Living in Canada, I was an avid downhill skier from a very young age. This sport turned into a downhill racing in highschool and college, many fond memories! However, being out in the cold winters caused me to have an addiction to lip balm that still persists in my older age. Like most products on the market, store purchased lip balm has toxic ingredients (which is why I make my own). Here is the recipe: 2 TBSP Coconut oil 1 TBSP Sweet almond oil 1 1/2 TBSP Beeswax 10 drops Essential oil...

As a young child I remember having a sore, ugly boil on the inside of my arm. Our family visited relatives for a weekend and my great-auntie Em applied something called black drawing salve on the boil. In the morning my Dad gently and patiently squeezed the boil like one would a pimple. The inside of the boil slowly came out just like a pimple would ooze. Life marched on and about 60 years later I tripped over a "recipe" for black drawing salve. This took me back to that weekend and I...

Written by: Henry Van Dyke "I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch until at last she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sun and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then some at my side says, "There she goes!" "Gone where? Gone from my sight - that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was was...