Archive Category: 'Beauty & Health'

• 15 Beauty & Health Uses For Baking Soda: Last week’s tip list for using baking soda around the home was a big hit, here’s another list for ways to use baking soda for beauty & health… Beauty & Health Uses For Baking Soda Homemade Deodorant: Make a quick and easy powder deodorant with 1 part baking soda, 1 part cornstarch and tea tree oil. Combine [...]
• Homemade Lotion Bars: {Recipe & How-To}: Today’s feature is from Cathie Filian with this gift-worthy project to soothe chapped winter hands Make it: Gardener Lotion Bar: Smooth out skin’s rough edges with a homemade lotion bar. Perfect for gardeners, knitters or anyone who needs a little soothing care for their hands. This easy recipe is so good for the skin! The luxurious, soothing [...]
• How To Cut Hair: {Tips & Resources}: I had an email from Melanie over the holidays asking if I had any tips or advice for cutting hair for family members and your own hair so I put together this guide for those of you that are interested. There’s a lot of information online and I picked the best resources I could find [...]
• 10 Flavor Boosters For Dieters: Cider Vinegar & Herb Infused Vinegars (See Multipurpose Herb Vinegar: Recipe). Watch commercial flavored vinegars for sugar content. Herb Seasoning Shakes (See 2 Tasty Recipes To Shake The Salt Habit, No Salt Seasoning Shake and Salad Seasoning Shake Recipe). Red Pepper Flakes (or powders like cayenne, chili and paprika). Salsa (Watch salt & sugar in commercial brands). Horseradish (Just [...]
• 42 Pampering Beauty & Spa Gifts To Make: Bath & Shower Treats Homemade Bath Jelly Recipe: Bath jellies can be made as luxurious home spa goodies or they can be packaged for the kids (set with toys inside). Great to give as gifts. How To Make Bath Bomb Fizzies: A great video showing step-by-step how to make fizzing bath bombs. Milk Bath Recipes To [...]
• Homemade Hand Balm Tutorial: Today’s feature is from Amber’s Ambry with this Hand Balm Tutorial: The recipe I use calls for a blend of beeswax, solid butters and liquid oils and is a modified version of a recipe I found online. The most important thing about the recipe is to maintain even amounts of liquid oils and solid butters. You [...]
• 12 Simple Beauty Hacks From The Kitchen: Olive oil can be used to remove eye makeup (use cold pressed extra virgin olive). Also see DIY Eye Makeup Remover Recipes. Pour a bit of sesame oil on a cotton ball and wipe gently across eye lids to remove waterproof mascara. Bring shine to your hair with a bit of honey. Mix 1 tsp of honey [...]
• Homemade Bubble Bath: {Recipe}: Here’s an easy recipe for making an all-natural, homemade bubble bath that you can customize to your own preference by mixing favorite scents–also ditches harsh perfumes and chemicals that some commercial bubble baths use. Tip: This makes a nice Gift In A Jar for the holiday season. Homemade Bubble Bath Ingredients: 1 pint distilled water (warm) bar of castile [...]
• Color Enhancing Shampoos & Rinses: Natural Alternatives: Just mix one of these solutions with your favorite shampoo for an easy way to give your natural hair color a boost without harsh chemicals or dyes. If you no longer use shampoo (see Free Yourself From Shampoo: The No Shampoo Alternative), I have some highlights enhancing hair rinse recipes at the bottom as an [...]
• 12 Simple Sore Throat Remedies: Here are a dozen home remedies to help soothe and get rid of sore throats, these are simple to whip up and treat yourself with–nothing too fancy for ingredients and you likely have many of these items in stock at home. Sore Throat Home Remedies Cayenne Pepper Gargle: Mix 1/8th of a teaspoon of cayenne pepper with [...]
• Homemade Sea Salt Scrub Recipes: Sea salt is rich in natural minerals and regularly exfoliating your skin with salt scrubs is a pampering treat that can renew and condition your skin. Making your own homemade scrubs couldn’t be easier and the supplies are very basic. Here are a handful of different recipes to try, feel free to adjust amounts and [...]
• Learn How To Make Perfume: Today’s feature is from Indie Fixx with Learn How To Make Your Own Perfume by Meredith Tucker of Sweet Anthem: Want to learn the art of making your own perfume? Well, I am Meredith Tucker of Sweet Anthem, a small perfume studio based in Seattle, and I’m here to impart some of my wisdom with [...]
