Lisa Ehrman

Lisa has been blogging since 2013, and loves sharing resources and ideas for living a simple life. To get free printables, bonus words, and more - sign up for the newsletter.

Stress Less Bath And Body Collection From Aromafloria

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Disclosure: I received the collection in order to facilitate a review. All opinions are 100% my own. Affiliate link included. Stress!  Do you have stress in your life?  We all do, and all want to Stress Less.  Because I want to have less stress, I’m more than excited to try this beautiful collection from Aromafloria. Aromafloria offers wonderful and natural products that are made with Essential Oils.  In the past, I was so excited to try the Muscle Soak Collection.  Today, I’m happy to share with you the Stress Less Collection.  Essential oils included in this collection are lavender, sage, and chamomile. Lavender – Soothes and relaxes Chamomile – Calms and rejuvenates Sage – Relieves mental fatigue Essential oils in this collection are blended to help you relax.  The beautiful color of Lavender makes the experience with Stress Less even better. The Stress Less Inhalation Beads help you to experience tranquility, while still keeping a focused and sharp mind.  The beads are a beautiful lavender color.  To use them, just place them in the Inhalation Bag.  You’ll be able to inhale the wonderful scent and feel relaxed any time of day.  This little bag just may become my new best friend! Stress Less Moisturizing Body Wash also includes the three essential oils of Lavender, Chamomile, and Sage.  This body wash works naturally to cleanse and reduce stress and tension.  When you open the tube, you’re met with a beautiful fragrance.  It works well with a sponge and only takes a small squeeze to bring the relaxation-inducing scent to life. The Body Wash is pH balanced, Paraben-free, Amide-free, SLES & SLS free.  All of the products are Vegan, safe for the earth, biodegradable, sulfate and phthalate free. They don’t test on animals, either. Could you benefit from an Aroma Therapeutic Massage?  Yes, we all could.  The Stress Less Bath & Body Massage Oil nourishes your skin and absorbs quickly.  The oil penetrates deeply to relax and rejuvenate your mind, as you get a massage.  The Lavender, Chamomile, and Sage essential oils also smell amazing!  I love how it helps my dry skin. I love the Stress Less Foaming Salt Glow Polish.  You can exfoliate those dead skin cells by rubbing this luxurious polish in a circular motion.  As you scrub away stress, you’ll notice that your skin feels smoother.  How do they do that?  They combine Ocean Minerals and Pure Magnesium Sulfate.  Magnesium Sulfate is a natural mineral that helps to exfoliate and bring out smoother skin. It’s good to use the Foaming Salt Glow Polish before you use self-tanning products or shaving, because it helps to prevent ingrown hairs and allows moisturizers to penetrate your skin.  As you use this blend of Lavender, Chamomile, and Sage, you’ll experience a relaxing feeling. The Stress Less Ocean Mineral Bath Salts is perfect when you want to immerse yourself in a Lavender bath that can help you to remove the stresses of the day.  The three essential oils will help to rehydrate your skin while you soak in the tub. Natural Mineral Salts help to restore the mineral balance in your skin.  Natural salt actually contains many minerals.  These minerals help the nervous system, relieves stress, and can help to lesson water retention.  These salts are meant to draw out impurities, sweat, dirt, and oil. It can also improve circulation. Another way to enjoy the tension-reducing benefits of Lavender, Chamomile, and Sage essential oils is to take a bubble bath with Stress Less Foaming Bubble Bath.  The mild plant-based ingredients are not-drying to your skin.  Inhaling the scent could help you to relieve stress and anxiety.  It enables your skin to be cleansed and conditioned, too. Just as I loved the Aromafloria Muscle Soak Collection, I really love the Stress Less Collection.  The beautiful and natural products really work well and are packaged in lovely containers.  I enjoy using every drop of the items and think you will, as well. 2017, copyright Lisa Ehrman

