This DIY healing boo-boo balm is simple and easy to make. On a tight budget? There's a frugal recipe option so you can still enjoy a homemade non-toxic balm.

DIY Healing Boo-Boo Balm with Frugal Recipe Option

While many people see the new year as a fresh start, until this year it was always the end of summer for me. A new year, heading back to school, meant that I could cast aside the bad habits of summer and get back to basics and new habits. Over two years ago, these new habits included significantly reducing my …

Tools & Ingredients To DIY Your Own Scratch Mommy Skincare Goodies!

Hello, friend! Ready to DIY your own Pronounce skincare…? Today we bring you the DIY skincare post that trumps all other DIY skincare posts. Whaaaaa!?? Yup, this post includes the absolute essentials to create pretty much any simple lotion, salve, butter, and more…right in your own home. From the (often overlooked!) excellent spatula to carrier oils to a required Pyrex …

This Easy DIY Blender Face Mask leaves you with radiant moisturized skin. Contains Avocado, avocado seed, honey, oatmeal, banana and lavender.

DIY Blender Face Mask for Radiant Moisturized Skin

This is me with my daughter Bella. She is creative, kind hearted, caring, sensitive, stubborn, empathetic, smart, and loves animals almost more than anything else in the whole wide world (except for Mommy, Daddy and her brother, Adam). She is beautiful inside and out and she has taught me what it is to be a woman and to love from the …

Scratch Mommy brings you another all natural beauty product to make at home. This DIY Pumpkin Honey Gelatin Hair Mask Treatment is great for dry hair.

DIY Pumpkin Honey Gelatin Hair Mask Treatment

Looking for a natural cure for dry hair? This DIY Pumpkin Honey Gelatin Hair Mask Treatment is good for any hair type, especially for those with dry hair. Great Lakes is the brand of gelatin that I use, as it is made from grass-fed cows hides, contains no added sugars or preservatives of any kind, and in keeping with the “Life …

Raw cocoa butter...why and how to use it. Learn more in this post!

Why Should You Use Cocoa Butter? It’s UhMaaaZing!

Hello friend! Today is day three of my weeklong series in healthy skincare. Thanks for following along! 🙂 In post #1 we brushed up on the basics of our skin and in post #2 we learned about things we should always (without a doubt) avoid in our skincare products. Today, let’s think positively and begin our discovery of what makes …

This DIY sunburn salve is really easy to make and only contains a few ingredients that you most likely already have.

DIY Sunburn Salve

While much of summer has already passed, the hot and sticky days of August still lay ahead as do the dog days of early fall with their hot days and cool nights. There are still many opportunities for afternoons and weekends at the pool before Labor Day arrives, chances for cookouts with friends and family, and many more days in …

DIY Hair Taming Oil - Only Two Ingredients.

Non-Toxic DIY Hair Oil (an effective hair taming recipe)!

I am a little past due to see my hairdresser. (When I say “a little,” I am totally exaggerating…it’s A LOT). I adore her, so that’s not the reason I haven’t been. I love getting out of the house for pampering, so that’s not the reason, either. Maybe it’s because I have a 21 month old toddler and a husband …

What do YOU want in your skincare!??

What Do YOU Want In Your Skincare?

I have had one heck of a week with my skincare line. You guys all rock. I LOVE how interested you are in healthy, non-toxic, *real* skincare solutions! I have had so many orders come in (a record number) and I’ve loved filling all of them, even though they’ve kept me crazy busy. I told Hubby that I have been …