Archive Category: 'Beauty & Health'

• 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 ol> 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: blockquote>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 you. [...]
• 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. arts 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: ider 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: blockquote>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 these [...]
• 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. ometimes 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 [...]
• How To Make A Mustard Plaster: For centuries mustard plasters were the tried and true home remedy for the flu, coughs, colds, pneumonia and many other ailments. It was used regularly up until the not too distant past since this poultice was thought to sweat out all the “ills” the body held. s more pleasant cures and remedies came on the market, [...]
• Homemade Hair Styling Cream: Recipe: Today’s feature is from Sweet Sassafras with this recipe for Homemade Hair Cream: blockquote>This is my homemade DIY hair cream. I labeled it pomade, but I think it’s more of a cream/shine product than a sticky pomade. Obviously I didn’t spend a lot of time on making it look fancy, since it’s labeled with masking tape [...]
• Rosemary Herbal Hand Scrub: Recipe: Herbal Exfoliating Hand Scrub teaspoons chopped rosemary 1/8 cup olive oil 4 teaspoons almond oil 1 teaspoon lemon oil raw sugar* Directions: Mix chopped rosemary with the oils; add sugar to make a paste. Apply scrub to skin and gently rub, using the sugar to slough dry skin while allowing the oils to nourish and moisturize. Rinse off scrub and pat dry. Good [...]
• Homemade Kitchen Hand Scrub: Recipe: Today’s feature is from goodLife {eats} with this recipe for an All-Natural Moisturizing Kitchen Hand Scrub: blockquote>Olive oil moisturizes, lemon freshens and is especially good for removing onion and garlic odors from the skin, the sugar/salt combo exfoliates dry skin and renews the appearance of your hands. Salt can be drying, so you wouldn’t want to make [...]
• How To Make Homemade Stick Deodorant: Today’s feature is from Little House In The Suburbs with this how-to for Homemade Stick Deodorant: blockquote>But aluminum crammed in your pores cannot be good for you, and it seems in recent years that store-bought deodorant is becoming less and less effective anyway. This deodorant uses a natural moisture absorber (cornstarch), a natural deodorizer (baking soda), and [...]
• Home Remedies For Canker Sores: Canker sores are located inside the mouth around gums, inside of cheeks and lips and around the tongue area. It’s unknown what causes them exactly but it’s suspected that stress and diet can play a big factor. These aren’t contagious like cold sores, but they can be quite painful. Sores can last 2 to 3 [...]
• Floral Infused Olive Oil: Rich Beauty Aid: Did you know olive oil is a lovely (and natural) skin moisturizer? Here’s a way to make it more special…infuse it with flowers picked fresh from your garden! strong>Floral Infused Olive Oil Recipe Ingredients: Glass jar (pint) Flower petals (1 1/2 cups) Extra Virgin Olive Oil (1 3/4 cups) 6 Vitamin E Capsules (400 IU) Directions: Fill a clean jar with your choice [...]