A thick and nourishing honey body butter that you can make with a few ingredients, including cocoa butter, honey, and chamomile essential oil This is a simple natural skin care recipe that you can make in less than half an hour and with simple and natural ingredients. Honey body butter combines the conditioning properties of cocoa butter and shea butter with the repairing and hydrating properties of raw honey. Gently melted together with sweet almond oil, and scented with skin-soothing ... Read More about Handmade Honey Body Butter Recipe for Radiant Skin
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How to Grow Rosemary in Pots, Indoors, and the Garden
How to grow rosemary in pots, indoors and out in the garden, and also share how to harvest and use rosemary for both cooking and medicinal purposes. Rosemary is an easy to grow, versatile evergreen herb that adds a Mediterranean feel to the border all year round. In this piece, you'll learn how to grow rosemary but also what the plant needs to survive in your garden, indoors, or in containers. You'll also learn how to propagate rosemary from cuttings and ways to put those green leaves to good ... Read More about How to Grow Rosemary in Pots, Indoors, and the Garden
Quick and Easy DIY Raspberry Trellis
How to create an easy raspberry trellis for autumn-fruiting raspberries, and tips for alternative designs depending on planting style and raspberry type. When I took on a new plot at the allotment (community garden), it already had a raspberry patch. A previous tenant had created it, and I’d admired it for years as I walked past on my way to my own growing space. In spring, lime-green leaves and new canes would shoot up from the ground, and by late summer, they’d be dripping with yellow and red ... Read More about Quick and Easy DIY Raspberry Trellis
Homemade Dish Soap Recipe for the Zero-Waste Home
A simple homemade dish soap recipe with long-lasting fluffy bubbles that get dishes squeaky clean. Perfect for the natural and zero-waste home. I've been making handmade soap for over ten years but in all of that time, I've focused on body soap. Cold-process bar soap for whole-body use, and liquid hand soap for filling up pump dispensers. Natural cleaning doesn't stop with personal care though, which is why I'm sharing how to make homemade dish soap. Unlike most body soap, this recipe creates ... Read More about Homemade Dish Soap Recipe for the Zero-Waste Home
The Best Gifts for Gardeners and What NOT to Get
Some of the best gifts for gardeners for 2020 including the latest gardening books, stocking fillers, useful gardening gifts, and extravagant gestures. Also, a list of some of the things that gardeners might not appreciate. If you’re lucky enough to have a gardener in your life, then you’re likely getting gifts all year-round. Fresh veggies from the garden, bouquets of beautiful flowers, exercise from being drafted in for work, and of course, all the cardio from those lovely garden tours. What ... Read More about The Best Gifts for Gardeners and What NOT to Get
