In
a pinch for Mother's Day? I bet you are! Forget buying
over priced fresh flowers that were probably cut premature for the
mass demand holiday. Make these real looking "silk"
decorations for your Mom in a snap! Awesome if there are "two"
Moms to plan for! They retail for at least $44 if you were to
buy them from a silk flower company. They cost under $9 to
make your self.
Night
creams nor cleansing creams seem much different than making simple
lotion. It appears to be all in the marketing. So, I
recommend using the lotion or crème recipe above to make your
cleansing products. I looked at what I consider my favorite
creamy cleansing cream for years, Almay, and found it is basically
water and mineral oil. Yuk. After noticing that, I think I could
do better, by far. Even though I have oily skin, I understand the
purpose of adding more oil to your skin is to lift any dirt up and
out, thus I use cleansing creams and not soaps. Using
cleansing creams instead of soaps has always worked for me. I have
always known that it helps to have your face as warm as possible
when using a cleansing cream, to really open up the pores and
clean them. Cleansing crème or "milks" are simply lotion
recipes that are oil heavy. The more oil the less
preservative you need to be worried about anyway. I would
create a cleansing milk with 80% oil to 20% water. I would
also use something awesome such as black cumin seed oil as
that oil part. Read below about black cumin which comes out
a mint green if you were interested and seems to last forever
because it is full of antioxidants. This is so good no store
even sells such a thing. It would not be practical for a mass
market, for a large skin care company to depend on one raw
material.
Exchange
paper towels for cloth. Our favorite green practice actually goes
back to a trip to the United Kingdom! Generally Londoners have
less per square foot living quarters and have to make every inch of it
count. They are also very accustomed to using natural resources
sparingly. It is hard to find "paper towels" at any UK residents
abode. They use cloth and simply throw the cloth in with their
wash. After understanding that concept, we thought about just
how much we spend on paper towels per week. It was like $40 a
week in our laboratories and a good $8.00 in our households. We
went ahead and spent $50 on lots of white wash clothes and hand towels
for both areas, knowing it was the last time we would spend gobs on
paper towels. This has saved us in excess of $2,000 over a year
period. 
Deborah
Dolen is the
Editor in Chief for Mabel White DIY and author of
over 25 DIY books, 1,000 articles and several TV "how to" Films.
Deborah Dolen is also an environmental writer and has
her own content syndication. Deborah Dolen was widowed
when she was on her 30's and went on to raise three
great daughters in FL up against many obstacles. This
is the time period she generated her most fascinating DIY books.
Deborah Dolen was born in a Catholic Infant Home on Niagara Falls, the U.S. side. It was known as Our Lady of Victory. Deborah grew up in the Adirondack mountains in Upstate New York although moved around a lot and always in transition. Her teenage years were more stable and thoroughbred race horses were her passion. She skipped school a lot in the 70's to walk and groom the likes of Man o' War and Secretariat. When she was not grooming horses in Saratoga she was hitting the ski slopes of Killington in Vermont, Pikes Peak, or Gore Mountain to name a few. To this day K-2's are her favorite skis and Head are her favorite bindings.
In her 20's Deborah Dolen built some 520 legal clinics for the poor from the ground up and ran for 17 years. People simply needed affordable legal access and that still has not changed much. Having grown up poor and discriminated against-even disallowed to play with certain toys...Deborah had never been a quiet type and bucked many regimes as an adult. In the 80's she felt almost all legal fees were oppressive to the majority for no reason and feels they still are. Her organization helped well over 100,000 people. Many of those were able to teach other people in turn. As with health care, Canada does not charge its citizens for most common family law issues and Deborah feels family issues, including financial ones, should not be a feeding frenzy in the states as it still certainly is. No one should profit of the demise of another person.
Fast forward a few decades and Deborah Dolen is very much into flying and canine rescue as well as DIY projects she writes about and films from her Florida home. Although her passions have always been with horse racing she is very into auto racing, focus and performance in Daytona and Charlotte, NC. Deborah presently writes about environmental topics beyond DIY subjects that will always fascinate her. Her dog Ringo, adopted from Katrina, is usually by her side.