READ THIS Before Making Homemade Laundry Soap. Homemade laundry detergent is aaaalll over everywhere these days. Have you noticed how many tutorials on Pinterest there are for DIY laundry soap? It’s crazy. I mean, it makes sense why these homemade detergent recipes have become so popular—it’s dirt cheap! Laundry detergent costing $0.02 a load? And with simple,…
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Improve Your Sleep with the Ultimate Sleepy Time Bath
Do you struggle to wind down at night? Does it take you a while to get comfortable in bed, or to feel relaxed and ready for sleep? Are the muscles in your shoulders and back feeling tight and tense by the end of the day? How does a nice, hot bath sound to remedy all that?…
The Last DIY Cleaning Recipe Blog Post You’ll Ever Need to Read.
Ahem. Attention, please. I’m SO VERY PLEASED and excited to announce… …that my days of Googling DIY household cleaners are OVER. Seriously, this is kind of a monumental thing for me. I think I’ve honestly tried and failed at DIY cleaners found on various blogs and online sites AT LEAST a dozen times. Let me…
How to Heal a Sunburn Overnight with Two Simple Ingredients
In need of a sunburn remedy? Having spent a good chunk of my adult life living in the tropics, I’ve become pretty familiar with how my skin reacts to the sun. I know how much of a tan I need to keep from getting a sunburn, how many hours I can spend out with no…
I Stopped Using Toothpaste.
I know, I know. I’m being a dirty hippie again. But hear me out. You just might go for this one. I don’t know about you, but I have always HATED toothpaste. Hated. it. The overly-minty-fakeness of it, the soapy weird feeling in my mouth, the slimy residue left over… disgusting. I used to rinse…
A Counter-Attack on those Pesky Ants
There is a phrase that gets used a lot in the B.B. household. “Ant Attack!!” Oh, no. This is when you know there’s been an invasion of the colonized critters to our cozy abode. Hoards of them descend upon counter tops, floors, sinks, walls, furniture, SKIN (aaack!)… out of nowhere. They end up in places…
Easy Homemade Baby Wipes
Calm down, everyone. I’m not pregnant. (cause that’s obviously what you were thinking when you read the title of this post… jay-kay, jay-kay.) 😛 It’ll be a couple more years til I’ll be using baby wipes for an actual infant. Well, human infant that is. But when I started working with children professionally some years…
The Heartless Homemade Fly Trap
If there’s anything I can’t stand more than mosquitoes, it’s those big, fat, filthy, revolting house flies. When they land on me with their nasty, hairy legs that have touched — ohh, Lord… I don’t even want to THINK about what they’ve touched — and look at me with their giant, dumb eyes, it seriously…
The Ultimate Natural Bug Bite Cure
You know how some people just never seem to get bitten by mosquitoes? Do you HATE those people?? Then you, my friend, are probably a fellow sweet-blooded skeeter-magnet like me. I get it bad. Like, can’t-walk-from-my-car-to-inside-the-house-without-half-a-dozen-bites bad. I’m completely serious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7bAQzvg6WQ Yeah, that? Is me. And those suckers leave maaad marks on my…
Real Food Makeup! A Truly Natural Blush
It doesn’t get any realer than this, my friends. This weekend’s Hack is one that I’ve honestly never heard of before — in fact I just stumbled upon doing it myself by accident! One morning, while preparing a delicious bowl of homemade yogurt, I reached into my freezer for some frozen organic raspberries to put…