Inevitably it is as I’m escorting my guests out back that I discover the birds have yet again mistaken my patio furniture for their personal outhouse. And then that one person wearing whi [...]
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Cleaning Makeup Brushes with Castile
Oh how I love a good timesaving trick! Cleaning my makeup brushes with Dr. Bronner’s Pure-Castile Magic Soap is exactly that.
Cleaning my brushes is one of those things that often falls to [...]
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Pretreating Laundry Stains
Mothering for me has been a crash course in stain management.
I definitely underappreciated the relative stainlessness of my earlier adulthood. I expected certain obvious stain culprits [...]
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When my kids were super young, every day was made up of a million tiny tasks, none of which I could ever remember when anyone asked that simple but awful questi [...]
And now we come to that time of year where students and teachers dive headlong into those overflowing human petri dishes we call "schools."
My kids have brought home some real winners t [...]
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Coconut Oil for Makeup Removal
Of Coconut Oil’s many bathroom uses, removing tough makeup came out of left field for me. It is safe and exceedingly effective, even against the most stubborn of all makeup: waterproof masc [...]
