Making your own lip balm recipe is so much better than buying any tube of lip balm or chap stick from the store, and probably not near as natural as making your own beeswax lip balm.
There are a few companies that now make all natural lip balms, so you can find them in the stores, but you will more than likely pay a fair price for them when you can make your own for pennies.
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When making and cutting soap you are sure to end up with all kinds of soap ends. Some ways to recycle bar soap pieces would be: Continue reading
How to care for your soap?
The first thing you need to know about homemade handmade soap is that it needs to breathe. This is important to help the soap cure – the longer it cures the harder the bar will get. It will stay hard so long as it is not sitting in water or in an area that it will attract moisture.
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There are many reason why a person should consider a Handmade Shampoo Bar.
Most bars are made with all Natural Ingredients that have been chosen for the benefits of the hair and then formulated into a recipe using the most beneficial amounts of each ingredient to make a beautiful natural nourishing shampoo bar.
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A nice bar of soap will lather well with hard or soft water, but soap does lather way better in soft water. Continue reading
Lately I have had a few people asking me about shrink wrapping their soap, I guess one of the benefits to this is that people will not touch the soap, put it to their noses when smelling it (that one always drives me nuts) but is wrapping it in shrink wrap good for your soap?
This question can be answered by what type of soap your are making, shrink wrapping melt and pours soap works well, but for cold process the consensus is that it needs to breathe. So…. Continue reading
Making your own laundry soap can save you a lot of money, but not only that you know what goes into the product that will wash your clothing, bedding, etc.
There are some very harmful chemicals in some products on the market today and washing your cloths with them and then wearing those cloths puts those chemicals close to your body.
I suffered terribly from excema for years and that was one of the reason I started making soap, but that’s not where it stopped. I began to make laundry soap as well and we grow as much of our own food as we can – that’s another subject. Continue reading
Olive oil for hair….yes! Who would have thought! Olive oil is amazing for your hair, and thankfully being a soap maker. I have lots of Olive oil. Continue reading
There are many creative ways to wrap and label you soap. Continue reading
Kit are available for the crafter starting out making soap. These kits supply everything you need to make a few bars of soap, the oils, scents and colors are all included.
You can get these through soap supply stores or even on-line through E-bay or Amazon.
House of Crafts Organic Soap Making Kit
I will offer some suggestions on where you might be able to find handmade soap supplies. Continue reading
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