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Aug 31, 2013

Neal's Yard Remedies Create Your Own & Super Foods Event

Neal's Yard Remedies Create Your Own & Super Foods Event

On Wednesday I was invited to celebrate the Islington Neal's Yard Remedies store's 5th birthday, along with a couple of other London bloggers. As usual with Neal's Yard Events these was a sort of theme or activity- this time the activity was to create our own blend of essential oils and use it for a chosen product. Last year I went to their massage event near Marble Arch and learned a couple of tricks, read about that here

Neal's Yard Remedies Create Your Own & Super Foods Event

As you might know if you have followed my blog for a long while, I am interested in both natural beauty products and making my own products- so I was super excited about this evening. If you follow my Instagram (link) you will also know that I will actually be studying Cosmetic Science starting in September.  (Check out ALL my DIY posts here

We were told a little about essential oils and their benefits and then we got to smell loads of different ones, choosing our favourites to go in our own blends. We then got to use them in either a body oil, body scrub or shower gel using NYR own product bases (find them here). I believe you can also go to the store and mix up your own blend using these! 

Neal's Yard Remedies Create Your Own Shampoo Base                                                                                                                                        My blend was a little bit of Ylang Ylang (spelling?) essential oil, Rosemary,Geranium and a whole lot of Lime essential oil. So basically I just made a lime Shower Gel. Find their essential oils here. We also got our own hand made on the spot lip balm a la Neal's Yard made of beeswax, love it! I have actually tried making a similar lip balm before which you can read about here

As we arrived we were treated to this super yummy champagne with their own added special syrup mix (I believe), it was soo nice!

Neal's Yard Remedies Create Your Own & Super Foods Event

We were also introduced to some of their new Neal's Yard super foods. This is their chocolate with added Goji Berries (amongst other healthy things I believe). I am usually not a fan of fruit added to chocolate but I actually loved this and when offered, I happily accepted to bring home a few pieces.

Neal's Yard Remedies Chocolate Super Foods

We also got treated to some yummy muffins! Check out their page with some Super Food Recipes here.

Neal's Yard Remedies Lavender Cupcake Super Foods Event

Last but not least we got a very nice goodie bag with some items I am really excited about. As this post is already pretty picture heavy, I will save those for another post :)

Have you tried making your own products?

&What is your favourite super food?

xx

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5 comments:

  1. This looks so awesome! What a great event x

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  2. I haven't done much of my own products, but I would sure like to try it :) ♥

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  3. Sounds like a lovely event, I bet your lime shower gel smells amazing! And I think it's really cool that you'll be studying Cosmetic Science :) xx

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  4. great post, love to see what was in your goodiebag ;-)

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  5. How fun! Never made anything but a DIY lip scrub LOL! The snacks look yummy!

    xo, Janelle @ GlamorousMama

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