I like smoothies because they are a quick and easy way to combine healthy and tasty ingredients. You can have a healthy breakfast every morning without cooking a thing. Lindsay of My Thirty Spot shares 10 different anti-aging ingredients that you can add to your smoothies for an additional, healthy boost. She explains the health […]
Medicine You Can Grow at Home & Tips on How To Get Started
This is a process you might find helpful next Spring. Andrea of Frugally Sustainable explains the planning process she goes through for her medicinal herb garden each Spring. Here are some of the topics she covers: 17 medicinal herbs she’ll be growing Helpful books about herbs How to calculate when to start herb seeds Which organic seed […]
Ultra-Nourishing Herbal Foot Butter Recipe
Do you have dry, scaly or cracked feet? Andrea has created a wonderful, homemade foot butter to make your feet soft and happy! Shea butter, natural oil, essential oils and other ingredients all combine to make a soothing foot butter. Shea butter has been used for centuries in Africa for its moisturizing and healing properties. […]
How to Make a Homemade Miracle Eczema Skin Salve
Leah’s son developed a case of eczema, which first prompted her to find a salve to treat skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis. But her skin salve can be used in a lot of different ways. You can use the salve to relieve itchy skin, as a hand lotion, lip balm, antibiotic cream, for diaper […]
16 Amazing Benefits You Didn’t Know About Using Dandelions
Many people view dandelions to be useless weeds that should be destroyed. Debra has a different perspective. Among other things, she points out that dandelions are very nutritious and healthy.In this article, she shares 16 benefits that dandelions provide. The majority of the benefits are related to nutrition and health. Debra provides some recipes for […]
How to Make A Calming Herbal Tincture
In this post Andrea of Frugally Sustainable first discusses nervine herbs. These are herbs that support the nervous system and have different properties. This tincture is helpful for relaxing before bedtime, or after a stressful event. She explains the types of nervine herbs she selected for the Calming Herbal Tincture. Then Andrea shares a recipe […]
5 Herbs That Lower Blood Pressure
Bad habits like smoking, eating fatty foods, drinking alcohol and leading sedentary lives can result in high blood pressure. Heredity and aging can also lead to an increased chance of high blood pressure.This article by Nature Hacks discusses 5 herbs that can lower blood pressure. One herb reduces stress and anxiety which can reduce blood […]
Intensely Moisturizing Shea Butter Lip Balm (Recipe)
Marie of Humblebee and Me created this recipe for a moisturizing Shea butter lip balm. It’s a wonderful mixture of Shea butter, cocoa butter, avocado oil, beeswax, cardamom essential oil, and a few other ingredients. Marie does use an herb infused oil in this recipe. In case you don’t know how to make an infusion, […]
How to Make a Chamomile, Lemon & Cinnamon Highlighting Hair Mist
This is a recipe for a natural hair lightener. It uses 3 natural ingredients to gently lighten hair. Lemon has been used forever to sun bleach hair in the summer. Chamomile has also been used for hair lightening. Lastly, cinnamon reportedly releases low levels of peroxide which can gradually lighten hair over time. Marie of […]
How to Make Homemade Face Powder Foundation – All Natural
When it comes to make-up the choices are: 1. Don’t use any make-up 2. Use commercial products that contain chemicals, many of which are toxic 3. Use commercial, natural products from Coastal Classics, MAC or Bare Minerals, but expect to pay a lot of money 4. Make your own (It’s easy!) Sara of My Merry […]
Seven Natural Homemade Substitutes for Conventional Beauty Products
Commercial beauty products, even those marketed as “natural” often have undesirable chemicals in them. As an example, Katie of WellnessMama looked up Apricot Scrub by St Ives (once one of my favorite body care products) in the Cosmetics Database and found that it ranked 9 out of 10 for containing hazardous chemicals. In this post […]
6 Natural Ways to Get a Better Night’s Sleep
Matt and Betsy of DIY Natural have a great post on how to fall asleep naturally. They provide details on 5 herbal teas, 1 essential oil , a natural way to add magnesium to your system, and two other helpful methods. Click the 6 Natural Ways to Get a Better Night’s Sleep link below for some […]