Homemade Beauty and Skincare
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By reading the ingredient list on most skincare products, you would think that it’s necessary to have a degree in chemistry and your own in-home lab if you ever wanted to create your own.
That’s why Renee Harris’ ebook, My Buttered Life, somewhat flabbergasted but mostly just delighted me. I couldn’t believe how simple it was to make really fantastic lotion and sunscreen. With only 3 ingredients, how could it be anything but simple? I love the idea of simply making my own and knowing exactly what is going on our family’s skin {see my full review}.
My Buttered Life: Baby Edition
This instructional eBook contains five natural recipes for baby: baby massage oil, baby balm (Beesilk Jr.), creamy baby lotion, diaper rash cream, and oatmeal milk bath.
Each of the recipes are five ingredients are less! So healthy for baby. Also included are instructional videos, cost analysis (compare to store bought), where to buy ingredients, FAQ and more! This great resourceis also available for FREE if you purchase a DIY kit for making the recipes.
Crunchy Betty’s Food on Your Face for Acne and Oily Skin is here to save your face, save your budget, and save your skin from nasty chemicals found in traditional beauty products. It’s not just a natural beauty book – it’s a complete system designed to clear your skin and leave behind dewy, clean beauty you OWN.
Within the pages of this all-inclusive PDF ebook, you’ll immerse yourself in all-natural cleansers, steams, masks, moisturizers and SO much more. There’s no other natural beauty book like it, tailored just for acne and oily skin. Instead of wading through recipes that won’t work for your special skin type, you’ll have 35+ recipes only you need for beautiful, healthy skin.
Simple Scrubs to Make and Give
It’s a comprehensive guide to homemade body scrubs with over 50 pages of information and recipes. Inside you’ll find: ingredients guide, buying guide, step by step instructions, essential oil guide, recipes, bonus section, quick reference recipe guide, packaging ideas, and more!
Original recipes include: Morning Coffee Body Scrub, Fresh Citrus Sugar Scrub, Squeaky Clean Scrub, Lavender-Peppermint Facial Smoother, To name a few. . .
Whether you are feeling intimidated by preparing herbs for the first time, or just looking for some additional resources to use your existing herbal pantry, the goal of “Herbal Nurturing” is to serve as a resource for equipping you in the basics. You can focus on sharing life with your family, and have a “natural first aid kit” at your fingertips when the need arises.
Naturally prepare for cold/flu season, PMS, headaches, sunburns, postpartum, tummy aches, rashes, and more with over 30 recipes, additional homeopathic suggestions, and healthy-living tips.
Natural Cleaning
Tired of spending tons of money to clean your home? Are you sick of exposing your family to the dangerous, chemical-laden commercial products? What if you could learn how to clean your home by using 5 simple, frugal, and natural products? What if by doing this you could save your family hundreds, maybe even thousands, of dollars a year?
Simply Clean is your answer! In this book, we will walk through each room of the home and learn simple cleaning methods based on the folk recipes of days gone by!
Organization
Tell Your Time: How To Manage Your Schedule So You Can Live Free outlines a straightforward, step-by-step approach to controlling your schedule and ensuring the important things don’t fall through the cracks. Tell Your Time helps you accomplish not only what’s on your to-do list today, but what’s on your to-do list for life.
I don’t know about you, but I find it ironic that so many time management books take so long to read! I set out to distill all the good information I’ve gleaned over the years into one streamlined, no-fluff ebook that gets to the point fast.
321 Stop is a how-to memoir of learning to love simple living. Lorilee uses personal stories, as well as tips learned along the way, showing how to create a life that makes space for what is most important. Embracing minimalism, she tackles and teaches how to make the hard decisions of simplify the home as well as the schedule. She understands that a full life, really doesn’t need to be that ‘full’ at all. Beyond that, Lorilee addresses the hidden emotional hoarding that keeps our souls running.
321 Stop is comical, practical, and refreshing. Take a step back, step off the track for a few minutes and savor the moment {get motivated to consider the idea of minimalism}.
Are you new to real food? Looking for familiar recipes? Or maybe you’re not as new, but you still need healthy, familiar recipes to cook for family or friends who are still rather skeptical. This book is the answer. It will show you how to cook real, recognizable foods in your own kitchen. Foods that everyone loves, like pizza, ice cream, and French fries, that have been made over with healthy ingredients!
