Baby Shower Gift :: Homemade Sugar Scrub in Decorated Jars. I wrote the other day about a project I was really excited about but needed to finish up, and here it is! These were gifts for a triple baby shower (not triplets, but three lovely ladies all due within a few weeks of each other, although triplets would be exciting) that I attended yesterday. All three babies-to-be got sweet goodies from my shop (a bear hat for the little boy and button beanies for the girls) but I wanted to do something for the moms, too. It's so fun to open presents for your little nugget, but poor pregnant mom is the one doing all the hard work, and she deserves something, too! So I thought back to my final weeks of pregnancy--huge, bloated, swollen, miserable weeks--and thought of what I would have liked to have then (other than an early, pain-free labor . . . much as I wish I could bottle that up to gift to my friends) and came up with this: Mamas need some pampering, right?
How true it is. And want to know the best part of this gift? (Don't tell my friends.) - brush. Suzy's Artsy Craftsy Sitcom: Feature Friday- Snowflake Soaps Tutorial. The idea of one-time-use soaps has been intriguing me lately. So I decided to try my hand at making some snowflake soaps. With Christmas right around the corner, I am in need of some inexpensive, thoughtful gifts to give my coworkers and these just seem to fit the bill. For this project I used: Felt pre-cut snowflakes Clear Glycerine Melt and Pour Soap Peppermint Soap Scent I found the pre-cut snowflakes at the Dollar Store. My original plan was to cut my own felt, but I found out rather quickly that I apparently don’t own a sharp enough pair of scissors and the proper patience to do it.
Clear Glycerine Melt and Pour Soap can be found at any craft supply store. Put some of the soap into a microwave safe dish or measuring cup and microwave for 30 seconds at a time. At this point, remove it from the microwave and stir until the final pieces have melted. Now dip the felt snowflakes in, one by one and lay them on wax paper or foil to dry. Here you can see the sheen of the soap on the felt. Pantry Soaps - Martha Stewart Crafts - StumbleUpon. Recycling Candles. Take one box of old candles that are burned too low to light again. Scrape out the wax. You can combine similar colors, or mix it up.
You can always adjust the color later by adding candle dye if you like. You might also want to combine similar scents. Since I usually gravitate to “food” scents like apple, vanilla, cinnamon, pumpkin pie, etc, those blend well. (If you’re not recycling from strongly-scented candles, you might need to add more scent as you may “cook” the scent out while re-melting the wax. Add scent at the last minute. Be sure to separate out all the old wicks and tabs. Old jars can be repurposed, too. Re-wick your clean, dry jars. Check out your mystery color. I didn’t like it that much, so I added a bit of red candle dye. That’s more like it! Pour candles, supporting wicks while candles set up, and topping off as needed. This is the price I like to pay for Yankee candles.
Along with using repurposed jars, I used some other things from around the house. P.S. P.P.S. How to make natural soap Video. Heidi: Interested in learning how marble soap is made? Hi, my name is Heidi, and you’re watching WatchMojo.Com. And today, we’re taking a look at how soap making meets the art of homemade. Alicia: When we’re making soap, we’re working on something called Sodium Hydroxide, that’s commonly referred to as lye or caustic soda, so we have to wear gloves and we have to wear protection for eyes as well. I use a face shield. To make the solution, I took a measurement of water and I need the sodium hydroxide which is a powder into that water.
The next one I’m measuring is castor oil which is a bean. This oil, I’m now going to pour that in the bucket. The next phase is for me to—the same thing I did with the clay and the pigment. So this is the fun part. Candle & Soap Making Techniques. Soap Making Instructions | Soap Making Recipes and Tutorials | Teach Soap. How to Make Soap Petals.
Soap petals are simply silk flower and leaf petals dipped in soap. They are single use and look pretty sitting beside the sink. Use one to wash hands. Then discard the silk petal. Add a special touch to your bath or powder room with this super-easy project. How to Make Silk Soap Petals Materials Petals and leaves cut from silk flowers8 oz. Here are the directions for making the soap petals. Tags: soap petals, soap crafts, melt and pour soap, soap petal how-to, silk flower crafts. Crock Pot Hot Process Soap – LOTS of pics! I'm so excited to share this with you! I knew people made their own soap long ago and there were some people crazy enough to still do it, but i never considered it a reasonable thing to do... UNTIL I read that it could be done in a Crock Pot...fix it and forget it right? First thing you have to do if you want to make soap is find a recipe, in this instance, a hot process recipe. There are a TON of them online, but make sure you run them all through a lye calculator.
I started out with a recipe of 80% Olive Oil and 20% Coconut Oil, plugged everything into my lye calculator and it gave me all of my exact measurements. 1. 3. 5. 6. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. How To Make Soap At Home. Here are some instructions on how to make soap at home using inexpensive ingredients, most of which are easily available in health food stores or the supermarket: 1.) Make the alkaline solution by adding 2 oz. of Red Devil lye slowly into 32 oz. of distilled cold water in a glass container, stirring slowly with a wooden spoon.
The lye will react with the water, heating it and releasing fumes so be careful not inhale any. Set aside the solution to cool the lye. 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.)