(PLEASE NOTE: you may be seeing this twice as I cross-posted to my Weight Loss Surgery blog. My apologies but I felt it was relevant to both blogs) So, again, this is something I first saw on Pinterest. Here is the blog link. Yogurt is big in our house. I eat it for breakfast a [...]

I have sprouts! And not the kidlet kind, although I, of course, have those too. One of the ingredients in the Perfect Protein Salad I like are alfalfa sprouts, which I could not find at the grocery store. The other day I was in the natural foods store for … something, can’t remember what … [...]

I first made dryer balls a couple years back. I made 3. For a while, all three were missing, but two have made their way back into the plastic container on top of the dryer. However, I decided it was time to make more so that if the remaining two disappeared, I’d still have some [...]

The link: http://www.diynatural.com/homemade-toothpaste-recipe-easy-and-frugal/   The ingredients: 2/3 cup baking soda 4 tsp fine salt (optional but will increase the scrubbiness) 1-2 tsp peppermint extract or similar enough water to make a paste   Mix the above in a container. I halved the recipe and put it in a 1/2 cup Gladware container.   The verdict: [...]

Again, a quick internet search will yield TONS of pages and posts about making your own laundry detergent. So, let’s start by saying that mine is powdered, not liquid, and I AM using it in a HE front loader.   Ingredients: 1 cup Borax 1 cup Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda 1 bar Fels-Naptha [...]

Recently someone mentioned that I should start posting about some of the natural stuff I do on my blog. So, there will be some posts in the near future about the mildly ‘crunchy’ stuff I do like not using shampoo, making my own laundry soap, cloth diapering, etc. They will have their own category and [...]

A quick search will tell you that there are a lot of blog posts out there about shampoo-free hair – that is, hair that is cleaned without the use of ‘traditional’ shampoo or conditioner. Crazy, no? I certainly thought so. Then I thought about it. How could so many people be wrong. So, I tried [...]