Do you have sensitive skin? Have you tried salt scrubs but they burn or hurt? You might need to go just a little gentler with a sugar scrub. Actually, that’s why some spas adapted the practice of using sugar instead of salt. Sugar is easier on your skin. A scrub […]
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This week we’re talking about inexpensive gourmet handmade gifts. On last week’s show, I focused on how you could make handmade gifts fast, in less than 10 minutes. So today I want to focus on inexpensive gifts, and to drive home the point I actually priced the two gifts we’re
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Do you like fragrance? Seems like an odd question, right? The thing is, I heard someone the other day say “I don’t like fragrance”. Not liking fragrance goes against our instincts and biology; we are attracted to some smells and repelled by others. I think she meant artificial fragrance, but
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Do you have some vanilla beans? Do you have a little sugar? Then you have the power to make a wonderful gourmet condiment called vanilla infused sugar. It makes the perfect gift because you can put it on everything and anything you’d add sugar to, like coffee, tea, or plain
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Handmade gifts are so special and unique. Sometimes they can take a while to make, especially if it’s a huge project like a quilt or piece of handcrafted furniture. While those things are fabulous, and I encourage everyone to make one at some time in their life, they are not
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If you traveled through even fairly large cities around the year 1900, you would often come across something now illegal in most urban areas: milk cows. Dairy animals were not uncommon in cities, and it was often the task of young children to lead the animals to whatever grassy areas
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Today there might be time to roll out a batch of cinnamon rolls. There may not be time next week. However, you can enjoy them “hot out of the oven” anytime next week, or even next month, with this make-ahead freezer dough for cinnamon rolls! Overview After you follow the
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Candida is a part of everyone’s normal gut microbiota. It’s a fungus (a form of yeast) that typically lives on the moist, warm areas of our skin and on mucosal membranes like our digestive tract, mouth, urinary tract, gastrointestinal tract, etc. [1] If candida is kept in balance with the
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This week (at the time of this writing) we are facing natural disasters on both sides of the country: hurricanes in the east and wildfires in the west. It seems the US has had her fair share of natural disasters this year with tornadoes and flooding happening in between. It
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