Be it once a week or once a month, we all need to take a day off to take care of ourselves. Having a self-care routine does not mean you have to go out and purchase expensive services such as a spa or massage. You don’t have to eat at a five-star restaurant or spend a lot of money. After a busy week, self-care may be as easy as taking a nice sleep or taking a brief break, or eating your favorite comfort food right at the comfort of your own home.
And, if you’re feeling inventive, here are 15 easy DIY self-care ideas and products you can quickly create to complete your self-care routine!
15. DIY Coffee Scrub Recipe
Try this DIY Coffee Scrub if you’re looking for an inexpensive coffee sugar scrub recipe to make into gifts for the holidays.
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14. Overnight Coconut Oil Hair Mask with Three-Ingredients
This coconut oil hair mask DIY is life changing! It’s an overnight hair mask that will make your hair feel amazingly soft and help with stimulating growth as well.
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13. DIY Shower Steamers Recipe with Simply Earth
There’s no need for expensive spa days when you can treat yourself daily with these rejuvenating DIY shower steamers.
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12. Seven Skin Care Tips
If you’ve had a day of too much sun, then this Too Much Sun Facial, with a whopping 2 ingredients, is for you.
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11. Homemade Soaps with Dried Chrysanthemum Flowers and Violet Fragrance
Soaps are essential for keeping us clean and healthy. However, a lot of soaps found on the market contain bad chemicals such as Dioxane, Triclosan, Formaldehyde, parabens, and more. Instead of using all these harmful chemicals, you can use homemade soaps with Chrysanthemum flowers and violet fragrance.
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10. D.I.Y. Avocado Hair Mask for Stronger, Softer, Healthier Hair
Use up your overripe avocados with this simple, natural, and effective at-home D.I.Y. Hair Mask for thicker, stronger, and softer locks that will give everyone you know total hair-envy!
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9. DIY Nail Manicure Kit [Easy Christmas Gift]
This easy DIY nail manicure kit is perfect for girls of all ages and makes a great stocking stuffer.
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8. Easy DIY Coconut Oil & Coffee Sugar Scrub Recipe
This homemade coffee sugar scrub is easy to make and smells amazing! The scrub exfoliates and nourishes with coconut oil, coffee, and brown sugar.
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7. Homemade Magnesium Sulphate Cream (Magnesium Sulfate Scrub)
After finishing my post on how to make your own healthy and relaxing SPA day at home, I decided to share with you one of my most favorite self care recipes – Magnesium cream for ruptured disks or simply for managing a Magnesium deficiency.
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6. How To Perform Self Ayurvedic Massage Using Essential Oils
Ayurvedic massage with essential oils is a form of self-massage that is healing, enjoyable and is said to slow the aging process.
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5. DIY Nourishing Brown Sugar and Honey Facial Mask
This all natural facial mask is very easy to make, and can made for single use, or for a full jar. This nourishing facial mask has a great combination of base ingredients for softening as well as exfoliation ingredients. The essential oils in this recipe are a wonderful blend to help soothe your skin, possibly lessen signs of aging and help balance hormones.
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4. How to Make an Easy DIY Lemon Sugar Scrub
This simple DIY lemon sugar scrub uses lemon juice, coconut oil, sugar, and lemon essential oil to create a beautiful mother’s day gift idea.
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3. Nourishing DIY Cuticle Oil Recipe
Nourishing DIY Cuticle Oil is so simple to make and wonderful to have around. You can store it in a roll on bottle for easy application and it smells wonderful. The oils used to make this cuticle oil recipe are natural, nourishing and will soothe dry cuticle skin.
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2. Mermaid Sugar Scrub
We all secretly want to feel like Ariel from The Little Mermaid sometimes. This coconut-scented DIY Mermaid Sugar Scrub recipe will leave you feeling like a mermaid, even if you aren’t anywhere near the ocean!
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Pop a lavender bath bomb into the bathtub to fizzle and dissipate, filling the room with the soothing and relaxing scent of lavender.
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