Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Homestead Blog Hop will take place every Wednesday and is for all things homesteading: real food recipes, farm animals, crafts, DIY, how-to’s, gardening, anything from-scratch, natural home/health, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, natural remedies, essential oils, & more! Basically anything related to homesteading. Meet Your Hosts! Follow Their Blogs Natasha – Houseful...
Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Homestead Blog Hop will take place every Wednesday and is for all things homesteading: real food recipes, farm animals, crafts, DIY, how-to’s, gardening, anything from-scratch, natural home/health, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, natural remedies, essential oils, & more! Basically anything related to homesteading. Meet Your Hosts! Follow Their Blogs Natasha – Houseful...
This is a project that I’ve been working on for about a year now: how to make a melt and pour base recipe from scratch with only pure and healthy ingredients. I’ve been tweaking the recipe, not wanting to just say, “This is as good as it gets.” But wanting to improve the end texture...
I often get asked for more shampoo bar recipes. I have a few that are my favorite that I use for our hair type. Organic shampoo bars are easy to make. If you can follow directions to make a cake, then you can follow directions for making soap or shampoo from scratch. Don’t rely on...
I love getting new ideas from other crafters and homesteaders. These homestead blog hops help me improve my gardening, give me great weeknight meals, and even health tips. Make sure to leave a comment below and say hi so that we can get to know each other a little more. Here’s one of my favorite...
We have great features this week! Well, we always have great features. We have such a great group of bloggers who share their expertise with us each week. People who sew, make and share great recipes, garden, and so much more. I feel really blessed to get to know some of you over the years....
Though this year was a whirlwind in a lot of ways, but we also made it a priority to slow down and have a lot of family time and personal time. I’m excited for the new year and what will change and what will stay the same. My kids are getting older and starting their...
There has been a lot of attention given to young living essential oil blend labeled as Thieves. I have friends that have their hand soap in every room. It’s a great essential oil blend that has a long history for good reason! This thieves soap bar recipe takes on that tradition and brings you the...
When I first started making a milk soaps or milk shampoo with the cold process method, I thought there was only one way to do it. After making hundreds of batches, you learn how to switch things around, what works, and what doesn’t. I want to teach you how to add milk to soap in...
Goat milk soap is a classic handmade soap that is sought after for a reason. The milk added to soap makes such a moisturizing soap that it’s a traditionally THE soap to buy from artisan soap makers. It can make a hard soap bar that’s long lasting, especially when made with tallow, and so wonderfully...
I love making soap. Out of all the homesteading, natural, back to roots skills that I’ve learned over the past 15 years, making soap from scratch is definitely my favorite. Don’t get me wrong. I’m happy that I can start a garden, keep a sourdough starter, and create herbal remedies. Those are all very important....
You can learn how to make you own liquid hand soap in just a few easy steps. It’s an easy thing to make and has a lot of advantages. For starters, it’s very frugal! I make my own soap (For recipes, go here.), so there is very little cost to using two to three bars...
This is Cellulite Scrub bar is a cold process soap recipe. If you haven’t made cold process soap, then head over to Homemade Soap Step by Step for Beginners and even try out my books here or here. The fact is that caffeine scrubs and lotions have been shown to make a difference in breaking...
Each year, I make a number of holiday soap recipes. They’re festive, fun, and beautiful. You definitely need to plan ahead so that they are hard enough to give as gifts and use for the Christmas season, but it’s not too late, even in November. Not only can you make these Christmas soaps now, but...
One thing that soap makers figure out quickly, is that even though they love various recipes because of the different qualities various oils bring to soap, we usually end up with one cold process soap recipe that we tweak with various scents and colors. If you’re making soap for your family, then this is exactly...
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