Natural organic skin care recipes
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Hello again everyone! This is going to be
my DIY recipes to try video. And by recipes
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I mean, you know, recipes, actual recipes,
and ingredients that you may have seen around
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the internet, on Youtube, on blogs, et cetera.
Sometimes even magazines have these. The response
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to my last video, the DIY recipes not to try,
was so overwhelmingly positive, I got really
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excited to make this one, so let's jump right
into it.
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The first thing I want to talk about is probably
the most common thing that everyone asked
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about in the comments, and that is honey.
Honey is awesome for the skin: completely,
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totally, fabulously awesome in so many ways.
This is raw honey, raw honey is always going
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to be better than processed honey, but even
processed honey does have its benefits. If
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you can get ahold of raw honey, definitely
go for it. It makes a huge difference. But
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let's talk about what honey does for the skin
for a sec. Honey is a humectant, which means
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it draws moisture into the skin. It has antiseptic
qualities, which means you can put it over
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acne, you can put it even over wounds. Like,
my sister's boyfriend had an accident with
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his hand. He had a giant cut on his hand that
started to get infected. He put some raw honey
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on it and the swelling went down, the pain
went down. It was kind of amazing. So honey
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is definitely a miracle product.
Like I said, this is raw honey, another type
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of honey that's really wonderful is called
Manuka honey (that is spelled m-a-n-u-k-a,
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I will put that in the description) and Manuka
honey is great for so many reasons. It has
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the same sorts of qualities that raw honey
does, but it's also really great for digestion,
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for stomach pains, indigestion, ulcer pain,
helps with ulcers in general. It's just really
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a wonderful product. So if you have acne,
if you have dry skin, if you have normal skin
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and you just want to keep it that way: doesn't
matter. Honey is a great ingredient. All of
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you who are asking about honey: it's absolutely
wonderful; you should not worry about it at
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all. Just try to get raw honey or Manuka honey
if you can.
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The next thing I want to talk about is something
called the oil cleansing method. This is gaining
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a lot of popularity around Youtube and around
the blogosphere, as it's called. And basically,
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it's various types of recipes of different
oils combined to use as a cleanser. And I'm
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sure all of you have heard of different types
of cleansing oils, premade cleansing oils,
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like the Mac Cleanse off oil, or the Shu Uemura
oil, Laura Mercier has an oil, and they're
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getting very popular. But the benefit to making
your own cleansing oil is that you have complete
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control over what goes into it, so you're
not going to get any fillers, you're not going
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to get any essential oils, fragrances that
you don't want in there. Because remember,
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you do not want fragrance in your skincare
products. When you make your own cleansing
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oil, you can choose from a wide variety of
different oils that have different beneficial
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properties for the skin. I'm working on different
recipes, like, if you Google oil cleansing
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method there are lots and lots of recipes
out there, but I personally don't have a list
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in front of me, so we'll get into that another
time. But if oil cleansing is something that
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appeals to you, that you've been wanting to
try, absolutely look it up. There are, like
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I said, a lot of different oils that are good
for different skin types, even oily skin can
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find some oils that are beneficial. With that,
you want to be careful that you're using oils
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that are appropriate for your skin, because
like I said in the last video, certain oils
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like coconut oil and olive oil are not going
to be so good for oily skin or skin that is
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prone to comedogenic breakouts. So just do
a little bit of research and make sure that
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you're choosing your oils wisely.
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The next thing I want to talk about is fruit
masks. Now, there are a lot of different fruits,
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there are a lot of different recipes for fruit
masks. It really doesn't matter what specific
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recipe you're using, all that matters is that
you know if the ingredients in the mask are
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good for you. I can happily say that there
are many, many fruits that have wonderful
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properties and very beneficial actions on
the skin. So, fruits like bananas, any kind
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of berry is going to be good. With berries
you've got to watch your pH, I'm going to
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talk about that a little bit later. But, like
I said with the lemons, you don't want to
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use anything that's too low or too high of
a pH, because you don't want to throw off
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your skin's natural pH. But berries are great,
cucumbers are great (cucumber's also a fruit),
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tomatoes are good for oily skin, but again
you want to watch the pH. Avocados are also
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a fruit, and they are great for the skin.