The book will explain to you why you need to make changes, what changes to make, and how to re-stock your kitchen to reflect these changes. Every page has a resource section at the bottom, too, so that if you are so inclined, you can read the research for yourself. In short, this book is a bite-sized, reasonably priced bit of information that will help you to understand the real-food lifestyle and adapt your kitchen to it, while still making recipes that please your family.
Real Food…Real Easy is an eBook with over 70 recipes, intended to help those who are new to real food or for those looking for ways to simplify their meals (overwhelmed, anyone?). It was written by a group of 7 moms, 3 of whom are contributing writers here at Keeper of the Home (Hi Kate, Erin and Rachel)!
This book can potentially be all a real food newbie needs (minus the cost of food!) to feed their family in the early days of converting to real food. With breakfast, lunch, dinner (both main and side dishes), breads and appetizers, there’s no need to look elsewhere!
Overwhelmed by the task of cooking healthfully with real foods? Desperate for simple instructions on soaking grains, cooking beans,sprouting, sourdough, natural fermentation, cultured dairy, simple cheesemaking and more?
In 14 lessons, we help you make your kitchen healthy, one task at a time, one week at a time. This 180 page eBook contains 14 lessons, ingredient and equipment lists, suggested schedule, FAQ’s and more! {Read my review here}
Make healthy, nutritious cakes, muffins, pasta, crackers, pizza, cookies and more. You — yes, you — can put sourdough to work in your kitchen to produce practically limitless, naturally-leavened foods of all kinds!
The “Sourdough A to Z” eBook offers simple lessons and tasty, nutritious, whole-grain recipes. This is the companion eBook to our popular and life-changing Sourdough class of GNOWFGLINS eCourse. In 25 lessons, we help you master sourdough! {Read my review here}
When you culture milk, you make it better! The creamy milk of healthy pastured animals is already rich with fat-soluble vitamins, probiotics, and healthy fats. That’s fantastic on its own. But culturing it with beneficial organisms causes an explosion of vitamins, minerals and enzymes. A win-win.
The “Cultured Dairy and Basic Cheese” eBook offers simple lessons and tasty, nutritious recipes for sour cream, yogurt, many cheeses and more. This is the companion eBook to our popular and life-changing Cultured Dairy and Basic Cheese class of GNOWFGLINS eCourse. In 18 lessons, we help you master culturing dairy at home!
Enjoying “God’s Natural, Organic, Whole Foods, Grown Locally, In Season.” Master healthy cooking with real foods — one week at a time. In our unlimited online real food cooking classes, we help you master:
- the fundamental skills of traditional cooking, such as soaking, sprouting and fermenting
- putting sourdough to use for bread, crackers, cookies, cakes, muffins, and more
- culturing your own dairy foods
- making homemade cheese
- learning how to ferment, culture and preserve virtually every food group for best nutrition and digestibility
- traditional cooking with kids
- and more!
Want a curriculum inspired by the same love of wholesome, traditional foods that you find in the cookbook Nourishing Traditions, the work of Weston A. Price, the Slow Food movement, and farmer’s markets everywhere? Annoyed with the sub-par Nutrition standards of the USDA and the typical Nutrition textbook?
The subtitle almost says it all. This book is a renegade look at nutrition based on a diet of whole, organic, and local foods grown, prepared, and eaten according to traditional food ways. At 203 pages, Real Food Nutrition & Health offers an in-depth introductory look at Nutrition. The book’s also written at a highschool (or possibly mature junior high) level, so it’s a surprisingly accessible way to teach yourself, your children, and your community the basics of Nutrition.
Healthy Recipe eBook Package by Heavenly Homemakers
Think Breakfast…Outside the Box: Learn why it is important to think outside the box for breakfast (outside the poptart and cereal box, that is!). Read helpful tips for preparing healthy meals to begin your day…and learn how to prepare these foods in advance for quick, convenient breakfasts.
Have Your Fruits…and Veggies Too!: Learn new ideas for serving fruits and vegetables, and read helpful tips for purchasing great produce. This ebook has 26 pages filled with fruit and veggie help and advice, as well as many great recipes and ideas for new ways to eat enough servings each day!
Have Your Cookie…and Eat it Too!: This e-book features 20 delicious treat recipes that use only whole wheat flour…and unprocessed sugars such as honey, maple syrup or rapadura (dehydrated cane sugar juice). You’ll see a picture of the treat right along with each recipe!
