with her children. The whole family are now frugal experts and the blog is full of low-cost DIYs including many beauty ideas. Fancy treating yourself to a whipped pink lemonade body scrub? Cass will show you how. And her homemade hair detangler is pure genius.
OhMySkin!
‘As the long sunny days are creeping around the corner, I decided I would motivate myself like never before in this eternal war against the hideous lumpy beast!’, writes Parisian beauty blogger Yasmina. She’s waging war on the dreaded cellulite and has a fantastic DIY cellulite recipe that’s worth a try.
On her blog, the whimsically titled OhMySkin! her beauty recipes are as effective as they are delicious. The hair mask pictured above contains agave syrup, avocado oil, broccoli oil and aloe vera gel, while her strawberry DIY lip scrub sounds too good not to eat:
This recipe really is a treat not just for beauty addicts but strawberry lovers too as you will be instantly drooling every time you look inside the pot.
Eco Fluffy Mama
When Tamsin Hopkins started experimenting with DIY deodorants, she had a long list of must-haves:
I wanted to make something that was vegan-friendly, free from coconut oil and didn’t melt into liquid during the summer. But most of all, I wanted to create a zero waste deodorant recipe that actually worked.
The result is a sweet, zingy mixture of lemon and geranium oils, arrowroot and Kaolin clay pictured above.
Tamsin’s blog, Eco Fluffy Mama, has a whole range of clever beauty DIYs, including natural dry shampoo containing clay and arrowroot powder, and some seriously uplifting orange bath salts.
We hope we’ve inspired you to try some of these bloggers’ DIY beauty treats. If you have any of your own to share, we’d love to hear about them on our Facebook page, or via Instagram.
