Learn why you should grow calendula in your skin healing herbal garden!- Scratch Mommy

Grow A Skin Healing Flower Garden

Spring is here and many of us are turning our thoughts to gardens full of beautiful flowers, delicious fruits, and tasty vegetables. In all that planning, designing, and planting don’t forget to include flowers that are not only beautiful, but also healing and useful to the skin. Take time to create and grow a skin healing flower garden so that later …

Start-Up Guide For The Home Herbalist- Featured On Scratch Mommy

Start-Up Guide For The Home Herbalist

If you enjoy cultivating a from-scratch lifestyle and have an interest in natural health, learning to work with herbs to support your family’s well being can be a rewarding skill. You might even have most of the tools you need to get started – just check your kitchen cupboards! Many of the basic tools an herbalist needs can be borrowed …

DIY Herbal Tea Blends (the perfect stress reliever for you and to give as gifts!) - Scratch Mommy

DIY Herbal Bath Teas (recipes for stress relief!)

There comes a time in everyone’s life that stress invades and the search for some relief begins. There are, of course, numerous ways to bust stress – exercise, healthy food, time with friends, herbal medicine, and much more. A simple way to head that bit of muscle tightening emotion off at the pass is some stress busting herbal bath teas. …

Learn about our favorite, top 10 essential oils for calming and relaxation - Scratch Mommy

Top 10 Calming Essential Oils (and how to use them!)

Essential Oils have been around for thousands of years, but many are just now realizing their benefits, including myself. Until a few years ago the only essential oil I knew of was tea tree oil. Thankfully a whole new world has been opened to me to support the health of my family naturally with essential oils. And although there are …

Three Herbal Facial Steam Recipes - Learn to do an herbal facial steam, which is so easy and good for any type of face! Scratch Mommy

How To Do An Herbal Facial Steam (with 3 recipes!)

Sometimes you just need a little pampering. Sometimes your face decided to develop the Mt. Everest of pimples. Sometimes you have more blackheads on your nose than you care to count. All of these are excellent reasons to learn how to do an herbal facial steam. If an herbal facial steam sounds fabulous, that’s because it is. The steam feels …

DIY Color-Boosting Hairspray

DIY Color-Boosting Hairspray

I’ve had my hair back at its natural hair color for over five years now. I gave up hair dye when I learned abut the not-so-nice chemicals that make up most of the ingredients. I’ve come to terms with my natural hair color and I generally like the color it is. However, sometimes I just want a color boosting product to …

Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide {Book Review}

Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs {Book Review}

As an herbalist, I absolutely adore reading all about herbal medicine and plants. And as a bookworm, I love whenever I can get my hands on an honest to goodness, crisp pages, colorful pictures, real life herb book. That’s why I was so excited to take a look at Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs, A Beginnner’s Guide. My first introduction to …

6 Steps to a DIY At-Home Facial for when that "me time" pops up!

Six Steps to a DIY At-Home Facial

Most of us are moms here, so I am sure you can relate that “me time” is pretty slim pickings. Between changing diapers, cooking from scratch, work, and scrubbing counter tops I am left with about 1.5 minutes devoted entirely to myself….man how I sometimes wish I could just be a kid again. Somehow though, there are those rare days …

Dandelions are versatile medicinal plants packed with vitamins and nourishment. This DIY dandelion lip balm is no exception; it's healing, nourishing and easy to make!

DIY Dandelion Lip Balm

While some people pull them out, douse them in pesticides, or mow them over, I collect dandelions as soon as they start appearing in the early spring. I’ve even gone so far as to gather them from nieghbor’s lawns (after I’ve made sure they don’t use chemical pesticides, of course), and I hope after you’ve read this, you’ll treat them with …

If you're suffering from bad headaches and are looking a natural solution, you'll want to check out this post on 15 herbs for headaches. You may even be inspired to grow your own headache garden!

15 Herbs for Headaches

I don’t think I will ever forget the moment I began my natural living journey: I had just had a bad reaction to yet another prescription drug for my constant headaches and, in extreme desperation, I looked up “natural remedies for headaches” in the internet search bar. This search resulted in me buying tons of books on natural remedies and …