Fill ‘Em Up!: “Fill ‘Em Up!” is written for parents or teachers of children ages 4-18 (give or take!). It contains seven recipes….and each recipe is accompanied by two Bible lessons (one suggested for use with children ages 4-10, the other suggested for use with children 11-18).
Real {Fast} Food: Plan Better, Cook Faster, Eat Healthier
It’s a treasure trove of time saving techniques and simply wonderful recipes that are custom fit for you and your schedule. You’ll learn everything from painless freezer stocking and bulk food prep to quick, healthy meals for day trips.
I’ll teach you how to think about whole food prep in a whole new way, allowing you to make more real food in less time than you ever imagined, and even giving you the feeling of a “day off” once in a while –– all without sacrificing quality.
This cookbook was inspired by the idea that food does not have to be complicated to taste good. Furthermore, good food is real food, such as dark greens, bright pineapple, or savory grassfed steak. The recipes in this book were created with everyday needs in mind. Practical, tasty, and simple enough to enjoy on a regular basis, but also full of nourishing, healthy ingredients.
Recipes include: Creamy Tropical Fruit Salad, Mexican Quinoa Salad, Mexican Squash & Black Bean Salad, All American Potato Salad, Herbed Garlic Croutons, Strawberry & Goat Cheese Salad, Vietnamese Lettuce Wraps with Two Dips, Apple Cranberry Turkey Salad, Holiday Salad: Candied Nuts, Pears & Blue Cheese, Steak & Arugula Salad, and many more.
95 pages and 30 recipes to lower your food budget and raise your nutrition at the same time. Twenty pages of…well…everything you might want to know about beans, including how to get comfortable with dry beans so you can save even more money (but not spend forever in the kitchen), and even the scoop on addressing bean-related flatulence.
If you’re interested in having an organized kitchen…and learning lots of yummy recipes to make in your organized kitchen…this e-book package is for you!
You’ll get “Do the Funky Kitchen”, “What to Do With Your Kids in the Kitchen”, “What to Do With the Chicken in Your Kitchen”, “What to Do With the Cow in Your Kitchen”, and “What to Do With the Cocoa in Your Kitchen” in this complete package.
Ever read a recipe book that had you drooling from practically the first page? When I first read Just Making Ice Cream, I could hardly resist jumping up from a cozy table in the coffee shop where I do some of my blogging so that I could stick my ice cream maker in the freezer. I’m a sucker for two sweet treats, namely dark chocolate and ice cream. So when I started reading recipe names like Salty Caramel Pecan, Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Lemon Cherry Swirl Cheesecake and Yum Rum Raisin, I was a goner.
You will also enjoy over 30 ice cream & gelato recipes, 9 cultured milk recipes, 10 sherbet recipes and 10 sorbet recipes!
One unfortunate truth that real foodies have to confront is that sugar isn’t good for you. Knowing this means that most desserts — homemade or store-bought — are out, because most rely heavily on sugar for their flavor, namely white sugar. Most also have little fat and what’s there is in the form of vegetable oils; they also use a lot of white flour. What’s a person with a sweet tooth (which, let’s face it, is everyone at some point!) to do?
Avoiding dessert for the rest of your life just isn’t feasible. Life without a treat now and then is dull and boring. But now…you can Treat Yourself again! Treat Yourself: Real Food Desserts is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a book filled with delicious, sweet, tempting desserts — which rely only on real food! They’re full-fat, full flavor, and low-sugar. There’s no white flour, white sugar, or vegetable oil to be found.
Whole grain or no grains, real maple syrup or just less white sugar, vegetables in your desserts or better-than-the-store: no matter what you’re looking for to indulge your sweet tooth, you’ll find it in Smart Sweets.
From brownies to coconut macaroons, the astounding number of variations on each recipe make this a book that really has almost 100 recipes, ready for even the novice baker to tackle and enjoy.
GAPS/Grain-Free
This digital guide is 57 pages, and includes recipes for 30 days on the GAPS intro, a table of contents and index, helpful tips, a checklist of what to include each day, and many full color photographs of the intro food.
The e-book is designed for families or individuals who are overwhelmed with the entire concept of the diet, want to be told step-by-step what to do, and value having all the information all in one place (everything from homemade deodorant to fish stock and kimchi recipes to cod liver oil and stock pot recommendations!).
People from all over the world have enjoyed going grain free with the help of Health, Home, and Happiness’ Grain Free Meal Plans. Now the best of the menu planning service is available in a helpful full color cookbook!All of the 70+ recipes in this book are not only tested to be child friendly, but they also offer clear instructions for beginning cooks, use ingredients and preparation techniques that can realistically fit into a busy household, and have color photographs that make the reader excited to try grain free meals!
