Got dry peeling hands? Make your own homemade hand scrub with just a few natural ingredients! Hands can take a beating during the winter when the weather is cold and dry. They can also become rough and tough if you do garden work, frequently carry weights and wash clothes/dishes by hand. Using a homemade hand salt scrub, you can get your hands to become as good as new again when used consistently. Try this easy homemade hand salt scrub recipe and experience soft and smooth hands! Before moving on, let’s look at the ingredients and how they work: What Each Ingredient Does ► Sea salt – It has a slight Continue Reading
Bone Broth for Babies | A Perfect First Food
Ancient civilizations knew the benefits of bone broth for babies, and there could be nothing more healing, nourishing, safe and easy-to-digest as bone broth as a first food for babies! What is Bone Broth? Bone broth is simply a soup made from beef, chicken, fish or goat bones and water. Vegetables such as carrots, celery and zucchini may also be added to the broth. It is often lightly spiced with garlic, ginger, cumin and pepper. Bone broth is rich in many nutrients, minerals and vitamins, unlike any other food in the world. Some of the nutrients in bone broth such as gelatin and collagen just can’t Continue Reading
DIY Soap Free Body Wash for Sensitive Skin
Got sensitive skin? Make your own soap-free body wash with this easy recipe that leaves your skin fresh, clean and silky! Many of us want to avoid soap on our skin especially when we have sensitive skin, psoriasis, body acne, eczema, skin allergies and other skin problems that make us super reactive to foaming soap. The reason why our skin reacts negatively to soap is because it’s filled with ingredients like chemicals such as SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate) which has been linked to hormone disruption and the big bad guy - fragrance. Fragrance is a major cause of skin allergies and the worst part is that it’s Continue Reading
Soothing Aloe Lotion Recipe with Only 3 ingredients
Making Your Own DIY Homemade Lotions is the Norm Now I remember back in the day when I’d be so ‘ashamed’ to tell people that I made my own self-care and cosmetic products, myself, with natural ingredients, right in my own kitchen. Yet more and more people kept bugging me, demanding to know what products I used on my face because my skin just looked so good. Well, it’s not like that anymore! The times have changed and now DIY homemade-stuff makers are a proud bunch, never shying away from informing others that we make our own non-toxic products at home! People’s reactions have changed too. When you tell them Continue Reading
Coconut Oil for Sunscreen Use – How it Works + DIY Recipe
The Harmful Effect of Sunscreens We grew up being taught to shun the sun, being forced to wear hats when stepping out and lathering sunscreen all over our skin to protect us from the big, bad sun. Remember the days when propaganda was pushed upon us, that exposure to sun gives you skin cancer? Boy, I get mad thinking about those times. Funnily enough, it’s the SUNSCREEN that we were encouraged to use that’s the cancer-causing culprit here. Just check out some of the nasty ingredients in conventional sunscreen that will make you shudder: Oxybenzone – Widely used in American sunscreen products, it easily Continue Reading