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Homemade Cleaning Recipes. The Art of Fragrance: Luxury and Indulgence for the Home and Body. Varina Soap and Candle - Fuquay Varina Handmade Soap. Easy homemade soap. As the last generations of Depression-era children or back-to-the-landers take their leave of this world, their DIY skills go with them.

Easy homemade soap

When we try to learn from scratch, we soon discover that recipes in books don't tell half the story. DIY soap making and other skills slipping away I have never figured out why this knowledge started slipping away from us, but I am trying to re-learn some of the basics. I now make my own soap, hand lotion, yogurt and bread. I am trying to figure out toothpaste, but it is hard to find good information about abrasion damage. My soap recipe is customized to use full bottles of most of the oils, so you don't have a lot of inventory lying around, and you don't have to do a lot of measuring.

Handcrafted Soapmakers Guild. PREMIUM HANDMADE SOAP BATH BEAUTY & BODY PRODUCTS by soap. Fruit and Herb Soaps. Flower and Leaf Soap - Single Use Dipped Flower and Leaf Soap Video. Using silk flower petals and leaves, you can create an elegant hand soap that will liven up your bathroom.

Flower and Leaf Soap - Single Use Dipped Flower and Leaf Soap Video

Try making unique seasonal flower soaps at home.See Transcript Hi, I'm David Fisher for About.com. Today we are going to make a unique seasonal soap using silk flower petals to make single use hand soaps. Homemade Flower Soap Supplies For this recipe, you will need:between 4 & 8 oz of melt and pour soapan appropriate fragrance oil to match your flower or silk petal that you have chosenassortment of silk flower petal or leaves (for wintertime you can use poinsettias, for spring time pansies, and for autumn, autumn leaves or ivy) kitchen tongsPyrex measuring cupa sharp knife cookie sheet covered with wax paper Arrange the Flowers and Leaves First, cut the leaves or petals off of the stems. S Homemade Soap Recipe by Robert Wayne Atkins. Grandpappy's Homemade Soap Recipe Copyright © 2007,2008 by Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E. All rights reserved and all rights protected under international copyright law.

Click Here for a Microsoft WORD printer friendly copy of this article. Introduction During hard times sooner or later everyone runs out of soap. 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) Before going any further, I recommend that you get familiar with the cold process soap making method. Get the Kit! How to Make Lye: 13 steps. Edit Article Edited by G.

How to Make Lye: 13 steps

Kent, Krystle C., Ben Rubenstein, Ash Furrow and 39 others Lye, also known as NaOH, sodium hydroxide, or caustic soda, is used in making soap and in biodiesel fuel production. Caustic potash, or potassium hydroxide, is also called lye. Natural Hair Dye, homemade hair color, for fashion sheep and trendsetters. Making and using your own Natural Hair Dye is waaaaay more fun than anything you can buy out there.

Natural Hair Dye, homemade hair color, for fashion sheep and trendsetters

And we’re not even speaking of the safety aspect, those store bought chemical hair dyes are packed with? …yes, 1000 points for you: Chemicals!! This is for all who want to keep it natural, obviously. These homemade hair dye recipes contain pure natural ingredients. That is a seriously safer alternative to those chemical paint jobs And yes, it will take you a bit longer to get to the same sort of result, because these natural hair color recipes are not as concentrated. Not only are they easy and fun to make, but also very affordable or downright cheap and you probably have the ingredients already somewhere in your kitchen cabinet Adding color never hurt anyone Not for Sheep… We want to make a point about Skin Tone and choice of color, at least what others lead you to believe; your new hair color should complement your skin tone.

E.g. Which ingredients are usefulin natural hair dye recipes? Bramble Berry Soap Making Supplies. Want to make your own all natural mineral make-up?

Bramble Berry Soap Making Supplies

Maybe you want to know down to the last ingredient what you put on your skin or maybe you just can't find that perfect shade of lipstick. Bramble Berry has everything you need to make customized mineral make-up. Info and Inspiration Learn how to get the perfect smoky eye and a fabulous mossy green eye shadow recipe over at the Soap Queen Blog. Learn the seemingly complicated technique of foiling and find a recipe for the perfect delicate pink at this tutorial. Soapnut recipes: soapnut liquid, soapnut shampoo, soapnut powder foam.