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Easy Honey Nut Candy (just 3 ingredients!)

Here’s how to make a quick, easy honey candy with just 3 ingredients and no candy thermometer needed! To make this, you’ll need: salted butter,

Squares of rosemary scrub cubes beside a jar of fresh chopped rosemary

Rosemary Mint Sugar Scrub Cubes

These cute little individual scrubs are made with melt and pour soap base and are used to help polish away patches of dry flaky skin.

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Stinging Nettle Tincture + Uses

Here’s how to turn stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) leaves into a tincture that may be useful for allergies and inflammation. You can also tincture different

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How to Grow Alpine Strawberries

Learn how to grow, harvest, and store delicious alpine strawberries, and fill your garden with these small but tasty everbearing treasures! These fragile, fragrant heirloom

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Easy Beach Bars (Melt & Pour Soap)

Here’s how to make these cute beach-themed melt and pour soaps, featuring natural colorants! The simple round shapes could be left unadorned, or you can

mini seashell soap made with melt and pour soap base and natural colorants

Seashell Mini Soaps (Melt & Pour Soap Recipe)

These cute mini seashell soaps can be used as guest soaps, or packaged up for gifts or seaside wedding favors, but I especially like them

henbit salve for sore knees and other aches

Henbit Salve Recipe (for aches & pains)

Here’s a easy henbit salve recipe that I created for my sore knee – it can be used for other aches and pains too! I

stinging nettle on drying racks and a homemade nettle lotion made with magnesium oil

Stinging Nettle Magnesium Lotion

This homemade magnesium lotion features stinging nettles (Urtica dioica), an herb that fights inflammation, plus cypress essential oil which gently warms and stimulates circulation –

a printable cheat sheet to help you easily plant garden vegetables

Growing 14 Common Garden Vegetables (+Free Printable!)

Convenient, condensed, and with a bonus free printable reference sheet, here’s how to grow 14 common garden vegetables, all in one handy place! Beans/Wax Beans

Golden Root Turmeric Face Soap Recipe (Cold Process)

Today I’m excited to share a wonderful cold process turmeric face soap recipe with you! It’s straight from the pages of the gorgeous new soap

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Honey & Beeswax Soap Recipe (Cold Process)

Here’s a cold process soap recipe that combines beeswax and honey! When added in small amounts, beeswax helps harden your soap, makes your bars last

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How to Use Beeswax in Cold Process Soap

Here’s how to add beeswax to your homemade cold process soap recipes! Benefits of Beeswax in Soap Beeswax is a great natural additive for your

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Desert Sunrise Melt & Pour Soap Recipe

Learn how to make this easy diagonal design melt and pour soap recipe using natural colorants and essential oils! This soap features a bottom layer

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Lavender Tincture + Uses

Here’s how to make and use lavender tincture! You can use fresh or dried lavender flowers for this project. You’ll also need some 80 to

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Lavender Lotion Bars

These homemade lavender lotion bars are so helpful for rough hands or dry, cracked skin. They’re easy to throw together and make wonderful gifts too!

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Lavender Honey Sugar Scrub

This honey and lavender sugar scrub gently exfoliates your skin, leaving it soft, silky and smooth. It’s especially wonderful to use on your feet, elbows

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Lavender Salve Recipe

How to make a multi-purpose homemade salve using: lavender flowers, oil, beeswax, and lavender essential oil! Lavender salve is a handy remedy to keep around

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Rose Glycerite – Emotional Balancer

How to make a gently calming rose glycerite – a natural remedy for nervousness, flushed/upset feelings, or PMS. It can also be used in natural

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Rose Clay Info + Printable (Ingredient Spotlight)

Learn all about using rose kaolin clay for natural skin care, remedies, and soapmaking! Plus, you can grab a free printable Rose Clay “Cheat Sheet”

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Rose Clay & Oatmeal Shower Bars (M&P)

These cleansing shower bars contain mineral rich rose clay and scrubby bits of oatmeal. Though they contain melt and pour soap base, they have a