Essential oils are often used as fragrances in cleaning products, but they are also effective natural cleaners. Many essential oils are antibacterial and antiseptic, and they can be used as natural disinfectants and deodorizing agents. Lemon, pine, peppermint, and tea tree oils remove bacteria and add a fresh scent to home cleaning solutions – mix […]
The Untrained Housewife’s Ultimate Guide to Homemade Beauty Products
From homemade hand creams and body oils to DIY shampoos and conditioners, here are The Untrained Housewife’s best recipes for making your own beauty products.
Natural Remedies for Summer Health
Whether you’re traveling, at home, camping or taking a trip to the beach, here are a few natural remedies, herbs, essential oils and homeopathic remedies that may come useful as we wind down the summer months.
A Beginner’s Guide to Essential Oils
Essential oils are natural, concentrated home remedies for many everyday health problems. Use them in massage, in baths, in oil burners and vaporizers, in compresses, in steam inhalations, and in homemade beauty products. If you are just starting out with essential oils, get one or two oils and build up your collection as you get […]
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Register for the Essential Oils Revolution summit and enter to win free Vintage Remedies prizes!
3 Easy and Cheap Hair Care Products From the Kitchen
These three recipes combined cost about 50 cents per month to make and can last a family of four nearly two weeks of daily showers.
10 Simple Pimple Remedies from the Kitchen
Using herbs and simple kitchen-found products are far gentler on skin and its delicate acid balance. As a bonus, most also preserve skin health, reduce age spots and wrinkles, and even out skin tone.
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 […]
Simply Natural Face Powder
Sometimes you just want to rush out the door and don’t have time for a major overhaul of your face. Or, you love the finished look you get with cream foundation and powder — you just feel more pulled together and “finished.” This face powder is a delight, so smooth and silky with a light-medium […]
Homemade Hair Conditioner
This recipe can detangle even the curliest of hair and slowly restore even the most badly damaged hair.
