Healthy & Homemade !! Recipes for Natural Cleaning Products, SkinHealth, Kitchen Cupboard Staple Item Recipes, Eliminating Preservatives

   I have found some very good sites and lists with excellent alternatives to the store bought staple items for around the house. Homemade versions of some basic necessities in the kitchen, laundry room, and more....

   All of these sites offer healthy, money saving, preservative limiting options for the health of your family and home!! I hope you enjoy these finds and they are helpful to your family as well!!

   At the top of my list is a site that shows homemade recipes for a variety of things including: ketchup, mayo, yogurt, salad dressings, shampoo and conditioner, toothpaste, and the list goes on! This site offers some excellent choices for the family that are a healthy and frugal way to approach daily living. You can control what your family ingests and not be left questioning how many preservatives and "unknown ingredients" they may be consuming on a daily basis or what their eventual effects may be. These types of recipes are excellent as well for individuals with allergies to better monitor and control what everyone it taking in to avoid unknown negative reactions. 

   To read the article and get the full list visit: http://www.naturallivingideas.com/50-things-to-stop-buying/2/

   A homemade recipe for Febreze taking the average cost of around $5.00 a bottle to $.15 cents is another must have for your day to day home DIY lists! Money saver and very useful. 

View the recipe at: http://starneslifefamilylove.blogspot.com/2012/06/homemade-febreze.html?m=1

   The next site has 10 DIY cleaning recipes for everything from carpet stain removers to dishwasher cleaning solutions. 

Visit the site and view all recipes at: 

http://www.picklee.com/2012/04/13/10-remarkable-diy-cleaning-solutions/#.T4isz9WlfNI

   The following find offers lots of informative uses and purposes for items around the home with dozens of recipes for DIY cleaning products you need to try! 

Visit the site at: http://www.younghouselove.com/2009/10/clean-up-your-act-all-natural-homemade-cleaners/

   Here is a homemade balm recipe useful for a variety of things such as eczema, chapped lips, dry hands, and more. 

Visit for the recipe: http://www.livingunrefined.com/2013/05/homemade-balm.html?m=1

Thanks so much for reading this and I hope your family finds it as useful as mine does!! Feel free to please read and share. :)