Wily Coyote Botanicals Blog

  • DIY Laundry Powder Recipe - 4 Ingredients

    by Victoria Hutfilz

    DIY Laundry Powder - Homemade Laundry Detergent

    Death and laundry, two things inevitable. Wouldn’t it be nice if something you use so often, that clings to your body day and night, could be non-toxic a...

  • Best Classic Sourdough Bread Recipe - No Knead

    by Victoria Hutfilz
    Best Classic Sourdough Bread Recipe - No knead!   Want to make your house feel like a home? Homemade sourdough bread. Need a thoughtful, inexpensi...
    Posted in baking, bread, recipes, sourdough

  • Winter Wildcrafting - 3 Medicinal Herbs Abundant in Winter Months - Plus Recipes

    by Emily Wadley
    Making plant medicine can be practices year-round. While summer and spring may be prime time for using and preserving herbs at the peak of their ...

  • DIY Banana, Egg Yolk, and Honey Hair & Face Mask

    by Emily Wadley
    A moisturizing, nutritious treatment for your hair and face that can be easily made out of common kitchen ingredients! Recipe: 1/4 - 1/2 ripe bana...
    Posted in facemask

  • Harmful Ingredients Found in Commercial Shampoos

    by Emily Wadley
    Fragrance When “fragrance” is listed as an ingredient, assume it’s a clever way to depict the inclusion of harmful, synthetic chemicals, like phth...

  • What and Why- Shampoo Bar

    by Victoria Hutfilz
    A little Q&A with our most commonly asked questions about switching up your wash routine. What is a shampoo bar? A shampoo bar is cold-pr...

  • Medicinal Use of Cottonwood Buds - What is Balm of Gilead?

    by Emily Wadley

    Topically, cottonwood resin is used to heal numerous skin conditions as it stimulates blood flow and cell proliferation. It speeds healing while also relieving pain and discomfort, and is useful for treating sprains, hyperextensions, arthritic joints, swelling, hemorrhoids, bruises, ulcerations,  and burns, while keeping skin’s surface antiseptic.

     

    Posted in balm of gilead, cottonwood buds

  • Sourdough Rye Bread

    by Emily Landis
    I’ve always been spoiled with good, homemade bread. My grandma, an avid lover of the antiquated bread machine, would have a loaf of fluffy white br...

  • DIY Respiratory Syrup + bonus recipes

    by Emily Landis
    After nearly two and a half years without even a cold, I finally found myself stuck at home last week with a sore throat, chest congestion, and a ...

  • Thoughts on Breastfeeding

    by Victoria Hutfilz
    Most aspects of child rearing were like fun mysteries to me before Jeremiah arrived. I spent a lot of time wondering if I’d be the parent I thought...

  • Thoughts on Cloth Diapering a Newborn

    by Emily Landis
      I went into parenting with few expectations... Maybe most ventures of the heart are safer that way? That considered, I’ll say I actually enjoy th...

  • Victoria's Birth Story

    by Victoria Hutfilz
    It’s been 3 weeks since I gave birth to Jeremiah and everyday I’ve told myself today is the day I record the experience! Journaling has never been...
    Posted in birth story, hospital birth story, natural birth, vaginal birth story