The following post is from Emily of Live Renewed: Glycerin has always been one of those mystery products to me. I've heard about it a lot in natural living circles -- "Oh, glycerin is a great natural health and beauty product!" -- but didn't actually know what to do with it. I've actually had this…
The following post is from Katie of Kitchen Stewardship: Everyone knows Christmas is a green holiday, even the Grinch, so it should be easy to write something in December for "Green" Your Way, right? I'm feeling a little grinchy about it, actually. I've wracked my brain and thought and thought for a week about something…
The following post is from Katie of Kitchen Stewardship: Buying food in bulk and preserving from your garden and farmer's markets is as an awesome way to save money and capture maximum nutrition, but there's even one more reason to love those frugal habits: they reduce waste and help save the earth, too. A 25-pound…
The following post is from Katie of Kitchen Stewardship: Silicone Bakeware, Silicone Baking Sheets, Silicone Cupcake Liners, etc... With holiday baking coming up and gift season to boot, I've been thinking again about the safety of silicone bakeware. There are several unique kitchen items made for the ease of the people – a large portion of…
The following post is from Emily of Live Renewed: This month on my blog, Live Renewed, we talked all about using natural and green laundry care. While everyone loves to have fresh-smelling, clean, and soft laundry; many of the conventional products on the market today are filled with ingredients and chemicals that we should be…
The following post is from Katie of Kitchen Stewardship: "Ugh, it's the little white balls again." "I don't like the little white balls - they're yucky, right, Mommy?" "Yep...they scare me. We could cross the street so we don't have to walk through them but they have them over there, too." "We'll wipe our feet…
So this crazy warm weather we're having this spring (80 degrees in March?!) has really put me in the mood to get outside and get started on outdoor projects which are usually left until late April, and sometimes don't get started until May! Since we moved into our house almost three years ago, we've been adding…
The following post is from Katie of Kitchen Stewardship: I totally wrecked a half dozen of my cloth diapers, just by washing them. Mostly the more expensive, nicer ones of the 25 cloth diapers I reviewed. It was tragic. The silver lining, as with all stupid mistakes I make, is that I get to share…
The following post is from Selena Moffitt of 1 Mom's Mission: You are about to toss that juice box in the trash and you stop to think, can I recycle that? How about the straw -- can it go curbside?You have a 3-minute conversation with yourself over 1 piece of garbage. Do this over and…
This post was first published several years ago, but it's worth repeating as we head into summer once again! Like most of the girls my age, I spent a lot of time soaking up rays during my teenage years, sometimes with a little baby oil to speed up the suntan process. Yep, I got burned…