Jess is sharing natural ways to repel mosquitoes from your yard and space. Going outside to enjoy what nature has to offer? Perhaps you have forgotten about those pesky bugs that like to follow you around and bite you. Nowadays, mosquitoes are not only annoying, but they also carry diseases and can be harmful. Check […]
Green Living
7 Eco Friendly Ways to Get Fit
I try to incorporate being green into anything I can when practical. This goes for the rooms of my home, what I buy and habits I have developed. Since fitness is a huge part of my life, I decided that I needed to add some green to my fitness routine, too. While I tend to […]
5 Ways to Make Grocery Shopping More Eco-Friendly
Thank you to Boom Boom Prints for this discussion! Make sure you visit them on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest and Instagram! When starting to live a more Eco-friendly life, it really is about choices you make and how they effect the world around us. Living consciously doesn’t require any special skills, but rather thoughtful […]
12 Green Bloggers Tell you How to Go Green Right Now
On my blog, I talk a lot about living a sustainable and Eco-friendly lifestyle. I give tips on how to have a green home and even how to green your cleaning routine. If you are new to going green at home, it can seem like a daunting task as you may feel pressure to do […]
How to Make the Switch To Less Plastic
You have probably heard a lot about reducing our use of one time plastics recently. This is because of the incredibly great harm they cause this planet we call home. When I look at the destruction, I feel incredibly upset at how plastic is just choking out our planet. The good news is, many people […]
Make Your Own All Natural Lip Balm! {Tutorial}
I am a certified lip balm addict! I spend a lot of money on lip balms and I am constantly testing them out, here on my blog. In fact, my very first review was for a lip balm company! Of course I was excited when I found out I could make my own with simple […]
Honey Green Tea Facial
I made some green tea body butter and I had a lot of leftover matcha powder so I decided I wanted to try to make something else with it. I had heard of the skin benefits of green tea (which is what matcha powder is, in powder form) and thought a facial might be something […]
Mint & Green Tea Whipped Body Butter
This recipe is a long time coming. I have wanted to come up with my own body butter pretty much since I started going more natural a couple years ago. I experimented with several that I found online and I always found them too greasy, too hard, too complicated and just not the right ingredients. […]
How to Cut Your Use of Plastic
It’s no secret that plastic is not good for our environment. Unless you have been living under a rock, you probably know that it uses lots of resources and puts toxic waste into our environment as well as plastic pretty much never breaking down. While it is almost impossible to avoid plastic entirely in […]
How to Save Money on Organic Coffee
I will admit it- I’m not a big coffee fan, however, my husband would hook himself up to an IV of it if he could, and he doesn’t just want any coffee, but organic or fair trade coffee that doesn’t “hurt the orangutans”. I’ll get into that last part in a minute because I think […]
Almond-Scented Homemade Deodorant
I bought a stick of natural deodorant a while back and loved how great it smelled and the fact that it contained no aluminum. My husband is allergic to aluminum in deodorants so we tried it out on him to see if this kind irritated his skin. To our complete happiness, it didn’t. The only […]
30 Uses for Coconut Oil
30 Uses for Coconut Oil Coconut oil is so useful in more ways than just cooking some tasty meals. It has many healthy uses that you may be surprised about. I scoured the web to find the most unique uses for this almost miracle natural resource. Here is my top 30 unique uses for […]
10 Uses for Leftover or Used Wrapping Paper
Ashley is sharing great ways to reuse all that wrapping paper you will have after the holidays are over. Don’t you just hate it when you get to the end of your wrapping paper roll and think there is just enough to do one more gift, but then it’s like .5cm to small?! Trust […]
Non Toxic Oven Cleaner
One of the chores I hate doing the most is cleaning the oven. One of the biggest reasons was the chemicals I would have to use on it in order to do the job. They are toxic and I hated having them in the same space as the place I cook my family food. […]
Zero Waste Grocery Shopping Tips
One of my most popular posts on my blog here is the one I did on having a zero waste kitchen. These days, people are trying anything they can to leave the world with a better carbon footprint that they found it. It’s one of the reasons I blog. I try to help others see […]
How to Naturally Preserve a Pumpkin
Its really close to Halloween and if you are like most people celebrating, you probably have your pumpkin and are ready to carve it. There’s nothing worse than a Jack-o-lantern that falls apart only a few days after you carve it. It’s important to learn how to preserve this gourd for as long as […]