The Dinner Menu... and More Products
For dinner tonight, we had whole trout (I saved the heads and tails for broth in the near future) in my trusty mix of sea salt, pepper, and garlic powder, steamed asparagus with garlic butter (or Earth Balance), golden beets with a cinnamon maple butter sauce, and Whole Foods' chocolate chewies for dessert.
I finally finished drying the rest of my coffee grounds for the scrubs I'm sending to friends. I made two new things: face mask and facial moisturizer.
Mask:
~3 tablespoons pumpkin puree
~2 tablespoons Fuller's Earth clay
~1 tablespoon honey
~1 tablespoon water
~2 vitamin E capsules
Mix, wash your face, apply, rinse when you can't move your face anymore. My sister had some irritation on her face, and when she rinsed the mask off, she discovered the drawing power of a good mask! I'm going to make a new tea with calandula, chamomile, comfrey, peppermint, and kelp powder, and use that instead of the water.
Facial Moisturizer:
~1 & 1/2 tablespoons aloe goo
~1 tablespoon coconut oil
~1 tablespoon mango butter
~1 tablespoon honey
~1 teaspoon wax
~1 teaspoon calandula infused oil
~tea trea and lavender essential oils
I put the aloe, calandula oil, essential oils and honey in a glass that just fit my stick blender, melted the other things together, and mixed. It works wonders. I've noticed that using oil as my moisturizer has actually lessened the oil on my face. Pretty wild.
I finally finished drying the rest of my coffee grounds for the scrubs I'm sending to friends. I made two new things: face mask and facial moisturizer.
Mask:
~3 tablespoons pumpkin puree
~2 tablespoons Fuller's Earth clay
~1 tablespoon honey
~1 tablespoon water
~2 vitamin E capsules
Mix, wash your face, apply, rinse when you can't move your face anymore. My sister had some irritation on her face, and when she rinsed the mask off, she discovered the drawing power of a good mask! I'm going to make a new tea with calandula, chamomile, comfrey, peppermint, and kelp powder, and use that instead of the water.
Facial Moisturizer:
~1 & 1/2 tablespoons aloe goo
~1 tablespoon coconut oil
~1 tablespoon mango butter
~1 tablespoon honey
~1 teaspoon wax
~1 teaspoon calandula infused oil
~tea trea and lavender essential oils
I put the aloe, calandula oil, essential oils and honey in a glass that just fit my stick blender, melted the other things together, and mixed. It works wonders. I've noticed that using oil as my moisturizer has actually lessened the oil on my face. Pretty wild.