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Christmas gift ideas - DIY handmade skincare & body Care recipes from Amour Natural

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Give extra special gifts this Christmas by making skincare and body products yourself.

Try these simple recipes courtesy of Amour Natural, whose products we stock at Daily Bread Cambridge!

Amour Natural oil burners and essential oils at Daily Bread Co-operative, Cambridge.

AMOUR NATURAL LIP SCRUB RECIPE

Simply stir together 4tbsp cane sugar and 4tbsp sweet almond oil in a bowl, and add a few drops of essential oil.

Amour Natural products

AMOUR NATURAL WHIPPED BODY BUTTER RECIPE

Amour Natural Organic Cocoa Butter

Melt 100g Amour Natural cocoa butter buttons and 100g virgin coconut oil in a bain marie.

Stir in 50ml Amour Natural sweet almond oil. Put in the fridge until it starts to harden round the edges.

Add 10-15 drops of essential oil and whisk with an electric whisk until soft. Store in a jar and keep cool.

 

LIP BALM RECIPE

Biona organic virgin coconut oil

Melt 1tsp beeswax and 2tsp virgin coconut oil in a bain marie. Take off the heat and stir in 1-2 drops of essential oil. Pour into a little jar or pot and allow to cool.

AMOUR NATURAL FACE CLEANSER RECIPE

Use 10ml almond oil, add castor oil: 1ml for dry skin, 2ml for normal skin, 3ml for oily skin. Blend with 2-3 drops of essential oil. Massage onto dry face and wash off with cloth and hot water.

Amour Natural Sweet Almond pure seed oil

Amour Natural organic Castor Oil

We stock a selection of Amour Natural’s oil burners, essential oils (including their Festive Aroma oil), carrier oils, among a range of their other products. Visit us and have a browse!

Amour Natural Festive Aroma 100% pure essential oil

At Home With Aromatherapy by Faye Willmott

The recipes in this blog post are from Amour Natural’s leaflet.

Alongside our Amour Natural products you can find a copy of their book ‘At Home With Aromatherapy’ to peruse in the shop (or our coffee shop!), it features ‘essential’ information about essential oils and how to use them.

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Recipe: cacao and goji berry energy balls served with grapefruit

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If you seek a decadent alternative option to refined sugars, enjoy the chocolate and grapefruit taste sensation that is our Chef Donna McLuskie’s goji berry energy balls! Recipe as follows:

1/4 cup goji berries

1 cup walnuts or pecans, blended/finely chopped

1 tablespoon sparkling water

1 tablespoon almond butter

½ cup frozen blueberries

5 tablespoons of cocoa or cacao powder

½ cup porridge oats 

1 teaspoon hulled hempseed for topping

STEP 1

Whizz together the frozen blueberries, almond butter and water (and the goji berries if they are not soft). If your nut dust is not as fine as you would like, then whizz it with this mixture as well. Otherwise, just add the nut dust with the other ingredients below.

STEP 2

Place this mixture in a bowl and add 4 tablespoons of the cocoa or cacao powder and the rest of the ingredients. Mix all together. Shape this mixture into small balls about 25mm or 1” diameter. You will probably end up with around 16 energy balls of this size.

STEP 3

In a sealable container, place 1 tablespoon of cocoa or cacao powder. Carefully add the energy balls, stopping to close the container and shake gently to cover the balls with the powder before continuing to add more of the balls (so that they don’t stick together). Store the finished product in a sealed container in the refrigerator for up to five days.

STEP 4

To serve, place some energy balls in a bowl and top with grapefruit segments (kudos to Chef Clive for highlighting this incredibly delicious taste combination), and pour over some of the juice. Sprinkle with cocoa or cacao powder (and some hulled hempseed for an extra energy boost, if desired).

All mentioned ingredients are available at Daily Bread Co-operative Cambridge. Find our product list here.

 

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