December 2009

Homemade Foam Handwash

December 27, 2009

I ran out of liquid soap this weekend and had to come up with a quick (yet still healthy) replacement.  With the farmer’s market closed for the season and very limited options at the health store, it was time to whip up a homemade recipe for foaming soap. I happened to have an empty foaming [...]

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Toxic Body = Bad Breath

December 20, 2009

The number of mints, gum, mouthwash, and breath-savers available on the market are a sure sign of the bad breath plaguing this country. But what many people aren’t aware of is how toxins in the body affect their breath. Natural News recently posted an informative article on how bad breath is actually directly related to [...]

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Home Uses for Vinegar

December 14, 2009

Vinegar is a great cleaning product (as you may remember from previous posts on using it to wash linoleum floors, windows, cat litter boxes, etc. It is an inexpensive, versatile household cleaner and I’ve recently come across a website sharing many more uses for white distilled vinegar than I’d ever thought possible (1,001 to be [...]

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Handmade Soaps, Lotion, & More

December 8, 2009

I was first introduced to the Best Bath Store by my friend, Amanda, who loves their products. I visited the website and found out that they are an extremely small business, with only five employees located in MA. All of the products are handmade and hand packaged at this facility in a very “green” manner. [...]

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Homemade Bath Recipes

December 2, 2009

As the cold winter settles in, there is nothing like a nice, hot bath to warm up the body. I found some great ideas to try out including herbal bath bags and soothing milk baths. Since I haven’t found a “healthy” bubble bath yet (as pretty much anything that bubbles contains sodium laureth sulfate), I [...]

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Frozen Fruit Smoothie

December 1, 2009

Since I haven’t posted another good smoothie recipe since the Springtime Smoothie in April, I decided it was high-time for a new one. Since the beautiful, fresh-picked berries of summer seem like a distant memory, I’m thankful that I have a decent stock of them in my freezer, particularly for smoothies! This recipe is quick, [...]

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