This website is dedicated to providing tested recipes for simple and food-grade personal care and cleaning products.
I make samples of these recipes and donate them to Seattle-area non-profits so they can auction them off as part of fundraisers. This is a way for me to support causes and organizations I care about, while sharing samples of some of my favorite homemade products. My hope is that people who buy my baskets at auctions will like these products and use my recipes to make them for themselves, in their own homes.
This website and product donations are fully funded out of my own personal pocket, as charitable contributions. I have no sponsors and I don’t make any profit. Any links to other websites or authors are included to give credit to my sources.
Acknowledgements: Logo by Max. Photo by Vibes In Focus Photography.
Disclaimer: The recipes in this website have not been reviewed, tested, or approved by any official testing body or government agency. This author and this website shall incur no liability or be held responsible for any person or entity regarding any loss of life or injury, alleged or otherwise, that happened directly or indirectly as a result of using the information contained in this website. The author does not offer any legal or medical advice. If the case you are ill, you should always consult with a medical specialist.
About me
My name is Erika and I live in Seattle, Washington. Coming up in Seattle in the 1970s and 80s, I thought that organic produce was bougie, that meditation was for the fringe, herbal remedies for people who had extra money and too much free time. That was not me, I thought.
Fast forward to five years ago: at work I was tasked with writing a vision of a toxic-free future. I imagined a future woman who didn’t keep her cleaning supplies in high cupboard out of reach from kids and pets. I imagined her spilling dish soap on the floor and laughing when her dog licked it up. Companies competed to have the shortest ingredient lists on their products, and consumers only bought products that were safe for their bodies and the environment. This vision stuck with me and one day, I thought: why don’t I just do this? No need to wait for an edible future—could I do this in my own home?
I am not a certified anything. I just started experimenting with items I had in my cupboard already. Baking soda, vinegar, coconut oil, witch hazel… Consulted the internet to see how these everyday things could be combined and used instead of all the things I had been buying special products to do, to clean my body and my home. I looked for recipes that were easy, simple, inexpensive, food grade, and that worked. I wrote down the recipes in a little notebook and kept making the things that I liked. I was surprised at how easy it all was.
The other morning, I sleepily dipped my toothbrush into my tub of deodorant instead of my toothpaste. I woke up quick, surprised at the unexpected taste, but no harm, no foul. While not tasty, my deodorant is completely edible. I laughed out loud—here I was, living the future I had envisioned. This is what I want to share with you.