soap-making
Easy Melt and Pour Soap Recipes for Holiday Giving
Add to Favorites Want a fun project that kids can do? Try easy melt and pour soap recipes for holiday giving. Use as stocking stuffers or quick gifts for friends …
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Using Fresh Produce as Soap Ingredients
Add to Favorites There are many botanical ingredients you can use as cold process soap ingredients. Lavender and rose petals are classics, and Himalayan Pink Salt soaps are trendy and …
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Make a DIY Soap Mold – Instructions With Video!
Add to Favorites If you look around your home, there are probably dozens of items that can serve as a DIY soap mold. From potato chip cans to reclaimed wooden …
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How to Make Tomato Soap
Add to Favorites In August, hopefully your garden is in full swing. Tomatoes are ripening, and the fresh herbal snap of tomato leaves fills the air each time you brush …
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Avoiding Contamination While Making Goat Milk Lotion
Add to Favorites Making goat milk lotion isn’t difficult, but there are some steps that shouldn’t be avoided. When making goat milk lotion, care must be taken to reduce and …
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Coloring Soap Naturally
Add to Favorites When learning how to make homemade soap, will you use dyes, micas, or try coloring soap naturally? There are many ways to achieve beautiful colors in your …
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How to Make a Hydrosol
Add to Favorites By Erin Oberlander, Certified Holistic Aromatherapist Hydrosols are becoming more well-known in the home and natural health care communities, and this is causing many to wonder how …
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Making Shampoo Bars
Add to Favorites Making shampoo bars is a very different process from making body soap in a lot of ways. Unlike body soap, it is important to limit the number …
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50 Must-Haves for TEOTWAWKI
Add to Favorites By Thomas Sciacca – Arguably, the most important thing to store for a SHTF (Stuff Hits The Fan) or complete TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As …
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Enjoy Egg Whites for Skin Tone with Egg Soap
Add to Favorites There are many recipes using egg whites for skin, as it is a natural and effective astringent and pore tightener. Astringents are ingredients that tighten the skin …
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How to Make Milk Soap: Tips to Try
Add to Favorites Learning how to make milk soap provides another use for that excess goat milk. It’s not as hard as you’ve probably heard! It’s a popular misconception that …
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Jewelweed Soap: An Effective Poison Ivy Remedy
Add to Favorites Jewelweed soap is fun to make this time of year, when the plant is just starting to send up tender, young shoots full of soothing juice. Jewelweed …
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Rebatching Soap: How to Save Failed Recipes
Add to Favorites Rebatching soap is an excellent way to prevent waste and turn your valuable oils and fats into a useful product, even if mistakes have left the soap …
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Can You Make Goat Milk Soap Without Handling Lye?
Add to Favorites The idea of making goat milk soap without handling lye is certainly appealing, but the truth is that somewhere along the line, someone has had to use …
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Soap Making Techniques: Which is Right for You?
Soap making is an old art with changing history. And it’s not all made the same way. Different ingredients, temperatures, and curing times come into play. If you want to learn how to make soap, first decide which soap making techniques you’re most comfortable with using.
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