I love wooden cutting boards! They are definitely my go-to choice when preparing food because of their non-toxic quality, benefit to knives, natural antibacterial properties and beauty. I use a separate board for veggies/fruits, one for cheeses and one for meats/fish. On my meat and fish boards, I add another step, disinfecting with hydrogen peroxide
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Over 50 Recipes and Tutorials for Easy DIY Natural Beauty & Non-Toxic Makeup
Personal care products are absolutely loaded with toxins, and that’s definitely not good for your health. Thankfully, it’s easy and inexpensive to make your own at home! Check out these easy recipes and tutorials on how to make your own natural beauty products, non-toxic makeup and much more! Skincare Homemade Skin Cream from Gourmande in the
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Treating Fevers Naturally- An Interview with A Naturally Minded RN Mom
Our readers know that our main goal here at Real Food Whole Health is to empower parents to take charge of their family’s health and feel confident about how to address health concerns naturally. Learning to eat healthy and take care of ourselves when we are primarily free of sickness is a lot easier than
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Learning to Use Essential Oils for Natural Health at Home
Essential oils are extremely beneficial allies in our natural health journey. They can be used to stop the itch or sting of bug bites, to ease headaches, to affect our mood and stress level, help us sleep, soothe a cranky baby and help us fight a cold. But where to start if you are new
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Easy DIY Bath Salts
Who doesn’t love a nice, hot, relaxing bath? It’s one of my favorite things! And nothing makes a bath better than some delicious smelling and skin softening bath salts, especially when they are made with the health nourishing & magnesium rich Epsom salt. Commercial bath salts are often full of toxic ingredients and short on
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Natural Hangover Cures That Really Work- Home Remedies for Hangovers
Good morning, sunshine! Oh, what? You’re not your usual cheery, rosy self this morning? Overindulge a bit last night, did we? I’ll take that feeble little head nod as a sign that you could use some help today to get back to feeling your best. I’ll even spare you the rhetoric on why overindulging is
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An Easy, Fast and Non-Toxic Way to Clean Stainless Steel
Over the years as we’ve moved forward on our health journey and eliminated toxins from our lives, the conventional cleaners full of chemicals have moved out of our cupboard. For the most part, we’d figured out how to clean our home with natural items like baking soda, vinegar, hydrogen peroxide and essential oils. Easy breezy,
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What’s in Your Treat Basket? Tips for a Healthier Halloween!
Ghosts and goblins, ballerinas and fairy princesses- Halloween is a day of fun for kids and adults alike. While the goal for many kids on Halloween is to see how much candy they can collect, what they bring home may be more trick than treat. After all, most candy is processed, fake food containing a
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Safe, Traditional Skin Care- Vintage Tradition Tallow Balm
I have to share my latest find with you- Vintage Tradition Tallow Balm. These amazing balms are completely natural (to the point of being edible) and do wonders for your skin. When we had our sustainable farmstead, my hands were really chapped. We also had a lot of dry skin in the New England winter