• 10 Cough Remedies & Treatments: Coughing is your body’s way of breaking up mucus, clearing airways and getting rid of irritants. As annoying as coughs are, it’s actually best to let your body take care of itself and do what it needs to do (cough). But when your throat is raw, or you’re trying to sleep, sit in meetings or [...]
• 12 Heartburn Remedies Plus Causes & Prevention Tips: Heartburn or pyrosis is a painful and burning sensation in the esophagus, just below the breastbone usually associated with regurgitation of gastric acid. The pain often rises in the chest and may radiate to the neck, throat, or angle of the jaw. Heartburn is a major symptom of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD); acid reflux is [...]
• Dry & Cracked Heels: Skin Treatment Tip: Summertime means strappy sandals and barefeet since it’s more comfortable for our feet to breathe in hot weather than to keep them bundled up in socks and shoes. For some this leads to problem dry skin on feet that can progress to the point that the skin starts cracking and can get painful (especially around [...]
• 25 Toothache Remedies For Pain Relief: If there’s one list of home remedies to keep handy–this is the one. It never fails that a major toothache hits when it’s late at night and your dentist’s office is closed. Although only a doctor can cure the source of the toothache problem, this list of treatments & pain relief remedies should get [...]
• Natural Toothpaste: Homemade Recipes: Today’s feature is from two different sources for easy to make, natural homemade toothpaste. The first is from The Thrifty Soaper with The Best Homemade Toothpaste: Okay, you’re thinking ‘homemade toothpaste?’, Come On! But, do you realize how many harmful chemicals are in standardized toothpaste? Some of these horrible chemicals are Sodium Lauryl Sulphate(SLS), Triclosan, diethanolomine [...]
• 50 Wart Home Remedies & Treatments: Warts are pretty common and aren’t indicative of a serious health problem but they are a nuisance, sometimes painful and can cause some embarrassment. Warts are most common on hands and feet, but can also appear on eyelids, on the face and elsewhere on the body. They can grow in clusters or singly and have a [...]
• Wasp Stings: Treatments & Home Remedies: Before trying a remedy check to see if the wasp’s stinger remained in the skin, remove it by scraping it out (to prevent releasing more venom) before treating. Wasp Sting Treatments From The Garden Marigolds: Rub the flower head of a marigold over the stung area (must be a freshly picked marigold and not dried). Basil: Roughly crush [...]
• Summer Floral Bath Splash: Recipe: Ingredients: Cider Vinegar Distilled Water Fresh flowers, herbs, aromatic leaves (pesticide free) Directions: Fill a sterilized mason jar with assorted fresh flowers and leaves, filling jar at least half full. Pour cider vinegar over all, filling the jar to the top. Cover with lid, seal and shake well. Place jar in sunny location. Shake or swirl contents daily. After 10 days, strain the [...]
• Homemade Mosquito Repellent: Recipe: Today’s feature is from Mother Earth News with Natural Mosquito Repellent: Since the 1999 appearance of mosquito-borne West Nile virus in North America, it’s more important than ever to keep these pests at bay. You can outsmart mosquitoes with this homemade, Earth-friendly solution. The recipe couldn’t be easier to make, ingredients needed are any combination of [...]
• Ten Helpful Beauty Hints: Timeless Wisdom Collection: These tips come from “The Housewife’s Year Book Of Health And Homemaking” published in 1937 by Kellogg’s (which explains tip #10). Although many of these tips are basic common-sense, they’re a nice reminder that the little things we do can not only encourage a healthy body, but also enhance how we look and feel about [...]
• 15 Bee Sting Home Remedies & Tips: Getting stung by a bee is no fun and the pain can last for a few hours, here are a bunch of home remedies for pain relief as well as some interesting tips and bits of info. Bee Sting Relief Remedies & Treatments First make sure the stinger is removed (look for a black spot in the [...]
• Gardener’s Hands 101: Protection & Cleaning Tips: If you enjoy gardening and puttering around in the yard, you know how quickly dirt seems to accumulate under the fingernails and in every crack and crevice in the skin. Wearing gloves when gardening does help but dirt still seems to find its way in. Sometimes all it takes is an easy washup to get rid [...]
• 23 Home Remedies From The Spice Rack: Allspice: Relieves muscle aches and pains. First grind Allspice into a powder then add water to make a paste. Spread on a strip of clean muslin and apply to sore area. Anise: Helps congestion from allergies, colds or flu, and settle upset stomach with gas. Make a tea by steeping 1 teaspoon of anise seeds in [...]