Cucumbersome - StumbleUpon. Drinking tea is such a lovely ceremony, what with the dainty cups and small spoons and little dishes reserved only for steeped tea bags.
The aroma is such a huge part of that experience. Sadly, I’m finding that one can only drink so much tea in a day. So why not pull those luscious scents into our lives in other ways? This was my thinking when this idea popped into my head. I whipped up a batch of small Earl Grey tea soaps (see my instructions below) and folded them into individual tissue tea bags. I have included a full, rather detailed tutorial for you to make these yourself. You can buy all the materials you need here. which some may think is cheating, but I think it’s fantastic. Which has more bergamot than usual. 1. 4. 8. Here are the tags that are available (click here to view and print): Now I’m off to have a cup of tea… Thanks for reading. How to Make Oatmeal Soap - LoveToKnow Crafts. If you're looking for a sweet smelling soap with amazing skin care benefits, try making your own oatmeal soap.
Oatmeal is a great additive to soap and can help give your skin some added moisture. Making your own bars gives you complete control of the added ingredients, and you can even customize the scent. Three Recipes for Oatmeal Soap Depending on your level of soap making experience, you may find one method for making this rich soap appeals more than another. Hot Process Oatmeal Soap This soap recipe uses lye to produce a creamy, sudsy bar. Ingredients 8 ounces palm oil6 ounces coconut oil2 ounces olive oil1/4 cup oatmeal2 ounces lye8 fluid ounces water1/4 ounce essential oil Instructions Pulse the oatmeal in a food processor until some of the flakes have been rendered smooth.
To make a coarser bar, good for exfoliating, add some cornmeal as well, after stirring in the oatmeal mixture. Melt and Pour Oatmeal Soap. Coffee and Lavender Sugar Body Scrub — Joy the Baker - StumbleUpon. I made you something for not your mouth.
Wait… is that the best way to say that? I made you something for your body. For showering. For scrubbing. For smelling. Something to keep you company while you’re in the shower singing Who’s Gonna Drive You Home by The Cars. Don’t act like you don’t sing that song in the shower… cause we all do. … right? I love granulated sugar as a body scrub. Fine-ground coffee is a great addition. The only ingredient you might not have on hand in vegetable glycerine. Unlike using an olive oil or almond oil, vegetable glycerine leaves your skin feeling soft and happy… but not completely coated in oil.
Take a closer look and read all about lavender’s medical uses. Gas? It’s as easy as stirring sugar, ground coffee, lavender with vegetable glycerine. This is the part where I try to creep you out with my giant hands. But just look how pretty this scrub is! These hands are getting more creeptastic by the moment. Scrub that scrub in and get ready to wash it off. Homemade Sugar Scrub in Decorated Jars - StumbleUpon. 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.