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101 Easy Homemade Products Book Review + Giveaway

03/18/2016 26 Comments

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One hundred and one easy homemade products….for your skin, health and home!

101 Easy Homemade Products for Skin, Health, & Home - Review plus Giveaway

Ever wonder what the wild dandelions in your yard can be transformed into?  Or how the ever-so-pesky-weedy plantain be turned to good use?  Jan Berry from The Nerdy Farm Wife has the perfect solutions for that.  Jan creates amazing herbal remedies from her garden.  Her passion for cost-efficient, beautiful yet practical DIY recipes is transparent in her new book set to release March 29, 2016.

When I ventured into making my own natural products for my family, I had no idea what I was doing, yet I knew that it was a much better alternative than the store-bought, toxic counterparts. I simmered soap nuts in a pot of water, melted beeswax for candles and lip balms in a double boiler, and made hand soap out of castile. I didn’t understand the science behind it and frankly, it didn’t matter to me.

101 Easy Homemade Products for Skin, Health, & Home - Review plus Giveaway

Chamomile Lip Scrub

After a drastic change in our diet, I soon thereafter realized that it was just as important to rid our homes from toxic household cleaners and beauty products and that was enough of a conviction to go onto a DIY binge. Because of my addiction to lip balms (yes, there is such a thing) I felt compelled to have the lip balm as my first handmade product. As most people do, I turned to the world wide web and stumbled upon Jan Berry’s The Nerdy Farm Wife blog where I found clear instructions and tutorials complete with beautiful images on how to make lip balms, bath salts and face creams.  Granted this was many years ago and her blog has grown immensely and has become a wealth of useful information and herbal remedies for both the novice and seasoned experts.

101 Easy Homemade Products for Skin, Health, & Home - Review plus Giveaway

Honey & Chamomile Cream

101 Easy Homemade Products for Your Skin, Health and Home – Jan Berry

Jan begins the book by listing all the common herbs and flowers amongst us that can potentially provide effective products for our skin, health, and home.

Some of these common plants include:
  • Chamomile as seen in Honey & Chamomile Cream
  • Daisy for the succulent Daisy Vanilla Lip Balm
  • Dandelion for Dandelion Magnesium Lotion
  • Calendula for Dry Shampoo for Light Hair Tones (cannot wait to try this one)
  • Nettle for Herbal Dry Shampoo for Dark Hair Tones (she plays fair)
  • Lavender as seen in Lavender Castile Soapy Facial Cleanser
There were some new-to me plants as well:
  • Dianthus  for Floral Salt Foot Scrub Bars
  • Hollyhock (marsh mallow’s cousin – the plant not the treat 🙂 ) for a Hollyhock Split-End Crème

Jan has an entire section on proper preservation and preparation of plants and different methods for using them to infuse oils for all your DIY herbal needs.  Speaking of oils, she uses a variety of 22 different oils and butters in her recipes but that doesn’t mean you have to run out to purchase all 22 different ones.  Some of the popular oils like coconut, neem and grapeseed oil grace the pages of this book but she also lists substitutions like Babassu oil for those who are sensitive to coconut products.  Though these oils have variety of properties and serve different purposes, I’m sure there’s something for everyone in 101 Easy Homemade Products.

She even has a section dedicated to your furry friends, with recipes like Itchy Skin Rinse and Flea-Repelling Powder.

101 Easy Homemade Products for Skin, Health, & Home - Review plus Giveaway

Vanilla Rose Bath Melts

Then there are the recipes….

This, of course, is the best part of the book.  Jan’s recipes are simple enough that a beginner DIYer will have the confidence to pursue herbal DIY yet sophisticated enough to be an effective remedy.  Her instructions are clear and she offers tips and variations in certain recipes.  She captures the beautiful, natural concoctions with stunning photography.

Jan rounds out this book with an extensive list of resources, from where to buy supplies and ingredients to herbal education.

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed gazing through the pages of 101 Easy Homemade Products for Your Skin, Health & Home and am confident that you will love this guide, tutorial, herb informational, and recipe collection all in one.

Jan’s 101 Easy Homemade Products for Your Skin, Health & Home will be released to the public on March 29, 2016 and can be purchased through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indie Bound, and Amazon UK.

101 Easy Homemade Products for Skin, Health, & Home - Review plus Giveaway

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Giveaway will go through Thursday, March 30, 2016, 11:59 pm PST and is available worldwide.  Seven paperback copies will be given away.

