From tallow balm and natural candles to lip balm and now, even homemade soap! This simple ingredient has quickly become one ...

Readers, this is the fourth of 12 basic homestead skills we’ll be presenting every month throughout 2019 from Kimberlee Bastien’s new book, 52 Homestead Skills. We invite you to join Kimberlee and her ...

Soapmaking can be easy if you follow these instructions. Making soap is yet another down-home pursuit that allows you to feel good inside because you get to recycle and create at the same time. It’s ...

Treat your skin to an easy sugar scrub recipe you can make at home. Find step-by-step scrubs—orange, peppermint, coffee, and ...

For our ongoing series of DIY cleaning tests, we scoured the Internet (pun intended) for homemade formulas for hand-cleaning dishes. We tested each of three homemade dish cleaners with three ...

Two processes to make DIY soap bars are cold process, and melt and pour process. While the former requires you to make soap from scratch, the latter includes working with pre-made soap base. We’ll ...

Long before I removed soap and shampoo from my own beauty regimen, I had several acquaintances that had been soapless for years. Unfortunately, that was exactly what took me so long to remove soap ...

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