Learn how to make your own healthy, non-toxic bug spray. Follow Pronounce Skincare's DIY bug spray recipe and stay bug free while avoiding those awful chemicals found in conventional bug spray.

DIY Bug Spray Recipe – Bye, Bye Bugs (especially mosquitoes)!

Looking for a natural DIY bug spray recipe that will not leave you soaked in toxic chemicals (…who needs that!??) AND actually works? Here is where I would usually go into my spiel about individual ingredients in products that make them bad for us. I think that I can skip that with bug spray (BUT, if you want to know …

Learn how and why you should buy food in bulk- Scratch Mommy

Learn How And Why To Buy Food In Bulk

When I moved into my first apartment I was abnormally excited about grocery shopping for myself. It seemed so…adult. But, despite the excitement, there were still parts of grocery shopping that required a little more knowledge – and courage. Like ordering from the meat counter. “Which one? I don’t know. The one that is enough to feed two?!?” And, inevitably, …

Come learn what a liniment is and how you can use them. Grab our DIY soothing muscle liniment recipe, too!- Scratch Mommy

What Are Herbal Liniments (and a soothing muscle liniment recipe)

What are Herbal Liniments? Unlike a tea made with water or an extract that’s a concentrated, alcohol-based preparation designed for internal use, a liniment is a topical preparation of herbs that soothe and comfort the skin or muscles. Many herbal liniments use witch hazel extract as a base, but they can also be made with rubbing alcohol, apple cider vinegar, or …

Come snag our DIY Poison Ivy Lotion (draw out toxins, dry up the rash, and soothe your itchy skin)!- Scratch Mommy

DIY Poison Ivy Lotion Recipe

Before I had kids I loved to go on weekend long kayaking trips. One downside to spending so much time on the water though, is that poison ivy likes to lurk at the water’s edge. Needless to say I’ve gotten pretty good at both recognizing (and avoiding) poison ivy and treating the rash it causes. But I try to steer …

Garden Battle #1

If we are Facebook friends you may have seen a couple of posts yesterday and today about some uninvited visitors to my garden. How about I just show you a few pictures. Now, let’s look at this beautiful lettuce from above (picture taken this morning)… Cutworms I’ve learned a lot about these nasty boogers in the past two days. I …

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Calendula Infused & Naturally Tinted Lip Balm DIY

 I remember obsessively using and collecting lip gloss as a mature middle school student. My friends and I would swap colors, constantly pick out new selections, and we wouldn’t be caught without at least one lip gloss on our persons. Time hasn’t changed me too much. I still love carrying one of those little tubes around. What has changed though …

Health Benefits Of The Egg White *AND* The Egg Yolk

Do you say no to eating eggs because of their calorie count? Are you scared that the high cholesterol content in eggs will staggeringly increase the cholesterol level in your blood? Pause for a minute, and think. How do you know that the cholesterol in egg yolk is harmful? Eggs are greatly misjudged foods with high nutritional values that you are …

Top 10 Essential Oils for Cleaning - Clove

Top 10 Organic Essential Oils for Cleaning

We just got finished with a renovation of the tub surround and plywood walls beneath the shower walls. Like any small project, it turned into a BIG project with many hours spent at the home store, driving back and forth, things not fitting correctly, drilling a hole in my finger, and the general confusion that tends to accompany such projects. After …

Lemon Balm Ultimate Guide

How To Use Lemon Balm (for body, home, and food)

Herbs are an amazing natural resource. They have a multitude of uses: they season our food, heal our illnesses, beautify our bodies, and clean our homes. Some herbs even do all of those in one lovely plant. Lemon Balm is one of these multi-tasking herbs. It’s also a bushy perennial in many home herb gardens giving plenty of abundance for …