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Make Your Own: “Bugless Bar” Solid Lotion
The weather has been looking up around these parts, and this time of year we move outside. Summer in the PNW is a glorious time, but it is fleeting, so we spend as much time as we can out of doors....
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Lavender~Calendula Lip Balm
// ]]> Homemade lip balm is so awesome. And so ridiculously easy to make! It’s a wonder how large companies have managed to screw it up so incredibly!? Oh. Wait a minute… Petroleum. Petroleum...
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How to Make Rosewater and Other Hydrosols
I was recently inspired by Mama Rosemary, (one of my favorite blogger-friends), to make my own hydrosols. In her blog post, she made it look so simple and easy, I thought, “why am I buying floral...
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Cooling Spray For Menopause
// ]]> Menopause can be a difficult time for many women, marking the end of part of a cycle. It is an often uncomfortable transitional period lasting many years. Many of the women I love are...
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Herbal Oral Rinse (Mouthwash)
So, ya… My last dentist appt. was not good. I have a couple cavities. I do intend on getting them filled, but making time to do that is ridiculously hard for me right now. The past two years of my...
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Oral Pain Salve
Oral Pain. It’s so awful. Most of us have experienced it at some point in our lives. If not as adults, then definitely as children, and it’s incredibly hard for parents to see their babies in pain....
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Kokum Butter Salve
Kokum butter. This skin-rejuvenating, healing butter is dervived from the kokum, or mangosteen tree, indiginous to India. (Garcinia indica). Kokum oil (butter) contains 60-65% saturated fatty acid...
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A Recipe for DIY Ruby-Colored Lip Tint
Charming Alkanet Root. The star of this lovely lip tint. If you’re like me, you can’t be bothered with make-up, but sometimes, a little lip tint goes a long way, and can be just what you need to...
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Bar Soap To-Go
You guys. I’m really excited to SHARE my latest creation with you… (Don’t miss the giveaway at the bottom of this post!) Bar Soap To-Go! The inspiration for this portable bar soap was actually my...
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Sunburn Relief Spray
Sunburn Relief Spray Gosh darn it. I knew this glorious, scorcher-of-a-day was too good to be true! Today I had company to occupy the children, so I took full advantage of my semi-free time to get...
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Monoi de Tahiti Shea Salve
What I really need right now is a vacation. Can you relate? Can you also relate to the utter disappointment you face when you snap back into reality from your daydream to realize that it just ain’t....
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Fizzy Bath Bombs Recipe
Fizzy Rose Bath Bombs If you’re like me, you’re mostly distrustful of corporations hawking their wares, and bath bombs are not excluded. A quick look at the ingredients of popular bath bombs and...
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Peppermint Cocoa Lip Balm Recipe
How to Make Peppermint Cocoa Lip Balm In my little corner of the world, “Upper Left” USA, winter is in full swing. Dry, cracked, and chapped lips are commonplace and are the hallmarks winter’s work....
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