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DIY Sore Muscle Salve I’ve been meaning to make my own DIY salve for sore muscles for quite some time. However, life gets busy and whatnot, so I kept putting it off. It’s one of those things where you KNOW you will need it someday, but since it’s not an immediate need, the chore keeps…
How to Make Homemade Lip Balm Confession: I’m a lip balm addict. I’ve been wearing store-bought lip balms since middle school, and I LOVE the minty types that are so intensely mint flavored that my lips tingle a bit. I’ve been perfecting my DIY Lip Balm recipe for over a year now. I’m kinda a…
Cool Weather = DIY project time!! Now that my fall garden, cover crops, and garlic are all planted, these chilly afternoons have less and less garden chores for me to do. Sure, I can sip some tasty spiced hot cocoa on my back porch and relax (well deserved after my summer of hard work!), but…
How to Make Water Kefir As I mentioned in my 2015 Homestead Goals (click here for that post), I’m trying to get serious about my Water Kefir. Why water kefir? A few years back, my husband got terribly sick with some serious mystery illness; sick enough that we went to the hospital. The doctors were…
Make Your Own Cinnamon Vanilla Body Scrub As promised (here), I have a recipe for a delightful body scrub that does NOT need essential oils. I know how it goes: you scroll through countless DIY Beauty recipes and the darn things all use essential oils. You don’t own them (yet) and you want to make a…
Make Your Own Lemon Mint Body Scrub As a tomboy with no sisters, I have almost zero understanding of beauty products. For the past year or so, I kept seeing all these pretty looking DIY “sugar scrubs” “salt scrubs” and “body scrubs” on Pinterest, and I had no clue what they were for or how…