HealTop Feel Great Skin-Care

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Disclosure: I was provided with the Moms over 45 Bundle for an honest review.  All opinions are 100% my own. I am not a doctor or medical expert, and make no medical claims.  If you have a medical need, please consult your personal physician. Women over 45 have changing skin-care needs.  Our skin may get dryer and lose elasticity.  I know from experience that my skin has changed a great deal.  That’s why we always notice when a new skin-care product offers us improvement. When I was provided with the Moms Over 45 Products Bundle I felt a lot of excitement.  I love trying new skin-care and health products.  When I look at my skin and see the sun damage, the dryness, and the wrinkles I am ready to try something new.  HealTop offers the Moms Over 45 Products Bundle with these great products: Feel Great Body – 100% Natural Body Cream Feel Great Face – 100% Natural Face Cream Feel Great Balance – Natural Supplement for Menopause Products are vegan, cruelty FREE, paraben/sls/artificial scents FREE, manufactured under GMP, HACCP, ISO9000, ISO22000.  This lets you see the seriousness of HealTop in their quest to offer the most natural skin care products. HealTop Feel Great balance is a supplement that focuses on our exclusive age group.  The ingredients for this supplement include: Maca, Black Cohosh, Sambucus nigra blend for women.  Maca is in the cruciferous family (like broccoli) and grows in Peru.  It is known for having a positive effect on hormone balance and energy levels. Black cohosh has been used for the symptoms of menopause.  The Sambucus, which comes from elderberries, has been used to alleviate hot flashes. The Feel Great Body is the large tub in the picture.  This was the first item that I opened.  The ingredients give themselves away when you smell the product.  The stated ingredients include: Coconut oil, sweet almond oil, beeswax, grapeseed oil, and lavender.  I could instantly smell the lavender.  The creamy product goes on a little oily, but soaks in quickly and left my skin feeling soft.  The scent was a little of a herbal scent, too. The Feel Great Face cream is in the smaller container.  The stated ingredients include: extra-virgin olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, grapeseed oil, beeswax, Vitamin E, sandalwood oil, petchouli oil, geranium oil, rosewood oil, calendula oil, citral, geraniol, citronellol, limonene, and linalool. When I opened the Feel Great Face cream, I immediately noticed the herbal scent.  The cream is oily and I rubbed it in good.  Then it felt smooth.  The skin cream is to be put on your face in a thin layer and only used on a clean face.  I rubbed it in a little and then it was absorbed.   I feel good about using all natural ingredients on my skin.  Healtop products are cruelty-free, vegan, and Naturopath approved.  They offer 24/7 live chat and customer care on a toll-free line.  HealTop also offers worldwide shipment to you. @2017, copyright Lisa Ehrman

The Elegant And Award-Winning Scale: Ozeri Touch II

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Sponsored Post: I received this product for a honest review.  All opinions are 100% my own. Affiliate link included. There are many reasons why you should use a good kitchen scale, like Ozeri Touch II, in the kitchen.  I had never used one before now.  My relative, a Type 1 Diabetic, purchased a kitchen scale to help him count his carbohydrates.  A scale can also help you know for sure about portion sizes. Americans’ serving sizes have been increasing over the years.  With a kitchen scale, you can know for sure if you’re eating what you think you are eating.  Anyone on a diet may want to measure their serving sizes. Vegans and vegetarians will use a kitchen scale to make sure they are getting the proper amount of protein.  If they know how many servings of protein they need, they can accurately pre-measure their food. Kitchen scales are more accurate than just using a measurement scoop.  So, using a scale can be easy and even fun.  And, scales have come a long way.  The older models weren’t nearly as accurate. Today, we have digital and lightweight kitchen scales.  There are numerous low-prices kitchen scales.  The Ozeri Touch II won the Top Ten Reviews Gold award.  It was rated best in category. I love that it’s not heavy, like the old models used in kitchen years ago. The Ozeri Touch II is so accurate and can convert to metric.  This is wonderful for cooking with recipes in grams.  It has the ability to weigh from 0.1 ounces to 18 lbs or 1 gram to 8000 grams. I love the feature of the high-contrast blue backlit LCD screen, that is easier to read. Because of this, I won’t need my magnifying glass or glasses to see the numbers.  It also has 2 touch-sensitive buttons and 4 high-precision GFX sensors. One thing I worry about with food preparation is bacteria on surfaces.  Bacteria can multiply quickly; doubling every 20 minutes. The Ozeri Touch II is the first kitchen scale to include Microban Antimicrobial Product Protection.  This helps to prevent bacteria growth as well as stains. The Ozeri Touch II has a slim design and elegant shape.  It looks great in White, and also comes in Red Engine and Teal Blue.  These colors are lovely and you should be able to use one of these in your kitchen. The button can subtract the weight of your food container, too.  They’ve thought of everything!  2 Lithium batteries are included.  And, don’t reach for your screw-driver.  You won’t need it with this easy-to-access battery compartment. To purchase your own Ozeri Touch II Kitchen Scale, check Amazon. @2017, copyright Lisa Ehrman

