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You will need the following:

1.¾ cup 3% hydrogen peroxide (you have to buy this in a chemical store)

2.¼ cup lemon juice

3.¾ cup baking soda

4.10-12 drops of lemon essential oil

5.7 cups of distilled water

Directions:

1.Put all the materials together in a big container (select one that can hold at least a half gallon).

2.Shake them well.

3.Use 1 cup of this DIY bleach per laundry load.

With this great combination you will have brighter, good smelling clothes plus it’s does not irritate your nose and skin while using it.

Just pay attention to keep the hydrogen peroxide in a cool, dark place and if possible in an amber bottle to retain its potency. Your lemon essential oil must also be kept in a cool and dark area. Remember that when sunlight hits it, the potency will gradually decrease.

Effective Washing Tips:

Use this effective washing tip for brighter and cleaner clothes.

– It is a must to soak extra dirty clothes overnight. Put a half to one cup of this homemade DIY bleach alternative. Add laundry powder.

-Wash extra dirty clothes twice to completely get rid of hidden grime at every corner of your cloth.

-Use warm water in washing.

Enjoy making this exciting project of natural DIY homemade bleach! Share your experiences to your friends and be proud of being a junior home-chemist! Nothing beats the joy of being able to make it your own!

The effects of the most common condition, however (not the other condistions) can be uncomfortable and unpleasant. But most thyroid problems can be relieved if they’re diagnosed and treated properly.

Here’s tea you can make to improve the performance of the thyroid:

Ingredients:

– 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

– 7 cups purified water

– 3/4 Cup fresh squeezed orange juice (approx 3 oranges)

– 1/4 tsp ground ginger

– 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

– 1 cup unsweetened 100% cranberry juice

– 1/4 Cup fresh squeezed lemon juice (approx1-2 lemons)

How to make it:

Boil the water. Add in the cranberry juice and then reduce to low heat. Add the other ingredients (nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon). Then stir and steep simmering of raround 20 minutes. Let the liquid cool to around room temperature. Then stir in the orange and lemon juices. You can now drink the beverage with ice.

Dry feet can be painful and inconvenient — cracking and hard-heeled.

So how can you get silky smooth skin on your feet?

One way involves ordinary baking soda. Why? Antiseptic properties in the soda.

NOTE: It’s also a quite inexpensive footcare tool.

How to do it:

You require: four or five liters of water and around 3 tbsp of baking soda. Measurements don’t need to be exact — it’s ingredients to create a soaking bath for your feet.

Get the water hot and dissolve the baking soda in it. Soak your feet for a quarter of an hour or so.

Then, when you’re done, give your feet a rubbing with a scrub brush or other instrument for foot cleaning. After that, rub vasoline or nutrient cream on your feet. Put on some cotton socks and keep them on for a couple few hours.

You should notice a difference after just one proceedure. Keep doing it daily for 5 days or a week. Then you can take a week off and do it again for a week. Do this week on, week off thing for three six weeks (three week-long treatments).

Hope your feet feel better.

Did you know stawberries don’t require much space to grow? And that they grow quickly? And that they do well in containers — just as good as planted in the ground?

How to grow them indoors year-round:

You require:

A strawberry plant

Directions:

A strawberry pot

Potting mix

Where are you going to get the plant? What type?

Organic. From a local nursery. If you have to do it the other way, get it from a big chain and non-organic, but maybe you’ll want to make up for this by giving some baby plants to others.

The pot:

Best is a container with drainage.

How to do it:

Put the plant in water for an hour or thereabouts, then plant it in your pot. Your plant is going to have it’s roots pointing straight downward in the soil, remember that. That’s best for it to grow.

Fill the pot first with soil, then insert your plant, and fill in around it. When you reach around 2 inches under the pot’s rim, stop adding. You want the soil up to the green of the plant (called the “collar”). Not the leafs — you want it up to where the plant stem turns green.

Water the plant.

It’s ready. Now it needs nurturing: 6 hours or more of sun each day.

NOTE: Do not overwater a strawberry plant. Check up on your plant daily. You can put a finger into the dirt to make sure it gets 1 or 2 inches of water. Morning is the best time to water. It will better prevent disease than watering at night. The soil should always be moist, not wet.

You can turn your plants 180 degrees so both sides get light. Do this two times each week, just like if you had pots outdoors.

You can eat them as soon as they’re ripe.

Yoga has a lot of health benefits, though. The flexibility of limbs, mental clarity, focus. Saying this though, if you have been suffering from chronic pain for a while and it is limiting you to do daily tasks, you may find that doing some research into other alternative methods could work a lot better. Even if you chose to buy concentrates online, that could be a start to relieving your chronic pain. Once you’ve had a look at the concentrates that are available to you, the next step is finding a way to help you intake these concentrates in a way that you think is best. Some people prefer to inhale them through vape pens but it can be hard to choose a device if you’ve never had to give it a second thought. You can Visit the website here to get started on relieving your pain.

If you do want to give it a go, here’s some ways you can use Yoga to heal chronic pain.

