Free recipes for non-toxic things you can make yourself — cleaners, balms, ferments, candles. Every recipe lists exact amounts, safety notes, and the Faun & Fern supplies that go in it.
One bottle that handles counters, sinks, and stovetops without a chemistry lesson. It takes about two minutes to mix, and it actually works.
Get the recipe →Three ingredients, no mystery. This is the kind of old-fashioned laundry staple our grandparents would recognize.
Get the recipe →For tired-looking wood furniture that needs a little love. It feeds the wood instead of coating it in silicone.
Get the recipe →Mirrors, windows, glass oven doors — this cuts through the haze without the blue stuff.
Get the recipe →For the moments a room needs a reset — after cooking, before guests arrive, or just because.
Get the recipe →For sinks, tubs, and stovetops that need elbow grease in paste form. Tough on the ring around the tub, gentle on most surfaces.
Get the recipe →Three ingredients between you and happy lips. Once you make this, the store-bought tubes start feeling overcomplicated.
Get the recipe →A scoop of this in a hot bath is one of the simplest luxuries there is. Make a jar for yourself and one for a friend.
Get the recipe →For dry winter skin and rough elbows. It smells like a bakery and leaves skin impossibly soft.
Get the recipe →Lotion without the bottle. These melt on contact with warm skin and are wonderful for hands, feet, and elbows.
Get the recipe →A gentle cream deodorant for anyone whose underarms rebel against baking soda. Simple, effective, and kind to sensitive skin.
Get the recipe →The fizz never gets old. These take a little practice to mold, but even the crumbly ones work beautifully.
Get the recipe →Wrap the half lemon, cover the rising dough, skip the plastic. These mold with the warmth of your hands and last for months.
Get the recipe →Two ingredients and eight weeks of patience. It puts the little brown bottle to shame — and it makes a wonderful gift.
Get the recipe →Cabbage, salt, time. That's the whole recipe, and it's been feeding people for centuries. Your first batch will make you feel like an alchemist.
Get the recipe →Warm milk, a spoonful of starter, and an overnight wait. Mornings get noticeably better.
Get the recipe →Flour, water, and a week of small daily rituals. By day seven you'll have a living thing that makes extraordinary bread.
Get the recipe →A traditional winter kitchen staple — simmered berries, warm spices, and honey. Lovely stirred into tea or drizzled over yogurt.
Get the recipe →Real beeswax candles smell faintly of honey and burn with a warm, steady light. Making them is easier than you'd think.
Get the recipe →The oldest candle-making method there is: dip, cool, repeat. Meditative to make, beautiful on the table.
Get the recipe →For the fireplace, the fire pit, or the campfire. These catch fast, burn long, and beat lighter fluid in every way.
Get the recipe →Tuck these into drawers, closets, and suitcases. Everything you own comes out smelling like a garden.
Get the recipe →A quick spritz before the dryer and your laundry comes out smelling wonderful — no dryer sheets required.
Get the recipe →The coziest scent there is, and it comes from your kitchen, not a plug-in. Three blends for three moods.
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