When you are making meals and you are in an hurry, burns can happen. Hot broth or oil can splash on your skin, or grabbing a hot pan without a good hot pad can cause a nasty, sore, red spot. Minor burns from cooking, starting a fire, grilling and baking CAN be treatable at home. …
The cold and flu season is nearing rapidly. If we get a cold where we have stuffy noses, or coughs, I want to be ready. In the past, I would use the OTC name brand vapor rub to help relieve symptoms. Of course, after learning what the ingredients in the OTC rub were, I wanted …
This was inspired by the fact that my son went backpacking this weekend with his scout troup, and when they were having fun canoeing, tubing, and swimming at the lake, he didn’t wear a shirt.Pasty white boy is what we USED to call him…Larry the Lobster is what we dubbed him when he came home. …
Stop the itching and soothe your dry skin with these skin nourishing, super easy, hard lotion bars! Have you ever had skin that was so dry it itches? When you scratched the itch, did you possibly leave marks on your skin? Or worse, break the skin due to the dryness? There are many reasons that …
There are so many items in our stores that have unnecessary packaging. Cardboard or plastic wrapping that makes it pretty on a store shelf, but does little else. Some will have BOTH, like soap. Store bought soap will often come in a carboard box, wrapped in plastic. Guess they don’t want it to spoil? Some soaps …
There are many ingredients in commercial toothpaste that I do not like giving to my family. Among them are Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and Flouride. SLS and SLES are esters of Sulphuric acid – SLS is also known as “Sulfuric acid monododecyl ester sodium salt”, however there are over 150 different names by which it is …
We were wonderfully created, and we have sweat glands for a reason. Our bodies get rid of toxins through our sweat as well as regulate core temperature. So, why do we add products that block this from happening? Add to this the fact that we absorb whatever is put on our skin, and the idea of …
The very idea of making homemade facial cleanser using the oil cleansing method was interesting to me. I just didn’t know where to start. I didn’t like the harshness of soaps, even homemade bars. When I found out about the oil cleansing method, I wasn’t sure about it. I mean, wash my already oily skin …
Making liquid handsoap for hand or body washing is a fairly simple task. It really only requires a few ingredients, 20 minutes of your time, and you are done. You can use any bar soap in this recipe. I like to use the homemade bar soaps that I make, and if you make homemade soap, …
