Home spa 🌼🐝
Autumn is the time to create space for well-being and to take care of yourself. Get enough rest, eat good nutritious food, and soak up the little daylight that is available – and maybe enjoy a home spa 🛀🧡 With nature on your skin!
In this email you will receive recipes on how to use the latest treasures in nature - and make your own spa products 🌿💫 or you can "cheat" and buy Vossabia's home spa package with a delicious body scrub, facial scrub and vitamin-rich Body Balm - all of this becomes a buffet for the skin with many delicious dishes that satisfy and nourish and make you feel wonderful!
It is still possible to use and enjoy nature.
🧡 Autumn is a time when I feel a mixture of sadness and pleasure.
Sadness that summer is completely over for this year, and pleasure as I take in the beautiful crescendo of autumn colors in the mountains and forests⛰️
We went up to our seater the previous day, or the stable as we call it, and I felt the magic in an otherwise damp and grey day. There is still some orange, yellow and red lingering on the trees in the forest, even though almost all the leaves now color the ground and the path 🍁 The contrast is great to the mountain which has received a thin dusting of snow, which warns that nature will soon rest.
But even though nature is slumping and getting ready for the long rest, there are still some plants that are bursting with life and desire, which we can use with joy and enthusiasm. Go for a walk, feel the autumn and the cold and the contrasts, AND: pick some plants with you that can be transformed into a wonderfully warming home spa!
🥀Rosehips, for example, are real vitamin C bombs – fantastic to use in face masks. 🌿Nettles are still available fresh and nice, plantains and - throw them in the foot bath! The same with herbs such as rosemary, thyme and sage, and not least sprigs of spruce, pine and juniper.
At the bottom of the email you'll find some recipes on how you can use these treasures to give yourself a well-deserved home spa! 🌼🛀
2 home spa packages from Vossabia: 🌼🛀
It is entirely possible to recreate the magic of nature in your lovely bathroom. Take time for yourself, give your body and skin a buffet of fabulous ingredients in 🌼🐝 3 wonderful basic products for a super-cool home spa .
💚 Lemon and Honey Scrub (250 ml) With honey from our bees and organic raw cane sugar - gives you wonderfully soft skin and THE delicious experience!
💜 Rose and red clover scrub for face and neck (100 ml) . This revitalizing and cleansing facial egg is a must a couple of times a week! You can use it as an incredibly delicious and effective cleanser/peeling and mix with water, your favorite herbal tea, organic apple juice or how about making a face mask first by mixing with a little honey? When you rinse off, you get the scrub effect! Absolutely delicious and your facial skin loves it!
💚 Wild Herb Body Balm (100 ml) - here again with handpicked and gently processed herbs from the farm, and the result is a magically delicious lubricant for the whole body that leaves your skin and mind happy and supple! 🤩
It's so nice to pamper yourself with a delicious green home spa based on herbs and bees' super raw materials, and especially now in autumn when the cold starts to creep into body and soul. It's time for a WONDERFUL LUXURY HOME SPA ! Check out what you get in this green spa package, where a lot of the content is picked right outside the door here:
💚 Lemon and Honey Scrub (250 ml)
💚 Wild Herb Body Balm (100 ml)
💚 Shampoo with wild herbs (250 ml) - here we are talking ultra-care for hair and scalp, and you don't need conditioner! With hand-picked herbs, with love, by Renate 😅😘
💚 Hair serum (30 ml) with nettle from the farm and jasmine from Egypt - many people think this is the world's best hair serum, and I completely agree 😁 a couple of pumps in your hand and your hair will be so shiny and strong and filled with healthy things!
💚 Mini deodorant with citrus (15 ml) - apply a thin layer of this super healthy deodorant and you'll feel fresh and beautiful, ready for new adventures!
Make your own spa products!
Did you know that 🥀rose hips you find outside can be processed into a delicious and super healthy face mask, and 🌿nettle can be turned into a soothing facial toner. And don't forget the number 1 autumn fruit: apple🍏! The fruit acid in apples actually has a softening effect on the skin and is perfect for bath water. Do you still have any plants left in the herb garden? Take the opportunity to harvest them and use them for well-being and nourishment for your skin. Rosemary and thyme, for example, are warming and increase blood circulation. And then there's the wonderful scent! 😍
The aroma itself is nourishment and a superfood for the joy of life, if you ask me! Check below for some tips on how you can create well-being and a home spa that is strengthening for both skin, body and joy!
Rosehip and honey face mask🥀🍯:
The rose's fruit can be picked all autumn long, until frost takes them or they disappear under the snow. Did you know that rose hips contain more vitamin C than oranges, but also a good dose of iron and vitamin A.
How to do it:
Cut the rose hips in half – remove the core with a teaspoon.
Place the rosehip halves and thyme sprigs in a pan of water.
Bring to a boil, lower the heat – let the rose hips simmer under a lid for 5 minutes.
Pour off the water.
Remove the thyme sprig.
Put the rose hips in a blender – create a puree consistency.
When cooled – stir in honey and flour.
(In the recipe I write oat flour, but you can also use buckwheat flour or another nutritious and preferably organic flour)
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Apply the face mask directly to the skin and leave it on for about 15-20 minutes.
Then rinse off with lukewarm water.
⭐ The result: A wonderful, refreshing mask with vitamin C that keeps the skin moist, young and fresh. The vitamin C content in particular makes this face mask also very suitable for mature skin.
Fruity apple bath with thyme and honey🛀🍎
Apples are great in the fall, and they are in abundance in most places and therefore easy to get hold of. Who doesn't love apple pie and apple cake - but did you know that you can also put apples in the bath? Apples are great for moisturizing and softening the skin - due to their fruit acid content.
Apples with thyme and honey - the perfect autumn bath that refreshes both skin and mood🍁🤩
I use organic must from Finnegarden here in Voss. Instead of dried thyme, you can use 1 sprig of fresh thyme if you have it in your garden - it still holds up well in my herb spiral. And the honey is of course the honey our bees have made 🐝
How to do it:
Pour the apple juice into a pan, add the thyme and cover.
Heat the apple juice. Turn off when it boils.
Let the apple juice cool under a lid to about 40 degrees.
Strain or remove the thyme sprig and stir in the honey.
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🛀 You can then pour this straight into the bathtub. Lie down, relax, and enjoy the fruit and let it do its thing. Maybe you can also apply a rosehip face mask at the same time? Or our wonderful Rose and Red Clover Scrub , which can also be used as a face mask if you mix it with honey.
Facial toner with Sage or Rosemary🌿🌱
I love the scent of rosemary and have a lot of it in my garden. If you don't have a kitchen garden, this is an easy herb to get hold of, and it can be used both fresh and dried.
How to do it:
Bring to a boil, put on a lid, turn off the heat and let stand.
Add 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar.
(Add essential oils if you have)
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⭐ The result is a wonderfully fragrant facial toner that you can use to cleanse your skin.
👉 For the man:
🪒 Men can use this as shaving water. Another tip for shaving water is to use Sage 🌱. Here the bonus is also that sage has an antiseptic effect.
Use the same procedure as above - but replace rosemary with sage.
Hope you're inspired to start creating your own home spa!
Make yourself a cup of delicious herbal tea.
🍯-sweeten with honey - and enjoy autumn🍁!