24/Savvy Beauty and Health

When we set out to do this 3-Uses-in-1 regular feature, little did we know that many of the products we wanted to feature pre-date World War I and in this case, the Civil War.  Guess that should teach us something about simplicity and using what you have, no?

For our savvy history buffs: Vaseline's life began in 1859, when an amateur chemist discovered that the same substance that loosened up oil rigs also worked wonders on workers' cuts and burns (so savvy!).  Vaseline Petroleum Jelly was born and within 10 years, found its way into nearly every American medicine chest from Chattanooga to the Mississippi Delta.  There are no shortages of things you can do with VPJ, but we found its myriad uses more powerful when combined with something else, Wonder-Twin Power-Style.

Not only is this an incredible solution for dry hair, you can file this under another 'really useful way to repurpose a plastic bag.'  As easy as it is inexpensive, this has become one of our favorite budget beauty treatments to do at least once a month for healthy hair maintenance or before special occasions for truly lustrous locks.

I am always on the search of truly lash=blasting mascara.  And since Mama recently had to restructure my beauty budget… It called for some cheaper alternatives to my normal bevy of products.

Enter the amazing bright pink & green packaged Maybelline Great Lash BIG Mascara.  I have seen people use this before, but never had myself.  So, at an amazing budget-friendly $4 (I got mine at Target), I grabbed it up.

This elongated winter has many of us scrunching down in our coats to avoid extreme frost exposure, which might make for a warmer stroll, but unfortunately also makes for a scrunched neck, a sore back and achy shoulder muscles.

At Savvy Central (and hopefully at our satellite locations, such as YOUR house), nothing heals achy muscles and bones or cures colds faster than a warm bath-salt soak, and TRULY nothing tickles our senses better than a budget-friendly, sweetly scented, warm bath-salt soak.

If you've been to the salon recently and felt the sting when the colorist rang up your bill, you might just be tempted to try your hand at an at-home dye job.  While it's never a good idea to attempt a drastic color change at home, if you're considering a simple root touch up or color-enhancing job, it's worth bearing in mind that many at-home hair color products are identical to those in a salon—the big salon advantage is having an expert colorist who knows how to blend multiple formulas to obtain custom, contrasting results.

Howevuh.

There's nothing sexy about dry, chapped, red weathered hands.  In fact, it can be downright painful to sport cracked paws, particularly when ordinary washing and drying results in irritated, broken skin and knuckles like sandpaper.

If you've tried lotions and potions with little improvement or worse--a burning sensation, your creamy goodies may contain skin-irritating ingredients like alcohol or fragrances that are actually making the problem worse.  The good news is you can cure chapped paws inexpensively and virtually effortlessly, with the best part of the remedy happening while you're stacking the Z's.