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What Do Laundry and Coffee Have in Common?
You know that feeling of not being able to get enough breath, because your chest is just too tight? You can take a deep breath in and let it out cathartically, but a moment later you feel breathless...
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Sunscreen, Nano-particles and Other Nasties
(Originally published September 19, 2013. Last updated April 2019) As the Australian summer comes creeping slowly towards us, the children have been told they need broad brimmed sun hats at school...
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Got a Toothache? Visit Your Kitchen Pantry
Most of us will have some traditional remedy lying around the kitchen to relieve a toothache in a pinch. But, if you’re anything like me, there were some remedies your grandmother swore by that left...
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Are Your Candles Slowly Poisoning You?
Did you know that paraffin candles are made from a petroleum waste product? That they start as a greyish-black sludge which is bleached with 100% pure bleach (whereas the bleach we consider nasty in...
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The Big C – Has it Visited Your Family?
Picture this: A member of your family – let’s say it’s your husband, but if you don’t have one of those maybe it’s your wife or parent or child – goes into the hospital via the Accident & Emergency...
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DIY Cold & Flu Remedies, for those Change of Season Bugs (Shower Disks &...
This post was first published last year as the winter came to an end. But now it’s starting up again and I have got the lurgy good and proper. So instead of spending Sunday in my office, writing this...
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My Secret Love: Rescue Gel
Well, not so secret really, since I keep a bottle next to my bed, in my bag, and often in the car too. Long time readers will know that I love to use essential oils, and that is the basis for this...
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Three Essential Oil Blends for Good Mental Health
Writing about how much I love Rescue Gel the other day reminded me that I have been meaning to share some other essential oil blends with you. Here are three lovely blends for different moments in...
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Smoking Out Big Tobacco
Tobacco kills more than seven million people each year, including around 890,000 resulting from exposure to second-hand smoke. (source) It is responsible for over 71% of all cases of lung cancer...
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Long time readers may already use my disinfectant spray or DIY disinfectant wipes in their homes… but please note these have NOT been tested against the new coronavirus currently sweeping the world....
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