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Getting started. Ingrediants. How to Make Your Own Soap Molds. Easy Soap Recipe - Step by Step Tutorial. On this page I'm going to explain an easy soap recipe that's perfect for any beginner.

Easy Soap Recipe - Step by Step Tutorial

Despite its simplicity this soap making recipe, happens to be one of my all time favorites! The powerful combination of natural skin care oils creates an incredible product that absolutely no store bought soap can beat. Here's What you will Need... As with most easy soap recipes, there are very few ingredients used. Here's what you will need: Free Soap Making e-Newsletter Plus instantly receive one of my own personal soap recipe formulas using a combination of sweet almond oil, avocado oil, olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, castor oil and shea butter scented with an intoxicating essential oil blend.

Olive oil (26.5 ounces) Coconut oil (16.5 ounces) Palm oil (10 ounces) Lye (209 grams) Your choice of essential oils (2.7 ounces - optional scent) Distilled water (20 ounces) Vintage Inspired Clothing, Affordable Clothes, Eco friendly Fashion. Women's designer clothes, shoes, bags & accessories. Cooking. Nutrition/Suppliments. World's Healthiest Foods. 100 foods that can serve as the basis of your Healthiest Way of Eating Links to the articles about these foods can be found below.

World's Healthiest Foods

In addition to questions about our foods, we often get asked about beverages and sweeteners. In the beverage category, water and green tea have been especially popular topics, and in the sweetener category, so have honey and maple syrup. Of course, there are many nutritious foods other than those included on our list that we feel are wonderful, health-promoting foods; if there are other whole foods - such as fruits, vegetables, nuts/seeds, whole grains, etc - that you like, by all means enjoy them. Just because a food is not on our list doesn't mean we don't think it can be included in a diet geared towards the Healthiest Way of Eating as long as it is a whole, natural, nutrient-rich food.

To find out why some of your favorite nutritious foods are not included in our list, read The Criteria Used to Select the World's Healthiest Foods. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Food Cravings... Marni Wasserman: Making a Healthy Lunch. I hear it all the time; people just don't know what to pack for lunch!

Marni Wasserman: Making a Healthy Lunch

Those who are opting for healthier options -- that don't involve vending machines or the take-out place down the street -- seem to be the most confused. It may seem like an overwhelming and time-consuming feat to pack a good lunch, but let me tell you that it's not. Once your lunch bag is brimming full of healthy options, you'll not only be thankful for the savings in empty calories, but it will save you money without taking up extra time and effort! Just remember that packing a healthy lunch is only easy when you have healthy ingredients at home to choose from. Here are some suggestions for packing the perfect lunch to go: 1. 2. Recipe Calculator.

Garlic Knots Recipe. For 10 years my working life was swallowed up by a cafe/market where we made some of the most badass garlic knots around.

Garlic Knots Recipe

Those combined with an espresso were my regular sustenance on countless non-stop, never pause for a breath days. Screw the labor laws with required break-times, as a GM there is too much to be done in too short of a time. The garlic knots were the perfect grab-&-go nosh. Sour cream coffee cake. When I got my tube pan, I thought it would be one of those kitchen implements that would live in the nether regions of the cupboard.

sour cream coffee cake

I foresaw it being overshadowed by more useful (9×13), less cumbersome (the regular old 10-inch cake rounds), and oh-so-pretty (tart tins in, I confess, all sizes) pans. So, I was surprised last summer when I used it to make angel food cake quite a few times. No matter how deeply stashed away it was, I continually found myself plucking it out. So, I figured it would be a seasonal thing.

Once the days shortened and temperatures plunged, this pan would fall into disuse and neglect. (Click “more” for the rest of the story, more photos & the recipe.) Red and Black Rice Stuffing With Red Lentils — Recipes for Health. Medicinal Mushrooms. Medicinal Herbs. Medicinal Uses Of 22 Common Spices. Preserving Herbs.

Looking for more ways to preserve your harvest before frost claims the less hardy plants?

Preserving Herbs

Preserving herbs is easy and can bring the summer taste of your garden to your cooking all winter long. Simply hanging the herbs upside down to dry, then bottling them in glass jars is a great way to preserve many herbs including thyme, parsley and oregano. If your cilantro has gone to seed, let those plants dry too.

Picking off the coriander seeds is a bit time consuming, but grind them in a mortar and pestle and they’re a delicious addition to seafood and vegetarian dishes. You may find that some herbs retain their flavor better when frozen rather than dried. Herbs that are going to be used in soups or drinks can also be frozen in water in ice cubes trays. Top Ten Foods to Prevent Cancer : Cancer, Types of Cancer, Symptoms of Cancer, Causes of Cancer, Cancer Treatments. The truth is getting cancer may not be preventable even if you think you have a healthy diet and even the healthiest of people get cancer without knowing it.

Top Ten Foods to Prevent Cancer : Cancer, Types of Cancer, Symptoms of Cancer, Causes of Cancer, Cancer Treatments

It sometimes doesn’t matter what you, you could fall victim to cancer; there could be some types of foods you could eat more of to help prevent cancer.