Nourishing Hair Oil Recipe

Nourishing Hair Oil Recipe

Hair can get dry and brittle, especially in the summer months during time outside, swimming or at the beach. Use of harsh chemical products can also damage hair, but this conditioning treatment helps nourish hair and strengthen it. Try this easy and inexpensive home treatment that will naturally improve your hair. I even use this on my four year old to make her hair more manageable and easier to brush (she is very tender-headed). This recipe is so simple, it is hard to call it a recipe, but Continue Reading

Herb Profile: Horsetail

Herb Profile-Horsetail Shavegrass Uses and Benefits

Note: Links below are affiliate links to the best sources I have found for these herbs. Should you purchase anything through these links, your cost will be the same and you have my sincere thanks for supporting my blog! :-) What is Horsetail? Horsetail (also called Shavegrass) is an herb that I always keep in the herb cabinet (which is what I have instead of a medicine cabinet). According to Mountain Rose Herbs: "The plant at that time was as tall as a modern palm tree. Horsetail, not to Continue Reading

Magnesium Body Butter

Magnesium Body Butter Recipe DIY

I’ve posted before about how to make your own magnesium oil, and I’ve seen posts on other blogs on how to make magnesium lotion. For summer, I wanted to figure out a recipe for a magnesium infused body butter that would also double as a mild sunscreen/tanning cream and I’m finally happy with the result. [...]

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Spring Salad with Honey Mustard

Spring Salad- Chicken - Goat Cheese- Strawberries-Pecans-Honey Mustard

I love this time of year when gardens are starting to produce and farmers markets have fresh greens for salads. Big salads are my go-to lunch and often my go-to dinner with a mug of warm bone broth on the side. This is my current favorite salad and I’m eating some variation of it at [...]

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Book Review: Gather

Book Review- Gather

I often hear people say that they couldn’t ever give up grains (or dairy, sugar, processed food, etc) because of the social aspect of food and entertaining…. the book Gather: The Art of Paleo Entertaining (aff) blows that notion completely out of the water. Bill Staley and Hayley Mason who blog at Primal PalateĀ and who [...]

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Book Review: Dandelion Hunter

Dandelion Hunter Book Review

I’ve written before about how many of the plants we consider weeds are edible and beneficial, but a book I recently had a chance to review, Dandelion Hunter (aff), takes it to a new level! Rebecca Lerner, who blogs at First Ways, has a funny yet edgy writing style that really draws you in to [...]

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