A completely natural way to care for your wood furniture that doubles up as a moisturiser too! Wood you believe it? (Sorry, we couldn’t resist!) Ingredients: 2oz beeswax 6oz olive oil Essential oils of choice to scent (optional) Method: Melt the beeswax in a bain marie or double boiler until it… Read More
You don’t need to use an expensive olive oil for this polish. Inexpensive brands will work just as well and have exactly the same effect. Ingredients: 250ml olive oil 100ml lemon juice Method: Pour both ingredients into a trigger spray bottle. Amazon have a very cheap selection. Make sure the bottle… Read More
No, I haven’t completely lost my mind. Hear me out. According to the website Love Food Hate Waste we throw out more than 15 million tonnes of food in the UK each year. Almost 50% of this figure, they say, comes from our homes. Every week families throughout the UK spend money on food… Read More
Forget store bought glass and window cleaning sprays. You can make your own with just two ingredients at a fraction of the cost. A 50 pence bottle of distilled vinegar makes almost four batches of this glass cleaning mixture, resulting in each batch costing little over 12 pence a bottle. That’s a big… Read More
Three ingredients is all it takes to make almost 5 litres of your very own laundry detergent. At only 50 pence per unit the total cost comes to only £1.50 – a huge saving on store bought washing powder! Ingredients: 2 x Dove Soap Bars 500g Soda Crystals 4.5 litres water … Read More
Formulating a workable and practical budget is one of the most important steps towards streamlining your personal finances. Budgets might need to be modified to incorporate unexpected or sudden expenses but by and large, basic patterns remain constant. Creating a family budget will not only help you regulate needless expenditure but also helps… Read More