"Our gardens and backyards are filled with flowers, herbs and weeds that have the potential to provide many fun and useful products for home, health and beauty."
~ Jan Berry, The Big Book of Homemade Products
Warm and sunny greetings to you all! Today we are sharing the third of seven little giveaways I had promised for this little blog! I call it the "beloved book giveaway" because I adore an informative book packed with pretty pictures to inspire and this book does just that. This is the expanded version of the book I reviewed and gave away a few years back. It is now packed with 151 recipes for your skin, health and home. What a fun resource to add to your home library! Thank you to Jan Berry at The Nerdy Farm Wife who made this giveaway possible π
This "Big Book" features easy, all-natural DIY projects using herbs, flowers and other plants. I am sure if you were to poke around your front yard, you would find many botanical treasures that are useful in the home. The dandelion is one such under-rated plant and there are many purposes they boast. Jan teaches how to turn them into lovely things! Or how about the beautiful rose? And lovely lavender? To make something from their romantic petals and fragrant buds is very enjoyable!
I don't recall if you remember the recipe I shared from the older version of the book. It is for a honey, rose and oat face cleanser. It is so easy to make and so lovely for your skin! These little projects make homemaking fun and also make wonderful gifts! All natural body products can be very expensive and these recipes can $ave a lot of money!
The chapters in the book include:
- Nontoxic Herbal Skin Care
- Naturally Soothing Salves & Balms
- Exotic Body Butters & Lotion Bars
- Easy, All-Natural Creams & Lotions
- Garden-Fresh Bath Bombs, Soaks & Salts
- Beautiful Bath Melts & Scrubs
- DIY Lip Care
- Luscious Hair Care
- Simple Homemade Soaps
- Herbal Home Remedies
- Nontoxic Solutions for the Home
- All-Natural Pet Care
As you can see, there is something for everyone! Many items from the book can be made with simple oils (olive oil, sunflower oil, coconut oil, etc.) and staples from your pantry (oats, honey, sea salt, etc.) along with some basic botanicals (i.e., dandelion, roses, chamomile, mint).
I will be sharing the recipe for the floral cleansing grains within the next week or so (with the permission of Jan). These are pictured above and are comprised of normal homemaking ingredients (as I call them). They look so lovely that I can't wait to prepare them! There is something about the flower aspect in skincare that I find very feminine, beautiful and romantic.
This little giveaway for "The Big Book of Homemade Products for Your Skin, Health & Home" by Jan Berry will be open for the next 7 days (it ends on Thursday) and is open WORLDWIDE. You have the option to enter it in 7 different ways (pick and choose as many options that work for you!) in order to have up to 7 different chances to win! Just follow the instructions on the Rafflecopter below!
Note: Where it says "leave a blog comment" on the giveaway widget below, please click it as there is a special question for you to answer in the comments :) Happy kitchen-crafting and wildcrafting ladies!
Oh, fun! I'd love the non toxic recipes for the home!
ReplyDeleteThe chapter I interest is Beautiful Bath Melts & Scrubs
ReplyDeleteThe chapter I interest is Beautiful Bath Melts & Scrubs
ReplyDeleteNaturally soothing salves & balms sound so good. I hope I win!
ReplyDeleteI've not tried her recipes but would certainly love to :-) What a fabulous offering (have I said that with each one?)
ReplyDeletePS Home remedies and Nontoxic solutions for the home. Not sure if it's supposed to go here.
DeleteYES :)
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ReplyDeleteHomemade soaps sounds good !
Seriously--how do I choose a favorite?
ReplyDeleteHi Jesπ
ReplyDeleteDIY lip care is the first chapter I would read ππ»
~ Teatime Grammy~
They all sound interesting, but I would start with Herbal Home Remedies/
ReplyDeleteSimple Homemade Soaps! I have always wanted to make soaps! thank you for the opportunity to win.
ReplyDeleteI'm interested in Naturally Soothing Salves and Balms. Thank you for this opportunity.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely giveaway! I absolutely love your blog and I am so glad to see you back! I have wanted to begin making my own soaps so I am thinking I would begin with the Simple Homemade Soaps chapter first. But honestly I don't think I would have a favorite chapter. Thank you so much for this opportunity and please thank Jan as well for providing this lovely book!
ReplyDeleteHerbal Home Remedies!!!!!!! WE love herbs. Blessings from El Paso, HOT here.
ReplyDeleteHi Jes!
ReplyDeleteI have much respect for Jan’s work! Innovative work such as hers is what can keep people going on their properties!
It is very difficult to choose a favourite chapter, with therapeutic balms; luscious hair care; cleansing grain recipes, and more! I am, however, selecting the basic soapmaking recipes!! Haha!!
Jan’s work is very inspiring!! Thank you!!
Rachel
Herbal Home Remedies, I am trying to go more natural with remedies in the home.
ReplyDeleteJes, thank you for coming back, missed you!
This book sounds amazing!
ReplyDeleteThe first chapter I'd read is Luscious Hair Care.
Thank you for the review and recommendation, as the giveaway opportunity!
I’m interested in the chapter on hair care!
