See my ice dyeing article in the Aug/Sept issue of Quilting Arts.
Category Archives: body care products
Coconut Lime Soap
We’ve been making quite a bit of soap lately. Since we loved our 100% goats milk soap, we thought we’d substitute coconut milk and see what happens. We are really happy how they turned out. It’s still too soon to … Continue reading
Posted in body care products, Recipes, soap making
Tagged coconut lime soap, Coconut milk soap, homemade gifts, homemade soap, soapmaking
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Banana-licious Olive Oil Soap
As mentioned earlier, we tried our hand a couple weeks ago at making a 100% olive oil soap. I was really kind of scared to try this. We had made 90% olive oil soap this past year and it was … Continue reading
More Soaping Here
Well, we are back to making some soap. Our supply from last year has been given away or we’ve used most of it so we’re on to another couple batches. Hubby blogged about it here. We made our first 100% … Continue reading
Posted in body care products, Lavender, soap making
Tagged lavender, lavender goats milk soap, soapmaking
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Lemon Balm Lavender Bugs Off Spray
I seem to always get bitten in the garden. The Plantain Anti-Itch Balm seems to be working on those. Hubby even reported he used it on his tick bites and it has helped heal them. Well, in a perfect world, … Continue reading
Plantain Anti-Itch Balm
Now that I have that wonderful plantain infused oil, it’s time to make some anti-itch balm. I’ve put 4 ounces of plantain infused oil into my double boiler. To that oil I added approximately 1 ounce of beeswax. After the … Continue reading
Posted in body care products, crafts, gardening, tutorials
Tagged body care, gardening, homemade, Plantain, plantain anti-itch balm, Plantain infused oil
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Infusing herbs
In order to make some anti-itch balm for my itchy skin from poison ivy (yes, I got it again but not real bad) and insect bites, I thought I’d try using plantain, a weed herb that grows in our yard. … Continue reading
Posted in body care products, gardening, tutorials
Tagged Infused oil, infusing herbs, Plantain, Plantain infused oil
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More Perfume Recipes
Today’s post is about the other two easy perfume recipes – one a roll-on and the other a spray. All you need is a mixing bowl (I use the glass measuring cup), the fragrance or essential oil, cyclomethicone, a stir, … Continue reading
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Tagged body spray, cyclomethicone, perfume, roll on perfume, spray perfume
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Smelling good – Solid Perfume
When the last of my perfume ran out over a year ago, I decided that I wouldn’t buy any more. Instead I would make my own. I finally got around to making some last week and thought I’d share my … Continue reading
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Tagged crafts, homemade body care, homemade gifts, perfume, solid perfume
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Rebatching Soap
Dave and I will be making some new soap in the next week or so, but I thought it might be fun to make some rebatched soap of all of the scraps I have around the house. You know – … Continue reading
Reviewing Our 2010 Soaps
This year Dave and I decided to bake all of our bread this year. I started with the HB in Five group attempting to bake through the book. Dave made a variety of wonderful breads from other resources. It was … Continue reading
