Soap Making Oils and Their Properties
Natural handmade soaps are wonderful for the skin and fun to make. If you've never made soap, just getting started, or are an experienced soap maker, it's important for you to better understand which soap making oils are better for what you'd like to accomplish. In other words, different oils bring different properties to soap....
Herbal Salve Recipe – How to Make Natural Salves
The basic understanding of how to make a salve is very beneficial. I've put together an herbal salve recipe and instructions on how to make an herbal salve.After all, there are SO many reasons to make a salve in the first place! Here's a short list of reasons you may want to make a salve:...
How to Make Herbal Soap – Methods and Recipe
Natural herbal soap making is something I LOVE to do! I love the creativity that's involved, as well as the nourishing benefits of the final product. So I'm excited to teach you how to make herbal soap! I only use natural, healthy ingredients and stay away from anything that's even questionable. There aren't a lot...
Chicken Turmeric Leek Soup
In my house, we call this Chicken Turmeric Leek soup by a few different names. My son calls it Green Soup (not sure why since it's not really green), while my other kids call it The Cure All Soup. And for good reason! There is so much goodness all in one pot, that this soup...
Rose Soap Recipe – Cold Process Romantic Face Bar
Can soap be romantic? Of course it can! Rose is traditionally known as the scent of love. But it has a lot of other benefits as well. With Valentine's Day coming up, I thought it would be perfect timing to give you a great facial rose soap recipe that doubles as a wonderful body bar....
4 Morning Energizing Essential Oil Blends
I've been listening to Dr. Eric Z's Essential Oils for Abundant Living Master Course for free the past few days. I first thought that the course would be just for beginners. But there's just so much great information packed into that course, including a lot of scientific background, studies, and recipes for essential oil blends...
Homemade Baby Wipes with Natural Ingredients
Here on Simple Life Mom, I try to give other ladies and moms tools for a completely toxin free environment: pure bath product recipes, makeup recipes, healthy drinks, essential oil use, fresh food ingredients, and other natural living ideas. Homemade baby wipes are great to have around, even if your kids are older. I actually...
Natural Soap Making How-to and Recipe
I'm excited to announce the release of my new e-book, Natural Soap Making How-to and Recipe Book. This book teaches how to make cold process body soap bars and shampoo bars, as well as gives you recipes and charts to make your soap making adventures easier and more enjoyable. I'm also including some BONUSES for...
Natural Stretch Mark Cream – Aromatherapy for Beginners
Aromatherapy has been used for literally centuries with wonderful results. In fact, it has only been the past 100 years where people have begun turning to pharmaceuticals and have lost natural remedy knowledge. That has been changing lately as people have been fighting to bring back natural traditions combined with modern knowledge of medicine to...
Top 21 Natural Beauty Product Recipes from Simple Life Mom
This has been a year to remember in so many ways for Simple Life Mom. I've out together a compilation of the best of the best of this year's top 21 articles on natural bath and natural beauty product recipes. These are all 100% natural recipes with no compromises. There are no unnecessary preservatives because...
5 Ways to Get Better Sleep – Plus the Importance of Deep Sleep
Most of us know that sleep is important. We've read articles, been told varying facts, or just know how crummy we feel when we get less sleep than usual. Sometimes, even when we know we need better sleep we don't do what's needed to make sure we get it. Are we just not convicted? Is...
15 Last Minute Handmade Gift Ideas
A wonderful list of Last Minute Handmade Gift Ideas is super duper handy to keep on hand. We all have a number of people on our Christmas lists that we'd love to give something special to, but we're not sure what that special gift might be. We also have people like teachers, co-workers, postal workers,...
5 Homemade Essential Oil Diffuser Methods Plus Recipes
I wanted to take a few moments to show you how you can make your very own homemade essential oil diffuser and air fresheners. These are all ideas that I've tried before and really like. We all have our favorites, and I'll tell you mine. I'll also give you some recipes to get you going...
10 Christmas Decorating Ideas On A Budget That Will Take Your Celebrations To The Next Level
Today, I partnered with Andrea at PlusVoucherCode to give you some great ideas that will put the DIY into your Christmas decorating, while making sure to keep it classy while keeping the budget low. She's bringing us 10 Christmas decorating ideas on a budget that I especially love because of the memories and family time...
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