{"id":23588,"date":"2021-01-15T22:25:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T22:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/15\/diy-beauty-powerhouse\/"},"modified":"2021-01-15T22:25:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T22:25:17","slug":"diy-beauty-powerhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/15\/diy-beauty-powerhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Beauty Powerhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

How I saved about $130 by adding this gem to my beauty routine<\/p>\n

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Call it a beauty routine, self-care, self-love, whatever floats your boat but I am always looking for ways to simplify my personal routine at the lowest cost possible way. <\/p>\n

I recently came across a great deal on pure Argan oil, and since this is a key ingredient often advertised on bottles of beauty potions and hair elixirs alike, I thought I would give it a whirl with the real stuff and only spend $8. <\/p>\n

In this post, I want to share with you all of the uses I get out of this DIY beauty powerhouse and how much money I have saved by using pure argan oil instead of buying expensive beauty products that contain some small amount of the stuff.<\/p>\n

Skin<\/p>\n

I have terribly dry, sensitive, slightly aging skin that gets painfully itchy and flakes this time of year, but since adding a few drops of argan oil to my normal lotions I use, I’m absolutely glowing. I did not make any other changes to my routine. I add 2-3 drops of argan oil to my regular daily retinol face lotion and about 6-8 drops in with my body butter. <\/p>\n

Like magic, my chronic dry, painful winter skin that I have struggled with for years is completely cured, soft, and healthy. Even my fine lines seem to have shown improvement. I am blown away. <\/p>\n

I saved about $32 dollars on my face lotion and about $28 on the body butter (compared to the pricing of the Josie Maran argan oil line sold at Ulta).<\/p>\n

Hair<\/p>\n

I bleach my hair (myself, more on that later) and it really craves hydration. I have not been thrilled with the health of my hair for months, but I do feel that the argan oil is helping to improve things. I add about 8 drops of it to my normal hair conditioner, leave it on for about 3 minutes, and rinse with warm water. I will also rub 3-4 drops between my palms and applied directly to the middle and ends of my hair.<\/p>\n

My hair is not completely cured, but when I started it was pretty damaged. I do feel the argan oil has helped more than a number of other conditioning masks and leave-in treatments I have tried including Its a 10 and keratin treatments. <\/p>\n

I would imagine that argan oil would make hair that is already reasonably healthy incredibly soft and shiny.<\/p>\n

I saved about $28 on the hair conditioning treatment and about $22 on the hair serum (compared to Lustea, Josie Maran, and other brands found at Ulta).<\/p>\n

Nails<\/p>\n

A few months ago, I had a nail technician completely hack up my previously strong, long, healthy natural nails during gel polish removal. My nails have been paper-thin since. I’ve had to keep them so short because any length I could grow would be susceptible to bending completely backward or ripping down the nail bed. Awful.<\/p>\n

I usually do my nails myself at home but I had taken my daughter out for a special mother-daughter afternoon of pampering. Lesson learned I will always remove my own gel polish prior to stepping foot inside a nail salon.<\/p>\n

I digress. <\/p>\n

The argan oil has been helpful to improve the strength of my nails themselves, but I also use the hard as hoof lotion which I accredit most of the improvement to. Mostly, I feel that the argan oil has been wonderful for my cuticle care and with very little maintenance other than using the oil, my cuticles look great mid-December in New England. <\/p>\n

I saved $21 by avoiding buying a fancy cuticle oil (compared to corporels brand). <\/p>\n

Overall, I saved about $130 in beauty products for hair, skin, and nails and cured many of the winter conditions I was unhappy with from head to toe! My personal routine has been simplified and improved – yes! <\/p>\n

If you’d like to try the same argan oil I have, you can find it on Amazon here<\/u><\/a>. Also, the hard as hoof nail strengthing cream can be found here<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course, beauty always comes from within and I truly believe and embrace that, but a little argan oil goes a long way too ;). <\/p>\n

Photo credit: https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@karolina-grabowska<\/p>\n

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How I saved about $130 by adding this gem to my beauty routine Call it a beauty routine, self-care, self-love, whatever floats your boat but I am always looking for ways to simplify my personal routine at the lowest cost possible way. I recently came across a great deal on pure Argan oil, and since this is a key ingredient often advertised on bottles of beauty potions and hair elixirs alike, I thought I would give it a whirl with the real stuff and only spend $8. In this post, I want to share with you all of the uses I get out of this DIY beauty powerhouse and how much money I have saved by using pure argan oil instead of buying expensive beauty products that contain some small amount of the stuff. Skin I have terribly dry, sensitive, slightly aging skin that gets painfully itchy and flakes this time of year, but since adding a few drops of argan oil to my normal lotions I use, I’m absolutely glowing. I did not make any other changes to my routine. I add 2-3 drops of argan oil to my regular daily retinol face lotion and about 6-8 drops in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}