Smashed Pumpkin Pie Soap

Fall is upon us which means lots and lots of pumpkins. Pumpkins inspire, yummy pies and creative fall decor. Did you know? Pumpkin high in many nutrients that are wonderful for healthier skin.

Pumpkin is packed full of the following:

Vitamin A which acts as a mild cleanser that soothes and softens all skin types.

Zinc can help soothe irritated skin.

Alpha-Hydroxy acids gently exfoliate dead skin cells, revitalize the skin and draw out unwanted impurities.

Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant which help to preserve healthy skin cells.

All of these nutrients means that pumpkin is a natural and healthy way to care for your skin. It helps with sun spots, premature aging, clogged pores, and a dull, and uneven complexion. Fall is the perfect time to give our Smashed Pumpkin Pie Soap a try.

New Botanical Bath Bombs

Who doesn't love a warm relaxing bath? I know that I am a bath nut. I have exciting news to share.

Natural Garden Soaps “New” Bath Bombs are the best way to enjoy bath time, drop one in your bath to make it instantly relaxing and aromatic.

Our new botanical bath bombs are a whopping 7.5 ounces each. Use a whole bath bomb in one bath or break it in half to enjoy in two baths.

We've added 3 awesome smelling bath bombs to our list of organic and natural skincare. Be sure to try our new bath bombs, now available in Rosemary Mint, Jasmine and Lavender.

Our bombs are scented with the finest essential oils, no artificial fragrances used. The essential oils are sure to soothe and relax your mind, body and spirit.  Our botanical bombs are beautifully infused with organic dried rose petals, lavender buds, and peppermint leaves for a wonderful natural scent.

Lie down and soak up the moisture from the nourishing organic sweet almond oil and skin softening ingredients.

Shop our new Bath Bombs { Natural Garden Soaps }.

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you will stop back by often.

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Natural Pest Control Tips

In my opinion there is no need to use toxic chemicals to control pests such as ants, flies, or cockroaches.  Let me tell you, the cockroaches down here in Florida are large enough to be listed with the post office to receive their own mail.  Eeekkk!  To keep these unwanted visitors from setting up a resident in my home, I do everything I can to make my home an un-appealing destination for them to live.  If a few creatures do make it into our home, natural homemade deterrents and traps will quickly make them want to leave.  It puts my mind at ease that our at home pest control is natural and doesn't danger myself, my family, our kitty Midnight or the environment.

Here are a few ways in which I control those unwanted pests.

Planted Herbs to Keep Ants Away

I plant lavender and peppermint around our house to keep the ants away.  I place them in ground and in pots around doorways, and I place small pots of mint in window sills.

Natural Ant Powder

Dried peppermint, cayenne, and borax help to deter ants.

¼ Cup of Dried Peppermint

¼ Cup of Powdered Cayenne

¼ Cup of Borax

Mix the ingredients together; and sprinkle the powder around the area where ants are entering.

Essential Oil Cockroach Repellent

Cockroaches don’t like the scent of eucalyptus or rosemary essential oils.  I place a few drops of essential oil on a cotton ball and place it in an area where I have seen a pesky roach.

Homemade Fly Paper

It is super easy to create your own fly paper by spreading molasses onto strips of bright yellow poster board.  Punch a hole at the top and hang the strips with string wherever the flies are a nuisance.

In effort to control bugs on a daily basis here are few things that I do.  I cut off their food source by cleaning up dishes immediately after meals.  Everyday I wipe down my kitchen counters for crumbs, often more than once.  I wash out all of the bottles, jars, and cans that I place in my recycling bins.  I try very hard to eliminate hiding places, getting rid of unneeded paper, bags, and cardboard boxes.

I hope that you found this natural pest control tips helpful.

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Garden Rosemary Soap

Rosemary has a long history as a popular scent,

and as a natural remedy.

No wonder it is one of the most beloved soaps by our customers

of Natural Garden Soaps.

