Easy DIY Gifts for Moms (Crunchy or Not!)
Looking for the perfect DIY gifts for crunchy moms? These handmade ideas are thoughtful, toxin-free, and simple to make. From soaps and sugar scrubs to bath bombs and more. I love creating homemade gifts for friends (and receiving them, too!). Once you’ve made a few, you really appreciate the time, love, and care that go into each one.
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Whether you’re gifting your own mom or your crunchy, scrunchy, or natural-living friends, these toxin-free DIYs are sure to make them smile. Many of these projects use essential oils or other natural skincare ingredients, and Eden’s Garden and Mountain Rose Herbs are two of my favorite places to buy them.
toxin free homemade gifts for moms
DIY Whipped Body Butter
This delightful mango body butter is sure to delight! It absorbs more quickly than shea butter but still works great at moisturizing damaged skin.
No Lye, Lavender Melt and Pour Soap Bar
Create your own calming, handmade soap in minutes! This easy melt and pour lavender soap is soothing, moisturizing, and beautifully scented with real lavender essential oil—perfect for gifting or a relaxing nightly routine.
Goat Milk Melt & Pour Soap Bars with Oatmeal and Honey
This oatmeal, honey, and goat milk soap bar how to makes a soap that is has numerous benefits for your skin! Enjoy these fun bars that are great for many skin types.
Easy DIY Shea Butter Bath Bombs
These bath bombs are made with essential oils to promote relaxation and shea butter to help moisturize your skin.
5 DIY Christmas Scented Sugar Scrub Ideas
These sugar scrubs only require 2 ingredients but essential oils to scent them with. It’s a quick and easy homemade gift idea to whip up last minute!
5 Christmas Soaps to Make for Beginners
This is my easy, beginner friendly soap making recipe but I also share 5 different essential oil combinations to make Christmas soaps for yourself or gifts!
Fizzy Bath Bombs without Cornstarch
These natural, skin-loving bath bombs are the perfect way to unwind! Made without cornstarch, they fizz beautifully while leaving your skin soft and moisturized.
Nourishing Tallow Lip Balm
This ultra-moisturizing lip balm is made with nutrient-rich tallow for soft, smooth lips naturally! Perfect for dry or chapped lips, it deeply hydrates without any synthetic ingredients.
Whipped Sugar Soap Scrub
Light, fluffy, and perfectly exfoliating—this whipped sugar soap scrub cleanses, softens, and leaves your skin silky smooth! It’s part soap, part body polish, and 100% indulgent.
DIY Shower Melts
Transform your shower into a spa with these easy DIY shower melts! Infused with essential oils, they release soothing aromas as they dissolve, helping you relax, breathe easier, and start your day refreshed.
Homemade Shea Butter Lotion
This rich, creamy shea butter lotion deeply nourishes and hydrates dry skin—without any synthetic ingredients. Perfect for daily use, it melts right in, leaving your skin soft, smooth, and naturally glowing.
Homemade Sugar Scrub
Exfoliate and pamper your skin with this simple homemade sugar scrub! Made with natural oils and sugar, it gently buffs away dryness while locking in moisture for irresistibly soft, radiant skin.
Easy DIY Gifts for Moms
These easy homemade gifts for mom (or your mom friend) are the perfect thing to show her some love. Motherhood can be lonely, but getting homemade gifts show the love you're willing to put into a gifts.
How to Make Fizzy Bath Bombs without Cornstarch - Natural DIY
These fizzy bath bombs are great for relaxing. Don't have cornstarch on hand? No problem! You can still make these DIY bath bombs for yourself, family, or friends!
Easy Christmas Soap Recipe for Beginners
This is my easy, beginner friendly soap making recipe but I also share 5 different essential oil combinations to make Christmas soaps for yourself or gifts!
Easy DIY Shea Butter Bath Bomb Recipe
These bath bombs are made with essential oils to promote relaxation and shea butter to help moisturize your skin.
Goat Milk Soap Bar with Oatmeal & Honey (melt & pour)
This oatmeal, honey, and goat milk soap bar how to makes a soap that is has numerous benefits for your skin! Enjoy these fun bars that are great for many skin types.
Homemade Sugar Scrub Recipe
This homemade sugar scrub recipe is great to pamper yourself, have a spa day with the kids, or gift to a friend. I know most of my mom (and girl friends!) love a spa day at home.
Homemade Whipped Mango Body Butter
This delightful mango body butter is sure to delight! It absrobs more quickly than shea butter but still works great at moisturizing damaged skin.
Homemade Whipped Shea Butter Lotion
Whipping up your own toxin free butter lotion is easy to do. It's easy to customize with essential oils so that your moter (or mom friend!) loves it too.
How to Start a Sourdough Starter
I think most crunchy mommas would love a sourdough starter if they don't have one. Plus, this is the gift that keeps on giving and making bread! You'll get to keep a starter too in the process.
Sourdough starters use the naturally occurring yeast in your flour to make breads and bread products. These are easy instructions on how to make a sourdough starter so you can begin your sourdough journey today!
Elderberry Syrup Recipe
Here's a simple elderberry syrup recipe that'll bring joy to the holistically minded moms out there! With a mix of herbs, organic elderberries, and raw honey, whip up this delightful syrup that's all about boosting wellness, especially during those chilly winter days
How to Make Pumpkin Pie Soap
This melt and pour pumpkin soap is perfect for fall! This soap is moisturizing and smells amazing. Since it's a melt and pour base, if you're not wanting a pumpkin spice scent, you can easily customize it.
How to Sew Pajama Pants Without a Pattern
Who doesn't love a cozy pair of pajamas? Something about getting clothes that are homemade makes them even better. Here is a tutorial that walks you through making pajama pants without a pattern. All you need is a pair of pajama or sweat pants to make your pattern.
What ideas do you have as DIY gifts for crunchy moms? I’d love to hear them below!
Great DIY gifts! Pumpkin Pie soap. 💕 it so much. I can’t wait to see more of your posts.
I love that your post says “crunchy or not!” I would not consider myself crunchy, but I love making natural products that I can use at home or give as gifts. I also love that all of these ideas link to different posts. It makes it very easy to read! Thank you for the great ideas.
I love those tips! Especially the PJ pants one!
A nice collection of gifts that would be fun to get and give. Might have to make soap sometime!
I’d love to hear how it goes!!
I love all of these ideas! I would be happy to receive them but I’m hoping to get to make some too!