I recently made a gingerbread sugar scrub and body butter that smelled so amazing, I knew I needed a homemade gingerbread ...

Half cup rice (any variety), two cups water, half cup liquid castile soap, one tablespoon of coconut or almond oil, and a few drops of essential oil (optional).

Treat your skin to an easy sugar scrub recipe you can make at home. Find step-by-step scrubs—orange, peppermint, coffee, and ...

In The Best Natural Homemade Soaps(Robert Rose, 2014), Mar Gómez offers 40 recipes for simple, luxurious soaps based on three essential ingredients: water, olive oil and caustic soda. Gómez adds a ...

Many people thinking of spinning, weaving, knitting, soap-making and other home-based crafts as fancy hobbies rather than attributes of simple, self-reliant living, but it all depends on the context.