This soap’s scent is created by a wonderful blend of rosemary essential oil,

and our own dried, crushed garden rosemary leaves.

Your skin will love this Garden Rosemary soap bar

with a light exfoliation just as much as your nose.

The three tropical oils of olive, coconut and palm

provides your skin a lavish moisturizer.

This aromatherapy soap, Garden Rosemary bar will pamper

you with many amazing benefits.

Rosemary soap will have positive effect on your performance and mood.

This soap will help re-hydrate and tone the skin, keeping it taut and healthy.

The rosemary acts as an astringent, reducing wrinkles.

The rosemary oil in this soap will help stimulate blood circulation when you wash.

After you shower with this soap you may notice a boost in your concentration,

focus, memory and mental awareness.

Once you try this soap, you may fall in love with it’s

refreshing herbal aroma.

Have you ever used our Garden Rosemary?

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Quick Facial Sauna

Steaming is absolutely a part of your regular skincare regimen.  Professional estheticians and frequent spa goers understand its benefits of a steam facial.  I love to save money so I skip the bill, and do your own 10 minute at home three times a month.  The steam draws toxins out of pores, and softens the skin.

How it works!  The steam gently heats up the delicate facial skin causing you to sweat, the pores to open up,  and the impurities are flushed out through the open pores.

Are you looking for a quick and easy steam facial?  Here it is a easy herbal tea facial sauna recipe to try at home.

DIY Quick Facial Sauna

Pour four cups of boiling water over one tea bag each of chamomile and peppermint in a large heatproof bowl.  Let is steep uncovered for about two minutes, then make a towel tent over your head and the bowl.  Stay under the towel for 10 minutes capture all of the wonderful steam.

Steaming works for all skin types but if you suffer from severe acne or Rosacea, do NOT steam. The heat exposure will irritate your skin.

GO ahead and pampering yourself with a steam facial, sure you have the time.

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Honey, Honey, Honey

Everything you might not know about honey . . . and more!

Honey is one of nature’s purest ingredients, the sticky goodness is the result of hard many working honeybees.

Honey changes it’s texture and appearance over time, and is sensitive to its environment.  Amazingly some batches of honey appear to be thousands of years old and do not go bad.

Bees have been producing honey for at least 150 million years.

Did you know that honey bees must visit approximately two million flowers to make one pound of honey.  They are extremely hard working bees.

Honey has antiseptic powers, and assists in creating a protective barrier on burns or cuts.  It helps in the skin’s natural processes of healing itself and fighting off infection.  

Our Honey Bee & Oatmeal Soap has super softening powers thanks the honey, which is blended into each fresh batch of soap.  Our Almond Body Scrub Cubes contains honey, adding to its effective scrubbing powers.  We at Natural Garden Soaps add honey to many of our natural skin care products.  Honey is a wonderful ingredient because it is a great moisturizer, and adds a rich texture to our products.

Depending on the source of the nectar, the honey produced can range in color, texture, scent and taste. Every batch of honey is different, thanks to differences in weather and flowers used for production from season to season.

Honeybees are only dangerous when they are defending their colony, when they are buzzing about in the garden they are perfectly harmless.

Once bees settle into a new spot, it can take only 72 hours for them to begin producing honey. They are the ultimate team workers!

Have allergies? Take a teaspoon a day of a honey made from the region where you live, and it will aid in developing resistance to pollen.  Therefore reducing your seasonal allergies.

I love to contribute to community efforts, and I purchase honey harvested locally.

I appreciate all of the hard working honey bees producing honey out there in the world.  Honey is one of nature’s finest gifts, and a remarkable, sticky and truly amazing God given substance.

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Keepin' It Fresh

Natural Garden Soaps keeps the fresh in handmade soaps and skin care goodies.  We only use the freshest, skin nourishing ingredients, and mixed them together in small batches by hand.  We always strive to create products that feed the skin with the freshest organic ingredients possible.

