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How to Use Essential Oils.

HOW TO USE ESSENTIAL OILS: AROMATHERAPY 101.

This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Chances are, if you’re a self-care- or wellness- prone human who spends any amount of time on the internet today, you’ve heard of essential oils. Chances are also that you don’t really know what…
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HOW TO USE NATURAL OILS TO MOISTURIZE FACE & BODY

HOW TO USE NATURAL OILS TO MOISTURIZE FACE & BODY.

This post contains Amazon affiliate links. I grew up surrounded by oils. Beakers of sweet almond and safflower, gallons of olive, and tubs of coconut. Pint bottles of lavender essential oil and cups full of sandalwood. Moisture and scent was…
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SATSUMA ROSE BODY POLISH.

I am speechless. The days feel like skeins of yarn slowly unraveling themselves around the spool of the sun, dying quietly with the early winter sunset. Every morning brings fresh cuts into the fabric of our democracy—strikes against the environment,…
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STRAWBERRIES & CREAM FACE AND BODY EXFOLIATOR.

It’s been one of those weeks that has no beginning or end, just a ceaseless cycle of events and dinners and obligations, punctuated by traffic and car doors opening and closing and emails and work and Snapchat. You know? You…
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LAVENDER ROSE OAT MILK BATH.

It is 11:30pm. I am doing dishes. I’m past the struggle of it, surrendered to the delicious slop and spray of warm water and suds. And then, just like that, there is a quickening. I feel her. She comes like…
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EDIBLE COCONUT ROSE SUGAR SCRUB.

Every few months or so, and certainly in the romantic fixation of Valentine’s Day, I begin to think I know what love is. How it ought to feel, the breath it catches in my throat, the texture of its weight…
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CRANBERRY COCONUT SALT SCRUB + MAUI!

I could not be more excited about this post, because today, in addition to giving you this awesome body scrub, for the very first time I get to give you a tiny taste of what it feels like to wander…
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PUMPKIN SPICE ANTIOXIDANT SCRUB.

Surprise! It’s pumpkin week on Kale & Caramel!!! Today we take a deep dive into the a highly unconventional use of pumpkin—its brilliance as a skin rejuvenator and antioxidant. Welcome to Pumpkin Spice: Beyond the Basic B*tch*. *(I do not…
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HONEYED MELON SUGAR SCRUB.

Earlier this week, my friend Lynn and I were chatting about how I like to put food on my face. What about melon?! she mused, and I got instantaneously excited. My excitement was two-fold: 1) Because, as Lynn suspected, I really *did* want to slather my…
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