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How to Make Light & Fluffy Whipped Body Butter. How to Make Whipped Body Butter. Homemade whipped body butter recipe. By Annabella SkinScrubs Happy Saturday beauty babes!

Homemade whipped body butter recipe

I’m off to do wedding stuff today – looking at cakes, speaking to the hairdresser and getting measured for my dress. Thankfully Lauren is coming with me and I’m dragging James along for the cake bit. That is the only wedding thing he’s been interested in besides the main meal. Easy Whipped Shea Butter. I was experimenting with some shea butter the other day and came up with a pretty cool (and easy) recipe.

Easy Whipped Shea Butter

Here’s what I stumbled upon... Ingredients 14 oz Shea Butter 5 oz Coconut Oil (76 degree melt Coconut Oil) 6 ml Cranberry Fig Fragrance Oil (or your choice) Electric Mixer 4 ounce jars Instructions Combine all ingredients and whip for 6-7 minutes in an electric mixer on medium/high. Spoon into jars. That’s it. Kathy's Canadian Soapmaking Links. The busier I've gotten with the web page, the harder it is to check these links.

Kathy's Canadian Soapmaking Links

If you have any problem with them, please email me so that I can make the necessary adjustments. Thanks! Return to Kathy's Soapmaking Links Page. Etsy - Your place to buy and sell all things handmade, vintage, and supplies. Solid Perfume Recipe - Make Your Own Solid Perfume. Solid perfume is easy to make, plus it's practical.

Solid Perfume Recipe - Make Your Own Solid Perfume

Solid perfume won't spill. Solid Perfume. This is an inexpensive and easy way to smell nice!

Solid Perfume

I originally looked into this because I wanted to smell like pine trees, and nobody makes that scent (at least until Ralph Lauren gets a whiff of me). Create a personalized scent for a nifty gift. The only ingredient that can get expensive is the essential oils, especially if you make a complex scent blend requiring an initial investment of many different essentials. Of course, there's nothing wrong with picking a single pleasant scent.

Stressful Times Call for Bathtub Tea. I come from a long line of nail-biters, hand-wringers and floor-pacers.

Stressful Times Call for Bathtub Tea

My BIG project is due at the end of this month, and I’m more than a little anxious about it. On the whole, I’m handling the work-load well, but for me, stress, and mounting insecurities are my most powerful adversaries. As a champion worrier, I’ve spent years trying to tailor a de-stressing routine that suits my lifestyle. Exercise is always a good thing. However, my secret weapon for mitigating stress, happens in the bathroom.

Long, hot soaks in the tub (or showers, in a pinch) are equivalent to touching “base” in the middle of a frenzied game of tag. I have a friend who makes her own bath-salt mixes. Place 1-2 cups Epsom salt into a large bowl, and mix in 1/2 cup of the dried flowers and herbs. Once the bags are filled, fold the edges together as if you were wrapping a present (see above), and sew the bag closed. Lavender & Peppermint Foot Cream Recipe. Love your feet with this easy to make recipe created from rich, skin loving ingredients sure to tackle even the worst feet.

Lavender & Peppermint Foot Cream Recipe

Also try it on achy, tired legs! Lavender & Peppermint Foot Cream ©Rebecca’s Soap Delicatessen Ingredients: 1/8 Cup Cocoa Butter 1/2 teaspoon Beeswax 1 1/8 Cup Refined Shea Butter 1/4 Cup Aloe Butter 1/8 Cup Avocado Oil 1/8 Cup Liquid Vegetable Glycerin 1 Tablespoon Vitamin E Oil 1 teaspoon Tea Tree Oil 1 1/2 Tablespoons Lavender or Lavender 40/42 Essential Oil 1 teaspoon Peppermint Essential Oil 1 Tablespoon Mountain Rose Herbs Restorative Skin Oil Instructions: Melt the butters and beeswax over low heat on the stove or at half power in the microwave just until melted. For a cooling sensation in your foot cream, add menthol crystals. Home Spa Recipes – Body Scrub, Bath Salts, Whipped Body Lotion. I can’t believe it’s already time again for another edition of the Secret Recipe Club!

Home Spa Recipes – Body Scrub, Bath Salts, Whipped Body Lotion

This Summer is seriously just flitting on by! This time around I was given The Mommy Bowl for my assignment, written by Deanna. Her blog is primarly gluten-free, and some allergy free, and very health conscious… which is really just about the exact opposite of what I do here. Rosemary Mint Sugar Scrub Recipe. Rosemary Mint Sugar Scrub beauty, DIY, handmade gifts | 54 comments.

Rosemary Mint Sugar Scrub Recipe

Making chapstick « tidytipsy.photography. When the weather gets cooler my mind turns not only to knitting but also to making body products.

making chapstick « tidytipsy.photography

I made chapstick already last year, but wasn’t overly happy with the recipe, so I tried a different one this year. I used: 20% beeswax 25% coconut oil 15% cocoa butter 40% olive oil No coloring, no scent, no smell. I actually like the faint smell of beeswax :) I was aiming for three or four tubes worth of chapstick and eyeballed the quantity. Now I’m not that good with numbers, so eyeballing was probably not the best idea in the first place.

The process is very simple: 1. 2. 3. Mountain Rose Herbs Order: shipping_method. Butter Bars/Lotion Bars Recipe. Homemade Lotion Bar Recipes. Lotion bars are a soap like bar that is a compressed moisturizing lotion, which is rubbed directly onto the skin without water. They can be used for many purposes, used any where, and the best of all, you can make them using cheap and useful natural constituents at your home. To make the lotion bars, microwave the ingredients on high 30 seconds at a time, stirring in between, until the wax is melted, or by using the double boiler method, beat with a whisk until it gets creamy, add the essential oils and beat again to mix very thoroughly. Dreamy Creamy Lotion Bar - Free Bath Recipes.