This easy homemade milk bath recipe and ideas to save on bath and beauty products make it easy to spoil yourself without spending a lot!
Homemade Milk Bath Recipe and Relaxing Tips
Lock yourself in the bathroom, put on some soothing music and light a candle… If you are lucky, you may have 5 minutes of peace and total quiet before your hubby and kids notice you are missing. ;-)
Every time I soak in the tub, I think of one of my favorite cartoons. It it shows the woman laying in a bubble bath and yelling to her husband, “We really need to get new faucets for this tub. I can’t turn these on and off with my toes.” :-D :-D
Here is a recipe for a homemade milk bath and tips that will help you relax and feel better!
Homemade Milk Bath Recipe
Ingredients
3 cups dry milk
5–6 drops essential or fragrance oil
Instructions
- Mix ingredients together.
- Add ½ cup to your bath water.
Notes
If you don’t have dry milk, try adding 2-3 tablespoons baby oil for a relaxing bath!
Tips
- Eyes looking a little rough around the edges? Try cucumber slices or tea bags on the eyes to help reduce puffiness. Try it for half an hour while soaking in the tub.
- To save money on manicures, don’t get them so often. Instead, use a nail buffer to shine nails between manicures.
- Go to the local beauty school to have manicures, pedicures and facials. You can feel pampered without spending a fortune. Five bucks is a great deal for a facial!
- After Christmas sales can offer many great deals on bath and beauty products. Purchase nail care kits after Christmas at half price. You can get several polishes and tools for $2-$4. If you family loves to receive perfume, cologne or aftershave, stock up after Christmas when gift sets are on clearance. Give for Mother’s Day, Father’s day, Birthday’s, etc.
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I love homemade beauty products. They are so much fun to make and customize to your liking.
I’m having a problem leaving comments. I posted one here yesterday and it never showed up. Today I think I’m having same problem.
Am checking with T and M. I know they were having internet problems but I didn’t think it should effect the posts but we see what is going on.
Natural Nail Polish
1 Tablespoon olive oil
1/2 Tablespoon Talc Powder
Mix oil and talc into a smooth cream. Massage a small amount into nails and cuticles. Buff with a soft cloth or cotton ball for a soft natural glow. Your nails will look a little like you applied clear nail polish but is natural. Save the rest of mixture.
Homemade Alpha Hydroxy Mask
Cook half of a diced and peeled apple in a 1/4 cup milk until soft. Mash. Cool. Apply to face and neck and leave on for about 20 minutes. Rinse with warm water.
I have been trying to find a recipe for homemade lip gloss for a girl scout project. Do you ladies know of one? Thank you for this great site. You do a wonderful service.
We have several places for you. The first two are different lip glosses, the third link is our Pretty for Pennies which has tons of different homemade beauty products and the fourth link is our Dining on a Dime which is not just a cookbook but has Pretty for Pennies included in it.
https://www.livingonadime.com/homemade-lip-balm-recipe/
https://www.livingonadime.com/homemade-lip-gloss/
https://www.livingonadime.com/homemade-lip-gloss/
https://www.livingonadime.com/store/dining-dime-cookbook/
I have his recipe. Hope this helps.
Homemade All Natural Lip Balm
• 1 1/2 oz beeswax
• 2 1/2 oz shea butter or cocoa butter (or any combination of the two)
• 2 oz coconut oil, sweet almond oil or grapeseed oil (or any combination)
• 1-2 tsp. of essential oil – not essence oil (like using lemongrass, grapefruit, and tangerine)
• optional 1 vitamin E capsule (a natural preservative)
Melt the beeswax in a pot on the stove at a low heat setting.
Once the wax is at a liquid state, add butters, let melt.
Add grapeseed, sweet almond, and/or coconut oil and stir.
Remove from heat and add the essential oil, stir.
Pour into small containers (little lip balm pots, or even a small jar).
Let cool and harden.
I would like yo add one more tip to this useful post.
Apply the mixed paste of sandalwood cream and lime juice to the face. It is the best solution to Pimples. Also, the face would become soft and elegant. No side effects. It is 100% natural and this can be applied on all skin types.
Thank you..
How much sandalwood cream and lime juice do you mix together? And where can i purchase the sandalwood cream?
I would love to try this since my daughter has trouble with acne and nothing seems to work.
Thanks!
This was a comment from a reader so I am not sure but it sounds like you mix enough sandalwood cream and the lime juice to make a paste. Where to buy I’m not sure but you could try Amazon or google it.
Does anyone know an easy exfoliating facial scrub to make?
We have a real simple oatmeal one in Dining on a Dime. You pretty much can take any one of these – oatmeal or cornmeal or baking soda and make a paste out of them then rub on your face. You can add a drop or two of essential oil if you want but you don’t need to.
Another one is to use 1 tsp. honey and 1/2 tsp. sugar mixed together.
There are many out there with a bunch of ingredients and “exotic” oils and things but really the ones above accomplish the same thing. Sometimes we get carried away in making homemade things more complicated then they need to be. I was reading a thing on homemade weed killer the other day where you used about 4 different ingredients doing all this mixing etc. One of the ingredients was vinegar. The thing is just spraying vinegar kills the weeds fine so why go through the trouble and expense of adding more.