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Handmade Soap

Making your own handcrafted soap can be exciting and fun, and if you choose to create melt and pour soaps you won’t have to worry about using complicated recipes or dangerous chemicals. Melt and pour soaps also provide almost instant gratification. Instead of waiting days or weeks for your soap to cure, you’ll only need to wait a few hours for it to harden and set.

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Thankful for Less
 

The media bombards us with the imperative to buy. You must have the biggest, the most expensive. . .

Herbal Vinegars

Once you have perfected your personal recipe for herbal vinegar begin experimenting with different base vinegars like cider or wine vinegar. 

Captivating Candles

Candles come in countless shapes, sizes and scents. From an immense, eight-foot floor candle to the tiniest tealight, candles brighten a room.

Potpourri: A Scent-sational Gift

 

Looking for a cheap and easy homemade Christmas gift?  You need not look any further than your fruit bowl for a burst of inspiration. Apples and oranges. . .

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Herbs and Relief

For those of us without insurance and working with limited finances, affording healthcare can be difficult indeed. Dental work can be especially expensive, and the pain endured while saving up for the work excruciating.

 


Delicious, Common Edible Spring Flowers

Why pay $3 for a bag of frozen veggies this spring when you can eat well and healthily right out of your springtime flower garden?
 


Grow Your Own Sweet-Smelling Crop of Clean-Up Aids

Just mention the words "house cleaning" and instantly, the air is filled with the remembered scents of nose-numbing bleach, piney disinfectant, lemon sprays, oven cleaners and a vast assortment of other cleaning accoutrements -- some, no doubt, remembered less fondly than others.

 

 

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