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Non-Greasy Homemade Moisturizing Lotion. Finally!

Non-Greasy Homemade Moisturizing Lotion

A homemade lotion that I can use throughout the day without my skin feeling like a grease pit! As a family, we usually go through several bottles of lotion during the cold, winter months. How to make Rainbow Roses: a Step by Step Guide. Multi-Colored Roses Now how to make a single flower multi colored?

How to make Rainbow Roses: a Step by Step Guide

If you dip the stem in different colors one by the colors will be mixed. How To Build A Greenhouse For $50. Extend your growing season with this fantastic greenhouse.

How To Build A Greenhouse For $50

Greenhouses cost $500+ in stores, they hardly seem worth it. However David over on doorgarden.com has put together an excellent tutorial, showing you how to make an amazing greenhouse for as little as $50. Planting Garlic this fall! « Aquaponics and Earth Aquaponics and Earth. New here?

Planting Garlic this fall! « Aquaponics and Earth Aquaponics and Earth

Join our email list and receive free information to help you live sustainable. Click here to Subscribe Now. Thanks for visiting! By John Musser I love garlic, you must also or you would not be here! I hope you enjoy and learn the tricks of the simple art in growing this wonderful herb. When should I plant garlic? Garlic requires a cold treatment to do well, and the biggest, most robust bulbs are produced from a fall planting.

How much should I plant? That depends on how much garlic you eat. Find out when to plant garlic in your region. Below are good people to support! Yours for sustainability, John Musser Our AESL compost tea brewer is incredible for getting your garlic off to a great start! AESL FARM SECRET: The living grow compost is most excellent for growing garlic even if you do not have a brewer, just mix our living compost into five -ten gallons of water and pour on your mulched grow bed. Making soap: 5 tips for homemade soap. Until around 1916, making soap at home was commonplace.

Making soap: 5 tips for homemade soap

Using wood or plant ashes and leftover animal fats, families produced their own soap for cleaning their clothes and themselves. During World War I, when animal fats were in limited supply, German scientists developed synthetic detergents — and commercial soap was born. Homemade soap became less of a necessity, and gradually the practice dwindled. In recent years, back-to-the-landers and simple-living adherents have revived the homemade soap-making process — but it’s not only in favor with those who leave the big city for rural life or those with an anti-commercialist bent. For anyone interested in living as self-sufficiently as possible, it makes good sense to make your own soap. How-To: Shoot Epic Landscape Photos Of the Night Sky. How to Get Rid of a Stuffy Nose Quickly: 16 Steps. Edit Article Treatment MethodsCauses of CongestionMake a lemon Honey Tea with fruit freshEucalyptus Oil Swab Edited by Blizzerand, Carolyn Barratt, Katy Linsao, BR and 128 others Are you tired of this stuffy nose bothering you?

How to Get Rid of a Stuffy Nose Quickly: 16 Steps

Is it getting in the way of daily activities, making you feel slightly less than human? Sinus congestion can happen for any number of reasons. Ad Steps Part 1 of 4: Treatment Methods Make your own Chinese solution 1Add one teaspoon of salt to one cup of warm water, mixing thoroughly.Ad 2Deposit the salt water into one nostril using a dropper while your head is tilted back slightly. 3Let salt water rest for 10 seconds, and then gently discharge water and mucus out of nostril. Try nasal irrigation. For some, nasal irrigation may bring quick relief of stuffy nose without the use of medications. Hold your breath while pinching your nose 1Hold your breath, pinch your nose.

Use humidifiers 1Choose the right humidifier. 3 simple homemade toothpaste recipes. While some people in rural parts of the world may resort to the use of brick, charcoal, rangoli powder, mud, salt or ash for toothpaste, western brushers usually rely on a tube of mystery ingredients to make their pearly whites sparkle like the Pepsodent girl's.

3 simple homemade toothpaste recipes

But the ingredients found in conventional toothpastes — including sodium fluoride, synthetic dyes derived from petroleum or coal tar, sodium hydroxide (also known as lye or caustic soda), sodium lauryl sulfate, titanium dioxide, artificial sweeteners, and triclosan — might make us think twice about the products we employ for the sake of our teeth. Of course, we’re not actively swallowing the stuff, but it’s unavoidable that a bit will slink down the gullet from time to time.

And given that most of us brush our teeth 730 times or more a year, there’s no shortage of opportunity to ingest ingredients better left in the lab. The most controversial of all the ingredients is fluoride. 1. 2. 3. Related stories on MNN: How To Make A Coconut Oil Skin Polish. 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.

How To Make A Coconut Oil Skin Polish

Coconut oil + essential oils + a few more skin nourishing ingredients = fantastic natural beauty product that you’ll become addicted to. Today I want to share a Coconut Oil Skin Polish recipe with you from Rebecca over at CampWander. The recipe includes a number of hydrating oils and ingredients. Plus Rebecca reveals an essential oil blend you can add for dealing with blemishes, a blend for hydrating and healing and a blend for anti-aging.

Visit Camp Wander for the full recipe here…