Quick, Natural, Head-to-Toe Clean

by | Apr 20, 2009 | Body Care, Household

Shampoo and body wash, like all synthetic detergents, work equally well in hard and soft water. The problem is that it’s expensive and rips the oils out of your hair. Hence the need for conditioner–to cover up the oil-stripping-damage done by the...

Homemade Vegetable and Fruit Wash

by | Apr 11, 2009 | Cleaning Products, Household

I live and die by this salad spinner. She’s no spring chicken, though. She has a pull string. She has those little hairline cracks from being dropped too many times. She’s been with me a long, long time. I use the strainer part to carry vegetables from the...

Mortarless Paving

by | Mar 30, 2009 | Handyman Skills, Household

Ivory asked me to show her how I put this together a while back: Since I wanted to do something similar with this little beauty spot . . . . . . I took a few pictures of the process. The bricks I used here were some of the perforated facing bricks left over from old...

Quick Stick Deodorant

by | Mar 18, 2009 | Body Care, Household

In the DIY world of home health and beauty products, deodorant seems to be the the most feared replacement. Stinking is NOT OKAY in our culture, right? But aluminum crammed in your pores cannot be good for you, and it seems in recent years that store-bought deodorant...

Stubborn Doorstop

by | Feb 18, 2009 | Handyman Skills, Household

I may be the only person who has had a problem with this, but I needed a hard-to-remove doorstop to keep little hands from getting smooshed. Regular doorstops just got absconded with, carried around and lost. The worst door of all was the swinging door between the...