The Green touch

Here is the list of the different peeling ingredients I may or may not have mentioned on the blog. The great thing about it, you probably already have them in your kitchen. Face peeling - thin salt in a little bit of oil (olive for example) That's what I use, once a week :) - wheat bran. You can mix it with yoghurt but I guess it's just as fine in olive oil. I would especially recommend this for sensitive skins as it's extremely soft (a bit too soft for my taste though). I bought the wrong type of flour so that was a good way to use the bran after sifting the flour. - coffee grounds. Slightly more abrasive than thin salt but still ok Body peeling - sugar! and honey and olive oil --> See honey sugar scrub here . - coffee grounds Hair Yes, hair, or more precisely, scalp scrub. From what I read, it helps you get rid of dead skin cell and stimulates circulation and hair growth. You can choose any of the ingredients above depending on how sensiti...

Yoghurt is another of the dishes I started to make to reduce my own waste. As I like to have dessert after a meal, I was actually collecting more than enough yoghurt pots to make homemade soap ;) (if you don't understand this joke, see "how to make soap" articles ). Making yoghurt is quite simple and cheap. You don't even need a yoghurt-machine, you can use an oven. Regarding the ingredients, just milk, and a yoghurt that will ferment the milk and transform it into yoghurt. And also anything else to flavor it (honey and jam for example). Quality is important here, both for the milk and the yoghurt. Milk Choose full-cream milk. It doesn't need to be cow milk; it can be any other animal milk. Vegetal milk too. I tried with soya milk (Go green, I haven't tried with Alpro) and it works, but I hear that with other vegetal milk you need thickeners. Yoghurt as a "starter" First you will need to buy a yoghurt, and then you can reuse one of...