About five years ago I began a conscious effort to reduce the use of chemicals and unnatural products in our home and in my personal daily beauty routine. The efforts were spurred in part by the adoption of our rescue dog Lulu and realizing that using chemical cleaners in the home wasn’t healthy for her […]

Most of the all natural recipes I have tried in the past were the result of trying were to replace items I already purchased. For homemade foot powder, this was not the case. I didn’t have any foot powder to begin with. While it’s common to use foot powder, I personally had never used any. […]

In the past, during the winter I shared a homemade night cream recipe on this blog. Some readers also tried making and using this night cream as well. For a little backstory, I started using the cream again the second winter and it worked for while – and then it didn’t – and I found […]

For years I used a homemade face scrub made from baking soda. For a few years I fell off the wagon and stopped using it, in part because I was a little self-conscious over the ingredients when everyone was using a purchased commercial face scrub. But then I realized the baking soda based face scrub […]

If you have desire to live more green and natural, health and beauty products can either make or break this goal. A few years ago I was on a quest to live more green – this included changing the products I used to clean the house and beauty products I used on my body. One […]

For about a year, I did not use commercial shampoo or conditioner. It shocked some of my friends and family members when I learned how to make homemade shampoo. Many had questions or thought it would make hair unclean. It actually had the opposite effect. My hair remained healthy, I saved money and reduced chemical […]

When I first read about brushing my skin with a dry brush, the idea was incredibly bizarre. I always heard of exfoliating the skin in the shower, when the skin is wet. But to be honest, that wasn’t working too great so I was up for the challenge. If you experience dry skin in the […]