Breathing for Healing

The basis of controlled breathing is being conscious of breath, and controlling the way you inhale, hold and exhale. Breathing has notable effects on the body — it can make us upset or it can make us calm.

According to a study done at the U of San Francisco in 2012, learning Yoga-style breathing can improve breathing rate, and participants also benefited when they became able to hold their breath for extended lengths of time — their emotional and mental wellbeing was boosted in general, according to the researchers.

Alleviation of Joint Pain and Yoga

Stiffness of your joints doesn’t have to be so bad you can’t do Yoga. How? Learning how. That can be done with a skilled practitioner. You should still exercise caution in this. Be honest with your instructor about your health situation.

Yoga can help loosen up stiffness. You don’t need that much strength of flexibility to start exercise like Yoga. You can start small, like sitting or standing. After you get comfortable this, you can continue to go further, but even sitting and standing Yoga can help.

There’s a reason there are classes and books for things like Yoga. Partly it’s to show what others have learned and developed in the practice. It will give you ideas and things to try. It will also show you things that others also know about it. Some things (moves, positions, techniques) are more difficult than others, so be careful when proceeding with these. Be safe. Take care of yourself.

From the beginning to the end of my project. I started with raw sheep wool, then cleaned it, combed it, spun it, plied it, wove it into fabric, and finally constructed a dress. I also made all of my own tools: the wool combs, drop spindle, backstrap loom, and dress form.

Also, before this project I had never done anything fiber or wood or metal related so my knowledge for each part of the process started at zero.

My grey wool came from a sheep called Angelina, who lives on a farm in Pennsylvania. She is a crossbreed of Romney, Lincoln, and Blue Faced Leicester. I also had some white wool, don’t remember the name of that sheep though.

The first step was to separate locks of wool from the dirty mass of fleece.

The locks had to be gently soaked in boiling water six times until the water ran clear (too nervous to use the washing machine). I used dish soap for the first few rinses to get rid of the lanolin.

I used the wood and metal shops at my school to make a pair of wool combs.

After the clean wool was dry, I transferred the wool back and forth between the combs. After doing this several times, the wool was soft and the fibers aligned. I then slowly pulled the wool off the combs into a roving (although I think it might actually be called combed top).

I used the wood shop to make a drop spindle.

To spin, I built up twist in the yarn and then drafted out the roving until it is the desired thickness, and let the twist travel up the wool. Once the entire spindle was full, I plied the yarn back upon itself using the Andean plying method. Plying helps strengthen the yarn and balance the twist energy.

The skeins of yarn I spun, totaling around 643 yards. The colors are entirely natural; I didn’t dye the wool. I achieved the different shades of grey by carefully sorting the locks of wool before spinning them.

I based my loom on traditional backstrap looms, but adapted it in order to avoid fringes. From left to right the components of the loom are: loom bar, warp threads, lease sticks, paper towel tube to open shed, string heddle to open other shed, beater stick, woven material, loom bar, backstrap. The shuttle used to pass weft threads through the shed is off to the side.

I constructed the dress out of three pieces. The white waistband, the dark grey bust, and the light grey skirt. I had made a mockup dress using burlap so I knew exactly what size pieces to weave. I couldn’t cut the handwoven fabric lest it unravel, so the design had to be made of only rectangles. There are two darts in the skirt and two in the bust, and I sewed it by hand using the same yarn I used for weaving. The back is laced closed.

The final project. It’s completely impractical for actually wearing, but I had a lot of fun learning and figuring out each part of the process. If you are looking for wool products to actually wear yourself, there are many websites, like Ecowool that sell beautiful woollen products, they even sell some possum merino products too!

I made the dress to fit me, and it actually worked!

I don’t have a closer photo of the back, but this sort of shows the lace up system I used. It took forever to put the dress on.

Proving that it is in fact possible to move around in the dress.

Some final words: I had a lot of help throughout this project, from family to strangers to craftspeople to the internet, including a LOT of youtube.

Recently, a report on diet said it was more important to focus on sugar than cholesterol.

According to scientists at the U of California, its also worst than tobacco.

Added sugars are in around 20 percent of American food. Sweet stuff has trippled in 50 years.

Guess how much soda the average person drinks per year in the States? Over 50 gallons.

Sugar’s a lot like tobacco when it comes to addictive qualities.

It effects our bodies in a lot of negative ways, too — not just tooth rot. Obesity and a host of health issues are tied to sugar. You probably know how you feel after eating a significant amount of sugar at once.

In recent decades, obstacles to people indulging in tobacco smoking have gone up. Why? Proof that tobacco smoke causes lung cancer and other health issues, with some guiding smokers to start vaping instead offering it as a “healthier” alternative such as Juul Pods (that are so prevalent in high schools around the USA at the moment) over cigarettes.

Sugar has been linked to diabetes type 2. One of the obstacles to “proving” sugar causes diabetes type 2, though, is that there hasn’t been established a way to measure how much sugar is eaten.