It’s time to pamper yourself a bit with these 10 Fun Vegan DIYs. You get to create and then enjoy! You are worth it!
Everyone deserves a spa night — and you’re no exception. By yourself or with friends, you can create a vegan-friendly spa night that tests your creative skills and keeps you a conscious consumer.
1. Body Scrub
Body scrubs are great, whether you want to exfoliate before shaving or give yourself a luxurious experience for an at-home spa day. Sugar is a great exfoliant, but make sure you use beet sugar rather than cane sugar.
You can add olive oil or coconut oil to your scrub, alongside some essential oils that can help give a smoother feel. Store your body scrub in a neat jar and return to it whenever you want a relaxing evening.
2. Exfoliating Soap
You can create your own soap to exfoliate and remove dead skin cells whenever you use it. While this oatmeal forms bars, you can make the soap in any shape you like by using a silicone mold that makes you happy.
Oatmeal is an excellent ingredient for any soap. Bathing with it has many soothing and protective properties for the skin, so give it a shot if you experience eczema or psoriasis. Exfoliation from oats would be gentle yet firm enough to get the job done.
3. Lip Scrub
Using a lip scrub can lead to softer lips and often contain sugar as the main exfoliant. Sugar is gentle enough to remove dead skin while leaving your face feeling invigorated. The type of sugar you choose can determine how coarse or mild the exfoliation level is.
Make sure to add something like coconut oil so your exfoliator will have a slip. To give it an appealing scent and taste, you can add other components — such as a touch of vanilla or citrus — to your lip scrubs.
4. Face Masks
Face masks are a great way to relax by yourself or with friends and you can easily make one from the comfort of your home. Ingredients like cacao powder can boost your circulation, while avocado can reduce the inflammation you see.
Aloe vera is another addition that can help your face mask gain its gel-like structure. Mix every beneficial ingredient into the aloe to give it some body and turn it into a paste you can easily apply. Then, enjoy your refreshing face mask.
5. Stress-Relief Tea
Stress can lead to detrimental mental and physical health issues if left untreated. However, finding the right ingredients for a tea that can reduce your stress is pretty easy.
Herbal tea — especially those with lavender or chamomile — can help you lower your stress and anxiety levels. Consider adding these elements to your tea with some lemon balm for flavor. You’ll have a delicious mixture that will help you relax all at once.
6. Bath Bombs
Bath bombs are some of the most popular relaxation tools. Many ones you’ll find in stores have unnecessary chemicals from processing.
Making bath bombs might be more complicated than creating sugar scrubs, but you can still DIY them at home using baking soda, cornstarch and Epsom salt. Adding essential oils can help your bath bomb feel more luxurious by giving it a unique scent. Though getting all your ingredients correctly in a mold might be tricky, you’ll get better at it with practice.
7. Lip Balm
One of the best ways to ensure your lips stay soft after your lip scrub is to create your own lip balm. Many balms call for beeswax or something similar, but you can make a vegan lip balm with candelilla wax.
You’ll want to melt it with cocoa butter and coconut oil and store it in a tin. This particular recipe is excellent, as it leaves the balm with natural color and no artificial scent, which benefits people with sensitive skin.
8. Hair Mask
Regular masks can help you achieve your hair goals. Whether you want to strengthen or lengthen your hair, these can richly nourish your hair from the comfort of your home. Because many hair mask ingredients aren’t vegan, you’ll have to find worthwhile substitutes.
Agave nectar can be a great replacement for honey — and you can add apple cider vinegar and olive oil to the mixture. This results in a deep cleansing mask that will eliminate any harmful build-up on your strands, leaving them feeling fresher and possibly shinier.
9. Hand-Dipped Candles
It takes more work to make a candle than you might think, but it’s a rewarding process that can teach you how to make an excellent gift for the people you love and a product you’ll enjoy.
Soy wax is a great alternative you can use and it’s perfect for beginner candle-makers. Once you have the right wax and a suitable wick, choose your favorite essential oils to add to the mixture.
Candle-making is a complex process, but the more you attempt it, the better you’ll be at it. Once you melt everything down and leave it to set in a container, you’ll have a candle worth burning.
10. Invigorating Bath Salts
Bath salts are a great way to relax in the bathtub. You can feel your worries melting away with the salt in the water.
You need Epsom salt and sea salt to make your mixture — and adding different essential oils or essences can help soothe you, too. Baking soda can be a great addition if you want something more than a basic bath salt combination. If this is the case, use around half a cup per bath.
Plan a DIY Vegan Spa Night
Whether you make all these recipes at once or scatter them throughout a self-care week, you’re sure to have a great time using the products you’ve created on your own.
Once you know how to make these recipes by heart, you can gift them to friends and family so they can have their own spa nights. You might find it more exciting and rewarding to relax with something you made yourself — a product you know all the ingredients of.
Cora’s passion is to inspire others to live a happy, healthful, and mindful life through her words on Revivalist – wholeheartedly convincing them that everyday moments are worth celebrating. Cora has spent 5+ years writing for numerous lifestyle sites – hence her sincere love for both life and the beauty of style in all things. Keep up with Cora on Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook.
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