Healing Lip Salve Recipe

Healing Lip Balm Recipe- great for chapped lips and easy to make

To continue the theme of DIY natural lip care recipes, I’m sharing this recipe for homemade healing lip salve. I really like homemade lipstick and homemade tinted lip balm, but sometimes I just want something to help with dry lips after gardening or being outside in wind/snow but don’t want color, shine or scent. This [...]

Homemade Natural Lipstick Recipe

Natural Homemade Lipstick Recipe with color variations

I’ve gotten several requests for my natural lip balm, lipstick, and Chapstick recipes, and while I’ve been making these for years, I finally got around to actually measuring the ingredients so I could tell you the recipe (I usually just made it by eyeballing the amounts). Surprisingly, lipstick can be a source of harmful chemicals and since [...]

Remineralizing Tooth Powder Recipe

Homemade Tooth Powder recipe- all natural and works great

My remineralizing toothpaste is one of my most visited posts and I’ve gotten a lot of emails from people who have switched and love it. After my husband and I both remineralized our teeth and reversed cavities, I’m definitely a convert to natural toothpastes and a supportive diet. The only downfall to my homemade toothpaste [...]

Herbal Hair Color Recipes

all natural herbal hair color recipes

Since I posted by recipes for homemade shampoo and DIY dry shampoo I’ve gotten a few emails asking about natural/herbal options for hair color. I’ve experimented with natural hair lightening in the past, but hadn’t tried dark or red shades. Many wasted herbs and a bunch of randomly colored streaks on the underside of my hair [...]

DIY Dry Shampoo for Dark or Light Hair

how to make natural dry shampoo for light or dark hair

Dry shampoos have been all the rage among some of my friends lately, and I can understand why… A product that makes your hair look clean when it hasn’t been washed in the past three days that day is a tremendous help, especially for those of us with little ones who are lucky if we [...]

Homemade Makeup Recipes

homemade makeup recipes natural

I get a lot of questions about natural makeup options, and this was definitely one of the tougher things for me to find natural alternatives for. In college, I practically collected makeup, and had endless tubes and compacts of makeup that never even got half used. While there are some good natural alternatives that you [...]

Fleece T-Shirt Quilt Pattern and Tutorial [Easy!]

easy fleece t-shirt quilt tutorial

I highly recommend this type of t-shirt quilt for several reasons: No hand sewing required No interfacing, starch or other backing needed No batting or inner layer needed Easy to sew Really warm! Machine washable! I came up with the idea for this quilt when my husband decided he had too many shirts from college [...]