Basically you're just going to want to choose
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non-citrus fruits, so nothing that has too
low of a pH. And also, you want to avoid using
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straight pineapple on the skin, even though
pineapple does have a really wonderful enzyme
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that has a nice effect on the skin, you don't
want to use straight pineapple itself, because
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that is just a bit too harsh. You can get
the enzyme, which is called bromelain, on
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its own and use that in masks, but I don't
really recommend putting straight pineapple
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on the skin.
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Just like fruits, vegetables have some great
properties for the skin as well, so you can
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feel free to throw some vegetables into your
homemade face masks, just as long as you're
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keeping pH in mind. Generally with vegetables
pH isn't as much of a concern as it is with
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fruit, but you still want to keep it in mind
when you're mixing things at home.
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Let's talk about oatmeal. Oatmeal is another
very popular one that came up in the comments.
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And yes, oats are really great for the skin.
You just want to watch out for one thing,
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though: if you have any signs of gluten intolerance,
you want to be very careful what kind of oats
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you use because of the possibility of cross
contamination. And I've talked about this
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at length before, so I'm not going to get
into it too much now, but food intolerances
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and food allergies have a very strong impact
on the skin, so you just want to make sure
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you know very definitively that what you're
putting on your skin is not going to cause
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a systemic reaction or any sort of inflammatory
reaction. So, if you're going to use oats
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just make sure you're not gluten intolerant.
If you are, make sure you're using certified
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gluten free oats. But otherwise, oats are
really great. They have really great properties
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for the skin. And there are a lot of really,
really overpriced oat masks that are like
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a little bit of oats and a lot of other crap.
But, you know, there's really no reason to
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have to buy these sorts of pre-made masks
that are supposed to be like "fresh masks",
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like the kinds that Lush makes basically,
because you can take these ingredients, put
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them in a blender, and voila, there you go,
you have yourself a fresh face mask. So you
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can take banana, and oat, and glycerin, and
a little bit of clay maybe, and some honey,
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and that's a great mask right there.
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I mentioned glycerin. Glycerin is a great
ingredient, you can buy it at the drugstore,
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it's going to be I think in the skin care
section. It depends where you go, but if you
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can't find it ask someone who works there,
they can help you find it. It's very cheap,
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and it's a wonderful humectant, and just a
really great thing to have on hand for a lot
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of reasons. I use it in my nail polish remover,
and you'll find that it's an ingredient in
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a lot of DIY masks.
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Another ingredient people asked about a lot
was aspirin, and aspirin is also something
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that's a good thing to try. Especially if
you have acne, I've heard that people have
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really wonderful results with aspirin masks.
If you're going to be doing aspirin masks,
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just keep your pH in mind. Like I said, pH
is important, and I'm going to talk about
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that in the future. But don't mix straight
apple cider vinegar into it, don't mix lemon
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juice into it, mix it with a bit of water.
If you want to add like a teaspoon of apple
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cider vinegar or something like that, then
that's perfectly fine. I don't really recommend
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lemon juice, like I said in the past video
I don't ever really recommend putting lemons
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or lemon juice on the skin. Same goes for
limes and oranges and all that. But there
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are great benefits to using aspirin as a skin
care treatment, so that is perfectly fine.
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Another one that is perfectly safe to use
most of the time is an egg mask, or using
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eggs in your masks. Egg whites have a sort
of toning, tightening property, and they can
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be good for oilier complexions. Assuming that
you're not allergic to eggs, which I am, so
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I don't use them. But if you tolerate eggs
perfectly well, then you can mix them into
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your face masks. If you do have oilier skin,
a quick egg white mask is a good way to tighten
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the pores temporarily and reduce a bit of
oiliness.
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If you're looking for a base for your DIY
mask, almond milk and coconut milk are great
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bases. They are very rich in oils and they
have great properties for the skin. Almond
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milk is what I personally use, because like
I said millions of times, I'm allergic to
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pretty much everything, which includes coconut.