Grain Free Meal Plans, a menu service, includes: Menu plans for 3 meals a day, 7 days a week, plus snacks and sweets, Kid-tested recipes, and Complete shopping lists. Meals are based on the Gut and Psychology Syndrome Diet and Specific Carbohydrate Diet diets. The recipes serve a family of four, but can easily be halved or doubled as needed.
Monthly meal plans: Different monthly meal plans by season to add variety to your diet. Purchase the months you’d like, or purchase the entire year. The Full Collection contains all 12 months, Holiday meal plans, and paperback copy of The Best of the Grain Free Meal Plans Cookbook (US only)
Gluten Free eBook Package by Heavenly Homemaker
Gluten Free and Good For You: Filled with all kinds of Gluten Free tips and information to help you to either eat gluten free, or to be able to serve gluten free meals and snacks to family members and friends who have gluten free needs.
Gluten Free Casseroles, Soups and Stews: Includes Recipes such as: Potato and Meat Patties, Jenny’s Enchiladas, Noodle Free Spaghetti, Pizza, Porcupine Meatballs, Kellee’s Meatloaf, Salsa Chicken, Fried Chicken, Zucchini Lasagna, and so much more!
Gluten Free Summer: 35 gluten free recipes that are good for you, great tasting, and use everyday ingredients! Perfect for summertime…or anytime!
Gluten Free Sweets and Treats: Recipes include: Flourless Double Chocolate Pecan Cookies, Flourless Chocolate Cookies, Almond Paste Cookies, Midnight Mint Bars, Meringue Pie Shell, Chocolate Pie Filling, Bavarian Raspberry Cream Pie Filling, Homemade Eggnog Pie Filling, Pumpkin Pie Pudding, and so much more!
Are you grain-free? Whether it’s due to allergy, weight loss, or doing the GAPS diet, grain-free eating isn’t easy. In fact, it can get pretty boring: lots of plain baked or grilled meats and steamed veggies. Who wants to eat boring, bland food forever? But grain-free doesn’t have to be boring. In fact, grain-free can include all kinds of interesting flavors, spices, and even sauces. Grain-free can be delicious and exciting. It can even include breads and desserts!
That’s how Against the Grain came to be: a cookbook full of grain-free (mostly dairy-free and GAPS-friendly) recipes that aren’t boring, but are delicious and fun to eat. Against the Grain is a 55-page guide to delicious grain-free eating. It contains 30 amazing recipes, including 6 “breads and desserts!”.
Real Food for Kids
Do you want: To teach your younger children about Real Food? To use child-friendly lessons inspired by the same love of wholesome, traditional foods that you find in the cookbook Nourishing Traditions, the work of Weston A. Price, the Slow Food movement, and farmer’s markets everywhere?
Real Food Nutrition FOR KIDS! contains 15 simple and easy to understand lessons written for the elementary aged child. Each lesson includes a creative & fun coloring page relevant to the topic discussed, copywork pages in both print and cursive, as well as activitiesincluding puzzles, sorting games, & more.
One area that is really tough for a lot of mamas is figuring out what kind of simple, fast and nourishing snacks they can feed their kids.
Committed to whole foods myself, there are the odd days when I long to be able to just grab a few packaged fruit roll ups or plastic containers of apple sauce or crackers as we fly out the door. One of the fastest ways to start making unhealthy eating choices is to get hungry when you’re away from home. Temptation is bound to get you.
Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be that way. Katie has crafted a stellar handbook for moms wanting to keep everyone happy, healthy and NOT hungry. Her snack recipes and ideas are sure to please.
Seasonal Real Foods
Simple Food {for winter} is the first of four seasonal cookbooks that emphasize real food and sustainable living. This 58 page book contains 30 recipes, 10 full-color photos, and three essays.
Learn how to: make creamy soups, grain-free biscuits, identify and prepare the foods that your body needs most during the winter, home preserved foods, and much, much more!
Simple Food {For Spring} is 80 pages packed full of 28 brand new grain-free recipes. Includes full cover photos for every recipe and 5 essays encouraging sustainability and homegrown living with information about cleansing and wild edibles.
Recipes include salads, cream, honey, blue cheese, ranch dressing and more. Main dishes include green burgers, lamb stew, chicken and two pea curry, spring calcannon, and so much more! This is the perfect Spring recipe book packed full of delicious meals and tips.
