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Soaps, candles and nice smelling things. RED CLOVER: Uses, Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings. 12 Great Ways To Use Castile Soap. Make sure you like Herbs & Oils World on Facebook to be updated every time we find a fantastic tutorial for exciting and innovative ways you can use herbs and essential oils.

12 Great Ways To Use Castile Soap

Castile soap is a fantastic natural product that can be used in so many different DIY beauty recipes and DIY cleaning products. Castile soap is a “true soap” and not merely a chemical detergent so it is biodegradable and earth friendly! Want to try castile soap? You can buy all sorts of different scents from this page on Amazon. It can be used to make all sorts of products, including: shampoo, laundry detergent, tub scrub, body wash, dog shampoo and much more. To see recipes for 12 homemade products using castile soap, read the full blog post… DIY hand-milled soap. With the holiday season growing ever closer, your party-planning mom will love a handmade gift that doubles as a special treat for guests.

DIY hand-milled soap

Homemade soap is a beautiful — and environmentally friendly — alternative to the bar soap purchased at the drugstore or grocery store. DIY: All-Natural Coconut Deodorant. Easy homemade soap. As the last generations of Depression-era children or back-to-the-landers take their leave of this world, their DIY skills go with them.

Easy homemade soap

When we try to learn from scratch, we soon discover that recipes in books don't tell half the story. DIY soap making and other skills slipping away I have never figured out why this knowledge started slipping away from us, but I am trying to re-learn some of the basics. I now make my own soap, hand lotion, yogurt and bread. I am trying to figure out toothpaste, but it is hard to find good information about abrasion damage. My soap recipe is customized to use full bottles of most of the oils, so you don't have a lot of inventory lying around, and you don't have to do a lot of measuring.

Stoned. DIY Lengthening Mascara. There are oodles of haircare products available.

DIY Lengthening Mascara

Best Cosmetics, Beauty Tips, Makeup Tips, Skin Care Advice, Cosmetics. How To Make 100 Natural Body Care Gifts In An Hour. Natural home. Sugar Scrubs Recipes. *December 13, 2012 Update: I have had many of you wanting the labels to download…Great News!

Sugar Scrubs Recipes

They are now available and you can get them by clicking on this link: Peppermint Candy Cane Sugar Scrub Labels. Honey Brown Sugar Scrub Recipe. Beauty-recipes-Treat-Your-Feet-framed+copy.jpg (JPEG Image, 525 × 604 pixels) - Scaled (81. {Everything} In A Jar - Handmade Gifts.

With just a little over 10 weeks until Christmas, it is already time to start thinking about gifts! The more gifts that can be taken care of ahead of time, the easier the holiday season will be. I came up with a really fun idea that can be customized to pretty much any person or occasion called: {Everything} In A Jar Today, I am going to show you the ones I made for teachers! Teachers spend so much time at school so I tried to think of items that could be used at school. {energy} in a jar Peanuts White Chocolate Hot Drink Mix Suisse Mocha Latte Mix White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Energy Bar Milk Chocolate Truffles {pampering} in a jar.

DIY Laundry Soap & Products. Homemade Laundry Detergent - The Original and Best Recipe. 7 Ways To Get Rid of Ants Naturally. It’s a compliment, I’m sure . . .

7 Ways To Get Rid of Ants Naturally

The way ants are descending on my kitchen. The sticky sweet smell of homemade strawberry jam is irresistible if I do say so myself. But after watching them take an afternoon dip in my coconut oil I’m not feeling very hospitable. I draw the line at coconut oil, y’all. There are certain spices, such as cinnamon and turmeric, that are thought to repel ants, but I haven’t had much luck with them. 7 Ways To Get Rid Of Ants Naturally 1. When a forager and goes out and discovers food, it marks the path from the food to the nest using a pheromone trail. Peppermint Essential Oil. Non-Toxic Bug Repellent Recipe with Coconut Oil.

NOTE: A few weeks back, my recipe for bug repellent was featured on the CoconutOil.com website.

Non-Toxic Bug Repellent Recipe with Coconut Oil

Since there are still some high days of summer left and the bugs are in full swing, I wanted to share my recipe for bug repellent on here too! By Jessica Espinoza CoconutOil.com Looking for an all-natural, non-toxic insect repellent that doesn’t contain the chemicals (like DEET) that most of the commercial brands do? There are many natural, non-toxic ingredients that can be used to make a bug repellent that won’t harm you and your family. Most homemade bug balms and bug sprays utilize the strength of essential oils.

HerbMentor News 92: How to Make Cayenne Salve. Every two months we feature a different herb on HerbMentor.com so that we can really dive into learning particular plants on a deeper level.

HerbMentor News 92: How to Make Cayenne Salve

During this cold and dark time of the year we are learning more about one of the hottest and most popular spices in the world: cayenne. The health benefits of cayenne are truly astounding! How To Make 100 Natural Body Care Gifts In An Hour. Smokable Dimethyltryptamine from Organic Sources. Ladies: Would you use this THC-infused oil for better orgasms? By Ricardo Baca, The Cannabist Staff The directions for Foria are unlike any other THC-infused product on the market: “Apply 4-8 sprays directly onto the clitoris, inner and outer labia and inside the vagina,” the instructions begin.

Ladies: Would you use this THC-infused oil for better orgasms?

It’s OK to giggle. 5 Calming Gifts For Mom. Mother’s Day offers a wonderful opportunity to celebrate people who share motherly love with us.

5 Calming Gifts For Mom

Whether she’s a friend, aunt, grandma, sister, or the woman who gave you life, these recipes will surely express your loving gratitude. And what better way to celebrate ”Mom” than with the gift of pure relaxation? These herbal formulas will leave her feeling nourished, grounded, peaceful, and ready for the daily challenges and triumphs of motherhood.

Mom’s Relaxing Room Mist. Easy homemade soap. 45 Cool Uses For Lemons. Why do we Love lemons? It's a funny love affair. These amazing little sour fruits captivate us from the first taste and keep us coming back as witnessed by these babies trying lemons for the first time... Happy Armpits: Make Your Own Coconut-Oil Deodorant (Recipe Included!) By Ana Jadanec Guest Writer for Wake Up World I’ve always been picky about deodorants. Not because they didn’t do their “job”, but there was always something I wasn’t too happy with. Scent, consistency, usability, bottle shape, irritation, drying factor… Well, this whole pickyness escalated in 2003 when I read the ingredients printed on the packaging of my store bought deodorant. Aluminium jumped right at me. Aluminium-based complexes react with the electrolytes in the sweat to form a gel plug in the duct of the sweat gland.