Sore throats can be very painful and uncomfortable. The inflammation and swelling of the membranes in the throat make it hurt, especially when you swallow. Normally, a sore throat occurs in response to a viral or on the odd occasion, a bacterial infection. The good news is that there are several natural remedies that may help provide relief for you.Sore throats are commonly caused by the common cold, which means that most likely a runny ...
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Keeping Your Homeschool Organised with a Bullet Journal
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Finding a planner that suited the way we homeschool was hard, so I decided to try and organise all our homeschooling ideas, activities and learning with a bullet journal and have had great success with it. It is a great record of all we have achieved over the course of the year and comes in very handy when it is time for me to write up my yearly homeschool report.What is a Bullet Journal?Maybe you have heard of a bullet journal before ...
10 Amazing Essential Oil Gifts
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We love using essential oils! They also make fabulous gifts for friends, family, teachers, co-workers and kids. With essential oils, you can create a variety of different products to suit the person you are giving the gift to and present these gifts in so many gorgeous ways. Here are 10 amazing essential oil gifts (plus a bonus at the end) that even kids can join in and help make. This year, create some amazingly cute holiday gifts ...
Calming Lavender Bath Bombs
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Nothing is better than a nice, warm bath after a long days work and these DIY Calming Lavender Bath Bombs are sure to help you relax. Bathing helps soothe the skin, ease achy muscles and calm you down. These Lavender Bath Bombs are great for calming and relaxing with the therapeutic properties of essential oils.DIY Calming Lavender Bath BombsIngredients:1 cup baking soda (bicarb soda in Australia) ½ cup cornstarch (cornflour ...
DIY Magnesium Body Lotion
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Magnesium is a crucial mineral for our bodies as it is used in many different body functions including digestion and promoting a healthy heart, but due to many people's diet, many of us have a magnesium deficiency. To increase your intake of magnesium, your could try eating more foods that contain this mineral, take a magnesium bath or use this calming magnesium body lotion.So, how do you know you are suffering from a deficiency of ...
DIY Smelly Shoe Spray
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With growing kids, eventually you will come across some funky odors, whether in sports shoes, gym bags, sports gear or yoga mats, that will need to be eliminated. This DIY Smelly Shoe Spray is a powerful deodoriser, has antibacterial and anti fungal properties as well as a great disinfectant which makes even the smelliest of shoes smelling clean and fresh again. You will need:witch hazel ~ has antimicrobial and ...
All-Purpose Cleaner for your Home
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Keeping your home clean is something that we all do. But did you know that when you are using commercial cleaners, you are cleaning your home with many harmful agents and chemicals? There is an app called Think Dirty with which you can use to scan all of your personal case / cleaning products and learn about the ingredients in them. This shows how many toxic chemicals are found in the products you are using. If you are looking for a more ...
Toilet Bowl Cleaning Powder
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Cleaning the toilet is one of the jobs that I would prefer not to do. I have been researching more natural (and easier) ways to clean the toilet. I make and use the toilet cleaning bombs which I find are great to pop in once a week to help with keeping the bowl cleaning. To do a more deeper clean, I have been using this toilet bowl cleaning powder. While the commercial products work very well, they do contain bleach and/or ...
Printable Mother’s Day Coupons
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These gorgeous Mother's Day Coupons are a great gift idea for that special person in your life. With Mother's Day so close, these coupons can be printed on white cardboard and children can give them as a special gift to their mother, or other significant person in their life. Materials Needed white paper printer laminator colouring pencils scissors lead pencils eraser binder ...
DIY Glass and Mirror Cleaner
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In part of our effort to move to a more natural, chemical free home, we are changing over our cleaning products as we use them up. The first product I finished was the windex glass cleaner. This great non-toxic DIY Glass and Mirror Cleaner is quick and easy to make and is now one of my cleaning staples.This glass and mirror cleaner works well when cleaning with newspaper, though I have used it with a quality glass microfibre cloth with ...