Do you prefer natural ingredients in your skin care products?
Do you prefer making your gifts, rather than purchasing them?
Then you want to read My Buttered Life – Gift Edition by Renee Harris from MadeOn Skin Care Products.
Inside this ebook you will find these Skin Care Recipes
- Chocolate Body Mousse
- Flavored Lip Balms
- Chocolate Peppermint Lotion Bars
- Scented and Shaped Lotion Bars
- Beeswax Candles
These recipes are written with easy instructions and require only five ingredients or less: shea butter, coconut oil, beeswax, cocoa butter, and/or essential oils. A handy sheet shows you where you can find these ingredients. You will also find a cost analysis listed with each recipe, so you can see the savings.
What’s Inside?
Each recipe is well presented. The ingredients are listed along with their measurements and weights, and are clickable so you can go right to the product for purchasing (aren’t ebooks handy?).
The instructions are easy to understand, even my 7yo can follow them.
Renee includes what the purpose is of the recipe. For example the Chocolate Body Mousse “nourishes all skin types with a light chocolate scent using luxurious butters.”
Advantages for the Chocolate Peppermint Lotion Bar “the natural scent of the cocoa butter pleases the “scent, please!” crowd without the risk of skin irritation resulting from added chemicals and fragrances.”
Cost is clearly defined (wow, very easy on the budget!), and a link to a video to watch is something I’ve never seen offered in an ebook before! How handy is that?
I like how she includes troubleshooting tips. Here’s one for Scented and Shaped Lotion Bars: “Lotion won’t pop out? Place in freezer for 30 minutes and then pop out.” Great idea! Here’s another: “Too hard? Re-melt bars and add more coconut oil.” I love making mistakes that are easy to correct. Okay, I don’t love making mistakes 
but when they are easily fixed – it’s easier for me to dive in.
Packaging ideas are another bonus Renee throws in. I love the idea of using ramekins as a mold, and then as a container to give the gift in!
How About Three Projects in One?
Did you know you can make:
2 beeswax candles
2-5 lotion bars
4 lip balms
using the DIY hard lotion kit? Included in the kit is your own copy of My Buttered Life – Gift Edition). Watch a video here.
Gift Sets
Renee has thought of everything!
And it’s no surprise. She has been making her own skin care products and lotion bars for years. I have used (and love) her Au Chocolate lotion bar (in fact, it’s almost time to order another one!).
So you can buy gift sets made to order. The 2 Pack Gift Pack contains a pocket-sized hand lotion bar (au chocolate or beesilk) and a lip balm. She goes the extra milk of packaging in a muslin tote bag – cute!
A 3 Pack Gift Pack is also available (shown).
Win “My Buttered Life – Gift Edition” – three winners chosen!
Use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter the drawing for My Buttered Life – Gift Edition.
| Lea Harris founded Nourishing Treasures in 2006. Just a mom passionate about her family's health and well-being, Lea believes education is power. Encouraging others to take baby steps in the right direction of health for their families, Lea's goal is to raise awareness of what goes into our mouths and on our bodies, providing natural alternative information that promotes health and prevents disease by using traditional foods and nature's medicine. Lea is a Certified Health Coach graduate from Beyond Organic University. Follow Nourishing Treasures on Facebook, @NourishTreasure on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter. Lea is also a contributor for Nourished Living Network. Disclaimer: I use affiliate links wherever possible. So if you click on a link, and make a purchase, I might make a small commission. |
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What a lovely giveaway. I would love to know how to make the chocolate peppermint lotion bars. They sound good enough to eat. In fact, I’d probably have a hard time stopping my two-year-old from eating them.
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The chocolate lotion bars!
i want to make lip balm.
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as we run out of the “store bought” stuff around here, this would be a great way to start making my own….and with Christmas coming – OHYEAH!!!!
We’ve just started making our own bath and body products (mostly to protect my kids with severe allergies) and this sounds like a great gift for my husband!!
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What gift am I excited about making? Ummm … chocolate body mousse! Makes me hungry just thinking about it!!!
I love the Rafflecopter widget. I’m going to have to try that out on my next giveaway. I think it’s so easy and fun!
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Jessica – it *is* easy and fun! If you need an invite, just let me know. Last I knew they were invite-only, but that may have been lifted. You can also set up giveaways based on previous ones, so you can keep your own info there, that won’t change. And it’s so easy for people to enter!
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I’m excited to enter – thanks!
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The lip balm but everything sounds lovely! Thanks for the giveaway!
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with winter weather coming on, the lip balm would be great!
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I love it! Especially since Burt’s Bees is less natural than it used to be
I really hope I win!
oh, and I meant to say I wanted to make chocolate body mousse!
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That is my fave, too!!
The Chocolate Body Mousse sounds so decadent! would like to give it a try.
Will it make me hungry?
I am tempted to eat it!
The Chocolate Body Mousse sounds so excellent.
Really interested in making the lip balms (and the candles!).
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