Body & Beauty

Body & Beauty

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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APPLE CIDER OATMEAL FACE MASK.

It’s been quite a week. The internet has blown up with fresh election vitriol, disbelief, and a renewed sense of righteousness. I went to San Francisco to be with a dear friend whose mother is going through a significant health…
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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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SPIRULINA HONEY FACE MASK.

It’s been a strange year thus far, in that I’ve been so caught up in work that the things I typically tend to most anxiously—friendships, dating, exercise, staying current with The Good Wife—have fallen by the wayside. Which is not…
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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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POMEGRANATE HONEY TONING MASK.

So while you’re waiting to find out if you won the Fall Cozy Fair Trade Giveaway (you entered, right? there’s still 24 hours left to enter!), I thought I’d offer you a reprieve of DIY spa luxury: A skin toning…
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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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OATMEAL ROSE FACE MASK DIY.

About three months ago, I noticed something unspeakable: I was out of space in my kitchen. I barely had three square inches of counter space upon which to slice an orange, let alone the real estate to properly store my…
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