How to grow Calendula Flowers
Calendula is both an edible flower and skin healing herb If you want to grow plants that have multiple purposes then Calendula officinalis, also known as Pot Marigold, is your flower.
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Organic Aloe Face Cream Recipe + Instructions
The topic of handmade lotion came up over coffee today and I offered to show a friend how to make her own. It’s really a simple process and aside from
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How to grow and use Calendula Flowers for Beauty & Cooking
Calendula flowers are very easy to grow and useful in both your beauty regime and kitchen. These golden flowers can bloom from early spring until late autumn and I’ve even
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Why Learn about Herbal Medicine?
This post may contain affiliate links. Thank you for your continued support of this site! If you’re reading this you’re probably interested in holistic health and the idea that nature and
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How to use Fresh Herbs & Flowers in Beauty Products
Use homegrown plants and flowers to make handmade beauty products So many skin caring plants and flowers can be grown by you in your own garden. Calendula for skin healing,
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Grow a Beauty & Skincare Garden
Plants, Flowers, & Herbs for Natural Skincare Go to any beauty counter and you’ll see rows of products containing natural extracts that help to moisturise, condition, cleanse, tone, and anti-age.
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Extracting Woad…a Natural Blue Pigment
The end of summer is generally the time when a lot of us are digging up our maincrops, preserving vegetables and drying the last of the herbs. The same goes
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Growing Alkanet — a Natural Purple Dye
As a producer of natural beauty products I mainly use plant extracts to infuse colour, rather than the artificial pigments and dyes found in most conventional products. I use natural
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