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Homegrown Collective
Cost: $48/month ($39 + $9 S/H).
Ships To: United States and Canada (add an additional $10 for S/H).
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The Homegrown Collective, who kindly sent me this box to review, includes seasonally appropriate, professionally curated products that deliver the satisfaction of living a more self-sufficient & sustainable lifestyle to your doorstep each month.
The Homegrown Collective ships via USPS Priority Mail. Their boxes typically ship towards the end of the month and I generally receive them a few days into the following month.
Everything arrived securely packaged and in perfect condition this month. I have had a problem once or twice with a broken item, but it was always corrected quickly.
The August 2014 Homegrown Collective theme was “The Beauty of Coconut Oil (Part Two)” and included the following projects:
~DIY Coconut Lip Chap: We have made chapstick before with Homegrown Collective so I am an old pro (lol). It just involves melting an assortment of things together and then piping the mixture in your chapstick containers. I went for the lemon citrus essential oil for my scent / flavor and love the way it turned out. Very moisturizing and seems cooler because I made it myself.
~DIY Coconut Toothpaste: Now I haven’t worked on this project yet. I try to do these projects before I do my reviews so I know what I am talking about, but this one has me a bit stumped. It’s toothpaste and I guess it’s suppose to be stored in a mason jar? I don’t know if I can get used to that. Won’t it be hard to get out? I am going to try and find a smaller jar or container of some sort to keep this in. Or even a travel sized squeeze container. I think that would work better for me.
~DIY Coconut Deodorant: I was really excited to make this one, but I am not totally sure if I did it right. The picture shows that you need to use the Pacific Sea Salt, while the instructions say you should use Maize Starch. Had I read these instructions before I started pouring and mixing I would have e-mailed them, but of course I didn’t. I ended up using both ingredients. Oops. I think we were probably just suppose to use the sea salt, but it seemed to turn out okay. I haven’t worn it for any length of time, but it worked well when I had it on. And it smells really good too!
I didn’t do a cost breakdown of the August 2014 Homegrown Collective box, but as usual, I had a great time working on the projects. I would like it if the instructions were a little more clear though. I probably should know that “T” stands for Tablespoon, but two projects had the measurements in “T” while one of them actually said “tablespoon” so I got confused thinking they were different. Everything seemed to turn out well though, so it wasn’t a huge deal.
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