Formulated with fragrant orange zest and moisturizing coconut oil, this DIY orange sugar scrub exfoliates gently and leaves your skin glowing and refreshed. The homemade body scrub is rich in antioxidants that can nourish and protect your skin while boosting radiance and smoothness! Sugar Scrub with Orange Essential Oil Who is ready for spring?! I know I am. With spring advancing, I’m all about getting my skin ready for warm…
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Lemon Poppy Seed Loaf Cake Recipe: Citrus Inspired Vegan Dessert
How to make a delicious moist poppy seed loaf cake recipe from scratch. This vegan recipe for lemon poppy seed loaf cake is one of the best citrus desserts for spring or summer. Serve it at brunch, as a spring dessert recipe or as a plant based snack. This easy recipe has lemon juice and lemon zest and poppy seeds for a delicious flavor. It’s dairy free and egg free,…
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Spring Essential Oil Blends for Essential Oil Diffusers and Natural Perfume
Discover 20 spring essential oil blends that you can blend for your essential diffuser or to use in your natural perfume recipes. Plus get tips on usage rates and gather additional information on formulating your own custom essential oil blends. Enjoy Spring with 20 Essential Oil Blends I recently shared a post with a collection of winter essential oil blends. As the new essential oil box from Simply Earth contained…
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Botanical Jewelry is An Easy Way to Update Your Existing Wardrobe
Disappointed you can’t shop for your new, warm weather wardrobe? You can easily update previous year’s fashions with new and inspiring botanical jewelry! Made with real flowers, the resin botanical jewelry from Ann + Joy is not only beautiful, it’s also affordable. So it’s the perfect way to make your old outfits feel like new again. Continue reading to learn more about Ann + Joy and learn how these two…
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Bumblebee Oreo Cookie Truffles with Cream Cheese for Spring Entertaining
These easy, no bake Oreo cookie truffles are perfect for spring entertaining. Shaped like cute little bumblebees, this cute variation on a traditional Oreo cookie truffles recipe is made with cream cheese, white chocolate chips, Oreos and fondant. This recipe for bumblebee Oreo cookie truffles makes a fun and tasty addition to any spring event or party. Ideas for Spring Entertaining: No Bake Dessert Recipe It’s not officially spring yet,…
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Dollar Tree Spring Decor: DIY Bird Craft Fragrance Warmer for Your Home Decor
Need inexpensive home decor ideas for spring? This easy Dollar Tree spring decor project for crafting a DIY bird craft fragrance warmer not only looks great, it’s also fun to make! Keep reading to learn how to craft this cute bird craft using materials almost exclusively from the Dollar Tree, for Dollar Tree spring decor that’s ready to decorate your home in just 20-minutes. Everyone I know has been sick…
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DIY Wax Melts: Easy Wax Melts Recipe with Beeswax
These easy DIY wax melts are a fun way to scent your home this spring! Inspired by DKNY’s Be Delicious Blossom® fragrance, these wax melts with beeswax are scented with a blend of ruby cassis, ripe pineapple, sweet rose blossoms and dewy fresh air. They’re then accented with cornflowers and colored with Granny Smith green mica powder. How to Make Affordable, Easy DIY Wax Melts for Home Fragrance Wax melts…
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Gardeners Soap Recipe with Exfoliating Botanicals
This homemade cold process gardeners soap recipe is made with exfoliating botanicals and three skin conditioning body butters. So it doesn’t just get you clean, it also helps to nourish skin! Life is messy. Sometimes it’s even dirty. So when it comes time to clean up the dirt left behind from your summer shenanigans, projects and gardening, you need a soap that’s created just for such situations. Formulating a Gardeners…
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Mineral Bronzing Body Butter Recipe for a Sun Kissed Summer Look
Learn how to make a body highlighting bronzer for your summer beauty regimen with this homemade mineral bronzing body butter recipe. With as few as 4-ingredients you can add a sun kissed look to your summer skin. Experiment with mica pigment powders, coffee oil and bacuri butter for a beautiful summer beauty product that’s easy to customize. (I swear, you are going to LOVE this beauty DIY!) Get A Sun…
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Boozy Popsicles with Edible Lilac Flowers
Learn how to make “I’m all grown up” boozy popsicles with edible lilac flowers with a simple gin and tonic popsicle recipe. It’s perfect for spring brunch with your lady friends and a fun way to enjoy a summer treat a season early! A Traditional Summer Treat I still have fond memories of my parents giving me change to buy ice cream throughout summers as a child. Every year the…
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Spring Cleaning Tips for Your Eco-Friendly Lifestyle
This collection of eco-friendly spring cleaning tips will not only help you save time, but also save money! Discover the best spring cleaning tips for a non-toxic home. It’s that time of year again! Time to give your home an overhaul and clean everything and every room for the new spring season. Sounds daunting, right? You bet it is! Rather than try to tackle the task all in one go,…
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Creative Self Care Ideas To Kickstart Your Spring
