I was a very, very happy girl a few weeks ago when I got my maple voxbox in the mail! Can ya tell I was just a little excited?!
I took this in the lobby of our building...our concierge was looking at me a bit funny, but I was so excited!
This is what the box looked like up opening. So many goodies! Skinny cow, impress, NYC, Ice Breakers...so exciting!
Here is my video of me unboxing it. Bear with me as this was my very first video I have ever done. It was also done today, so it was after I ate my skinny cow stuff (I will admit I broke into those as soon as I had the box open) I didn't realize Influenster would want us to do video's but now I know for next time! Live and learn, right?!
Yes, I put snowflakes over it because it was snowing today!!
Over the next week I will have more in depth reviews coming of each product!
I do want to add I received these products free through the Influenster Maple Voxbox Programme.
Good Morning, Friends! It is a wonderful Thursday! We are now down to exactly two weeks until school is out for us! At least after this week all the big projects are done so I won't have a stressed out hormonal teenager running around, we'll just be back to the regular hormonal teenager!
Anyway, I am writing a post today to give you a "recipe" for a homemade coconut oil moisturizer. I have suffered with terrible acne as an adult. It's been really terrible...in fact, the way I feel someday's is summed up in this humorous video...
Wrinkles & pimples..that sums me up some days!
Moving on...I combine this with my homemade face wash (which I will share next week) and I have been pretty much pimple-free for three months now. I did have two pop up, but I was super stressed and had been touching that area of my face (bad, bad I know, I know).
So, here's the recipe
Coconut Oil Face Moisturizer
1/2 Cup Coconut Oil
5 drops good quality lavender essential oil (like this)
Mix the two together and store in a pretty jar!
Directions for use: rub a bit all over face, neck & chest. Apply to any other rough spots like elbow and/or knees. Coconut oil and lavender are also great healing agents so I've been applying this to some old scars & they are actually beginning to look a bit better as well!
Just one more note on this, it lasts a very long time! It's ultra concentrated so you don't need much unlike with typical moisturizers. When you buy coconut oil it's best to buy the unrefined, cold pressed organic oil. You are putting this on your skin, so the investment in a slightly more expensive organic, unrefined oil is well worth it. That oil can also be used for several other things especially cooking!
