Hello, Beautiful! Thanks for joining us at the Intersection of Skincare & Soulcare — DIY Your Skincare

The Best DIY Body Exfoliating Scrubs    If you’ve been looking for the perfect exfoliator, chances are, you’ve come across at least a few sugar scrubs in your search. Sugar scrubs for the body are incredibly effective at eliminating dead skin cells and leaving your skin especially soft and healthy.    They also create the perfect self-care ritual, allowing you to take care of dull, rough skin patches and relax with a feel-good product and soothing scents. You can use your scrubs on your full body a few times a week to get the maximum benefits and maintain super hydrated...

Let's Make Lotion Bars Today - I'll Show you How Simple it Is Why lotion bars, you ask? Because fall is coming and we get those dry, itchy spots on our elbows, hands and feet. That's why. I love my creams for all over hydration and moisturization, but I also love a good lotion bar to get some straight butters on the really dry areas.  I used to make lotion bars in tubes that you could roll up, but I have had this obsession lately with cute little shapes and tiny tins. So, for fall of 2019 into winter of...

I've always been a tea lover, from the moment I set foot in England during a family trip when I was twelve-years-old, I was hooked. In fact, I'm enjoying a cup of tea as I write this blog! Now that you know the inspiration for my Balancing Act Soap in white tea, ginger and mint, you can follow along as I make it and cut it. It's a particularly large batch as this is a popular soap here at Second Spring Naturals, but I can still manage a lovely tea green drop swirl that appears to dance in and out...

I get custom orders from time to time and this is one of my favorites. I love a good goat milk soap that has a load of activated charcoal in it. This bar is unscented, so I thought I would add a touch of 'fancy' and do a mantra swirl. First, lets get the 411 on the benefits of activated charcoal: • Activated charcoal (as opposed to wood charcoal used for heating purposes) is used for medicinal and beauty purposes, like detox and and for digestive health. • Additionally, it binds to drugs and poisons (you've heard of its use in...

Lets talk about how our skin changes after forty, shall we? I have never, ever had an issue with acne, blemishes, blotchy or red skin ---nada. And then I turned forty-something and my skin decided to do everything. It went oily AND dry; it started to become even more sensitive to things touching it, even hair products. I couldn't even wear liquid make-up without getting these crazy bumps all over. My poor lips started to dry and flake, too. I felt like I was imploding (cue the Walking Dead). Needless to say, I couldn't very well own a natural skincare...