The art of crafting gifts is associated with a person’s feelings towards others as handmade gifts are a sign of love and care that a person has for the recipient. But, the gift crafting idea becomes more thoughtful when combined with an eco-friendly system or sustainability. Not only for people but for the environment also, eco-friendly presents are an amazing approach to surprise your loved ones.
Crafting is not merely a hobby, for many people, it could be their passion too that they love to explore, and crafting eco-friendly gifts can become an opportunity or an interesting challenge that can be accepted to learning something new and having fun as well. There are some brilliant eco-friendly ideas for crafting DIY gifts that I have written below.
1. DIY Natural Room Fragrances
Room fragrances are the easiest gifts that can be crafted from scratch at home. However, where industries-based fragrances use chemicals to generate pleasant and long-lasting odors, we can use several natural ingredients to make more eco-friendly room scents. Using some citrus peels, essential oils, and herbs, a satisfying fragrance can be prepared in a beautiful upcycled bottle or jar. To make it more interesting, a little decoration and labeling on the bottle can give your gift a better look.
2. Reusable Shopping Bags
Crafting shopping bags at home with durable and reusable materials can be a great idea for eco-friendly gifts. These bags can become a stylish alternative in place of single-use plastic bags that people generally buy separately. By preparing with good quality fabric and giving a touch of your favorite lovely designs whether embroidery or crystal, handmade shopping bags are more cute and strong than the ones bought from the market. So, no need to worry, your handmade eco-friendly bags will surely make your loved ones fall in love with your handmade bags too.
3. Homemade Skincare Products
Moving on, what can be better than organic skincare products, which are specially prepared at home? Instead of thinking whether people like it or not, just think will you like it if somebody gives a homemade organic skincare kit to you? Well, if it were me, I would gladly accept handmade skincare products as they can be more reliable than the market ones. There are various skincare products like body scrubs, moisturizers, serums, and face masks that can be prepared by keeping sustainability in mind. So, you also need not worry about the list of skincare items that you should prepare.
My DIY low waste beauty/ hygiene products! Just wanted to share for some inspiration.
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4. DIY Eco-Friendly Traveling Kit
Crafting a traveling kit is an excellent eco-friendly gift idea for your jet-setters. So, starting from the kit, the kit itself must be eco-friendly, which means it should be manufactured with durable fabric and not plastic. Next, you need to place some eco-friendly products inside it that are needed while traveling and also ensure that they don’t produce waste. This means the products must be sustainable enough not to harm our environment. For instance, things like reusable facial rounds, reusable towels, and zero-waste soap bars.
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