If you are familiar with Essential Oils you will know that they are very helpful for use in our everyday lives. But do you find yourself wondering how specific oils or blends of oils can be used to replace complex and harmful chemicals in our everyday life? Of course Essential Oils are also chemicals and […]
Continue ReadingInvitation to Our ‘Doing it Safer Series’ – cleaning the safer, low tox way!
We use Essential oils in our personal care and household cleaning products and everyday we live out the mantra ‘we have an oil for that’! Why? Because we are committed to reducing the toxic load of chemicals in our home and in the homes of our family and friends. In doing this we have learned […]
Continue ReadingHouse Cleaning the Safer Way: Get that kitchen sparkling!
Cleaning our house the safer way has become the norm for us. It has taken us a while but we no longer use any commercial cleaning products in our house. We are keeping the kitchen clean and sparking, without the use of any complex or harmful cleaning products. Here is how we do it: We […]
Continue ReadingHouse Cleaning the Safer Way: Doing the Laundry!
When I talk about house cleaning I mean every aspect of staying clean in a house i.e. I also mean doing the laundry. In our house that means making our own laundry powder, softener and stain remover. Why? Because we are working towards eliminating as many harmful chemicals from our house as possible. Washing the […]
Continue ReadingPersonal Health and Beauty the Safer Way: Care for that body!
Over the past few years I have been working towards clearing my house of harmful chemicals. But before I could do that I needed to make sure that I could make all of the products I needed for house cleaning and also for personal health and beauty. I have to say, I am not a […]
Continue ReadingHouse Cleaning the Safer Way
What do I mean by ‘House Cleaning the Safer Way’. For the past few years we have been working towards reducing unnecessary and/or harmful chemicals from our house. As we grow older we want to create a safe environment to live in and for our family when they visit. So we have investigated ways to […]
Continue Reading3 Tips on Maintaining A Healthy Balance in Life: Tip #1 Take time for family and yourself!
I talk about balance a lot in my posts and the importance of maintaining balance in everything we do. One of the most important tips I can give you on maintaining a healthy balance in life is to take time for family and yourself! It’s just something I have learned throughout my life – I’m […]
Continue Reading3 Tips on Maintaining A Healthy Balance in Life: Tip #3 Challenge yourself!
How often do you challenge yourself? Every year when you set New Year resolutions or every day as you get up in the morning? Or perhaps your life is just so out of balance that you just survive each day with no thoughts about new challenges? I have been there – back when I was […]
Continue Reading3 Tips on Maintaining A Healthy Balance in Life: Tip #2 Be Active
Why is being active so important for maintaining a healthy balance in life? It is simple – our bodies need to move to stay healthy. If we do not have our health everything gets out of balance. How much movement do we need to do? If we do nothing we rust out, but if we […]
Continue ReadingLessons from 2020 to Help Kick Start 2021: Lesson #3 Focus on your health
The year 2020 has certainly been a year that has focussed on health hasn’t it? Sadly, this focus has been for all the wrong reasons i.e. we have a pandemic that has caused death, havoc and sadness across the world. But we can focus on our health in a good way, and if we do, […]
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