Sew your own foraging apron from a drop cloth for pockets to gather all your wild edible harvests while keeping your hands free to work.
Altering a soap recipe is nothing like altering a food recipe. Learn how to make adjustments to a soap recipe without ruining it with the help of a lye calculator.
5 plants to forage in winter because foraging enthusiasts don't stop foraging when the snow falls. They look for plants to forage in winter, knowing that this is the best season for these edible and medicinal wild plant allies.
I recently sent out a survey asking what you wanted to see more of. One topic that came up again and again was essential oil blend ideas for soap. There are a few blend ideas on the blog post, Top 10 Essential Oils for Soapmaking. Most of my natural soapmaking
Homestead blogging helps us daily with our chores, goals, and just simply getting things done on the homestead. Blogging about the homestead is a MUST DO.
Final post in our little mini series on hydrosols! I hope you have enjoyed learning about them as much I have.
A comprehensive introduction to natural soap additives and the reasons that we add them to natural cold-process soap recipes. Includes natural soap colorants, fragrance, exfoliants, scent fixatives, and when to add citric acid and sugar to soap recipes