Hair and Beauty Tricks

my diy leave in conditioner.  take your 3 ingredients, 3 oz water, 1/2 extra virgin olive oil and 1 oz of your favorite conditioner and mix together , or just pour all into the spray bottle and shake!  found on Pinterest http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/diy-spray-on-leave-in-conditioner
I wash, condition, and wrap my hair in towel (not to rough cuticle) then spray with diy leave in conditioner, let air dry awhile and then put up into high ponytail.  go about your day and let hair finish drying while you keep cool with your hair off your neck.

I usually use a cloth scrunchie because it's easiest on your hair and shouldn't cause breakage.  I don't make the ponytail neat and i don't comb.  I just finger comb it up and pull it into a pony, securing with scrunchie, and then tucking the ends into scruchie with last twist.

So this is how my hair looked at end of day when i took it out of scruchie.  Good enough for going out or just seeing the hubby at the end of the day ;)

DIY FACE SCRUB 1/2 c. Sugar, 1/2 tsp lemon juice, 1/2 tsp witch hazel, 2 TBSP olive oil, 1/2 TBSP honey, 2 drops essential oil (eucalyptus is what I use). Mix ea. Ingred with sugar. *keep only 3 weeks. Love it!

DIY eye cream for puffy eyes.  1 TBS aloe vera with shea butter and 1TBS hemorrhoid cream (for the puffiness)  For a more soothing feeling, keep in the refrigerator.

This contact container (which I have several around) works great to store my diy eye cream in.  One could be for a night cream with a vitaman E capsule broken and added.  This eye cream is blue because I used a blue aloe vera sunburn relief gel with hemorrhoid cream.  The cooling affect of the gel really feels good under my eye.  Be careful not to get in eyes.   Any aloe vera cream will work.  I am reading the benefits of coconut oil too so my next trial will be with some coconut oil.