Rose powder face mask

Rose powder face mask

Opening OurSelves just like roses open gracefully their petals. I will share today my beauty ritual based on rose powder. Damas rose petals are dried in open air and then transformed into powder. It has a delicate rose perfume. Rose powder is used in Ayurveda…

EASY DIY FACE CREAM

EASY DIY FACE CREAM

WHY? Creams that we buy in the shops contain ingredients that might have a doubtful impact on our health, as well as on the environment. We feed our body with endocrine disruptors and with ingredients that have carcinogenic potential. Daily. They can accumulate in the…

Winter Skin Caring

Winter Skin Caring

During winter, we change our clothes and shoes to protect against cold, wind, temperature difference or we are cocooning ourselves while being back home. Living in harmony with the nature means caring about the skin in rhytm with seasons. Either we protect our skin in…

Chocolate Body Care

Chocolate Body Care

What about spoiling OurSelves? In a different way that we might have done during last days. Homemade gourmand body SPA. I was thinking about something simple, using ingredients we might already have in the kitchen or which we can add to our shopping list. In…

Natural Vitamin E source for mature skin

Natural Vitamin E source for mature skin

Barbary Fig or Nopal Fig or Prickly Pear. At the beginning I was thinking it’s a Fig variety and that it looks similar to classical Fig. Not at all! I was courios to taste it. Even if it is the end of the season now,…

Hair mask

Hair mask

Today I have cooked for myself and have prepared a hair mask. A hydrating and strengthening one.  Egg yolk is an important ingredient I usually use for hair care. I add available ingredients I have home like avocado/banana/lemon, vegetable oil (argan, avocado, jojoba), honey.  Today…

SUN SKIN PROTECTION

SUN SKIN PROTECTION

Usually sunscreen products are real chemical cocktails that we carefully apply on our skin aiming in fact to protect ourselves. If you read the list of ingredients on one of the sunscreen you have home, you might feel like at chemistry class.  In my opinion…

SUMMER SKIN CARING

SUMMER SKIN CARING

Holidays! We missed so much the sun that our skin is more sensible then ever. At least mine. There are many ingredients that help caring of skin before, during and after sun exposure. I have selected vegetable oils of Raspberry and Tomato because they: –…

DIY PERFUME

DIY PERFUME

I have attended a 4 h workshop to learn how to make perfume by myself and using natural ingredients. I will share with you a learning which might be useful to know even if we prefer to buy perfumes. Perfume fragrance contains 3 types of…

Fresh Green Peas Bruschetta

Fresh Green Peas Bruschetta

A quick and very delicious recipe of bruschetta that is perfect to be shared in the family or with friends especially during hot summer days. It has a fresh Mediterranean taste and aroma in my opinion. INGREDIENTS 150 g of organic green peas 250 g…