DIY

Organic castor oil from Naturligolie

This one organic castor oil is cold-pressed from the seeds of American castor plants.

Castor oil is rich in castor oleic acid, which gives the skin a slightly sticky feeling but absorbs quickly, leaving the skin soft.

The oil is antibacterial and has a repairing and soothing effect and helps to regenerate damaged and thin skin.

It is also great for small cuts and tears and burns.

The oil is very good in oil mixtures for caring for eyebrows, lips, hair and nails. It adds shine and has anti-fungal properties.

You can use the oil as is or mix it with other good oils.

The castor oil is golden and slightly sticky, but absorbs quickly and has a neutral scent.

This organic castor oil comes in a UV-protective glass bottle with pipette.

The pipette makes it easy to dose correctly and you avoid getting oil in unwanted places.

• your own oil mixtures or alone
• face, hair and scalp
• increased hair growth, longer and stronger eyelashes eyebrows
• care for impure skin, eczema, fungus and inflammation
• care for sensitive and irritated skin.
• scars, damaged skin and infections.
• anti-aging, redness and dryness
• stretch marks

How to use castor oil to promote hair growth:

Use the castor oil on your eyelashes in the evening, after you have cleansed your skin and applied your natural oil.

The oil is applied with a small brush or with a cotton ball along the upper side of the upper lash line and along the underside of the lower lash line

(Do NOT apply to the wet side of the eyelash line)

Gently rub the oil into the area. If you get a little oil in the eye, no big deal will happen, apart from the fact that it can blur the vision a little. If this happens, you can simply rinse the eye with water.

If you have thin or sparse eyebrows, castor oil is also good!

Just rub a little of the fatty oil on your eyebrows every night before you go to bed.

Castor oil can also boost your hair growth on your head. It softens your hair and possibly counteracts it. bacterial conditions in the scalp, so an obvious ingredient in a homemade hair treatment.

The oil is a relatively greasy and sticky oil and therefore needs a little help to be distributed in the hair. It can therefore be advantageously mixed with another oil, for example jojoba oil.

INCI: Ricinus communis

Make your own mixtures for natural skin care

Refresher block for your vegan food cloths and wraps

Bevar det Vel has made these brilliant wax blocks so that you can refresh your wax canvases when they are getting worn out and the wax has eventually worn off/washed off.

The wax blocks are melted and applied to the cloth. It's both a nice DIY activity and very durable to give the old wraps new life instead of throwing them away.

With a round of new wax, they can last up to a whole year more if you continue to treat them gently.

Here you get 1 vegan wax block of 15-20g.

Approx. one molten block per depending on the size of the cloth.

The mixture in these vegan refreshment blocks consists of: coconut oil, jojoba oil, dammar resin, plant wax and cocoa butter - and that is exactly all you need to freshen up your vegan food cloth or wrap so that it both keeps the food fresh and closes tightly.

How to refresh your food cloth

There are two ways you can give your food cloth a new go wax on; In the oven or with the iron.

Use disposable gloves, as the wax mixture can be very sticky.

Refreshing in the oven:

• Switch the oven to 120 degrees.
• Use a deep baking tray and place the food cloth on a piece of baking paper on the tray.
• Melt the block of wax over a water bath.
• Spread the mixture on the food cloth with an old brush or a silicone spatula. A relatively hard spatula works best.
• Now put the baking tray with the "waxed substance" in the oven. The wax will spread on the fabric if there are areas that have not been saturated.
• After just a few minutes, take the plate out and air the food cloth back and forth. The cooling is fast.
• NOTE! The wax is hot, so be careful and wear gloves.

Refresh with an iron:

• Cover your ironing board with an old piece of fabric (important!)
• Place the tea towel on a piece of parchment paper.
• Melt the wax over a water bath.
• Spread the mixture on the tea towel with an old brush or a block silicone spatula. A relatively hard spatula works best.
• Place the fabric with the wax mixture on the fabric-covered ironing board and also place a piece of baking paper on top of the cloth with the wax mixture.
• Iron on top of the baking paper and be careful not to get wax on the iron.
• When you are satisfied, lift the food cloth from the baking paper and fan it back and forth. The cooling is fast.
• NOTE! The wax is hot, so be careful and wear gloves.

Tips and good advice:

Use old and old utensils, as the wax mixture can be difficult to get off.

If wax gets on the baking sheet, put it back in the oven (without baking paper and fabric) and when the wax has melted again, remove it with a piece of paper towel. Then wash the plate with soap and water.

Have fun!

Carnauba wax is a plant-based wax which is also the hardest, natural wax available.
It is extracted from the leaves of the palm tree Copernicia Cerifera, which grows in Brazil. It consists of wax esters (85%), free fatty acids, fatty alcohols and resins (15%).
The wax comes as yellow flakes/powder and it only has a very faint smell.

It is a vegan alternative to beeswax and can, among other things, used to make creams, pomades and ointments. One of its good properties is that it is emollient and moisturizing in skin care products.

Carnauba wax is somewhat harder than beeswax and therefore the recipes for what you have to make have to be adjusted down a bit. beeswax if you replace it with it.
The wax has a melting point of 80°-85°

You can also use carnauba wax to make vegan beeswax paper. See how to do it here in our guide

INCI: Cera Carnauba

Glass bottle without contents for your own DIY projects

If you also want to make your own liquid soaps and cleaning products free of chemicals and preservatives, we will help you here a little in the process with empty glass bottles for storing the product.

The bottle is from Fair Squared and is made from 100% recycled glass and comes with a small aluminum lid.

We sell the bottle in four sizes so you can find just the one that suits your needs: 100 ml, 250 ml, 500 ml. and 1000 ml.

This bottle can hold 100 ml.You can purchase a practical dosing pump for your glass bottles. You can find it here. See tips and tricks for cleaning in our store cleaning guide

500 g. pure honey-coloured beeswax from Dipam.

Beeswax is a wax produced by bees and used to build the honeycombs that make up the hive.

Beeswax can be used for many things. As an ingredient in natural cosmetic products, as polish, for beeswax candles, beeswax wraps and much more.

There is a DIY guide for making your own beeswax candles right here.

Both the beeswax and packaging in this beeswax product are sustainably and consciously produced.

When beeswax is used in cosmetics, it is primarily used to regulate consistency. Beeswax does not penetrate the skin but forms a protective barrier on top. Therefore, beeswax is particularly useful for lip balm and salves.

Beeswax melts at approximately 62 degrees.

Ingredient: Cera Alba

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Organic cocoa butter for DIY skin care

100 grams of organically refined cocoa butter.

Organic cocoa butter can be used in a myriad of skin care products - creams, lip balm, salves, soap and much more.

But it is quite naturally also quite delicious in chocolate.

Cocoa butter is a natural fat that is cold-pressed. cocoa beans. It therefore smells completely natural and lovely of cocoa.

Organic cocoa butter is a fantastic moisturizer for the skin.

It contains natural antioxidants that prevent rancidity.

Cocoa butter melts at approx. 40 degrees.

Heat in a water bath and do not heat more than absolutely necessary so that you retain the high nutritional value.

INCI: Theobroma Cacao Seed Butter