A Jamie Oliver vegan inspired Mother's Day Celebration
Our two favorite gifts for a perfect Mama's Day include a whole day of delicious, homemade vegan food and a pack of Café Express mints, for an after dinner freshener, of course! When it comes to healthy cooking, who better to draw inspiration from than our favorite do-gooder chef, Jamie Oliver. Not only has Jamie been a driving force in educating the [...]
Make natural paint with leftover fruits and veggies
Homemade fruit and vegetable paint is recycling at its finest. When you just can’t finish that bag of wilting spinach (hey, it happens to the best of us), DIY paint is a great way to make the most out of a droopy, potentially smelly, situation. Plus it’ll buy you time between trips to the compost bin and save you a [...]
13 ideas on how to use wintergreen oil to better your health
Lately we’ve been talking a lot about how to use wintergreen oil. We love the wintergreen plant and its sweet, minty flavor, which is why we started making making organic wintergreen mints in the first place. But the mouth freshening powers of wintergreen oil are just the beginning. Here are 13 ways you can use oil of wintergreen to better [...]
How to make vegan peanut butter chocolate chip cookies
April is here and the last minute tax deadline crunch demands vegan chocolate treats. Peanut butter and chocolate go together like numbers and spreadsheets — minus the headache. Give your accounting skills (or lack thereof) a little break to munch on a few of these vegan peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.Healthy peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are a sweet [...]
Reap the anti-aging benefits of cinnamon and honey with a DIY mask
The benefits of cinnamon and honey are just endless. We’ve enjoyed pairing these two wonderfully healing ingredients in tea, and most recently we took our relationship to the next level. We rolled up our sleeves, shut our eyes tight and rubbed a cinnamon honey paste all over our faces. Yes, we did! It was sticky, gooey and gross, and we can’t recommend [...]
14 Ways to Love Your Cinnamon Girl
“I could be happy the rest of my life with a cinnamon girl.”These romantic words of Neil Young, paired with our longtime love for cinnamon, has inspired us to put together a list of sweet n’ spicy ideas for the most romantic day of the year. If your Valentine has a cinnamon passion like ours, this list is sure to [...]
Five Paper Christmas Craft Ideas to Distract the Kids From Snooping Under the Tree
It’s Christmas Eve, aka tree snooping day!To keep the kiddies distracted from the holiday treasures that await, we’ve put together a list of super fun Christmas craft ideas. These DIYers aren’t just pleasantly festive, they’re also very simple to execute. That means you’re free to sip on mulled berry wine while you supervise. Win!Embarrassingly Easy [...]
Goodbye morning breath: All-Natural DIY Peppermint Mouth Wash
Here at VerMints we understand you can’t suck on organic mints ALL the time (though we find this to be a highly debatable subject). But we’re also less than fond of the nasty ingredients found in regular breath fresheners like traditional chewing gum and mouthwash.The fact is that most of the so-called breath freshening rinses you see on the shelves contain [...]