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Best of Natural Hair Care 2014

December 27, 2014 by Andrea Fabry 4 Comments

Best of Natural Hair Care 2014

Hoping to go more natural this year when it comes to your hair care? It’s not easy to transition away from the lure of chemically-laden hair care products. In fact a detox phase in inevitable, as your body, hair and mind adjust to the change. It’s been more than 4 years since I embraced a… 

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Filed Under: Beauty, Natural Living, Uncategorized Tagged With: all natural, chemical-free, conditioner, Morrocco Method, natural beauty care, natural hair care, shampoo

How to Make Your Natural Soap Last Longer

August 17, 2014 by Andrea Fabry 20 Comments

How to Make Your Natural Soap Last Longer

When you invest in a bar of natural soap, you may pay more in the short run, but more than likely you will benefit in the long term with softer skin. Your overall health will benefit as well since more than 60 percent of anything we put on our skin is absorbed into the body…. 

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Filed Under: Beauty, Natural Living, Uncategorized Tagged With: all natural, beauty, chemical-free, natural, natural beauty, natural soap, non-toxic, soap, soap dish

Natural Band Aid

August 14, 2014 by Andrea Fabry 35 Comments

Natural Band Aid

This all natural version of the Band-Aid comes in a variety of sizes and widths – and it’s edible! (Prior to using of course.) Your first step is to obtain a kombucha SCOBY (Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast). These are simple to grow if you have access to store-bought kombucha. (See How to Grow… 

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Filed Under: DIY, microbes and mold, Natural Living Tagged With: all natural, band-aid, band-aids, DIY, DIY first aid, kombucha, natural, scoby, scobys

How to Make Your Own Liquid Stevia

August 11, 2014 by Andrea Fabry 23 Comments

How to Make Your Own Liquid Stevia

Looking for liquid stevia in its purest form? Try making your own! How to Make Liquid Stevia Stevia is one of five sweeteners we use in our home. (See Five Sweetener Alternatives.) When homemade liquid stevia is not an option, I switch between Sweet Leaf and NuNatural. Rotating and/or combining these sweeteners helps give us… 

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Filed Under: Desserts, DIY, Foodie, Recipes Tagged With: all natural, dried stevia powder, liquid stevia, stevia, sweeteners

Four Health Books for Your Summer Reading

June 23, 2014 by Andrea Fabry 5 Comments

Four Health Books for Your Summer Reading

Looking for a good health book to read this summer? Consider these four suggestions! Four Health Books for Your Summer Reading 1. Vitamin K and the Calcium Paradox, by Kate Rheaume-Bleue, B. Sc., N. D. The author does an excellent job explaining why so many women struggle with osteoporosis as well as heart disease despite… 

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Filed Under: Detox, Foodie, Natural Living, Unseen Reality Tagged With: all natural, brain, calcium, Grain brain, kharrazian, Natto, oil pulling, osteoporosis, rheaume-bleue, summer, tooth decay, vitamin, vitamin k2, wheat

DIY Cleaning Products on Hometalk

June 20, 2014 by Andrea Fabry Leave a Comment

DIY Cleaning Products on Hometalk

Have you heard of Hometalk? I love it. It’s a website with lots of great tips along with a highly interactive, warm community. Be sure to check out my DIY Cleaning Board! More DIY cleaning products DIY Toilet Cleaner Bombs DIY Herbal Cleaner Natural Cleaning Tote Related PostsPumice for Cleaning57Looking for nontoxic alternatives to harsh… 

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Filed Under: Cleaning, DIY, Natural Living Tagged With: all natural, DIY cleaning, Hometalk, non-toxic

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MEET ANDREA

I am a certified Building Biology Advocate, a former journalist, mother of nine, and avid CrossFitter who likes to think outside the box. After our family's health crisis in 2008, I learned to ask questions about what's in our food, our water, and our air. I hope to empower you as you seek to live safely in a complex world. Thankfully, small steps lead to big changes. Let's travel this road together, one step at a time.

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10 Things I’ve Learned (The Hard Way)

1. The answer may be right in front of you.
2. Time is often the best medicine.
3. Speak kindly to yourself.
4. The air we breathe matters.
5. It's better to know than not know.
6. Relinquishment is a balm for the soul.
7. Symptoms will instruct if we listen.
8. Sometimes you're the expert.
9. Allow hindsight to move you forward.
10. The next step is enough.

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