DIY Natural Blog

Freshen Your Air With Homemade Smudge Sticks

Learn how to make a smudge stick and consider doing what I do, freshen the air in your home using the entire plant, not just one concentrated form of the plant, like essential oils.

Coloring Your Soap with Pigments, Oxides, and Micas

Pigments, oxides, and micas are soap colorants that will help you achieve gorgeous color in your homemade soaps. Let’s learn how to use them to get the color we’re after.

Purify your Indoor Air with A DIY Succulent Garden

Having an indoor succulent garden is all the rage, and for good reason. These little buggers purify your air, are beautiful, and simple to grow. Learn how to plant and grow your own!

Medicinal Uses of Black Walnut Leaves and Husks

Black walnut leaves and husks have some pretty cool medicinal uses. While the nuts are delicious and nutritious (if you can get to them) don’t ignore the leaves and husks!

Homemade Drawing Salve With Plantain & Charcoal

This homemade drawing salve, made with plantain and activated charcoal, delivers a salve that helps draw splinters and bee stings to the surface of the skin!

Homemade Hamburger Helper Skillet Dinner Recipe

This homemade hamburger helper™ recipe is a healthier version of the boxed supermarket superhero! Making your own means healthier ingredients, and flavors tweaked to YOUR tastebuds. What’s not to love?

Facts & Myths of Selling Homemade Natural Products

So you want to start selling homemade products? Be sure to familiarize yourself with these common facts and myths before you begin selling your homemade natural products.

What Is Masterbatching And Why You Should Do It

Masterbatch is an easy way to speed up your soap making, or just about any other craft project process. Learn how to masterbatch the soap making process.

DIY Deodorizing Tablets For Trash Cans And More!

These homemade deodorizer tablets are great for trash cans and many other household uses. Also great for litter boxes, sink drains, RV’s, stinky shoes, and more!

Night Blooming Flowers to Grow in Your Moon Garden

This list of night-blooming flowers will help you create a beautiful and fragrant moon garden! Some of the most exotic scented flowers are night bloomers!

DIY Essential Oil Diffuser for Use as Jewelry & More

Make a DIY diffuser necklace out of natural terra cotta clay! The clay is affordable, easy to shape, and it retains grooves that trap essential oils.

Learn About Health Benefits of Evening Primrose Oil

You’ll find evening primrose oil can benefit us in variety of ways. It has been known to help with menopausal hot flashes, high cholesterol, diabetes, chronic fatigue, and MS.

Learn How to Make Salt Soap and Salt Brine Soap

Today we will teach you the difference between salt soap and brine soap. We also include a DIY salt soap recipe along with a DIY brine soap recipe. Enjoy!

How to Make A Garden-Fresh DIY Potpourri Blend

This DIY potpourri recipe is a great example of what can be made fresh from your own garden. In this recipe I use what I am growing, so take my idea, taylor it to what you’re growing, and make up your own blends!

Pain Relieving Massage Oil for Menstrual Cramps

With no success using OTC medications, I made a pain-relieving massage oil based on positive studies of essential oils for menstrual cramps.

How to Start a Recycling Program For a DIY Business

Learning how to start a recycling program is easy. Let your customers know, give them an incentive, keep track of who recycles, and reward them for their efforts! Read more about how I did it…

Herbal and Fruit Liqueur Recipes to Make at Home

I recently wrote about homemade herbal and fruit liqueurs. Many of you requested specific liqueur recipes, so here are a few of the liqueurs I’m making with this year’s harvest.

Luffa Soap: Learn Several Ways To Make Your Own

I’ve always loved luffa soap, it cleans without being too abrasive. I’ve found many types so let’s take a look and see how to make our own!