Giveaway Rules: This giveaway is in no way endorsed, affiliated, or associated with Facebook, Twitter or any other Social Media Networking Site. This Giveaway is valid World Wide and Entrants must be 18+ years of age to enter. This giveaway event will end at 11:59 PM (PST) 3/30/16. The winners will have 48 hours to email their information back to anya at prepareandnourish dot com or a new winner will be drawn. The publishing company and author are each responsible for shipping of the above prizes. No blog associated with this contest are responsible for prize fulfillment.

Disclaimer: The information in 101 Easy Homemade Products for Your Skin, Health & Home: A Nerdy Farm Wife’s All-Natural DIY Projects Using Commonly Found Herbs, Flowers & Other Plants is provided for informational purposes only. It is not intended to be substituted for the advice provided by your doctor or other health care professional. If you rely upon any programs or techniques, or use any of the products and services made available by or through the use of the book or our website for decision making, without obtaining the advice of a physician or other health care professional, you do so at your own risk. I was provided a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

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  1. Jan

    03/18/2016 at

    Hi Anya,

    Thank you for writing such a lovely review of my book!

    I’m so happy that you enjoyed it and I really appreciate you sharing it with your blog readers! 🙂

    Reply
    • Anya

      03/18/2016 at

      You are very welcome, Jan. It truly is a lovely book. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Emily @ Recipes to Nourish

    03/19/2016 at

    The honey chamomile cream looks lovely! Looks like an awesome book!

    Reply
  3. Julieanna

    03/19/2016 at

    I also found Jan through a search for DIY products. Her blog is amazing and I have learned so much. Thanks for the review of her book. Now, I found another blog to follow. Thank you, Anya!

    Reply
    • Anya

      03/19/2016 at

      You are too sweet Julieanna!! Thank you for the kind words.

      Reply
  4. Katerina

    03/20/2016 at

    Ooooh, I would love to win this book and give these recipes a try…especially the “take care of mama after a hard day” kind of recipes. 🙂

    Reply
  5. Michelle Childs

    03/21/2016 at

    Beautiful book! I wouldn’t know where to begin! It all looks so divine. The chamomile honey cream looks lush!

    Reply
  6. Rebekah@naturallyblessedmama

    03/22/2016 at

    I love making homemade products!! This book looks like a lot of fun!

    Reply
  7. Vera K

    03/24/2016 at

    I would love to make some natural skin cream.

    Reply
  8. sanam hana

    03/29/2016 at

    I would like to make lip product.

    Reply
  9. Brittany Thomas

    03/29/2016 at

    The dandelion magnesium lotion sounds awesome!

    Reply
  10. Marija

    03/29/2016 at

    I’d like to try the lip balms!

    Reply
  11. craftyone

    03/29/2016 at

    i would not mind trying diy oral care.

    Reply
  12. Sarah

    03/29/2016 at

    I am slightly obsessed with herbal recipes and Jan always does SUCH a lovely job!!

    Reply
  13. Sarah D.

    03/29/2016 at

    With the start of spring, I’ve started seeing dandelions around and am hoping to use them for something!

    Reply
  14. Signe

    03/30/2016 at

    I just love Jan’s recipes and books, they are awesome! 🙂 I’d like to take a part to giveaway too.

    Reply
  15. Marissa S.

    03/30/2016 at

    The foot scrub bar sounds so cool! I’m excited to make that!

    Reply
  16. Anne

    03/30/2016 at

    I am interested in making toothpaste.

    Reply
  17. meghan B

    03/30/2016 at

    I would love to make face creams and teas!

    Reply
  18. Darlene Owen

    03/30/2016 at

    I am looking forward to making Dandelion for Dandelion Magnesium Lotion

    Reply
  19. Barbara Blanton

    03/30/2016 at

    I would like to try the foot scrub!

    Reply
  20. Julie Waldron

    03/30/2016 at

    I’m excited for the facial cleansers.

    Reply
  21. DJ

    03/30/2016 at

    I really want to make my own toothpaste. These recipes sound great!

    Reply
  22. laurie murley

    03/30/2016 at

    I don’t know what I will make with these herbs, I will look thru the book more

    Reply
  23. Lana Simanovicki

    03/30/2016 at

    I’m excited about the lotions

    Reply
  24. Angela Saver

    03/30/2016 at

    I am looking forward to making some body butter & lip scrub!

    Reply

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