How To Make Fall Festival Foods At Home

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Affiliate link included. If you purchase through link I will make a very small commission, that keeps Homeschool Insight online. One of the best things about Fall is the Fall Festival Food.  With so many fall and Halloween festivals to choose from, I always want to find one with great food.  You know what I mean, the kind of food that isn’t good for you.  These are some of my favorites! But, wouldn’t you love to be able to make some of these at home?  Well, you can.  I’m adding my favorite Fall Festival Foods here with recipes for home-cooking.  What could be more fun? Caramel Popcorn 1 cup butter 2 cups brown sugar 1/2 cup corn syrup 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon vanilla 5 quarts popped popcorn Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (95 degrees C). Place popcorn in a very large bowl. In a medium saucepan over medium heat, melt butter. Stir in brown sugar, corn syrup and salt. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil without stirring 4 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in soda and vanilla. Pour in a thin stream over popcorn, stirring to coat. Place in two large shallow baking dishes and bake in preheated oven, stirring every 15 minutes, for 1 hour. Remove from oven and let cool completely before breaking into pieces  Recipe from AllRecipes Caramel Apples 5 Medium Apples 1 (11 ounce) bag of Caramels 2 Tablespoons water Insert one stick (from caramel bag) into the stem end of each apple.  Cover a large plate with waxed paper; spray with cooking spray. Place caramel in saucepan.  Add water; cook on med-low heat for about 3 minutes, or untils the caramel is completely melted, stirring constantly. Dip apples into melted caramel until evenly coated, spooning caramel over apples if needed.  Allow excess to drip off. Scrape bottoms of apples; place on plate.  Refrigerate for an hour. Recipe: KraftRecipes Soft Pretzels 4 teaspoons active yeast 1 teaspoon sugar 1 1/4 cups warm water (110 degrees) 5 cups flour 1/2 cup sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1 Tablespoon oil 1/2 cup baking soda 4 cups hot water 1/4 cup kosher salt (for topping) Dissolve yeast and 1 t. sugar in 1 1/4 cup warm water. Let sit for about 10 minutes. In large bowl, mix flour and 1/2 cup sugar and salt.  Make a well in the center; add the oil and yeast mixture.  Mix and form into a dough, if it’s too dry, add one or two more Tablespoons of water.  Knead dough for about 7 minutes, until smooth.  Lightly oil a large bowl and place dough there.  Cover with plastic wrap and let it double in size (takes about an hour). Preheat oven to 450, and grease 2 baking sheets. In large bowl, dissolve 1/2 cup baking soda in 4 cups hot water; set aside. When dough is finished rising, turn it out onto floured surface and divide dough into 12 pieces.  Roll each section into rope shape and then form a pretzel shape.  Dip each pretzel into baking-soda water and then place them on prepared pans.  Sprinkle with kosher salt. Bake in oven, until brown (about 8 minutes). Recipe: AllRecipes @2017, copyright Lisa Ehrman

Homeschool Virtual Field Trips

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Field trips, field trips, field trips!  Homeschoolers spend a lot of time on field trips.  Most of the field trips we took were relatively close to home.  Doing field trips farther from home costs more money, because of hotels and gas. We always tried to combine trips farther from home with as many educational journeys as possible.  This was easy to do because we were all history lovers, and there are historical venues everywhere! But, when you are learning about places very far from home, virtual field trips can be taken.  Virtual field trips can offer the next-best-thing when you are learning about great places.  With the explosion of internet learning sites, we also can discover many links to virtual field trips. Most of these sites are designed for teachers, so they provide lesson plans, too.  What more could you want?  These great sites can help you plan your lesson or unit study.  If you already have a plan, you can integrate these video field trips into your lesson. Having pictures and videos will add so much more to the learning experience for your child.  They’ll remember the information easier when they have visual experiences and memories. Check out the links below to see if you want to take a Virtual Field Trip adventure! education world simplek-12 education.microsoft.com teaching.monster.com internet4classrooms scholastic discoveryeducation.com eSchoolNews learnaroundtheworld VirtualFieldTrips $45. per year e-education-psu.edu @2017, copyright Lisa Ehrman

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