It's never too late to start doing more eco friendly things in and around your home. As the cold months are looming or in some places not so cold, there are ways to make your living healthier, sustainable and reduce unnecessary wastes and remove toxins from your home and life. It's necessary to maintain efficiency in your home year round and not wait for things to deteriorate. By then, of course, it'll be too late and you'll find you'll have a big expense to deal with. 6 Ways to be More Eco Friendly In and Around Your Home 1. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Reduce, reuse and recycle. Follow these 3 R's and you're on your way to being green. When it comes to reusing items, use your imagination and creativity. Even though you don't want to end up being a pack rat, save some glass jars or empty toilet paper rolls for craft ideas for the holidays. You can also collect these and give them to your child's school for fun projects. Look for other things that you could put to use in your home or … [Read more...]
Chapped Lips and Homemade Lip Balms
Dry, cracked and chapped lips can happen to all of us. Chapped lips can occur in any season so it's important to take care of your lips in during all types of weather. You also have to be careful of what lip care treatment or products you want to buy and use. Sometimes the store bought lip balms could be the cause of having cracked and chapped lips because of the harmful ingredients that are found in the lip products. There's a solution to this problem. You can make your own lip balm! This way you know exactly what's in there. Before I tell you how to make your own lip balm, there are other reasons beside the weather you may get chapped lips. If you have chronic chapped lips, you may want to check with your doctor to see if there's an underlying condition, you're unaware of. Here's a short list of what may cause dry, cracked or chapped lips in people: - Frequent licking or biting on the lips - A musical instrument using your mouth such as a clarinet - As mentioned above, … [Read more...]
Anti-Aging Beauty Tips: Your Kitchen Pantry…and Honey
Beauty is skin deep. It's where it starts. If you take care of yourself internally by eating healthy, then your skin will show it. When you have bad eating habits, that can show on your skin too. There are a lot of great natural skin care products out there, but it often means spending quite a bit of money. There are other cost effective ways to do the same with ingredients found in your pantry and kitchen. Before I tell you how you can use ingredients found in your kitchen, let's look at some other factors that can cause wrinkles and make you look older. Plus, some beauty tips on correcting them. 10 Things that Make You Look Older and the Fixes 1. The older you are, the less elastic your skin becomes. So sleeping on your face is not an ideal sleeping position. One night of sleeping on your face isn't going to cause wrinkles, but sleeping that way for a number of years will. The best position is sleeping on your back as sleeping on your side will also cause wrinkles. 2. Drink … [Read more...]
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