I will be using the #1 Basic Soap Recipe for this easy soap-making recipe with Anise essential oil which is natural and smells like licorice. This scent is considered to be a great kitchen bar as it is known to reduce odors on the hands from fish, onions, etc. Also considered to be an awakening…
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Making Body Butter Recipes (Beginner-Friendly Guide)
Making body butter recipes at home is surprisingly simple — and once you understand the basics, you’ll never look at store-bought products the same way again. Body butter is often compared to lotion, but there’s an important difference most people don’t realize: 👉 Most commercial lotions are made up of 70–90% water. That was shocking…
Perfume Oils: How to Make Roll-On Perfume Oils at Home
One of the easiest, most affordable, and most enjoyable products I ever made for markets and events was perfume oil. I simply took my top 10 best-selling soap scents and turned them into roll-on perfume oils. They were beautifully packaged, easy to make, and consistently popular — selling for $12.95 each. Perfume oils require no…
Are Perfumes Toxic? What You Should Know About Fragrance Ingredients
Perfumes are designed to smell beautiful — but many people are starting to ask an important question: Are perfumes toxic or potentially harmful? The answer isn’t black and white. Some conventional, store-bought perfumes contain synthetic fragrance blends made up of dozens of undisclosed chemicals, while natural perfume oils made with essential oils typically offer greater…
antibacterial soap
You can make your own antibacterial soap with this complete all-points-covered recipe. Those antibacterial brand name soaps contain a chemical called “triclosan”. this is a nasty chemical developed to kill germs and bacteria on contact. I did not realize how rampant this chemical was being used, without our knowledge or permission, onto and into our…
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What is trace and soap? Trace is the time when the saponification of the lye, water, and oils have become soap. It is at this stage when the soap base is thicker and doesn’t start to separate if you stop stirring. It will continue to get thicker from here on in. Now is also the…
Basic Soap Recipes – my 6 at a glance
I tried a lot of soap-making recipes and decided to keep it simple with one main basic soap-making recipe. Sometimes I need a backup soap recipe depending on the oils on hand, resulting in 5 basic recipes. These recipes will make about 24 – 4 oz bars, you can cut the recipe in half, or…
#1 – Olive and Coconut, No Palm
Usually simpler is better, and an olive and coconut soap recipe, no palm, is an option. At the beginning of making soap, I started with an Olive, coconut, and palm oil soap recipe, which worked very well. Over the years and depending on supply deliveries, supplies on hand, environmentalism, and ingredient costs, I came up…
#2 – Olive, Coconut and Palm
In the beginning of making soap, I started with an Olive, coconut, and palm oil soap recipe, which worked very well. Over the years and depending on supply deliveries, supplies on hand, environmentalism, and ingredient costs, I came up with 6 very tried and true soap recipes. The only oil to not use in over…
#3 – Olive, Coconut & Palm Kernel
In the beginning of making soap, I started with an Olive, coconut, and palm kernel soap recipe, which worked very well. Over the years and depending on supply deliveries, supplies on hand, environmentalism, and ingredient costs, we came up with 6 very tried and true soap recipes. The only oil to not use in over…