Shampoo and conditioners can contain endocrine-disrupting chemicals that add to the toxic load in your body. After investigating conventional shampoos and finding so many endocrine-disrupting & toxic ingredients, we decided to share some homemade shampoo recipes you can make at home at your leisure containing ingredients that are easy to find …
25 Ways Apple Cider Vinegar Will Change Your Life
Apple cider vinegar is incredibly versatile and can be used in many way around your home. You've trusted Mamavation to bring you topics like safest cookware without PFAS and nanoparticles, best organic mattresses, & best air purifiers, now join us as we bring you 25 ways that apple cider vinegar will change your life. Did you know that apple …
How to Can Tomatoes to Avoid BPA–Canning 101 for Beginners
Did you keep a garden this summer? Have too many tomatoes on your hands? My favorite part of this time of year is preparing foods from my garden, local farmers, or the surplus from my gardening friends and family. I can the leftover tomatoes to use during the winter. When you garden from your backyard, you know exactly what has gone into the food …
5 Ways Turmeric Can Change Your Life (Recipes Included!)
Turmeric is a spice native to India, used frequently in Indian cuisine and Ayurvedic medicine, as well as an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine. It contains a very powerful antioxidant called curcumin which works to expel cancer-causing free radicals from the body. With everything in this day and age being chemically treated or artificially …
Mamavation’s Top 100 Healthy Recipe Blogs
When you’re looking for healthy and delicious recipes, it can get quite overwhelming! There are hundreds and hundreds of recipe blogs out there that claim to be healthy, but still share recipes that are full of refined sugars and processed foods. We've already brought you the Top 100 Healthy Mom Blogs, but we couldn't stop there! We had to bring …
Real Food Lunchbox Recipes: How to Survive School Lunch
It's back to school season and everywhere kids are likely dreading it. They don't want to leave carefree summers behind for homework and a scheduled daily routine. Meanwhile, parents are secretly rejoicing that they have a bit more time to themselves after carpool duty. But, perhaps parents and children are dreading one of the same things– school …
Organic Kid Friendly Recipes
I really enjoy cooking for my family. My husband always says he will eat whatever I cook for him. Unfortunately, my three year old isn't quite as willing to try my home cooking. He's entered that stage where he thinks everything is "yucky", even if he liked it yesterday. This can make meal times a challenge, and I'm sure finding kid friendly …
Three Organic Classic Recipes with a Twist: All for $25
Sometimes you run out of ideas when cooking, or at least you think you've run out of ideas. The easiest way to come up with a new culinary creation is to simply adapt classic recipes. That's exactly how I came up with this week's budget friendly organic meals. I've tweaked the recipes that my family loves and made them new and improved. This was …
Healthy Cookout Recipes
Heading out for a cookout this weekend and looking for some recipes that will be tasty and healthy at the same time? This past Monday's show with Jasmine (Healthy Jasmine) and Liza (aMusingFoodie) brought us multiple recipes for really tasty yet healthy options. If you're hosting the party and planning the menu, try to keep things simple. Go …
Recipes for the Busy Family
Most of us are so busy during the week (and even the weekends) that we find ourselves struggling to put a decent, healthy dinner on the table for our families. Sometimes, that pushes us to pick something up through a drive-thru or the grocery deli which leads to feeding our families processed junk. During our last Mamavation TV show, Leah was …