Natural Living
Welcome to our Natural Living and Herbal Remedies hub—your go-to resource for building a healthier, low-tox lifestyle. Discover easy herbal recipes, DIY wellness remedies, and sustainable living tips designed to support your home and health naturally.
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How to Make Lemon Balm Infused Olive Oil
Lemon Balm Infused Olive Oil has many benefits and is easy to make with accessible ingredients! Infusing oils with herbs is a centuries-old practice in holistic health, cooking, and skincare. Learn three different ways to dry lemon balm and other herbs, depending on how much time you have to infuse and what equipment you have before infusing your oil. My…
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Easy + Luxurious Dandelion Tallow Sugar Scrub for Smooth, Radiant Skin
This Dandelion Tallow Sugar Scrub is a simple, nourishing way to put spring-foraged dandelions to good use. After drying and infusing the blooms into oil, I blended that golden goodness with whipped tallow, organic sugar, and a touch of lavender for a scrub that gently exfoliates and deeply moisturizes. Perfect for tired feet, rough hands, or even as a facial…
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Discover 3 Amazing Tallow Products for Dry Winter Skin Relief
Tallow products have become super popular recently, and for good reason! They are so beneficial to our skin, and I think the benefits need to be talked about more. Using Tallow for Dry Skin this winter (or anytime, really) will be a game changer for you, and I can’t wait! Tallow is rendered beef fat. Yup, you read that right!…
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5 Essential Nontoxic Swaps for a More Nontoxic Home
There’s no doubt that nontoxic living is “in” right now and for good reason! We all hear about the negative side effects of microplastics, fragrances, and packaged foods. I hope this will inspire you to make a few Nontoxic Swaps. It can be so overwhelming to try to tackle everything and switch your whole life around though. I would argue…
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Golden Elixir: How to Make & Use Dandelion-Infused Oil
If you’ve ever been curious about making your own Dandelion-Infused Oil, you’re about to discover just how simple and rewarding it can be. Those sunny yellow blooms in your yard aren’t just weeds, they’re packed with skin-soothing, anti-inflammatory benefits perfect for homemade remedies. Every spring, I gather fresh dandelions to create a rich, golden oil that can be used in…
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This Amazing Plantain Salve Recipe Is The Only One You Will Ever Need
Plantains are such awesome plants! And when it comes to uses for the skin, they are phenomenal. When plantains are added to beeswax and sunflower oil, you have a recipe that is amazing. This plantain salve recipe is so simple to make, I just had to share. (OK, side note – as soon as I typed out the word ‘phenomenal’,…
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How to Craft Your Own Plantain-Infused Oil!
Infusing oils is such a great skill to learn. Infused oils can be used in so many ways. You can use infused oils in beauty products, cooking, aromatherapy, and for medicinal purposes. Plantain-infused oil is one of the newest ones in my arsenal. What is a plantain, you ask? I know most people immediately think of the banana-looking type of…
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Why I Ditched Toxic Ingredients and Switched to Natural Soaps
Have you ever flipped over a bottle of body wash or baby lotion and been stunned by the ingredient list? I sure was. What started as a simple goal to eat a little healthier after having my first baby quickly snowballed into something bigger. As I started learning to read food labels, I realized I needed to take a closer…
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Is Lye Natural and Safe? Why It’s in Every Real Soap-Even the Gentle Ones
Why does lye (sodium hydroxide) need to be in soap? This is a huge question I asked myself when I started looking into a more natural way of making soap. I read all the ingredients in the soaps and other products we were putting on our skin. I began to wonder what all the chemicals were for and how they…
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My Scheduled C-Section Story-Thanks to My Breech Baby
This post contains affiliate links. This will not cost you anything but helps us to offset the cost of running the blog. We only share products we are using and are items we would recommend to a friend. Thank you for your support! Click ‘HERE’ for more info. First of all, I went into this pregnancy NOT wanting to have a C-Section,…
