During the summer, pests have many ways of getting indoors. And those that don’t make it inside, are often waiting on our patios and in our yards. Although there are plenty of products on the shelves guaranteed to annihlate your pest population, they’re often made with toxic chemicals that are bad for our health and…
How to Make Homemade Toothpaste I have been making my own homemade toothpaste lately. After adjusting the ratios of the ingredients, I finally found the combination I like best and it makes a nice, not too runny paste. It’s almost as thick as regular toothpaste.
Homemade Diaper Cream I received a pound of shea butter from Cleopatra’s Choice. Shea butter is a key ingredient in homemade skincare products. I decided to use mine in my favorite natural homemade diaper cream recipe. I know there are a lot of diapering moms out there and I know a lot of you (us)…
Homemade Nipple Cream I’m sure many of you know August has been deemed National Breastfeeding Month and this week is World Breastfeeding Week. So most of my posts and reviews this week will be related to breastfeeding. And this topic is also completely relevant to me as the mother of a newborn. 🙂
I finally got around to making some homemade disinfectant spray. I can’t stand the chemical smell of commercial disinfectant spray–it makes me gag. But you need to have a good disinfectant around the house–especially after illness. So I finally made my own “green” disinfectant.
Making your own cleaning products can be fun and rewarding. Not to mention you also avoid the chemicals in so many conventional products and it’s much cheaper than paying the premium for the “green” products out there. Homemade cleaning sprays are all well and good, but sometimes you want something a little thicker and putting…
Homemade Bath Salts Here is a homemade bath salt recipe that makes a nice gift for your mom, sister, grandma or girlfriends. It’s quick, easy and pretty inexpensive to make.
Brown Sugar Scrub Recipe Here is a really simple recipe for a homemade brown vanilla sugar scrub. Sounds yummy doesn’t it? And it smells awesome! Sugar scrubs make your skin soft by getting rid of dead skin cells. It makes a lovely gift, is not really expensive, and odds are you already have what…
Homemade Bath Paint The first time I wanted to look into making tub-paints (like it isn’t hard enough getting my daughter out of the bath tub!) I found this recipe. 1 TBSP corn starch (more if you want thicker consistency) 1/3 cup dish detergent (eco-friendly is better for little ones’ skin) …
Homemade Fruit and Vegetable Wash So, you’d really like to clean your produce rather than just rinsing it under cold water, but fear that soaking it may make it lose flavor or “leach” some of the nutrients out. Well, you can “disinfect” your produce of many chemicals by making your own fruit and vegetable wash.