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Looking for natural allergy relief when pollen starts flying? These simple home remedies can help reduce exposure to allergens, clear irritated nasal passages, and ease common allergy symptoms such as a runny nose, congestion, sneezing, and itchy eyes. Seasonal allergies, also called hay fever or allergic rhinitis, happen when the immune system overreacts to substances...

Cooking with fresh herbs is one of the easiest ways to add flavor to everyday meals. If you grow your own, they’re also wonderfully inexpensive—especially in late summer, when basil, parsley, dill, mint, and other herbs may be growing faster than you can use them. Using fresh herbs doesn’t need to be complicated. Once you...

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It’s that time of year again! Along with fun in the sun, one often ends up dealing with insect bites and stings from mosquitoes, bees, wasps, spiders and all things creepy crawly. These home remedies for bug bites and stings are easy to use and feature common household items. You’ll be free of itching and...

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Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) is one of North America’s best-known wild medicinal plants. It’s a wonder for soothing irritated skin after encounters with poison ivy, stinging nettles, and insect bites. This easy-to-recognize native plant thrives in moist soils and often grows in the same places where poison ivy is found, making it a handy plant to...

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Walk through any health food store and you’ll find shelves full of collagen products promising healthier skin, stronger joints, and younger-looking hair. So what’s the truth? Collagen is an important structural protein found throughout your body. It helps form connective tissue, including skin, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, bones, blood vessels, and parts of your digestive t...