Comfort food is perfect in the snowy winter — warm, creamy, and satisfying. Most recipes, however, contain white flour, white sugar, and canned soups, foods that will leave you feeling less than awesome. Instead, try Wholesome Comfort!
True comfort food, with only real food ingredients. There’s even a cream soup recipe that can replace all those cans in your other favorite recipes!
Fresh, seasonal summer recipes — exactly what you need when you want to enjoy summer’s bounty. The recipes are light and delicious. Grilled, marinated meats; fresh salads; fruit; even wonderful desserts like lemon sherbet.
If you have allergy concerns, you’ll find that many selections are top-8 free, and many are also GAPS-friendly. There’s even little icons to let you know what’s safe! If you’re looking for the perfect summer cookbook, this is it.
Pregnancy
Unbound Birth: How to Have a Natural Birth in the Hospital, by Jennifer Yarbrough, is an inspiring collection of natural hospital birth stories where she shares critical information that every expectant mother should know when considering their birthing options.
With determination, information, preparation, and support, women are offered the reality of experiencing the beauty of a natural birth within a hospital setting.
Are you confused about pregnancy nutrition? Not sure what’s really healthy, how much you should eat, or what you should avoid? Are you tired of counting calories, food groups, and making checklists of “must eat” foods everyday? Are you too nauseous to want to eat much of anything, yet stressing that your lack of appetite is hurting your baby? Most pregnancy books have complicated pregnancy diets that tell you to eat “three yellow foods, four green foods, two protein foods,” and so on.
Healthy Pregnancy Super Foods simplifies pregnancy nutrition by giving you only two rules: 1) Don’t eat junk food, and 2) Eat super foods. The book goes into detail about what those super foods are (and a basic list of what you should avoid), what pregnant women’s nutritional needs are, and then features over 30 recipes that use many super foods!
Do you want excellent nutrition for your baby and children? This book offers help with breastfeeding, discusses low milk supply and homemade formula options, how and when to introduce solids, and handling picky toddlers.
‘You’ll have 85 pages packed with information, including 27 healthy, family-friendly recipes!
Misc
Contrary to popular belief, a homesteader doesn’t have to be someone who lives on hundreds of acres with the perfect red barn and white picket fence. They live in apartments in the middle of the asphalt jungle. And in suburbia with mini-vans. And on a few acres on the outskirts of town. Your Custom Homestead takes you through a 21-day process of moving closer to your homesteading dreams, no matter where you may live.
In this 79-page eBook, we’ll examine different motivations for homesteading, define exactly what modern-day homesteading means, and then work through the prepwork and actual processes of beginning a homesteading lifestyle that will perfectly fit your unique situation.
Easy Homemade: Homemade Pantry Staples for the Busy Modern Family
Easy Homemade features recipes for more than 60 homemade kitchen staples as well as kitchen tips, information about choosing various ingredients and more.
As a self-proclaimed kitchen dunce, I’m far from an accomplished chef, but I’ve found that making things from scratch — even the things we typically buy without even considering that we could make them at home — is actually pretty easy.
One Bite at a Time: 52 Projects for Making Life Simpler is a simple living handbook. I took my favorite ideas that I already wrote on Simple Mom, then rewrote and reorganized them into manageable chunks. I turned my blog into my own personal checklist, because I need a steady dose of inspiration, too.
Tsh laid it all out here in 52 easy-to-swallow steps. She authors books, she writes a popular blog, she presides over a kingdom of other blogs, she moves across the country, homeschools, dates her husband, and has pretty hair without shampoo. One Bite at a Time is a compilation of secrets, tips, and why-didn’t-I-think-of-that moments, peppered with uncommon sense that will jump start your move toward the intentional simplicity we all long for.
Kitchen Stewardship in the Big Woods: A Family Camping Handbook with Real Food Options
If you’ve always wanted to try camping as a frugal family vacation but are nervous because you have little ones, whether they’re babies, toddlers, or preschoolers, The new Family Camping Handbookwill show you how to survive and even thrive out in the woods with young children. You can bring your babes and your real food, too!
Provides an overview of how to get started camping, what to bring, the proper campin’ attitude, and of course, real food adaptations to standard camping fare. You don’t need to compromise with hot dogs and white buns just because you’re out in the woods with a campfire!
Original article and pictures take keeperofthehome.org site
