Category: Healthy DIY Products
How to Get Rid of Flies
Here’s an incredibly simple, natural method of keeping the flies away – it just doesn’t get any easier than this! DIY and no more complaining!
An apple, cloves and 5 minutes is all you need to get rid of any house flies you don’t want hanging around. Place one of these in any room of the house to keep it fly free!
Thanks for the great post from - How to Get Rid of House Flies with Cloves: 5 Tips – wikiHow.
Make a Simple Natural Oil for Inflammation and Sore Muscles
- sjw red oil 3 weeks
My friend had a garden filled with medicinal St. John’s Wort and invited me to help myself to the flowers to make a healing oil for my sore muscles and the inflammation I am dealing with in my leg as a result of the surgery I am recovering from.
So simple to do, it was wonderful to spend 5 minutes gently plucking the bright yellow flower heads from the waist-high plants. I felt connected and involved directly with the plant that is going to give me relief as I travel with a backpack and cane throughout Ecuador.
After putting the flowers, buds and all, into a jar (do not wash the flowers as the key medicinal value would be washed away), I pushed them down tight. The next step is to add pure virgin oil to generously cover the flowers. Put a lid on it and out it goes onto the deck into the sunlight for 4 to 6 weeks.
As the St John’s Wort flowers infuse with the oil it will turn red and the medicinal qualities of the plant will be passed into the oil. Hence the healing properties can then be used to treat muscle aches and inflammation.
After 6 weeks drain the mixture with a cheesecloth or the like and keep the oil in a sealed jar.
This oil, used as a healing externally, has no side effects, so can be used externally on your muscles as needed.
Remember: if you are ever using anything that you have a negative reaction to stop using the product and consult a health care practitioner if symptoms or concerns continue.
I plan to experiment with this product in Ecuador using coconut oil because it will be so readily available and it is my oil of choice at the moment. That will be a post for the future when we are more settled.
I’ll update this post to show the change in colour as the weeks pass. I’ll also let you know how it works for me as we travel and I use it as a pain and inflammation control option. Until then I’ll watch it change and transform.
Easy to Make Natural First Aid Antiseptic Ointment – Video
One of the ways we are becoming sustainable is to make our own medicinal and health products. We are focusing on products that we need and can carry with us traveling. Paisley and Connor make us something really useful in this video …
Here is a simple recipe for an antiseptic ointment made with natural ingredients that will last for 5 years. Intended to use on scraps, minor cuts and injuries and anything that needs a little help to heal.It will last up to 5 years …
Make a First Aid Antiseptic Ointment using Simple and Natural Ingredients
This is made only with mother natures own ingredients and is not approved by any drug companies, so use at your own risk … we do!
Benefits of the ingredients in this Antibiotic Ointment:
- Beeswax: is an anti-allergenic, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory,
- Coconut oil: applied externally has regenerative effects and it is also a good carrier oil
- Vitamin E: decreases dryness and helps increase moisture retention, help wounds heal reduces scarring ( I used it to help my scars heal after surgery)
- Tea Tree oil: is an antibacterial, antibiotic, anti-fungal and an antiviral,
- Lavender oil: not only relieves pain, it is an antibacterial, antibiotic, anti-fungal and an antiviral
- Lemon oil: is an antibacterial, antibiotic, anti-fungal and an antiviral
Remember if you have a reaction to any medication you apply you should stop using it at once and consult a health care practitioner.
Questions and Comments are welcome.
DIY Toothpaste that’s good for the whole family
Make your own toothpaste and know what it’s made of.
Thanks to Frugally Sustainable, a great website, for the directions and info – Follow the link …
The Benefits of Brushing With Tooth Powder ~ And a Make-Your-Own Recipe. and let us know how you did!
24 Things you can Clean with Lemon
Lemons will grow in the climate we’ll be living in, in Ecuador and I’m very happy about that. Lemons smell wonderful and are so useful. Not only edible, growing lemons on the property will have many benefits especially since I found this post about 24 things you can clean with lemons!
thanks to 24 things you can clean with lemon MNN – Mother Nature Network. for this awesome photo and post
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