These are like bath bombs for your toilet. Marie’s recipe uses washing soda, lemon essential oil, eucalyptus essential oil and several other ingredients. She explains how to mix the ingredients and form the rounded toilet bombs. After they dry, you can drop 1 or 2 into the toilet and let them fizz away. Then you […]
12 Home & Personal Health Uses of Alka-Seltzer
Erin of My Thirty Spot collected 12 different ways you can use Alka Seltzer for home cleaning projects and personal health care. For example, did you know you can use Alka Seltzer to unclog a drain? I didn’t either! There are some other amazing uses for Alka-Seltzer that I’ve never heard before. One nice thing […]
How to Make a Longer Lash Conditioning Serum
Lash conditioning serums strengthen lashes and eyebrows, giving them a fuller look. Lindsey developed her own eyelash conditioning serum using just 2 ingredients. One is an oil rich in fatty acids, and vitamin E that stimulates eyelash growth. The second ingredient helps to strengthen eyelashes and reduce breakage. The recipe is simple to make and easy […]
10 Home Remedies for Headaches
Laurie first explains the difference between Primary headaches and Secondary headaches. She then shares 10 different , natural home remedies for headaches. Some of the remedies are basic. For example, she recommends drinking water in case you’re dehydrated. What I like is that Laurie takes it a step further and explains which additional drinks you […]
How to Make “Anti-Everything” Pills
Kate developed this pill which uses 3 powerful herbs that fight off bacteria, inflammation, virus, pain, and infection. There herbs have strong properties: anti-inflammatory, high in vitamin C, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-viral, and immune boosting. Kate explains how to mix the herbs and fill capsules. She recommends getting a capsule machine to speed up the process. […]
How to Make a Natural Bug Repellent Using Essential Oils
Dona has worked with herbs most of her life. She’s a Clinical Herbal Apprentice and is certified in aromatherapy. She knows her herbs and essential oils 🙂 First, she shares a wonderful chart that lists the specific essential oils that will work best in repelling gnats, mosquitoes, horse flies and ticks. Then she includes two […]
How to Make Refrigerator Tea
I’ve made sun tea for years during the summer and have never become sick myself or had friends or family become sick. Maybe it’s because we drank it right away. The problem with Sun Tea is that the water reaches 130 degrees (maybe) and it needs to hit 195 degrees for 3 to 5 minutes […]
Got Mint? (Or Everything You’d Like to Know About Mint)
Tessa shares a lot of great information about mint in this article. She includes quite a few links to additional recipes and information. If you’ve grown mint you know how prolific it is. If you plant it in the ground, it spreads and spreads, sending runners above and below ground. If you end up with […]
Homemade Hummingbird Food
I love hummingbirds. They are amazing birds. We get a lot at our feeders in early May as they fly north. They flap their wings an average of 80 times per second and can fly left, right, up, down and even upside-down. When they hover they actually rotate their wings in a figure 8 pattern. They […]
How to Make Lavender Lemonade Body Spray
This is a wonderful summery body spray that uses lavender essential oil, lemon essential oil, a perfect flower water, and other ingredients. It has a great scent that’s both a refreshing and relaxing. Cybele’s recipe is very simple and easy to make. Click on the How to Make Lavender Lemonade Body Spray link below to […]
How to Make Homemade Lavender Soap
This is a wonderful, old-fashioned soap that uses lavender essential oil. It also uses a Brazilian clay that tints the soap a light purple. Instead of water, Jan uses lavender tea. She also uses a wonderful selection of 4 oils including apricot kernel oil. There are clear directions about each stage of making this bar […]
18 Surprising Ways To Use Oranges
Oranges smell and taste like summer. It’s one of my favorite fruits. But oranges are really versatile and can be used in a lot of different ways. Here are just a few: Body Scrubs Tea Cleaners Scented Candles Soap Natural Air Fresheners And MORE!! Click on the 18 Surprising Ways To Use Oranges link below […]