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Making your own beauty products can be healthier, less expensive and often, satisfying to make. Toner's and masks are a simple way to change over to DIY and more natural products. I started making my own lotions, moisturizers, toners and masks quite some time ago. Believe me, there were some failed attempts before I had the techniques and recipes right. This toner is great for all skin types, inexpensive and easy to make and can have a few variations to suit your skin's needs. Clicking on the highlights will open a new window with more information or where to buy. Basic Witch Hazel Toner 1/3 cup Witch Hazel (find in most drug/grocery stores. Check in first aid section) 1/2 cup water 2 Tbs lemon juice  Options to customize the basic Toner: Oily or Acne Prone skin: 2 Tbs Rubbing Alcohol  5-10 drops Tea Tree Oil The rubbing alcohol will have a drying effect on the skin and can be omitted or reduced if  it is leaving your skin too dry. Tea Tree oil is a w

Starting house plants from cuttings is much easier than you may think. Many plants will take up root anywhere they can. Members of the Pothos family ( Wikki Info ) are easy to start, very tolerant of poor care and live well in limited light. I have one that was given to me as part of a gift from my office when my son was born 18 years ago, I have drug it back and forth across the county a few times, forgotten to water for  long periods, it's been mangled by cats, dogs and kids and yet it is still around. Over the years I have rooted many cuttings for myself and for friends. We have three pots in our house that are all from the same plant. I've started a few cuttings for a friend recently with only a few simple steps. Find the nodes on the vine. They are small, dark raised bumps, usually just below a leaf. You can cut off as long of a piece as you'd like, but three or four leaves from the end of the vine works well. Snip the vine above the leave that is after the no

I'm assuming you've heard Chia seeds, it's nearly impossible not to. My first experience with Chia was as a pet. As long as I can remember as soon as the holidays roll around the commercials start (Ch, Ch, Ch, Chia is echoing in my head right now). The drug stores and mega marts stock their shelves with the latest offering of magically growing friends. I can't help but to think of the awkward looking sheep like Chia Pet I got one year. Smearing the tiny slimy seeds then waiting for it to sprout and grow and turn into a bright green coat for that little naked sheep. Now we eat them? Who knew all those years we should have been eating instead of sculpting them in to pop culture topiary! High in Omega-3, flavorless and high on the food trend radar, these little buggers are everywhere. I've taken to sprinkling them in my morning oatmeal. The flavor is largely unchanged, the little slimy balls are nearly unnoticeable and an easy addition to my routine; however I ofte

Clean or Toxic? Clean is Clean right? Not necessarily. We spend more time at home than anywhere else. Home is where we expect our families to be the safest, but what your cleaning with and using everyday maybe extremely toxic. Small changes can make a big difference! I found this article on  Everydayhealth.com  that make great suggestions on where to start the detox of our favorite place: Home. Swapping out a few basics, reading labels and learning which brands carry safer less toxic products can make a big difference. Online stores like  Vitacost.com offer free shipping on orders $49 or more  and often save 50% or more on great brands like  Seventh Generation  and a personal favorite  Mrs. Meyers Clean Day

Picture is property of  seedsnow.com   For a limited time get a free lettuce seed starter kit with purchase from seedsnow.com!    Click on the banner on the top of Seeds Now's home page. Kit includes Tom Thumb lettuce, directions and a seed starting disc. Organic, Non-GMO seeds staring as low as $.99 a pack. Shipping starts at $1.99.  SeedsNow.com is a great source for Non-GMO and Organic seeds. They also carry a great line of growing gifts and seed starting supplies. Plant the lettuce in a sunny window and plant some Kale outside and enjoy fresh salads every day!  Happy Growing

Usually I toss the scraps from my veggies into the compost bin. What about using them to grow new veggies to eat from the roots, cuttings and seeds? I was looking for something else and came across a very good article  on exactly how to and what yummy things can become new plants. We have tried many of these with some mixed success. Our most recent; the avocado pit. We got farther than we ever did before. I had a tiny tree, 6 to 8 leaves and about a foot tall. I moved it from my air conditioned kitchen to my very hot, but shaded back porch. By the time I did a walk through the garden pulling some weeds, it looked very sad and wilted. Twenty minutes was all it took to make all of the leaves fall off. I snipped the top off and waiting to see what happens. Staring a new one on the sill today. Check out this article 7 Fresh Veggies You Can Grow From Kitchen Scraps   for more ideas on what to try!

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Kale is the hot new super food. Not only is it super easy to grow, but it's very versatile too. Recipes are all over the web for green smoothies, salads, sautes and soups. In our house the favorite way to add some extra vitamin punch from Kale is in salads. Our favorite Kale salad has most of the ingredients growing in our back yard; kale, romaine, carrot, tomato and cabbage. A few posts back,  I talked about growing kale as an easy winter crop . Living in the desert we can grow a few things year round that others can't. By staggering plantings I can keep a fresh supply of salad greens all year. By changing up the ingredients to match what's on hand or to suit your taste, will keep the super food on your plate! Mixed Green, Blue Cheese and Bacon Chop Salad Use any combination: Kale ( find organic and Non-GMO seeds ) Romaine Nappa Cabbage Green cabbage Radicchio Red Cabbage Spinach Shredded Carrot Blue Cheese Dressing Blue Cheese crumbles Bacon, cooked a

Space is a premium in space gardens. If it's pots on the patio or in a suburban backyard, there's never enough room. Going up is a great way to grow! I have a several small backyard raised and border beds in my back yard. I love using inexpensive tomato cages to multiply my space. These cucumbers two cucumber plants are thriving. Without the tomato cage moving them up instead of out, they would easily take up a quarter of the raised bed they are in. Cucumbers are natural climbers. They don't have the grip to go up walls and must be well supported. When I planted the seeds, I simply pushed the tomato cage in the soft dirt, centered over the small mound. As the plants grow you can gently move them up through the middle and over the top.  Not only is this a space saver, but it stops the common problem of "blossom end rot". It's devastating to go check on the tiny veggies and find them turning yellow and dying where the blossom is still attached. Blossom rot

Photo from seedsnow.com Now is the time to start planing and planting a winter garden. Kale has become one of the super foods that everyone is interested in at the moment. Kale is a great container crop. Kale is full of antioxidants, beta carotene, vitamin K, vitamin C, lutein and  rich in calcium. SeedsNow.com  has sample packs of Blue Curled Scotch and three other varieties for only $.99 for approximately 50 seeds, larger packs for $4.99. The small packs are great for a patio garden, or a backyard garden like mine. Plant Kale in pots or in flower beds of summer's fading flowers now. Refresh beds with some fresh compost or manure, greens like this love high nitrogen! Kale is frost tolerant and most people think the frost or a snow fall improves the taste, making it sweeter. In warmer climates like mine in Arizona, plant Kale in a partly shady spot that wont get the hot afternoon sun. Shop the  entire selection of Non-GMO seeds at SeedsNow.com

Wikipedia's  definition of  Genetically Modified Organism:  "Genetically modified foods (or GM foods) are foods produced from organisms that have had specific changes introduced into their DNA using the methods of genetic engineering. These techniques have allowed for the introduction of new traits as well as a far greater control over a food's genetic structure than previously afforded by methods such as selective breeding and mutation breeding." Corn is one of top GMO foods consumed daily in the US. In simpler terms: a GMO is produce, grains, fruits and livestock that has been changed in a lab to be bigger, more productive, more resistant to pests and diseases to increase production and profit. This has been done for years with cross pollination in plants and breeding animals with more desirable traits. That process was slow and took several generations of plants and animals to get closer to the end outcome. Altering the DNA in a lab is quick, often the outc