Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Our latest projects at Simple Life Mom was updating my list of herbs and essential oils that are amazing for the skin. You can find that update here. Now on to the Hop! Homestead Blog Hop will take place every Wednesday and is for all things homesteading: real food...
It’s time for the Homestead Blog Hop again! I love seeing what you all have to bring each week. So many of you are fighting the good fight to keep natural and real blogging alive and it’s refreshing to see. It’s real. It comes with actual tried and true knowledge, not bot knowledge. I’m so...
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...
Have you checked out my new shampoo bar recipes? Click here or the picture below and get started. Really, if you haven’t tried making your own soap then now’s a great time. It’s very fun to choose your own scents and make your own creation, plus it’s so much more healthy! Welcome to the Homestead...
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...
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....
Do you want to learn how to make your own chili powder for your chili recipes at home? Chili powder is an essential ingredient in many chili recipes, adding flavor, heat and spice. Making your own chili powder at home is surprisingly easy and fast, and allows you to control the amount of heat in...
I’ve only had to use hair gel on certain occasions. I’m a low maintenance gal. But there are times when I want to use natural hair gel, because I, of course, want it to be a healthy product. I also recently discovered that teenage boys and sometimes girls in dance performances need to use hair...
I absolutely LOVE this face toner recipe. I get very dry skin during the winter and after I wash my face my skin feels tight. I used to say I have crocodile skin and would rush to get lotion, when really the balance of my skin needed to be dealt with first. This DIY face...
This List of 20 Insect Repelling Plants was a must have for our house. We love to be outside, and the bugs apparently love us. Even though we live in a suburb, we have water nearby and tend to get eaten by bugs, especially around dusk, during the summer. Because of having a small yard,...
Salt soap is sometimes called Spa Soap because of how you feel while using it, as well as the luxurious benefits that it gives to the skin. It never hurts to treat yourself once in a while, especially when it comes to improving your skincare. For those of you who do not have much experience...
I love the time of year when I can open up all of the windows and let that warm fresh air pour in! We’ve been teased with a great early Spring so far here in Pennsylvania. Sunshine and warmer weather gives me energy. All of that warm sunshine also lets me see how smudged up...
This year, we’ve covered a wide variety of DIYs from head to toe, including essential oil health remedies and a few yummy food recipes. I’ve put together the most popular articles, recipes, and beauty tips from this year on Simple Life Mom and wanted to give them to you all in one place! A lot...
Bath Bombs are a fun gift to give that even your kids can make. Plus, they can be therapeutic and medicinal when you add essential oils. Therefore, Viola! 6 Amazing Bath Bomb Recipes! Be careful because the citric acid is that you buy in the store is not made from lemons, but is manufactured using...