Many commercially-made cleaning products are created with hazardous chemicals that can cause respiratory problems, skin irritations and pollute the air in your home. When you make a natural disinfectant cleaner...

Before extraction and synthetic chemistry were invented, musculoskeletal complaints were treated with preparations from medicinal plants. They were either administered orally or topically. In contrast to the oral medicinal plant...

Insect repellents are important tools for prevention of insect-borne diseases as well as painful or uncomfortable insect bites. The 2 most effective and widely used products are N, N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide (deet),...

One of these benefits is that they rarely cause side-effects. In fact, many of these herbal medications are used to treat those that have allergic reactions or allergies in general....

Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas. It is caused primarily by human activities and climatic variations. Desertification does not refer to the expansion...

As a responsible pet owner, you can take a few simple steps that will go a long way toward keeping your pet healthy and happy. The American Animal Hospital Association...

Dry skin is caused by a loss of water in the upper layer of the skin. Emollients/moisturizers work by forming an oily layer on the top of the skin that traps...

Have you been destroying shirts in the washing machine or overpaying at the dry cleaners? Washing clothes by hand may conjure images of Snow White with a big wooden bucket,...

  Plastic shopping bags, an abundant source of litter on land and at sea, can be converted into diesel, natural gas and other useful petroleum products, researchers report. The conversion...

Ever heard of bees who use plastic bags and plastic building materials to construct their nests? There are some and this shows how they have adapted to the human world...