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 instance, you can make an ant-repelling spritzer with the mints and lime. Or if you…
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 who bought one of these bars came back the next day to get 3 more….
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 to be very similar for all those store brands that we pay lots for. Literally,…
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, and on and on. Once you get started with making natural products, you won’t want…
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 sold for $12.95 each.
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 of chemicals that are involved in the making of perfume. The average number of omitted…
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 treatment. You can mix and match in any percentage that you like. For an all-around…
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…
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 known to remove odors from hands or all over. I first came up with this…
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 on the internet for scent combinations to try. This is what I had done for…