Personal care items like soap and fragrances are big sellers during the holiday season. People tend to drop a fair amount of dough on cosmetics gifts at stores like Bath and Body Works and Victoria's Secret. But, as we've preached before on this site, numerous brands of cosmetics on the market contain chemicals that aren't so great for your skin. They can be counterproductive (i.e.: drying out skin) and they're full of carcinogens, neurotoxins, and reproductive toxins.
Now, I don't want you have to rewrite your holiday shopping list, but there are some great natural alternatives to those bath and body products at the "big box" stores and they can also end up saving you money: homemade beauty products!
Yes, making your own gifts will probably take more time than driving to the mall, picking out your loot and paying for it, but using your own two hands to create a gift makes it so much more personal and, not to mention, self-satisfying.
