bad hippie adventures — olive oil

All natural furniture polish and cleaner? YES PLEASE!

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All natural furniture polish and cleaner? YES PLEASE!
I love making natural cleaning products for around the house! This furniture cleaner and polish has exceeded my expectations and I will never go back to the chemical cocktails they sell in the stores. 
Super easy to make with ingredients you most likely already have!

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The most amazing & easiest homemade tomato soup ever!

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The most amazing & easiest homemade tomato soup ever!

In a delicious follow up to my Welsh Rarebit post... I will now tell you how to use any of that amazing leftover aged cheddar in the most amazing way. GRILLED CHEESE & TOMATO SOUP. You know you want some.  The two just go together. Like Tom & Jerry or Ponch & John or We Will Rock You & We Are The Champions - I should stop I am totally dating myself. The cheese was in the house and I still had a few slices of that amazing country bread but I needed tomato soup and had none in the...

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Castile soap? Why? Because it is awesome!!!

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Castile soap? Why? Because it is awesome!!!

Going back to the beginnings again. Lately I have been talking about the evolution of our company and how we came to be. Yep it all started with the laundry detergent, it then evolved into not wanting to pay high store prices for natural soaps. So soaping commenced (am I the only one that thinks the word commenced should mean end instead of begin? Like prohibit. Pro=for, so why does prohibit mean no?).We started small since it was just for us. We used bread pans for molds or whatever we could find and we lost sooooooo much essential oil by burning...

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Scapes - the sequel!

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Scapes - the sequel!

The summer we have been blessed with about a million scapes.Okay maybe not a million, but way more than I can use to make hummus, no matter how much you love hummus when you are only using two per batch...so what to do with the other 900,000 scapes? I wasn't in the mood to can so I didn't want to pickle them so pesto it is... Pesto is actually pretty easy to do and there are about as may versions of how as there are stars in the sky (again probably a bit of a stretch). I based mine based...

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