Passions I can't deny
Posted in Recipes, body care products, crafts, soap making on Sep 2nd, 2010
Well, I’ve been wanting to make this soap for quite a while. My friend Marsha is allergic to all nut oils so I’ve been itching to make some olive oil soap for her. In fact, my whole reason for infusing calendula flowers in the olive oil was for her soap. Anyway, last week I finally [...]
Posted in body care products, soap making, tutorials on Aug 20th, 2010
I’ve been wanting to infuse some herbs for our soaps and body products. Our Calendula did not do well in the garden this year, so I ended up purchasing some dried organic Calendula flowers from Mountain Rose Herbs.
Thanks to Katie, a soapmaker on one of the soaping groups, for these instructions. Fill the sterilized jar [...]
Posted in body care products, soap making, telling your story on Aug 15th, 2010
This week’s column in the Evansville Courier and Press is about two local soapmakers, Mary Allen and Tracy Klemczewski, who not only make soap for their family, but also sell their soaps and other personal care items through their business, Soap Solutions. Their story includes tips for those of us interested in making our own [...]
Posted in Ramblings, soap making, tutorials on Jun 28th, 2010
Before I write about lessons learned, I wanted to thank everyone who entered my giveaway of the Eco Craft book. Janice of Flushing, New York won it. It will be in the mail to her tomorrow. Stay tuned for more craft book giveaways.
Also, we finally got rain last night – a whole inch! It was [...]
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 [...]
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
