Make Your Own Ginger Body Scrub

This home made ginger body scrub recipe will leave your skin feeling smooth for days. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ cup turbinado (raw) sugar
• ½ cup almond oil
• 1 tsp peeled, grated ginger (or ½ tsp powdered ginger)

Instructions:

1. Drop the ginger into the almond oil and stir with a spoon until fully blended.
2. Slowly pour the oil over the sugar and mix with a spoon.
3. Place the ginger-scented scrub in a clean re-sealable jar.
4. After you've taken a shower or bath, massage a small scoop of gingersnap body scrub over clean, damp skin. Rinse and pat dry.
5. Keeps indefinitely              

Source: “Women’s World” Sept. 2012

Skin Healthy Chocolate Recipe

All the ingredients in this chocolate recipe are healthy and contain vitamins, antioxidants and polyphenols, which are key to reduce inflammation and make healthy cells and GOOD SKIN.

Homemade “Healthy” Chocolate Sauce Recipe

(makes ½ cup)

Ingredients
½ cup organic, unfiltered coconut oil
4 T + 2 t raw unsweetened cacao powder
2 T + 2 t grade b maple syrup OR raw, local honey
¼ t pure vanilla extract
1-2 pinches sea salt
(Optional:  add cayenne pepper, cinnamon, nuts, coconut, peppermint extract, dried berries)

Instructions
Put coconut oil in small saucepan and melt on low. When liquid, remove from heat and stir in cacao powder. Mix until lumps are dissolved, then stir in maple syrup or honey, vanilla extract and sea salt.

For syrup, serve immediately. For sauce, let cool 10-15 minutes. For shell effect, pour over cold dessert such as ice cream and give it a few minutes to harden.

Dip fruit in it, use it as a sauce, drizzle over nuts, bananas, pretzels and freeze.

(Source: therisingspoon.com)