homemade cleansing grains: diy herbal exfoliant

herbs and flowers are flourishing in the garden this year.

here's a recipe for stimulating cleansing grains

using all home-grown ingredients and a coffee grinder!

Natural Beauty in Faraway Lands

One of the things I like to do when traveling is to take advantage of the herbs, flowers, and fruits I find growing there. I took a lot of rose-petal baths and gave myself many a blackberry facial while traveling in Wales, for example. I even stole a few sprigs of Bronze Age chamomile from a hill fort exhibition in Cardigan to make sun-infused oil at my B & B.

Well, I've just spent two weeks in Tuscany. I couldn't BELIEVE the profusion of flowers, herbs, fruits and stuff they have there! They've even got tobacco plantations. Serious heaven.

Geraniums, olive tree, wood with lichen