Posted by Les Mauvaises Herbes
Summer is now a thing of the past and we’re taking out our lovely beanie, our cozy sweaters, our pumpkin spice latte… and then our pumpkins and Halloween decorations! MwahahahaAAA (insert ghostly laugh here) 🎃 👻 🕷️
We have a few recipes for you, bubbling over with laughter, beautiful moments, and autumnal coziness!
Halloween 👻
Well! Halloween. It’s a bit of a bummer, but it’s often synonymous with waste.
To try and remedy this problem a little, we have for you our famous recipes for children’s face paint (it works for adults, too) and window paint! Incorporate iron oxides (yellow, brown, red!), turmeric (orange), activated charcoal (black as the depths of heeeeell), paprika (red), and cocoa (brown) into these concoctions; they will be the best allies for your imagination when decorating faces & windows.
Homemade makeup for children
Making face paint for kids is the perfect 2-in-1 activity: you involve them in the making, then they have fun painting themselves. Yesss! A great replacement for classic makeup crayons. This recipe holds up pretty well, and it's much easier to clean, plus it's natural and safe ;) A must-have for Halloween and any other occasion.
- Marie
Préparation
10 min
Conservation
recette minute
Rendement
120 ml
Window painting for children of all ages
The field of visual arts can seem inextricably linked with waste. We propose a zero-waste solution that will allow children (and you!) to decorate the house by expressing themselves in the windows to bring a smile to the neighborhood. Interested? Suitable for all holidays: Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, or simply everyday life.
Préparation
15 min
Conservation
recette minute
Rendement
250 ml
And on Halloween night, why not sip our hibiscus and rose lemonade while handing out candy? Yes. This lemonade is not only delicious, but it also has the color of blood haha! Enough to impress the neighbors 🩸
Pro tip for seasoned DIYers: take out your macerations and tinctures to use as decorations! With some lighting effects and all, it will look sooooo tenebrous 🧛♂️
Hibiscus and Rose Lemonade
Hibiscus is probably the most widely used plant for cold infusions around the world. It is the key ingredient in bissap (Senegal), seille (Guinea), agua de jamaica (Latin America), carcadé (Italy), and many more! Here, we love to mix it with lemon juice and rose petals to make a wonderful lemonade. It's beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!
Préparation
1 h
Conservation
3-5 jours au frigo
Rendement
2 L
We also recommend a must-try: our recipe for effervescent bath powder, which is, in fact… pure magic! Whip up this mysterious powder using citric acid so your little one can cast spells & enchantments in their bathwater.
Effervescent bath powder
Bath bombs are a lot of fun, but an almost instant solution to brighten up the kids is even better! Okay, that's too much. Sorry about that! Turn bath time into a potion with this magical, easy-to-make powder.
Happy bathing!
Préparation
3 min
Conservation
Indéfiniment
Rendement
260 ml
Pumpkin spice everything 🎃
Contrary to what stores want us to believe, autumn isn't just about the festival of the dead. It’s also about comfort.
Fans of pumpkin spice everything will be enchanted by our autumnal pumpkin scrub, our Autumn room spray, and our autumnal pumpkin soap recipe.
That's right. We've got something for everyone!
Spiced Pumpkin Autumn Exfoliant
If in your mind, October rhymes with pumpkin spice everything, this recipe is for you! The idea for this autumnal spice body scrub comes from the following combination: "Wow, my skin is suddenly so dry" & "I could drink a third pumpkin spice latte...". Yum. Happy scrubbing!
- Mariane
Préparation
3 min
Conservation
6-12 mois
Rendement
environ 500 ml
Autumn Room Mist: welcome the cold season
When it gets cold, we tend to keep our windows closed to retain the heat in our poorly insulated old apartments, haha! Our homes are therefore less ventilated, the air is more stagnant, and the ambient smell isn't always... pleasant. A little DIY recipe that smells like autumn? Let's go!
Préparation
2 minutes
Conservation
6 mois à 1 an
Rendement
environ 110 ml
Autumn Pumpkin Soap
Do you love pumpkin so much that you extend pumpkin-everything season until December? Are you familiar with making handmade cold-process soaps? This recipe is for you!
Préparation
90 minutes
Conservation
indéfinie
Rendement