So I don't use coconut oil or coconut milk.
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But almond milk is a great carrier if you
don't want to use regular milk, which is also
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fine if you tolerate dairy products. Any sort
of milk is fine, as long as you don't have
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any sort of dietary contraindications, you
can use whatever kind of milk base you want.
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The only caveat is that I'm not a big fan
of soy products. I think you really need to
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be careful when you're getting into soy. On
the skin it's less of an issue, but in general
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I don't really recommend soy. I don't think
it's some miracle ingredient, and it's definitely
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lowest on my list of milk bases and plant
ingredients. I'm not a big fan of soy. It's
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not necessarily the worst thing you could
be putting on your skin; I'd much rather you
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be putting soymilk on your face than alcohol
obviously. But because of what I know about
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nutrition and soy's effect on the body, it's
not something that I would personally want
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to use all the time. I will leave that for
you to decide, though, that's just my little
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take on it.
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I did talk about coconut oil and olive oil
as makeup removers in my last video, with
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the caution that if you do have skin that
is prone to comedogenic reactions, you probably
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don't want to be using those on your face.
However, if you do not have comedogenic reactions,
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they are perfectly safe to use on the face
as a makeup remover. I do not recommend that
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you use them as a primary moisturizer because
they are not the best tolerated in the skin.
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However, if you are just using them to take
off your makeup and then using your cleanser
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over that, I think they're perfectly fine
so long as you know you're not prone to comedogenic
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breakouts.
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I'm a big fan of home chemistry in general.
I think that, you know, you can make your
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own lip balms. If you're into body scrubs,
you can make your own body scrubs. Making
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a body scrub is probably the easiest thing
in the world. The only thing I don't recommend
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is using a really coarse grained salt or sugar.
You want to get something that's on the finer
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side, because I talked about crystalline substances
in the last video, how they can create tiny
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lacerations in the skin and that can be irritating.
On the body, the body skin is a bit more resilient
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so it's not as much of a problem as the face,
but I definitely would avoid using coarse
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Epsom salts or coarse rock type salts. Use
salts and sugars that are going to be smaller
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grained and less abrasive. As for what oils
to mix in, you can pretty much use any oil
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you want. It really does not matter that much.
As long as you are not having a reaction to
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it, there are so many wonderful carrier oils.
When I'm talking about oils, I'm talking about
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carrier oils and emollient oils, not fragrant
oils. We're not talking about essential oils
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or any sort of perfumes. Those are never advised,
pretty much ever. But anything like your grape
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seed oils, your olive oils, your coconut oils,
your shea butters, your jojoba oils, any of
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these oils are great for any sort of DIY project.
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Something else I mentioned in the last video
is jojoba beads. And these are just little
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beads of wax that you can add into cleansers,
body wash, anything to make a scrub. If you
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don't want to use something like a coarse
salt scrub or sugar scrub, you can definitely
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get a bag of jojoba beads, they're pretty
cheap. You can buy them in bulk from various
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online retailers. Pretty much any sort of
DIY skin care type site should have them,
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but just do a google search for it, I'll put
that in the down bar below. But jojoba beads
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are great because they come in different sizes,
they are gentle because they're spherical
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and they're just a wax. But also they are
much, much better for the environment, because
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they're a natural wax, they are biodegradable
and much better than the plastic beads that
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you're getting in your store bought scrubs,
body scrubs, et cetera. You may have heard
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a little bit about it on the news recently,
these plastic pellets from scrubs are getting
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to be a real problem. So if you can avoid
using them, I would absolutely encourage you
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to do so.
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So those are all the recipes I can think of
right now. If I didn't mention something that
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you've heard about it, it may have been in
my last video, which I will link and should
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be a video response to this video; or it's
just something that I haven't heard of, or
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it's something that I've forgotten. So feel
free to leave more recipes in the comments
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below, and I will keep a list of anything
that I didn't mention and try to talk about
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it in a future video.
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