ReplyDeleteThis book looks wonderful! I am teaching my 16 year old daughter that natural is better. Would love to make things with her :) Thank you for the giveaway opportunity!
ReplyDeleteI would love to read about non toxic home solutions :)
ReplyDeleteLuscious Hair Care sounds divine!
ReplyDeleteNontoxic solutions for the home.
ReplyDeleteHard to choose a favorite, but probably the chapter on soapmaking. I love beautifully aromatic soaps.
ReplyDeleteHerbal Home Remedies piqued my interest although it was a close tie with Exotic Body Butters & Lotion Bars. Thank you for this opportunity to be "gifted" with such a fine book.
ReplyDeleteI am interested in the natural pet care. So many great chapters tho. Thanks so much for the giveaway!!
ReplyDeleteAll of them! And thank you for coming back. Your beautiful, good and inspirational take on life is just what the world needs right now.
ReplyDeleteSarah
Do all the chapters count????
ReplyDeleteThank you for this giveaway! I think the nontoxic solutions for the home sounds great. I hardly use chemicals anymore. I mostly use Mrs. Meyers and Meleluca products.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely the simple homemade soaps
ReplyDeleteWould love to try some homemade beauty products,and this book sounds like a wonderful source for knowledge and recipes. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI am very interested in the hair care.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the lovely giveaways! I would dig into the hair care section. Since moving my girls and my hair does not get along with the water here and have had a tough time!
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a wonderful book, full of useful information. I would start with the first chapter on natural skin care and read in cover to cover.
ReplyDeletewow! what a wonderful book! I would love to read about all natural home solutions! :)
ReplyDeleteSuch an inspiring book and lovely giveaway! I would choose the chapter Simple Homemade Soaps first! My first love! ❤
ReplyDeleteNontoxic solutions for the home!
ReplyDeleteI am eliminating one category at a time to transition to as much as I can to all natural. Right now I am dealing with household cleansers then my next area will be hair care.
ReplyDeleteI like the titles of all the chapters but I’d have to say Lucious Hair Care is one I’d love to learn more about!
ReplyDeleteI'm interested in the chapter on hair care.
ReplyDeleteNon-toxic solutions for the home interests me most. Be blessed and enjoy your week.
ReplyDeleteLaura of Harvest Lane Cottage
I am interested in non-toxic solutions for the home and simple soaps. I've made soap before with a friend and loved it, but I have never done it on my own.
ReplyDeleteHerbal Home Remedies sounds enticing as I am always adding new ones to my home. But honestly, the entire book looks awesome and I can tell it has much to offer.
ReplyDeleteI have always been Interested in homemade products no matter what. Lately I am making soaps, shampoo bars. I would be glad to have this book and learn a lot of new things. My stepdaughter asked me to teach her making soap. She is interested a lot. Best wishes from Heike. Hahue@msn.com
ReplyDeleteHandmade soaps! Sounds like fun!
ReplyDeleteSimple home made soaps interests me followed by Easy, All-Natural Creams & Lotions. I love using herbs and have been thinking seriously about making soaps and lotions but don't really know where to begin. As I do not know anyone locally that I could run to for help. Thank you for the chance to enter your giveaway
ReplyDeleteEasy, All-Natural Creams & Lotions and the chapter on Simple Homemade Soaps both interest me
ReplyDeleteI am interested in the Herbal Home Remedies.
ReplyDeleteYour blog is so welcoming...The chapter that interest me the most is All-Natural Pet Care. Thanks Chris! (treehouse. (queen18) (at Y a h oo) (.c o m)
ReplyDeleteOh dear! So very hard to choose just ONE chapter....I get excited just seeing the list! But, I must choose so it would have to be Easy, All-Natural Creams & Lotions. That is most likely the place I would start to work. Thank you so much for such a refreshing blog!
ReplyDeleteThe cream and lotion chapter sounds like something I'd love to try and use for my skin problems. It probably will create a nice scent and repair my skin naturally than with fake filler products.
ReplyDeleteSimple homemade soaps
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Bath Melts and Scrubs: interesting
ReplyDeleteSimple homemade soaps interests me the most.
ReplyDeleteNancy
tis-so at hotmail dot com
I NEED this book! Thanks for the chance!
ReplyDeleteI like Non Toxic Herbal Skin Care!
ReplyDeleteI think the chapter on Naturally Soothing Salves & Balms would be extremely helpful and probably one of the most used out of the book for me!
ReplyDeleteI think the Naturally Soothing Salves & Balms would be well used here!
ReplyDeleteNaturally soothing salves & balms really appeals to me.
ReplyDeleteI would really enjoy learning more about the Non-Toxic Herbal Skincare. :)
ReplyDeleteThe chapter that interest me the most is, Simple Homemade Soaps.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Luscious Hair Care for me
ReplyDeleteI like the Natural Pet Care .
ReplyDeleteExotic Body Butters & Lotion Bars and Pet Care interest me the most. The entire book interests me actually, it's on my Amazon wish list now! :)
ReplyDeleteSimple Homemade soaps. I'm so curious!
ReplyDeleteI would love to learn more about home made soaps!
ReplyDeleteHome made soaps!
ReplyDeleteSimple Home Remedies
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