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bug repellent plants

These natural bug-repellent plants are the same that create the naturally repelling essential oils. As you can see, certain plants repel certain bugs and insects. But this allows you to create a bug-repellent that is perfect for your uses. For … Continue reading

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bug repellent soap recipe

There have been a few names for this bug-repellent soap recipe, and mine was ‘Entomophobia’ or fear of insects. Customers loved the name. I’ve seen other names such as Bug Off, Buzz Off, Citronella Bar, Bug Me Not. One customer … Continue reading

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Body butter

Making body butter recipes is very similar to making lotion. The amounts of waxes, oils, butter and water will change – a lot! I was shocked by the amount of water in lotions, and this formula or recipe is going … Continue reading

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Essential oils for healing

Yes, there sure are healing benefits with essential oils. Inside my back workroom, I have 100’s of bottles of essential oils and carrier oils. Plus all the other bottles of fragrance oils, soap-making oils, and packages of clays, salts, waxes, … Continue reading

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Perfume oils

One of the funnest, easiest, and probably cheapest things I have made for events was to make your own perfume oils. I usually bottled up the top 10 best-selling soap scents into perfume oils. These were fairly popular and were … Continue reading

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are perfumes toxic?

Are perfumes toxic? Those store brands’ scents and perfumes are. Natural ones created at an aromatherapist’s shop are not dangerous. And some store brands are worse than others. An ingredient list does not report each and every of the dozens … Continue reading

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antibacterial essential oils list

The following is an antibacterial essential oils list, as well as lists of essential oils for being antiseptic, antiviral, and antifungal.  I’ve used a lot of these essential oils extensively for a variety of remedies, including as a nail fungus … Continue reading

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anti-garlic or kitchen bar

This Anti-Garlic or Kitchen soap bar recipe is known by other names as Fisherman’s Bar, Odor Remover, Coffee Soap, Coffee Scrub Bar, or Odor Eliminator Bar. What they all have in common is ground coffee beans and a scent, both … Continue reading

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hemp soap recipe

I make hemp soap as well and tested all sorts of various scents. Perhaps if we stuck to one scent, a popular but different than others, I may have sold more. One of the things soap makers do is look … Continue reading

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what is superfatting soap

What is superfatting soap? It is about making the soap a little more moisturizing. In theory, the extra oils added at the end, at trace, will be less saponified by the lye and create free-floating oil in the soap that … Continue reading

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