We include fresh organic fruits, vegetables, herbs, honey, flowers, chocolate, oils, butters, seaweed, and other scrumptious ingredients in our soaps, body lotions, and scrubs.  All of the ingredients in our bath and body products are good enough to eat, so it makes total sense that they are wonderful for your skin care regimen.

We only select fresh ingredients for our skin care products that are beneficial to the skin, and feed the mind, body and soul.  We don’t use any man made artificial fragrances, only pure aromatherapy essential oils.  We carefully choose ingredients that are packed full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants to improve the skin health.

Check out some of our yummy products at Natural Garden Soaps.

Experience the difference that organic skin care can make for yourself.

Your skin will love you for IT!

We take great pride in helping you keep your skin looking young and fresh.

Who doesn't want fresh and healthy skin?  Right?



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Lavender Essential Oil

Lavender essential oil is one of the most gentle, and useful essential oils, with a soft  floral and herbal scent.  It is gentle enough to be used directly full strength on the skin and it is suitable for all skin types.  Its aroma is known for its relaxing, calming effects to the central nervous system.  Lavender also has an amazing ability to heal, balance, and tone all skin types.

Lavender Essential Oil Uses:

If I am feeling nervous, I take several deep inhalations of lavender essential oil directly from the bottle to calm my nervous anxiety.

I like to keep lavender essential oil inside of my first aide kit to use to relieve sunburns, insect bites, cuts, blemishes and to induce sleep.

I combine dried ground lavender buds with powdered oatmeal, add water to make a paste.  I use this wonderful mixture as a calming facial cleanser.

To deter bugs naturally, I sprinkle dried lavender into file boxes with paper documents, or behind shelved books.

I like to dab lavender essential on my little ones feet just before bedtime for a calming effect and peaceful sleep.

I place a few drops of lavender oil on a cloth, then toss it in the dryer with our laundry.  It adds a wonderful scent which naturally deodorizes and freshens our clothes.

Do you have any favorite uses for lavender essential oil?

Smiles, Paula




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Lavender Soap

I love the soft floral scent of Lavender Soap.

I love to indulge in the shower with the heavenly smell of lavender,

it helps me to relax after a long day.

Amazing aromatherapy soap infused with lavender essential for its

wonderful calming effect, and soothing skin care benefits.

This soap gives my skin a gentle exfoliation from the

dried and crushed lavender buds.

Garden Lavender Soap is perfect for any skin types;

dry, sensitive, or normal.

Enriched with skin softening oils of olive, coconut and palm

this mild bubbly soap is a customer favorite as well as mine.

Garden Lavender Soap is available for purchase at:

Natural Garden Soaps

Smiles, Paula


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Peppermint Essential Oil Uses

I love the strong, fresh, clean, and minty aroma of peppermint essential oil.

Peppermint essential oil can be both energizing and soothing.

Here are ten everyday uses for Peppermint Essential Oil:

1. Place a drop of Peppermint oil on the tongue, and inhale to relieve congestion.
2. Add peppermint oil in a foot bath to relieve tired and sore feet.
3. Place a drop of Peppermint oil on the tongue to fight bad breath.
4. Rub a drop of oil under the nose to help improve alertness and concentration.
5. Inhale before a workout to help boost your mood and performance.
6. Rub a few drops of peppermint oil on the tummy to treat a stomach ache.
7. Massage a few drops of peppermint oil into the scalp to promote hair growth.
8. Use soaps with peppermint oil they provide a cooling effect, and nourish dull skin.
9. Add a drop of peppermint essential oil to herbal tea to help aid normal digestion.
10. Treat bad breath by adding a drop of peppermint oil to your toothpaste.
    
    
    
    
    
    Peppermint is one of the most versatile oils,
    I love to keep it on hand at home.
    
    
    Do you have any uses for peppermint essential oil?
    
    

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