Homemade herbal remedies are easier than you think, and most only require a few minutes of hands-on time before you’ve crafted powerful herbal medicine for your families’ medicine chest.
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Making Calendula Tea (& 15 Ways to Use It)
From its impressive immune-boosting benefits to its time-honored wound-healing properties, when it comes to what-ails-you there’s no better remedy than freshly brewed calendula tea.
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How to Make Lotion Bars
Lotion bars come together with only a handful of ingredients and make the perfect customizable gift for yourself or your loved ones!
Homemade calendula lotion bars made in a honey bee mold fit perfectly into small salve tins, and look especially nice in the ones with windows.
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How to Make Bath Bombs
Homemade bath bombs are an easy way to turn bath time into a luxurious spa day right at home. Learn how to make bath bombs with all-natural ingredients, skipping the additives commonly found in store-bought versions.
Not only are they fun to make for your own self-care routine, they also make great gifts for loved ones that could use a little TLC.
Homemade bath bombs with roses
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Homemade Hand Sanitizer Gel (and Spray)
Homemade hand sanitizer is surprisingly easy to make, and it’s a great way to fight germs when you can’t get to a sink to wash your hands.
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8 Ways to Preserve Herbs
The summer solstice is a perfect time for harvesting and preserving herbs! Here’s the complete guide to preserving the culinary and medicinal bounty of the herb garden.
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Dandelion & Burdock Herbal Bitters
Fancy bitters are part of any well-stocked bar, and artisanal herbal bitters made with wildcrafted ingredients are starting to replace mass-produced commercial bitters in the most upscale establishments. But who needs to spend $10 to $15 on a cocktail that you can make yourself for pennies?
Add in the fact that herbal bitters are a traditional way to get reluctant patients to take their medicine, and you’ve got a recipe for homemade herbal goodness that’s fit for even the most reluctant patient.
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Anti-Inflammatory Foods Proven More Effective Than Ibuprofen
If you’ve overdone it at the gym (or at work…or in the garden) it’s easy enough to take the edge off with a couple of ibuprofen to fight soreness and inflammation. For those of us in the habit of overdoing it on a regular basis, synthetic anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs) can overtax your liver and result in a number of nasty side effects.
For the same pain-relieving effect naturally, try incorporating these food-based anti-inflammatory agents into your diet on a regular basis. Science has shown that these natural food-based medicines work just as well (if not better) than ibuprofen for pain and inflammation. If you have a particularly rough workout, they’re also available in concentrated form as supplements.
Omega fatty acids in salmon help fight inflammation naturally.
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