The problem was a messy spice cabinet, a disorganized freezer, and a messy desk. I needed something simple, clear, and cheap. I needed it fast. Every week I purchased one carton of salad and soon realized I was onto something…
Healing Balms Simple Enough for the Busy Mom
I was excited but also clearing out my weekend to plan to make preparations. Thankfully, I’d just really overthought it. Here’s how easy it is to make a healing balm.
5 Simple Fermentation Starters Every Kitchen Should Have
These five fermentation starters will provide almost everything any home needs to be healthy, clean, and relatively bad-germ free!
Printable Butterflies Collage Pack
Grab yourself these pretty printable butterflies for your crafting stash. Gorgeously vintage, your free download is a pack of four A4 pages in different colourways. Butterflies are always in vogue for romantic or nostalgic papercrafting. These images would be particularly useful for layouts or projects concerning romance, anniversaries, weddings, baby showers – anything that invokes […]
Kombucha Tea Recipe– Cider with Health Benefits and History
As of 2009, reported sales of kombucha beverages sold in the United States is $40 million. This doesn’t account for all the people who brew it as home using a Scoby and a glass jar. Kombucha is easy to culture at home – try this recipe to brew your own!
Homemade Volumizing Scrunching Spray
This spray is how we achieve those voluminous beach waves on a shoe string budget. Remember that many sea-salt sprays are drying to the hair and pull out natural oils. This recipe contains natural oils to compensate for the drying effects of the salt in the spray. At about 1/50th of the cost of store brands, it is a steep bargain without the dangerous chemicals.
DIY Hair Spray
When it comes to offenders of chemicals and hair and scalp damage, hair spray is one of the worst. This easy recipe will actually boost hair health over time.
Homemade Hair Gel
For many, hair gel is essential, especially for men or those with coarse hair. Thankfully nature does provide us with safer alternatives to commercial chemicals. This recipe is not only vegan, but it may actually help make hair healthier. Play around with it until you find a consistency that works well for you. Ingredients: 2/3 […]
5 Easy Ways to Use Kool Aid as a Fun Dye
I stopped using Kool Aid as a food product long ago. The food coloring and sugar is all around bad for health and especially the mental health of children. However, it still is a fun and super cheap product to use as a dye. Simply buy the packets that do not include sweetener and have […]
Homemade Hair Conditioner
This recipe can detangle even the curliest of hair and slowly restore even the most badly damaged hair.
Homemade Shampoo for DIY Hair Care
This no-poo shampoo recipe is simple enough and contains none of the waxes and oils that shampoo companies use to hide the chemical burn damage of their products.
25 Ways to Use Canning Jar Lids
You may have realized that we here at Untrained Housewife love all things Mason Jars… ahem… 25 Ways to Use a Mason Jar… But what do you do with the extra canning jar lids? I will tell you exactly what you can do with them….
