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Green Cleaning Alternatives for All Around the House

Every homeowner strives to have a clean, germ free home. However, what many don’t realise is that even the cleaning products we use around o

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Natural Room Spray Recipe

Skip the store bought chemical air fresheners and make your own natural room spray with essential oils to freshen up your home. It's eco

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Grapefruit, Lemon, Lime Foaming Hand Soap

Make your own zero waste foaming hand soap with this simple 2 minute DIY recipe and stop buying liquid soap in disposable single-use packagi

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Aloe Vera, Lavender and Manuka Spot Gel

This DIY, Natural Spot Gel Recipe contains Aloe Vera Gel, blended with Lavender and Manuka Essential Oils for a gentle and effective solutio

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Make Your Own Natural Reed Diffuser

Make your own reed diffusers to avoid chemical and synthetic fragrances. Choose natural wood and bamboo based materials for diffusers and bl

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Make Your Own Naturally Scented Botanical Drawer Sachets

This is a quick and easy DIY tutorial for making your own naturally scented botanical drawer sachets that smell amazing and repel bugs. Usi

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DIY Natural Moth Balls with Essential Oils

Non toxic, natural moth balls and moth repellents are easy to make yourself using cedar wood and essential oils. This mini tutorial will sho

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Homemade Minty Lemon Toothpaste Recipe

This is a natural, simple to make, lemon and mint toothpaste recipe with an organic coconut oil and bicarb soda base, and NO artificial swee

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How to Green Clean Carpets and Rugs

Want to know how to make a natural homemade solution for steam cleaning carpets and rugs and avoid chemical cleaners in your home? Here are

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DIY Unicorn Bath Salts

Making your own bath salts is a lot of fun and incredibly easy to do. Kids will love this DIY and experimenting with different colours to ma

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Toilet Bomb Cheat

Who's got time to make toilet bombs? This toilet bomb cheat recipe will save you a lot of time and effort. No mucking around with ice cu

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How To Make Lavender Bath Salts

Make your own Lavender Bath Salts in just a few minutes with natural ingredients. This quick DIY makes a beautiful zero waste gift or just

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Simple Home Made Deodorant Recipe

This simple, natural based, zero waste and plastic free home made deodorant is a great first step in reducing bathroom products and waste. You will be able to avoid packaging, allumium and other ingredients and know exactly what is going onto your skin. When you embark on the natural deodorant journey, you may have to try a few before you find what works for YOU personally. A recipe or product that works fabulous for me may not provide the same results for others and I have s

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Green Cleaning Wood Floors

Green Cleaning wood floors with this natural DIY recipe will keep them looking beautiful and free from streaks without chemicals. Wood Floo

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Shoe Deodoriser: Bi-Carb Soda and Old Rice

This simple DIY shoe deodoriser is really effective, reusable, and doesn't require chemicals to freshen up smelly shoes. All you need is

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How to Make Carpet Deodorising Powder

This DIY Carpet Deodorizer is a great example of simple non-toxic solution using Bicarb Soda and Essential Oils. Kid safe, pet safe and ecof

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Revamp Wooden Chopping Boards with Home Made Wood Butter

Creating your own homemade wood butter (or board butter) is a cinch and wooden chopping boards only need a little care to bring them back to life. This DIY recipe oils and protects the wood, keeping your bread boards and implements in great condition. We have a collection of chopping boards and I've neglected them dreadfully. The surfaces have become dry and damaged over time and they have lost their lovely colour too. The one pictured below, I made in high school (I'm not ev

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Make Your Own Natural Lipbalm

Want to know how to make your own natural lip balm at home? Using a coconut oil, Shea butter and beeswax base, these step by step instructio

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DIY Fizzy Bath Bomb Recipe

This Fizzy Bath Bomb Recipe works every time, taking only 4 hours to set before use. No special moulds needed. Enjoy in a relaxing bath, soo

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How to Remove Labels and Glue From Glass Jars

This is the easiest, quickest way to remove labels from glass jars along, with that stubborn sticky glue residue. For anyone aiming to repu

The Good Life

with Amy French