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.
Learn how to make your own all-natural homemade laundry detergent powder and ditch the nasty chemicals of store-bought laundry soaps for good.
For years, my friends and I kept a group journal during epic overseas travels together. Here's how I designed handmade fabric journal covers to safekeep these momentos.
"Green" bags often aren't so green – they can be made of polypropylene (a type of plastic). Here's how to make your own instead, from op shopped fabric.
Koren Helbig is an ethical digital marketing consultant, journalist and urban permaculturist based in Tarntanya / Adelaide, South Australia.
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