Spring is a season of renewal. A fresh start. What better way to usher in spring than with self care? This collection of creative self care ideas are the perfect way to get your mindset where it needs to be. (And to finally tackle those New Years goals you may have fallen behind on!) By now you’re probably familiar with the term, self care. And maybe, like many of us…
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Natural Gardeners Soap Recipe That’s Not Just for Gardeners
It doesn’t have to be gardening season for you to enjoy this natural gardeners soap recipe. In fact, you don’t need to be a gardener at all! Formulated to quickly and easily wash away tough dirt and grime, you’ll find that this natural gardeners soap is also a great option for mechanics, artists and kindergarten teachers. So if you know how to get good and dirty, then this soap is…
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Spring Entertaining: How to Prep Your Kitchen for Guests
Learn how to transform your kitchen for spring entertaining with this collection of eight easy life hacks and cleaning tips to get you started! You’re going to love these spring cleaning tips & tricks! Plus discover the perfect eco-friendly cleaning products to help with the task. Transform Your Kitchen for Spring Entertaining Lately, I’ve been drooling over all the bright, clean kitchens on Instagram. Even though a full kitchen makeover…
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DIY Succulent Container Garden
Learn how to make your own DIY succulent container garden. Not only do these succulent container gardens make a beautiful home accent, but they are also extremely low maintenance! In fact, my succulents tend to fare best when I forget to water them. (Go figure.) So whether you have a green thumb – or a not so green thumb – you’ll love the natural beauty a succulent container garden offers!…
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DIY After Sun Moisturizers to Soothe Sunburned Skin
Soothe and help repair sunburned skin with this collection of DIY after sun moisturizers! Well, spring is here and it’s in full force. I got sunburned on my neck and collarbone yesterday simply driving the car with the windows down! Luckily I had sunscreen on my face but it was an important reminder that we should be applying sunscreen to our décolletage as well. Of course, there are times we…
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Strawberry Smoothie Whipped Salt Scrub Recipe for Glowing Skin
Are you looking for a foaming whipped body scrub for you summer skin care routine? Dish up some fun in the kitchen with this fun, strawberry smoothie whipped salt scrub recipe! This homemade body scrub has amazing exfoliating and toning skin care properties to keep your skin ready to show off all season long! Keep reading to learn how to make this easy DIY whipped scrub for glowing skin. DIY…
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Whipped Body Butter Soufflé and Whipped Sugar Scrub Recipes
Discover how to make two natural skin care recipes for your DIY beauty regimen. Included in this post are two luxe recipes for a DIY whipped body butter soufflé and whipped sugar scrub for your skin care routine. In addition to these exfoliating skin care recipes, I also share custom packaging ideas from StickerYou. You’re going to love the difference these whipped skin care recipes make to your skin care…
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Natural Foot Care Recipes to Get Your Feet In Shape for Your New Spring Sandals
Ready to Show Off Your Spring Sandals? Hooray! It’s finally sandal season which means we can finally indulge in a little bit of shoe shopping for fresh new spring sandals, wedges and heels! I’ve been waiting for sandal season since February when I got a little shoe crazy. So I’m sure psyched that I’ll be able to share my new spring sandals off soon! In order to wear those cute new…
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Sal Butter Sugar Scrub Recipe
Learn how to make a natural sugar scrub recipe with moisturizing sal butter to exfoliate and hydrate skin. It’s the perfect DIY beauty recipe for healthy looking, soft, glowing skin. This natural sal butter sugar scrub recipe creates a natural, nourishing scrub suited for those sensitive to or allergic to shea butter. It also contains healing neem oil and coconut oil and is naturally colored and scented. I scented my sal butter…
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Lemon & Poppyseed Nut Free Soap Recipe
This simple homemade nut free soap recipe contains zero nut oils so even those with nut allergies can enjoy this classically scented lemon poppyseed soap. While coconut oil traditionally boosts lather in homemade cold process soap recipes, this nut free soap recipe instead uses palm kernel flakes which has similar lather boosting properties. In addition it also incorporates less costly ingredients for those who are soaping on a budget. Lemon…
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Traditional Castile Soap Recipe
Learn how to make a simple 100% olive oil, traditional Castile soap recipe that’s scented with natural essential oils. This traditional Castile soap recipe is scented for spring with natural basil, lemongrass and rosemary essential oils. Unlike my Castile soap recipe with bee pollen powder I shared recently, this traditional Castile soap recipe is made using 100% olive oil. However, as 100% olive oil soaps tend to be a softer soap that takes…
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DIY Homemade Pink Grapefruit & Poppyseed Sugar Scrub Recipe
