Welcome to the July N.N newsletter!
This month we are green and look at how you can save money by going eco. Organic comestics that help the planet as well as your skin are freely available. Have a browse in the Eco Shop. Prices that will not break the bank!
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Homemade Skin Care
Homemade skin care can save you a fortune – a real asset in these thrifty times as well as being ecologically friendly and reduce packaging and waste.
We all know how important exfoliating is for sloughing off dead skin cells and getting active anti aging ingredients deeper into the skin.
But you may not know that you can take a cheap store cupboard basic and transform it into an effective beauty skincare treatment..
Some of them cost as much as one egg and teaspoon of honey. Using these recipes, you can have a luxurious hair or face mask for pennies while staying on a budget, without the waste and issues of disposing of vast amounts of packaging.
Just peek in your kitchen cabinets, or fridge. I bet you can find left overs that can act as ingredients to moisturize and smooth your skin. You could whip up a natural, nourishing beauty treatment with the same ingredients you use to make breakfast!
When you prepare a do-it-yourself recipe, you know the result it will give you and you can recycle and compost any scraps that you have. Homemade skin remedies have been around for centuries. Made with ordinary ingredients and plants, they yield extraordinary results. They can be luxurious and decadent!
Just because they are cost effective and require less time, fuel and energy than it would take you to go to a local cosmetics store, doesn't mean they can't be luxurious and luscious.
Just try these cheap, indulgent and eco-friendly recipes which are an excellent choice if you are looking for a way to exfoliate, moisturize and soften the skin or treat and condition hairusing left over store cupboard ingredients. |
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Body Exfoliator
You'll need: Sea salt, almond oil and grapefruit peel
Sea salt has deep cleansing and therapeutic properties, which are good for aches and pains. Almond oil is rich in essential fatty acids and antioxidant vitamin E, softens and nourishes skin. Grapefruit peel has an uplifting fragrance and is known to stimulate the lymphatic system, helping move areas of sluggish circulation
Directions: Grate the peel off a grapefruit and mix with the oil and salt. Run a bath and soak for a few minutes. Pat yourself dry and rub scrub onto your dry skin, concentrating on problem areas, such as your elbows and back of your upper arms, then wash off in bath. Stay in bath to reap the benefits of the therapeutic properties of the dead sea salt minerals.
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Face Mask
You'll need: Avocado and Honey. Avocado is perfect for dry or mature skin and avocado oil is rich in essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. Honey is incredibly nourishing and anti-inflammatory so helps with senstive skins.
Directions: Mash 1 avocado with a tablespoon of honey and smear evenly over the face. Leave for 15 minutes and rinse off with warm water. |
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Hand Mask
You'll need: A handful of brown or white sugar and olive oil and honey. Sugar is a great gentle exfoliator and will buff hands and smooth skin. Olive Oil is rich in essential fatty acids, is highly moisturizing and has natural cleansing properties. Honey is nourishing and anti-bacterial.
Directions: Combine the ingredients and spead over hands. Wring hands together to exfoliate, paying attention to the back for the hands, wrists and lower arms. Gently rub the mixture around the cuticle area. Wash off.
Make Up Remover
You'll need: A palmful of olive oil. Olive oil is rich in essential fatty acids and highly moisturizing and has natural cleansing properties.
Directions: Spread oil all over your face and gently massage in small circular movements. Lay a hot damp flannel or muslin cloth over your oiled face and relax for 5 mins allowing the oil and steam to work together. Gently wipe excess oil from your skin with cold cloth. |
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Body Exfoliator
You'll need: Sea salt, almond oil and grapefruit peel. Sea salt has deep cleansing and therapeutic properties, which are good for aches and pains. Almond oil is rich in essential fatty acids and antioxidant vitamin E, softens and nourishes skin. Grapefruit peel has an uplifting fragrance and is known to stimulate the lymphatic system, helping move areas of sluggish circulation
Directions: Grate the peel off a grapefruit and mix with the oil and salt. Run a bath and soak for a few minutes. Pat yourself dry and rub scrub onto your dry skin, concentrating on problem areas, such as your elbows and back of your upper arms, then wash off in bath. Stay in bath to reap the benefits of the therapeutic properties of the dead sea salt minerals. |
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Hair Conditioner
You'll need: A cup of coconut oil
Coconut Oil has been traditionally used as a hair conditioner to moisturise and protect from the sun's harmful rays and has a softening and soothing effect on the hair and scalp.
Directions:
Massage into the hair and scalp making sure the ends of the hair are covered. Wrap hair in a warm towel and leave on for 20 minutes. Wash with shampoo and condition as normal. |
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FREE Discount Card
Local discounts & online cashback. Money off products around town. Large brands including: Tesco, Comet, Boots, Halfords, Next & HMV. read more> |
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Personalized Gifts
The Northants.net shop has a range of gifts, bags, clothing & accessories that are personalized to the area you live in, like Wootton, Grange Park, Milton Malsor, NN3, NN7 etc. Alternatively personalize them yourself! visit shop> |
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The Oil Crisis
In 1973, OPEC, Egypt, Syria and Tunisia proclaimed an oil embargo which started an oil crisis. It was in response to the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military. As a result, there was renewed interest in alternative fuels. Development went into electric cars but failed to gain interest due to their radical designs and limited range. The oil crisis lasted until March 1974.
In 1980 Briggs & Stratton, famous for lawnmower engines, developed the first gasoline hybrid electric automobile.
Forty years later, we have hybrid vehicles in operation and most car manufacturers developing electric alternatives. |
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Business Forum
Register, discuss topics and promote your business for free online at the local Northamptonshire Business Forum. www.northants.biz >
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Website Development Do you require a new website or website rebuild? Would you like to easily manage your products & services yourself? A database driven bespoke Content Management System can be designed for YOUR needs. read more> |
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Gardening!
Cut the grass, strim the edges, creosote the fence, pull out those weeds, treat the garden furniture - it's all go with the outside chores in August.
Grow your own?
If you haven't a garden, get an allotment patch, they are as popular as ever! |
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