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Make your own healing calendula + lavender salve (with no special equipment)
Make your own healing calendula + lavender salve (with no special equipment)

handmade, homegrown, natural skincare, plants as medicine

Make your own healing calendula + lavender salve (with no special equipment)

This calendula salve — handmade using homegrown flowers — has fast become the only face and body cream I use. Happily, it's easy to make...

Koren Helbig2022-06-07T17:36:16+09:30May 6th, 2021|handmade, homegrown, natural skincare, plants as medicine|0 Comments

Homemade exfoliating coffee and cinnamon soap
Homemade exfoliating coffee and cinnamon soap

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Homemade exfoliating coffee and cinnamon soap

Recycle used coffee grounds into a luxuriously exfoliating and all-natural homemade coffee and cinnamon soap.

Koren Helbig2021-04-26T17:27:21+09:30March 20th, 2015|craft, natural home, natural skincare, sustainable living|16 Comments

Homemade soap, the traditional Castile way
Homemade soap, the traditional Castile way

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Homemade soap, the traditional Castile way

A Spanish grandmother shares her traditional recipe for homemade soap from Spain's Castilla-La Mancha region, the original home of the popular Castile soap.

Koren Helbig2021-05-06T15:03:28+09:30December 16th, 2014|craft, natural home, natural skincare, sustainable living|31 Comments

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My Top 25 Permaculture Books list to get you going with organic gardening & sustainable living.

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