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Boxed-to-Basics: Homemade Foaming Hand Soap

by Melanie Clayton | Jan 4, 2020 | apothecary & health, Baby Steps, Blog, Boxed=to-Basics, Essential Oils, Natural Living, Recipes

Dirt … Mud … Dead Bugs … Toilet seats … Oh, I can’t take it anymore, yuck! Double yuck! I can remember before my kids, walking into some well known ‘bath stores’ to buy those bottles of hand soap that were brilliantly designed and smelled amazing! They always seemed to color coordinate with the season or holiday. Do you suppose that is WHY I had half used containers under my counter a year later?! I know for the most part, I paid over $5 a bottle but probably more like $8-ish for one hand soap container … I think...

Boxed-to-Basics: our Homemade Laundry Detergent journey …

by Melanie Clayton | Oct 1, 2019 | apothecary & health, Baby Steps, Blog, Essential Oils, Natural Living, Recipes

Dust Bunnies and Laundry are two things that continue to GROW at our house … regardless of whether it’s a good week, bad week, we feel great or we feel yuck! The dust bunnies are allowed to ‘sometimes’ get bigger for a week (or two!) but the laundry … well, it kind of can’t be put off! If you have kids, one of them will ALWAYS ask, “where are my favorite (insert piece of clothing name here)”. So … How do we keep up with the laundry, I mean what is our laundry rhythm? I grew up as a...