3 Easy DIY Beauty Treatments for Gorgeous Summer Skin

By Rachel Hollis

When it’s hot outside, I love these DIY beauty treatments—all made with natural ingredients—to keep my skin fresh and beautiful. Try them out, and let me know what you think!

beauty-body-spray-680x1024DIY Himalayan Sea Salt Body Spray

Summer is on the horizon and with it comes the heat. This means it’s time to pile on the deodorant and switch to a lighter all over scent. There’s just something about a heavy perfume and summer that doesn’t quite work. That’s why we created this body spray that will not only refresh and nourish your skin, it will keep you smelling like a tropical paradise all summer long.

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facemistdiy_sizedFace Mist for Dry Skin

There’s always that time of day when you reach for your wallet to go grab an afternoon caffeine pick-me-up. What I’ve come to notice is it’s not always that I’m tired or in need of caffeine, but simply that my senses need to be awakened after staring at a computer screen for hours. Thus, we created this face mist. Trust me, spray your face throughout the day and you will feel refreshed and ready to take on your next task.

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sugarscrubdiy_sizedDIY Citrus Body Scrub

Ladies, it’s time to get our skin ready for swimsuit season. Body scrubs can be so costly, but are surprisingly easy to make. Here’s an easy DIY scrub that will leave your skin so soft and beautiful. We used blood oranges and vanilla to create a scent perfect for summer.

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Photos: Rachel Hollis

Rachel Hollis
Rachel Hollis

Rachel Hollis is the founder of the popular lifestyle blog www.thechicsite.com and Los Angeles-based event-planning firm, Chic Events. At 27, she was named by Inc. Magazine as one of the “Top 30 Entrepreneurs under 30.” She has designed and produced fabulous parties for many of Hollywood’s elite, including Bradley Cooper, Rashida Jones, Al Gore, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ivanka Trump, Jamie King, and Cuba Gooding Jr. (just to name a few). In February of 2014 she published her first book, a roman a clef called Party Girl about the years she spent as a celebrity event planner. The self-published title proved so successful that Lake Union Publishing purchased it and the subsequent sequel. Lake Union re-released Party Girl in December of 2014 and will publish the sequel, Sweet Girl in May 2015. In Fall of 2016, Thomas Dunne Books will be publishing Hollis’s cookbook entitled Fancy Trash, an irreverent collection of recipes for affordable meals presented so polished you'd never know their "lowbrow" origins. Most recently, she was named as the Best Blogger for Entertaining by Better Homes and Gardens.
In addition, Rachel is a lifestyle expert for The Talk, EXTRA, The Nate Berkus Show, The Steve Harvey Show, KTLA Morning News, Fox 5, Better TV and a regular contributor on PopSugar TV and Celebrations.com. She has been featured in People, InStyle, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Parade, OK! Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, Better Homes and Gardens, Traditional Home, Entrepreneur, Grace Ormand and the TV shows “Jilted” and “I Do Over” for the WE Network, “The Traveler’s Guide to Life” on the Travel Channel and “Self Made.”
Rachel lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three boys.

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