Crunchy Betty
Food on Your Face
Over the next two months, I plan on posting several gifting ideas - so we can all get ready for ... dum dum dum ... the holidays.
This year, I took the handmade pledge for Christmas gifts (only buying or making gifts I …
Every once in a while, I receive a question from a reader that I'm not sure I can thoroughly answer. When that happens, I want to turn to you - you with your wit and wisdom, to help out the reader, the crowd, and …
Water kefir is, in fact, a bacterial yeast culture (that looks like little odd-shaped jelly-pearls) that converts sugar into fructose and imparts incredible probiotic goodness into the water you keep it in.
Think of it as …
THE BOOK IS READY!
Today is the day everything changes - for you and for me and for us.
I've written an incredibly detailed page RIGHT HERE all about the book - you can peek inside, you can watch a video of me making …
In honor of the impending release of the book, I worked up THREE gorgeous recipes here using the fruit that's on my face on the cover of the book.
Lemon, kiwi, and strawberries.
And because I want everyone to play along, …
Mine is a quiet revolution.
As the world takes to the streets in defiance, I take to my life in peace.
Mine is a quiet revolution.
As the world has days of rage, so I have days of self-discovery.
Mine is a quiet …
This book has me terrified. I'm not exaggerating.
I keep telling myself, "More people read the blog you post to several times a week than will ever read this book."
Like that's supposed to make me feel better.
It …
A few days ago, Tikva asked a question in the Crunchy Community that I see a lot.
In a nutshell: What do we do with that cabinet full of icky products we no longer want to use on our bodies or in our homes?
This is a …
As loyal Crunchy Betty readers, you're more aware than most people about what products you put on your body and what they contain. So you know from experience that you can create handmade products that are just as good, or …
Have you ever wanted to do something so new and exciting, you could hardly sit still? You know what I mean; that thought, that idealistic concept that seems perfect, if you can execute it correctly?
A concept, an …
Somewhere between the simplicity of making your own facial masks and the distant and far-off world of precision artisanal soap-making live a few homemade pursuits that I've yet to try. They're in that gray, hazy land of "Am …
For months, I've been slowly chewing on Jeanne Rose's Herbal Body Book, published in 1976.
It's so lovely and just overflowing with excellent bath and body recipes for every skin type and issue known to man. If I may, …
I really want to ...
I keep meaning to ...
I'll do it tomorrow ...
I'm so curious about this, but ...
BANNED.
Those statements are banned from your vocabulary for the month of September. Got it? You're …
One of my biggest pet peeves since starting this journey into making household products is putting deliciously nontoxic cleaners into empty plastic spray bottles.
It just seems so wrong on so many levels. If we're trying …
I just asked Skip to help me with inspiration to introduce this homemade all-purpose cleaner, because it's refreshingly effective and so easy to make. It zips away grease and stuck-on grime like a magician disappearing a …
Remember when we defined "crunchy" a while back?
(That day was beautiful.)
Well, we also came up with the term "soggy" to represent products that were ... well ... the opposite of crunchy.
To take it further: I'd …
All day – all day – I spent trying to figure out how to tint lip gloss with food so it didn’t contain water, so we wouldn’t have to worry about preservatives. No go. And, actually, Crunchy Amanda …
Hello, lovelies.
If you have not written your letter to a loved one yet, I highly suggest you do so now. Before reading any further.
Because I'm about to reveal the purpose of this, and it will be far more meaningful …
Today we're going to do something wholly different.
It's a two-parter, which is why I'm getting a jump on things. The second part of this exercise will happen Monday afternoon at some point.
It will be the moment when …
Lord help me, people. I've spent the last two days trying to write a concise, easy guide to essential oils and their safety, and it ended up being just an enormous dump of information that no would want to ingest in a single …
You know how, if your pants fall down just a little tiny bit when you're leaning over and a millimeter of your crack shows? A MILLIMETER?
Everyone CAN see that. Everyone sees it. Even the men in the space …
What does "crunchy" mean to you?
While you're reading, ponder this.
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You belong to a tribe. If you're reading this, if you've ever commented on this site, if this reaches your email inbox, if you've sent me an …
Meet Binky. She’s a good robot, as far as robots go. She’s a little immodest, but we won’t hold that against her. Binky serves two purposes. She gives and she gets. When she gives, it is good. What she …
Who noticed? The distress ink in the picture tile tutorial? I didn’t say a word about it. Today, though, I’m going to. Say several words about it. (And at the bottom you’ll find a whole heap o’ photos …
