Can I tell you a secret? Two secrets, actually. First, before Rowe Casa, I had never found a product for my curly hair that checked…
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Before I was known for teaching kids to cook, I was pretty well known for reviewing a whole bunch of the same kind of thing…
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A reader recently emailed in asking what I use for hand soap these days, and I knew I needed this update. Nostalgia hit hard! Would…
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This post was written by Angela Wills of Savvy Homemade. It was edited by Amanda Kay and fact-checked by Hailey Rose McLaughlin. A natural moisturizer…
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I’ll never forget the first time my husband attempted to put tinted mineral sunscreen on his face. We were in Costa Rica, and he walked…
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If you just want the quick guide to the best reef-safe sunscreens, see my top recommended brands on my sunscreen review! If you want to…
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I lend out sunscreen all the time. When you’ve tested over 120 brands, you have tins and bottles and tubes all over your house. We…
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Because my family has tested over 120 natural sunscreens to find the very best ones, and I’m known as the “Wikipedia of sunscreen,” I tend…
In America, the land of excess, it’s been a surprising feeling to have anything in short supply, nonetheless completely out. When toilet paper was impossible…
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When it comes to mineral sunscreen versus chemical sunscreen, the winner is clear in my book. It’s not always easy to explain in a clear,…
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I’ve been passionate about healthy, non-toxic soap for YEARS. It’s so important to use regular soap vs. non-antibacterial soap. Remember Triclosan, the active ingredient in…
Parabens. You may have heard the word bantered about, but are parabens bad? Just what are those nasty little buggers anyway? Should you go paraben…
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What do conventional sunscreen, drugstore lipstick, and big brand snack cakes have in common…other than that hopefully they’re not in your house? 😉 They all…
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This is a guest post from Carol Little, R.H. of Studio Botanica. Whenever I (Katie) have made homemade gifts with my kids, it’s always super…
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Back when I wrote about non-toxic nail polish (important because of all the negative health effects of the chemicals found in conventional nail polish) tons…
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If I go down in history as the Wikipedia of mineral sunscreens, I might be just a little proud of that moniker. Since 2010 my…
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My family has tested over 100 natural mineral sunscreens over the years and inevitably, we’ve found some we just don’t love as much as our…
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