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I have sensitive skin and although this tingles a bit, it doesnt burn me. YMMV, proceed with caution.

Mix :
.5 ml lemon essential oil
.5 ml orange essential oil
1 ml grapefruit essential oil

Exfoliate first. Tip the vial onto your finger and rub it in small circles into your skin. The goal is to rub just enough to really get it into your skin. Leave it on for about 10 minutes. Rinse and apply a moisturizer. Protect your face from the sun. Use it about 3x a week - by the end of week one, you will see a difference.

Anti Fungal, extra healing and moisturizing. Great for hands that actually… you know… do work. Would be great for toenails on feet that tend to be dry and/or get fungus.

2 ml Neem Seed Oil - don’t let the name fool you. It’s more like a butter and it has a really strong nutty scent that is not pleasant. An icee straw works great to scoop it. (moisturizing, anti fungal, healing, helps elasticity)
3 ml Vitamin E Oil (healing)
1 ml tea tree oil (healing, anti-microbial)
1 ml lavender oil (more to help counteract the smell of the neem seed oil than anything)
2 ml grapefruit seed oil

1) Mix it all up
2) Fill to 1 ounce with favorite carrier oil and shake

Paint it onto each nail and the surrounding area with a QTip and allow it to absorb. Your nails and cuticles will soak it up in 10-15 minutes. Nails are left healthy…

… for REALLY sensitive skin that tends toward redness and breakouts

1) 6 oz of cold water and two green tea bags. Combine. Nuke for 2 minutes, steep/cool for 10 more minutes.

2) 10 drops each of tea tree (anti-bacterial), lavender (calming), helichrysum (healing, good for redness or discoloration) essential oils - mix with - 2 ml polysorbate 80 (polysorbate is totally optional. It makes the oils mix with the water. If you dont use it, you’ll have to shake your toner before you use it every time. Polysorbate 80 sounds chemically but fwiw, it’s derived from fruit. Its available lots of places online. My local oils maven turned me on to it and I was skeptical cuz it sounds so.. manufactured.. but it’s worth it.)

3) Pour the green tea over the essential oils mix in a glass bottle and shake.

It turns out looking kinda murky yellowish green. If you can get…

Epsom Salt - great for mood and muscles. Keep it in a sealed container.
Glycerine - You can get it at a drug store for a couple bucks. Sometimes you can find rose water and glycerine which is really nice as well.
Powdered Milk - A container of half powdered buttermilk and half powdered low fat milk (can find both at a grocery store) makes an easy scoop-in that leaves skin soft. Don’t use the non-fat powdered milk… It’s the fat in the milk that makes the skin so soft. Keep in in a water tight container. To appeal to the money savvy part of you, Burts Bees makes a small bottle of this for $17. I paid $17 and made 4 times the amount.
Vitamin E Oil - Excellent for skin that has been weathered in sun or wind or as a general skin revitalizer. You can usually get it on the skin care isle…

Nails are important, man! Even if you don’t realize that you notice them on the surface, you can probably recall the fingernails of most if not all of the people you encounter regularly.

When we meet someone, what do we do? Extend our hand. When you are in a meeting or someone comes into your office, where are your hands? On top of the table or desk (hopefully.. if not, we need to discuss body language). When you are speaking with someone, what are you doing with your hands? Moving them to punctuate points or to point out something.. which means the other person is looking at your hands to get your punctuation. If you wear rings, they are adornment of what? Your fingers! You want people to look at them. :)

So no.. we don’t stare at other people’s hands (unless you have some sort of hand fetish?) but because…

I was talking to a girlfriend the other day about my beauty regimen prior to a big event and realized that I really do know a lot about the finite details of beauty. Not that I claim to be beautiful of the beautiful or anything.. and a I’m certainly NOT a girly girl that practices this stuff regularly… but when I need to be well-polished, I know how to pull it out. :)

It’s all about the details. When you see a star, they aren’t ALL really beautiful to everyone. Different people think different traits are more attractive than others. But the fact that they are so carefully attractive in every aspect make them ‘beautiful people’. Better put, there is nothing about their traits that looks unkempt, sloppy or gross. There are no turn-offs in their appearance. The result is that even someone famous who you aren’t enamored with, you usually…