Carrie's Herbal Infused Skincare Cookbook
🛀🏻🌿Discover the art of crafting homemade, all-natural skincare products for healthy, radiant skin! This book is your guide to creating personalized skincare solutions that cater to your skin's specific needs, using only natural ingredients. 🌿Listen to my Natural Skincare for Women over 40 private podcast series when you sign up for my newsletter below.
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Spritz & Soothe: A Refreshing Way to Practice Daily Self-Care
Carrie's Handmade Essentials Spritz & Soothe: A Refreshing Way to Practice Daily Self-Care If your skincare or self-care routine could use a little refresh—literally—this is for you. Spritz & Soothe is my new free guide that shows you how to create 10 simple and soothing spray blends you can make at home. These aren’t your average DIYs. They’re designed with intention—to hydrate, to calm, to uplift, and to nurture your skin and spirit using natural, gentle ingredients. Think after-sun...
READ POST💧 Skin Feeling Hot or Irritated? This Herbal Trick Helps
Carrie's Handmade Essentials Skin Feeling Hot or Irritated? This Herbal Trick Helps Summer heat. Hormonal shifts. Irritated skin. Sometimes our faces just need a moment to cool off. This week’s episode of Plants, Flowers, Oils & Whimsy is all about gentle, plant-powered ways to soothe your skin using ingredients you might already have at home. These cooling teas and compresses are simple, effective, and perfect for hot days, flushed skin, or a little midday reset. ✨ We’ll cover: Why cooling...
READ POSTSkin, Shifts & Radiance: Herbs for Perimenopause + My Favorite Things This Week
Carrie's Handmade Essentials Skin, Shifts & Radiance: Herbs for Perimenopause + My Favorite Things This Week Welcome to another cozy edition of Flowers, Plants, Oils & Whimsy, where we gather around gentle rituals, herbal support, and radiant self-care. This week, we’re diving into something that touches many of us—whether we’re quietly navigating it or just beginning to notice subtle shifts… 🎧 New Podcast Episode: Skin & Perimenopause Hormonal changes during perimenopause can affect your...
READ POSTMist Your Way to Radiant Skin This Summer
Carrie's Handmade Essentials Mist Your Way to Radiant Skin This Summer Hi! When summer gets hot, our skin often cries out for a little relief—and our spirits do too. That’s why I did my podcast episode this week about DIY hydrating mists—those light, floral sprays that cool, soothe, and refresh your skin in an instant. In this episode of Plants, Flowers, Oils & Whimsy, you’ll learn how to make your own facial mists using rose, lavender, and peppermint. These are great for women over 40 who...
READ POSTSummer Glow Facial Oil
Carrie's Handmade Essentials Summer Glow Facial Oil Summer calls for skincare that’s light, breathable, and glow-enhancing. As the temperature rises and the sun shines brighter, our skin naturally produces more oil—so instead of rich balms and butters, this is the time to reach for lightweight oils that nourish without feeling heavy. In this week’s podcast, we’re spotlighting three of my favorite summer oils:🌿 Jojoba oil –🍓 Raspberry seed oil🍑 Apricot kernel oil These botanical oils are...
READ POSTHydration, Radiance & Protection—Naturally 🌿
Carrie's Handmade Essentials Hydration, Radiance & Protection—Naturally As the sun grows stronger and the days stretch longer, your skincare needs a summer refresh—especially if you're over 40 and want to nourish your skin, not just shield it. In this week’s podcast episode, we’re diving into hydration, radiance, and protection—the three pillars of glowing, summer-ready skin at any age. You’ll learn simple ways to hydrate your skin (inside and out), boost your natural glow, and guard against...
READ POSTUnderstanding Your Skin’s Changing Needs
Carrie's Handmade Essentials Loving Your Evolving Skin I’ve been having podcast issues this week and wasn’t able to upload one. So, I decided to do something a little different this week and talk about what does it mean exactly to have “mature” skin. As we grow older, our skin begins to tell a different story. A story of wisdom, change, and transformation. But what is mature skin, exactly? Having mature skin isn’t just about your age. It’s about how our skin changes over time. The phrase...
READ POSTGet Smoother, Healthier Skin: Gentle Pore Care + a Soothing DIY Toner Recipe
Carrie's Handmade Essentials Your skin is your story. Treat it kindly. Welcome back, radiant friends! This week on the podcast, we’re talking about something many of us experience as we get older: changes in our pores. Whether they’re more visible, congested, or just feeling a little "off," we’ll explore how to care for them gently and naturally. So I started using Substack again. I will post this newsletter along with other things and a paid version. 🌿 Paid Members What You’ll Receive:–...
READ POST🌙 This week’s ritual: bedtime eye massage
Carrie's Handmade Essentials bedtime eye massage Hello Everybody (Said in Grover’s voice) 😊 A couple weeks ago I woke up with dry patches on my eyelids and under eye area. So, I researched which oils were best that I actually had on hand. Today the dry patches are almost gone but they definitely feel much better and are not itchy and hurting anymore. I thought someone else might have this problem and want to know what I did. “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” –...
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