Homemade Liquid Hand Soap Recipe - How to Make Liquid Soap. Learn how to make your own liquid soap, and you'll wonder why you ever paid for it: Difficulty: Easy Time Required: 10 minutes of hands-on time What You Need: A bar of soap A knife or grater Water A sauce pan or pot Essential oil (optional) Soap coloring (optional) Empty soap dispensers Here's How: Grate or finely chop a bar of soap (about four ounces of soap).
Tips: Want to make a bigger or smaller batch? 7 Ice Cube Beauty Hacks. I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve gone to the fridge a time or two on a hot day – not to eat (okay, maybe) but instead to stick my face in the freezer. The blast of cold air feels so good. Turns out summer is a great time to freeze more than just tasty popsicles. Ice can work wonders on painful sunburns, puffy eyes and pesky zits. Here are 7 refreshing ice cube beauty ideas! For a glowing skin cleanser, try a frozen facial scrub. Green tea has become one of my facial favorites. I started doing this after Giada mentioned it in her book, Feel Good Food.
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Lotions! Lemon Oil | Blah Blah Magazine - a lifestyle. By Cybele When life gives you lemons… We have a lot of lemons now that we’re on Fab Feb or NAF (depending on what mood you catch me in), because we have been drinking things like this Lemon Water from the Planning Queen to up our vitamin C intake. This lemon oil is a great recipe for body treatments and cleaning products, however it is a bit too potent for cooking, and can be quite bitter. I will do a cooking lemon olive oil at a later date. Did I mention that I love lemon oil? It is a great smelling way to disguise whatever in home fragrance, smooth cracked heals, scrub the bath and scare spiders away, so I am pretty friendly with it. The only disappointing thing is that I didn’t know how easy it is to make earlier, because those little bottles of lemon oil can be exy so I was quite parsimonious with it. Lemon oil recipe: 1. 5. 6.
Uses for Lemon Oil: Make a scrummy body scrub. Fragrance the home. Add to vinegar as a cleaning product. What do you do when life gives you lemons? Cybele x. Time for Tea Soap | Cucumbersome. 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. The Burlap Bag - High Quality Handmade Goods Shop - Austin Texas. November 22, 2011 by Lauren Things I love: Saving money Yummy smelling things EASY projects This DIY project was perfect for me! I took 2 bars of soap and made them turn into more than a gallon of liquid soap! So awesome. The two bars of soap were $2.99 together and the glycerin was $1.19. What you need: A grater 2 bars of soap (I used pomogranite rose… so good!) What to do: 1. All soaps are made differently – if yours is too runny, remelt with more grated soap. And you’re done!