Labeling our irises has taken up a lot of my time in the last couple of weeks. However, yesterday morning we finally were able to plant part of our church community garden where the harvest will be donated to the local food pantries. It was chilly and windy, but we planted the tomatoes, peppers, and [...]
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Handmade Cedar Wood Soap Dishes
Posted in body care products, buying local, crafts, gadgets, soap making on Apr 26th, 2010
I love ETSY. It’s such a great place to find handmade goods. I wanted to find some nice soap dishes to give as presents with our soap this Christmas, but also to use here to help prevent these soaps from melting away in a pool of water. Before checking out ETSY, I had found several [...]
Dreamsicle Face Lotion
Posted in Recipes, body care products, crafts on Apr 20th, 2010
When I was a kid, I just loved Dreamsicles. Well, I still do. We have a local ice cream shop here – a small neighborhood stand with just outdoor seating and a limited menu. If you are looking for a variety of flavors with fancy smancy toppings, this is not your place. In addition to [...]
Cherries and Chocolate!
Posted in Recipes, crafts, gardening, soap making on Apr 19th, 2010
Now to the chocolate. Dave’s been wanting to make a chocolate soap. Well, it didn’t take any arm twisting to get me to put together a soap formula involving chocolate.
Yum! It smells like chocolate already, but will smell even better once it’s cured. Now to wait four weeks or not!
Our Three Soaps
Posted in Cleaning, crafts, soap making, tutorials on Mar 28th, 2010
Before I review our three soaps that have cured and we are using, I wanted to let you know that I won a $25 gift certificate from Majestic Mountain Sage for submitting our Lavender Goat Milk soap in their milk soap challenge. Here is my entry on their blog. Pretty exciting! Can’t wait to order [...]
Soap #4 – Lavender Goat Milk
Posted in Recipes, crafts, soap making on Mar 22nd, 2010
This procedure was a little trickier than the others because of the small amount of water and adding the goat milk. There are several different ways to handle milk in soapmaking. After lots of research I decided to try the method that I felt was the easiest.
Please refer to the cold process instructions here. The [...]
Third Soap – Citrus Coffee Hand Soap
Posted in Recipes, crafts, gardening, soap making on Mar 7th, 2010
Below you will find our recipe. I’ve included the percentages so if you want to make a bigger batch, you can enter these numbers into the calculator.
A note with dealing with lye. Caution needs to be taken when using this. We open our kitchen window to give the room ventilation during the soap making, even [...]
On Coffee Grounds
Posted in Cleaning, crafts, gardening, soap making on Mar 5th, 2010
Nothing makes me happier than a bargain. The other day on my way out of the local grocery store, there sat a bag of used coffee grounds next to the bag recycling bin. Above the bag was a sign: FREE for your compost, worm garden, or roses. Well, of course I can’t pass up a [...]
Another Day, Another Soap
Posted in Recipes, crafts, soap making on Feb 20th, 2010
Please go HERE for the actual cold process tutorial. I would recommend printing it out so you can work from it as you are making soap. As I’ve mentioned before, there are a lot of great soap-making resources online, but this site is my favorite. Since I changed her basic recipe, I also consulted our [...]
A couple years ago for Christmas I renewed an old interest in making beauty supplies. Several friends received peppermint lip balm, lavender eye pillows, and body cream. I notice just this past couple of weeks that I was running out of my face lotion and remembered the book I had purchased that year – Organic [...]
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