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How to make your house smell good

To make your house smell good, you don’t need to spend a fortune on scented candles or room fragrances. We can inebriate our home with 100% natural aromas, choosing the ingredients we like the most at practically no cost! In this post, I will show you how to make your house smell amazing with only one lemon and some aromatic herbs! With this simple simmer pot recipe, I will show you how I have made my home cozy and fragrant by choosing some aromatic herbs from my garden.

DIY basil face mask

DIY Skincare, DIY Zero waste / By Gabi

Basil is among the herbs I love the most. This year the basil plant on my balcony has grown so much and besides preparing pesto I had to invent something else to use it. I asked my Instagram followers what they would like to see between a basil tonic or a basil mask and the second option won out. In this article, I will show you my DIY recipe for a basil face mask.

Cherry Pit Heating Pad

DIY Zero waste / By Gabi

This magnificent zero waste project is ideal to get prepared for the autumn while eating a tasty and delicious fruit! Cherry pit heating pad requires only 1 ingredient: cherries. Click on the image to read my article with the instructions to create your own cherry pit heating pad at home.

How to clean yoga mat naturally

10 Comments / DIY Zero waste / By Gabi

When’s the last time you cleaned the yoga mat? It’s definitely been a long time for me. Find out how to clean the yoga mat naturally using ingredients that you can find at home.

Homemade Hand Sanitiser

8 Comments / DIY Zero waste / By Gabi

WHO published a recipe to preparare homemade hand sanitiser with few ingredients. Read the article and look how easy it is to do it. Spread the word!

Linseed gel for curly hair

15 Comments / DIY Zero waste, Ingredients / By Gabi

Hello, everybody! Today, let’s prepare a natural hair gel with linseed! A few days ago, I saw a pack of linseed (also called flaxseed) looking through the shelves of an organic supermarket. Remembering that I read somewhere that these seeds are really good for health, I bought them and promised to look for more information …

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How to make Aloe Vera Gel

35 Comments / DIY Zero waste, Ingredients / By Gabi

Hello! Today we’re talking about aloe vera. Aloe vera is an ingredient that can not miss in our DIY recipes. For cosmetic use is often sold as a gel and sold at a price ranging from $ 10-20 for 3-4 Oz. It has incredible uses and benefits some of which you can find by clicking …

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DIY Bentonite clay deodorant

DIY Skincare, DIY Zero waste / By Gabi

Among the beauty products that I enjoy making at home there are certainly deodorants. To make a DIY natural deodorant at home is really simple and requires a few ingredients. One ingredient, that I have recently discovered, and that cannot be missed is the Montmorillonite clay, also called Bentonite. Disclosure: Some of the links in this …

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DIY Laundry Soap: only 3 ingredients to be sustainable

8 Comments / DIY Zero waste, Homemade Soap / By Gabi

As mentioned in a previous post, I am trying to do my best to implement a more sustainable way of life. In this transition, I thought it would be appropriate to consider a more sustainable alternative for laundry detergents. These detergents are a mix of chemicals that cling to fabrics in small amounts and then …

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Zero Waste Hair Mask with Egg and Banana

4 Comments / DIY Skincare, DIY Zero waste / By Gabi

Hands up who has, at least one, throw away food because too ripe or about to expire. Unfortunately, this is a common habit and every day tons of food in excellent conditions are thrown in the trash. To avoid this, just buy smart. Maybe buying food only when the fridge or pantry is almost empty, …

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