The Homegrown Cigar
Let me preface this by saying I don’t smoke. (Militantly so.) But I do have to understand how everything is made. So when I learned that the flowering tobacco I had […]
Let me preface this by saying I don’t smoke. (Militantly so.) But I do have to understand how everything is made. So when I learned that the flowering tobacco I had […]
Scrape black birch and it smells like wintergreen. Boil it and you’ve got the basis for an old-fashioned Americana soda that’s somewhere in the root beer family.
Sometimes called floral waters, hydrosols are a very rudimentary eau de toilette. Or a different way to think about it: the beginner’s foray into essential oil extraction. Common uses for hydrosols […]
I go through a lot of apple cider vinegar. Like, a lot. But buying the good stuff was starting to add up, and I thought: Can’t I just make this myself? So […]
Extracts are one of those things where the moment you realize how simple they are to make, you kick yourself for ever thinking you needed to buy them. This example […]
Here in New York, a garden is a lot like a walk-in closet — most of us gave up praying for one ages ago. But for those of us hell-bent […]
Soap rebatching: because sometimes s#!t happens. Why rebatch soap? Well, for any number of reasons. Maybe it cooled too quickly the first round and still needs a couple more hours. […]
I’m constantly on the lookout for new and exciting ways to cover my body in coffee. If you’ve got a half-finished pot, some spent grounds, and a basic understanding of safe soap-making […]
I have a confession: I frigging love the sun. As health-conscious as I try to be, I will happily run around outside all summer long until I turn a deep mahogany. […]
For many of us, toothpaste was our first foray into the world of DIY personal-care products. We glumped some wet baking soda onto a toothbrush and never looked back. Making […]