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Choosing Hormone-Friendly Perfumes: 6 Essential Shopping Tips

As more people try to make better decisions for themselves and the environment, clean perfumes that don’t hurt hormones are becoming more popular. Most smells use artificial chemicals, but these use natural, non-toxic ingredients and avoid common allergens to keep skin problems to a minimum.  Hormone-friendly perfumes don’t use chemicals that mess with hormones because ...

Viena Abdon

Switching over to eco-friendly makeup products and habits can help greatly reduce environmental damage.

DIY Deodorant: How to Make Your Own Aluminum-Free Version

Creating a DIY deodorant at home can be an enjoyable, environmentally friendly, and health-conscious DIY project. It’s not just a cost-effective alternative, but it also offers control over the ingredients, allowing you to avoid harmful chemicals found in many commercial deodorants. Here’s an insightful guide to making your own DIY deodorant. Natural deodorant vs. antiperspirant: ...

Nathan Machoka

Ingredients for a DIY deodorant.

Can Essential Oils Prevent Cancer?

Essential oils are most popularly known in aromatherapy and are used efficiently and safely. Most daily applications include adding them to bath water and anointing perfume points. However, have you considered how they could be doing an even greater service beyond relaxation? Essential oils are concentrated extracts of flowers, roots, leaves, stems, seeds, resin, bark, or ...

David Clapp

Essential oils for sale.

5 Natural Ways to Purify and Freshen Your Home

Keeping your house smelling fresh is not as simple as it sounds. Using air fresheners — such as plug-ins, gels, aerosols, candles, or incense — are common ways to purify the air and freshen a house around the world. However, while they smell great, evoking feelings of contentment and even nostalgia, they also come with some disturbing consequences. ...

Raven Montmorency

Open shelving in a kitchen.

The Best Essential Oils for Your Hair

Experts say that natural plant oils are the ideal choice to nourish your hair and scalp. It is even better if you incorporate essential oils into your hair care routine as they have properties to not only keep hair looking and smelling great, but are also ideal for resolving many hair problems including dry scalp, ...

Raven Montmorency

A smiling woman with beautiful healthy hair.

How to Make Natural Perfumes at Home

Since synthetic perfumes contain chemicals, they can trigger allergic reactions and even chronic headaches in people. Some perfumes even have toxicity levels that are enough to cause cancer or thyroid complications with regular use. It is to avoid such risks that people often choose to use natural perfumes. What’s more, you can even make natural ...

Raven Montmorency

Perfume atomizer bottles.

An Amazing Flower Leisure Farm in Taiwan

Located at Zhuolan (卓蘭) in central  Taiwan’s Miaoli County (苗栗縣), the Hualu Flower Home Leisure Farm (花露休閒農場) is famous and it’s the largest flower leisure farm on the island. Covering an area of 3.2 hectares (7.9 acres), this organic flower leisure farm features beautiful gardens, cozy restaurants and cafés, a unique aroma boutique, and a nice ...

Billy Shyu

A Christmas tree castle.

The Numerous Benefits of Orange Essential Oil

Extracted from the peels of sweet oranges, orange essential oil has a fruity aroma that brings about a relaxing feeling in people. In some cases, the oils are also derived from the twigs and leaves of orange plants. Over the centuries, this oil has been used in aromatherapy and is believed to be good for ...

Raven Montmorency

Orange essential oil.