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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 …

Buddhi Box Review - Find Your Monthly Zen

Discovering My Zen with Buddhi Box

Growing up in a Hindu household, all the yogis that I heard of were skinny old Indian sages who had spent a lifetime praying in the wilderness in order to attain some sort of divine enlightenment. Well, needless to say, the yogis of 2015 are a far cry from the yogis I grew up hearing about (many of them still …

Healthy Bento Box School Lunch Packing Ideas

Packing a Healthy Bento Box School Lunch

We’re only a few weeks into the new school and year I’m already tired of packing the same old things for my daughter’s lunch every day. She’d buy lunch from her school’s cafeteria every day if I let her, but for now we save that as a special treat because, despite their efforts to offer fruits and veggies with every …

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 …

Beautiful Thyme Infused Honey - Great natural remedy for coughs and even delicious in tea (and super easy to make)!

Thyme Infused Honey (and how to use it!)

As a mother, there is nothing worse than having a sick kid. You want to make them feel better, but there is only so much that you can do. When that sick child has a cough, you feel even worse. If you are like me, coughing is one of your least favorite sounds. I don’t know why I loathe coughing. …

DIY Holiday Potpourri (scents for the home and to give as gifts!) - Scratch Mommy

DIY Holiday Potpourri (for your home and give as gifts!)

There is no other time of year with such a distinct scent as the Holidays. It is a sweet, Earthy, and a bit spiced scent that can transport you years back, while still exciting you for the joy of Holiday seasons to come. ‘Holiday’ is a scent that is loved so much it is replicated in commercial candles, warmers, diffusers, air …

Light, Fluffy Whole Wheat Gingerbread Pancakes (perfect year round and especially for the holidays!) - Scratch Mommy

Whole Wheat Gingerbread Pancakes

Happy December everyone! While I love the fall and pumpkin everything — pumpkin crepes! pumpkin pancakes! pumpkin muffins! — I’m ready to say hello to the flavors of the holiday season. For me, the holidays mean eggnog and gingerbread and peppermint galore. Since I wait all year long for the holiday trifecta, I want those yummy flavors to carry over into …