When you are living and surviving off grid, any time that you can sustain yourself solely from the stuff you have available to you, you know you are doing a great job. In the past, I have shared various natural remedies such as the homemade all natural ntibiotic recipe, migraine reliever juice and the homemade sore muscle rub. It just so happens that a few weeks back, I got introduced to these homemade vitamin C capsules.

I have to be honest to you, until then I never knew that we could make our own natural supplements, right in your own kitchen. What blew my mind, was how simple and affordable the process is too. For example, for these capsules you only really need the orange peels and a few tools to help you make the capsules. Yep, no extra chemicals or addatives are required, to extend the life of our natural supplements. Oh yah, and try to only use organic oranges fresh from the farmers market or your own garden.

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Here’s What You’ll Need:

fresh orange peels
cookie sheet
food dehydrator (optional)
blender or grinder
00 capsules
capsule machine (optional)
air tight jars or containers

So you are probably wondering, why are we using the peel instead of the actual orange? Well the answer is pretty simple. Our dear friends, the scientists who get paid to research this stuff have discovered that there is more vitamicn C in the peels than in the actual orange. For instance, 100 MG of orange contains 48.5 MG of vitamin C, whilst the same amount of peels contains up to 136 MG.

You will need to dry the peels before crushing them into a fine powder. How you do this, depends on what you have available. Using the food dehydrator will save you a couple of days over drying them using the sun. Personally, I prefer the natural sun drying method. The dried peel is processed into a fine powder, and then packed into capsules. The best way to store your capsules is in air tight containers or jars. Stay healthy! 🙂

You can follow step by step instructions on the Gently Sustainable blog, here…