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Amazing Ginger Compress Relieves Pain
A compress is a wrap of folded linen, gauze, or other material that’s applied with pressure to a part of the body to supply heat, cold, or medication. The goal is normally to treat pain or infection.One of Ginger’s many uses is for pain relief: arthritis, muscle pain, sprains, strains, and back pain, to name […]
How to Make a Peppermint Sugar Lip Scrub
If you get dry lips during the winter, using a sugar scrub for exfoliation ca really help. A good lip scrub exfoliates away dry skin and then moisturizes your lips. With this peppermint sugar lip scrub by Marie of Humblebee & Me, you first apply the scrub to your lips. Then you gently scrub your lips with […]
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The Herbal Academy has a Back to School Sale on all of their Herbal courses. You save up to 25% on the price of any of their courses. These classes are highly regarded and very popular. The sale runs until September 9th, 2018. CLICK HERE FOR THE COURSES AND MORE INFORMATION […]
Homemade Coconut Oil Lotion Recipe
This is a great lotion if you have dry, itchy skin. Katie uses just 3 ingredients. One of them is a commercial product, but there is a natural version you might prefer. Katie explains how to combine and mix the coconut oil and other ingredients. After using it for a week, she reported that she […]
How to Make Soy Candles
This is a nice, simple recipe and tutorial for soy candles by Staci of Cobble Hill Farm. She recommends using wax flakes because they are easier to melt. Soy is good wax choice because it’s affordable, and has a longer burn time. Also one pound of soy wax flakes will fill a pint-size canning jar, […]
How to Make Skunk Spray
I found this neat story and recipe over at The Essential Herbal Blog. The story is about the author’s dog, Tiny (pictured above). The recipe is for Skunk Spray which is extremely useful if you live in an area that has skunks, and if you let your dog run free. Chances are Dog will meet […]
A Recipe for Homemade Peppermint Foot Cream
I’ll bet all of the Olympic runners would love to have this peppermint foot cream after all of their events! This homemade foot cream recipe and tutorial from Andrea of Frugally Sustainable has a wonderful combination of essential oils, cocoa butter, Shea butter and other ingredients. It includes Tea Tree oil which disinfects your feet. […]
How to Treat Sunburn Naturally at Home: A Recipe for an After Sun Spray
No matter how many precautions we take during the summer, it is sometimes impossible to avoid getting a sunburn. Andrea of Frugally Sustainable shares: 7 simple home remedies to relieve the pain of sunburn & heal the skin a Wonderful recipe for After Sun Spray The After Sun Spray is a mixture of aloe vera, […]
Wildflower & Blueberry Ice Cream Recipe
This is a recipe by Abra of Mind Body Green for Wildflower & Blueberry Ice Cream. It includes nuts, blueberries, selected wildflowers, and some other ingredients. It’s a really interesting recipe and method. And the ice cream looks yummy. The only caution I have relates to a comment by Abra about wildflowers. If you can’t […]
No Churn Dulce de Leche Ice Cream
It’s summer and blazingly hot outside. Wouldn’t some homemade ice cream taste great right about now? If I told you there was a homemade ice cream that you could make without an ice cream maker, used only two ingredients, and was super creamy, you’d probably say I’m nuts. But it does exist and it’s delicious! […]
How to Make Handcrafted Arnica Massage Oil
Arnica is often used for the topical treatment of bruises. It’s also used for the topical treatment of inflammation, joint pain, and strains. Shanno provides some interesting background about arnica. She also includes some helpful precautions. Here are a couple: Arnica is not for internal use and shouldn’t be applied on broken skin or open wounds. […]