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July 4, 2008 in Health & Beauty, plastic free backpack
Tags: cosmetics

Every year they, the fashionistas, say that pale is interesting – well up here in the windswept north of England where the sun dont shine,  pallid is the norm and we hate it.

So refusing to bow to the indignities of our location we paint our selves with coffee and draw lines on our legs with eyeliner – no sorry that was the war. We stain ourselves brown with self tanning lotion.

But that comes in a plastic bottle and you know what I think about plastic bottles so I make my own

Home made self tan

Add self tanning addative DHA to a base cream.

It works – though you might want to play around with the percentages – the first batch I made was rather strong for my glow- in – the – dark, white, white skin.

For details on DHA – stockists and amounts needed to turn you into a sun kissed deity click here

NB I added this to my home made lotion but I see no reason why you couldnt add it to a bought lotion. However making your own is really easy – for more details click here.

You ca also add it to your home made suntan lotion to get a golden glow while NOT burning.

NBB the DHA comes in a small plastic tub. You can make loads of the stuff from one tub. So while the base ingredients come packaged in plastic this represents a massive reduction in plastic consumption as one small tub replaces a number of bottles.

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