My family has been making and enjoying milk kefir for about two years now. It was the second homemade fermented food we tried, after yoghurt. I found homemade yoghurt too time consuming and too fussy to prepare for my liking, and although it was fun and rewarding at first, I got tired of the heating,
I now make all our toiletries myself. By toiletries, I mean lotions and potions like face cream, body cream, deodorant, insect repellent, sun screen, and nappy balm (we call it bum balm!). While there are many commercially made eco-friendly, cruelty-free products available these days, I don’t buy them because in general, I find them hideously
I have to begin this post by saying that I have been blessed with very good teeth. Now, at the age of 38 and after two pregnancies, I have only one tiny filling behind my two front teeth. Thanks to my mum and dad’s foresight when I was a teenager, I have a very orthodontically-engineered
Since puberty, I have considered myself slightly unfortunate for having ‘oily’ genes. Photos of me in my early twenties almost always featured reflective patches on my face, as the light bounced off my oily skin. I’m not quite sure how or when it came to be that I needed to wash my hair at least