by Daisy | Nov 23, 2008 | Body Care, Household
A lotion bar recipe can be simple or fancy-pants. This tutorial gives you both. What is a lotion bar? It is a soap-hard manifestation of moisturizer you can make yourself that doesn’t go bad and doesn’t contain: . . . and stuff like that. And lotion bars...
by Daisy | Nov 14, 2008 | Body Care, Household
I’m SICK! Sore throat, congestion, cough, aches, blah, blah, BLECH! But, I have to admit, I feel pretty decent now that I engaged in a little home remedy dabbling. HOT MEDICINAL SOUP (recipe adapted from here) Makes 1 serving 1 large clove garlic 1 T olive oil 1...
by Daisy | Nov 7, 2008 | Body Care, Household
I have never been one for sugar scrubs. I have oily skin and the idea of putting something with more oil in it on my face, regardless of how ‘scrubby’ it claimed to be–appalling. But after reading that sucrose in a good oil actually has alpha-hydroxy...
by Daisy | Nov 6, 2008 | Body Care, Household
This couldn’t get much easier. If you read our Lotion Bars post, you can see these are the same ingredients, only in different proportions. So no more ingredients to buy. And again, two versions–economy and first class. Everyday Jane and Princess....
by Daisy | Oct 25, 2008 | Body Care, Household
Sure, we all love the environment, so tissues are bad. But who really wants to put snot backin their pocket, right? Paper towels are bad too, but who wants to dry their hands with a funked-out dishtowel that some other member of your family probably used to clean the...
by Daisy | Oct 20, 2008 | Crafts, Earth-Friendly, Household
If you want to evoke a blank stare, tell someone you are making a hypertufa grot. Alternate reactions are, “Gesundheit,” or “Sounds like a personal problem to me.” Hypertufa is imitation tufa, a rock-like calcium carbonate deposit. Hypertufa is...
