I’m so excited for this post!!! My daughters and I have been experimenting in the kitchen this week. First, it was the beeswax lotion, and now it’s naturally dyed Easter eggs!! There is loads of info. on making your own egg dye all over the internet so I figured, this is the perfect project to tackle this year. Every time I start…
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Many of you have asked me if you can ditch the emulsifying wax in my other DIY cream recipes and use beeswax instead. With quite the know-it-all stance, I quickly assured you that beeswax would not properly bind oil and water. I had tried this method in my early days of experimenting with DIYs and created the most greasy, non-cohesive “cream”. It…
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Ok, I’m not trying to be cocky here but I have invented the BEST smoothie EVER! I’m not kidding. Yesterday I talked about the amazing benefits of kale. Today, I’m so excited to share with you probably the best smoothie I’ve ever made! Last weekend was spring break and my girls and my mom and I went to Dallas for the weekend. …
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I started adding kale into my diet about 6 mos. ago. I’m always looking for new veggies that I can stomach. Especially leafy greens. The benefits in leafy green vegetables are huge. I was just going to make this a smoothie recipe post, but I decided to divide it up into 2 posts because kale honestly deserves a post of it’s own. …
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A couple of months ago I wrote a post on the London based skin care company, Neal’s Yard Remedies. I became a consultant to the company in order to get quite a few products for an extremely discounted price plus, I wanted to offer a source for you all to buy the products I was going to review since Amazon didn’t carry…
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Ok, get ready for an alarming, eye opening post that’s going to make you want to jump up and take action IMMEDIATELY! I was scrolling through my Pinterest feed and found THIS article on adding 1 drop of lavender essential oil to your mascara each time you buy a new tube. Why you may ask?? Brace yourself…. EYELASH MITES. Yes, 50% of…
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As we age, keeping skin balanced and happy can be quite a tricky endeavor. Typically, the older we get, the drier we get. That is certainly true in my case but like a lot of you, I still experience blackheads and blemishes. For the most part, treating dry skin is exactly opposite of treating acneic skin. So what’s a girl to do?…
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Hello!! I wanted to drop a personal post on you because my posts have been so sparse lately and I’d like to share what’s going on. I mentioned a few posts back that we have added onto our home. It’s been quite the process to live through with 2 little kiddos but I’m so glad we did it! I’m crazy about…
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The olive oil based skin care line, Olive + M is the most inspiring natural skin care line. As you all know, I love products with minimal ingredients that I can recognize. In skin care, often, less is more. The skin can actually thrive on simple, pure oils rather then creams and cleansers filled with chemicals in order to achieve consistency, lather…
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