Making your own body scrubs and polishes is an amazing way to remove dead skin cells, brighten the skin, and give your entire body dewy, radiant glow any time of year. During the Summer months, I like to reach for a homemade dead sea salt scrub to help keep my skin looking and feeling fresh. […]
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Broad-Spectrum Essential Oil Blend for Cold and Flu
Before school starts and cold and flu season rolls in, it’s important to start collecting recipes and planning your lines of defense. Every year, millions of Americans are hospitalized for seasonal illness, and the numbers are rising as stronger strains of bacteria, microbes, and viruses begin to multiply, mutate, and evade conventional medicine. While I […]
Grapefruit, Bergamot, & Rose Linen Spray Recipe
One of my favorite ways to use infuse my home with essential oils is to make deliciously fragrant linen sprays that make me feel happy inside when I use them. I like linen sprays that have bright undertones that are full-bodied and juicy with light floral overtones to round things off. When I came across […]
The Closest Copycat Poo Pourri Bathroom Spray Recipe
One of the things I always have on hand in my bathroom is a variety of products to use for masking odor. This includes a few candles, a stick of incense, matches, homemade air freshening spray, and my personal favorite – my copycat poo pourri bathroom spray. Above all the other options, this one is […]
How to Make a Solid Perfume with Essential Oils
Blending essential oils to make new and interesting scents to wear is one of my favorite things. As soon as I formulate an amazing blend or come across one that’s already made by my favorite brands, I often find myself making roll-ons, room sprays, body oils, and lotions infused with those finds so that I […]
How to Make Jethro Kloss’s Herbal Liniment Using Essential Oils
liniments have long been a staple in my homemade first aid kit and now that summer is in full swing, I’ve needed them more often as I spend more time outdoors. I love to experiment with different herbs and formulas but what I haven’t tried is making a liniment using essential oils. A liniment is […]