It’s spring so naturally that means you’ll be baring a little more skin. And what better way to keep your skin looking fabulous than with a freshly scented sugar scrub inspired by the season? This homemade sugar scrub recipe is less greasy feeling than most other scrubs that are made from olive oil and it’s thick texture makes it easier to apply. It contains skin nourishing coconut oil, grapeseed oil…
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Lemon Poppy Seed Sugar Scrub Recipe: A Luxe Creamy Body Scrub DIY for Soft Beautiful Skin
One of my favorite bath time products that I like to treat myself with whenever possible is a luxurious sugar scrub! This all natural, lemon poppy seed sugar scrub recipe is a luxe, super creamy body scrub that’s perfect for any natural skin care routine. Naturally scented with essential oils, this lemon poppy seed sugar scrub recipe has a fresh and invigorating lemon mint fragrance for the perfect morning pick…
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Exfoliating Spring Gardeners Cold Process Soap Recipe
With spring right around the corner now is the perfect time to start making this exfoliating gardeners cold process soap recipe. Make it now and it will be cured and ready right about time to put your first seedlings in the ground. I made this homemade pink and green exfoliating soap using two different batches of cold process soap and three fragrances – Farmer’s Market Baby Bibb fragrance oil, lemongrass…
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Easy DIY Washi Tape Gift Tin for Homemade Roll On Perfumes, Lip Balms or Guest Soaps
Looking for a handmade gift idea for a spring birthday or Easter basket? This easy DIY washi tape decorated gift tin is simple to make and is perfect for holding two homemade roll on perfumes, lip balms or guest soaps! All you need is an empty empty altoid tin and two complimentary spring themed rolls of washi tape. Run strips of one washi tape design along the top and the…
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DIY Lemongrass & Sage Bath Bomb Recipe
With this year’s polar vortex dipping South I’m pretty much over winter at this point. So I thought that instead of sharing another winter DIY, I’d instead share a spring inspired DIY bath project to remind us of what’s ahead. And hopefully it won’t take too terribly long because these 1°F temps are definitely not something we are used to here in Southwestern Virginia! While it’s finally warming up a…
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DIY Container Succulent Garden – Last Minute Homemade Mother’s Day Gift Idea
Need a last minute homemade Mother’s Day gift idea for mom? Skip the bouquet of flowers and instead gift her with a gorgeous DIY Succulent Container Garden Arrangement! Not only is it inexpensive to make – definitely less than a florist’s flower bouquet – but it will last and last even if Mom doesn’t have a green thumb! To get started you’ll need to purchase an assortment of your favorite…
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Homemade Hidden Flower Soap & Salt Scrub DIY
Looking for a fun craft project you can make and gift for Mother’s Day? My DIY homemade hidden flower soaps are sure to be a hit with mom! This lovely layered soap reveals a pretty flower as it’s used while the bottom of the soap is an exfoliating salt scrub that’s perfect for all of those rough skin areas! DIY Hidden Flower Soap & Salt Scrub Recipe © Rebecca’s Soap…
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DIY Herb Garden Markers – Homemade Mother’s Day Gift Idea
With spring in full force and planting underway, now is the perfect time to whip up some garden markers for your new plants! This herb garden marker is so easy to make with materials you probably already have on hand. Plus, they’re simple enough the kids can craft some for all of mom’s favorite plants as a homemade Mother’s Day gift! Herb Garden Marker Craft Project What you need: popsicle…
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DIY Edible Birdhouse Winter Craft Project and Gift Idea for Bird Lovers
Learn how to make a DIY edible birdhouse to feed the birds in your yard throughout the cold, winter season. This easy to make DIY edible birdhouse makes a great DIY winter craft project for bird lovers as well as unique homemade gift idea for nature lovers! It’s filled with edible dried fruits, nuts and seeds that birds love. My friend, Brian, who sells his pottery and photos down on…
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DIY Spring Gardening Projects, Tips & Tricks
Get started on your spring garden now with this wonderful collection of DIY spring gardening projects, tips and tricks! It’s almost time to start planting here in Southwestern Virginia! Our last danger of frost usually passes towards the end of April, though with the warm weather we’ve had recently it’s hard to believe we could still end up with a snow storm. (And we have before. I remember back in…
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Printable Garden Seed Packets for Saving, Gifting, or Favors
With spring right around the corner you may be thinking about your upcoming gardening project or even easy party or wedding favor ideas for a spring wedding. So I’ve created some fun printable seed packets with matching labels and even red pepper gift wrap to make saving your seeds for the following year, creating seed packets as favors or including seed packets in spring gifts that much easier! Just download…
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Free Printable Owl Notecards
Many years ago I sold handmade notecards I created from my own original, paper art collages. Many of these stationery sets featured little birds or owls at play. My first set of notecards was my Seasonal or Everyday Birds Notecard Set. Now that I am no longer selling these cards, I wanted to share them with my readers to print and share with family and friends for their own personal…
