Mmm… I love the smell of Christmas. Don’t you? Cookies and roasts. Poinsettias and Christmas trees. All of these scents remind me of the happiest time of the year. Sometimes, I buy candles to recreate these feel-good emotions. The only issue? I have two babies and two pets in the house and I really don’t…
Despite what anyone might tell you, using essential oils to improve your physical health is anything but a fad. Mankind has been using essential oils for thousands of years. With that said, can you really use essential oils to boost your immune system? Well, kind of! The compounds in essential oils interact with the cells…
It’s the time of the year again, y’all! Simply Earth just dropped their candle-making recipe box and I am beyond excited to share it with you. When I first became a customer in 2019, there was one box that I didn’t get… the candle-making box. And by the time I decided that I had to…
Ah, yes, back to school season. With the exception of Christmas, this is probably one of the most stressful times of a mom’s year. It’s the time when you squeeze in pretty much everything before the kids head back to school. Vacations, sports, shopping for school supplies, and let’s not forget, clothes shopping. August can…
Before becoming a mom, I couldn’t have cared less about chemicals. Cleaning solutions, candles, harsh shampoos and soaps…as long as it worked, the ingredients didn’t matter. Now that I have two little lungs breathing in the cleaning products I use, I try to go toxin-free whenever I can. If you’re a mom, there’s a good…
I like to tell my readers that it all started with a headache. A few years ago, I had a blazing headache at work. My coworker, a gruff, no-frills kind-of-guy, insisted that I add a dab of peppermint essential oil to my pulse points. I probably looked at him like he had grown two heads,…