Archive for March, 2009

Shipping Alert

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

I just received a notice from UPS about a possible shipment disruption in Northeast Georgia due to severe winter weather.

Affected ZIP Codes:

30011 – 30056
30601 – 30623
30625 – 30633
30638
30641 – 30642
30645 – 30656
30663 – 30683

Impacted Services: Severe winter weather is affecting operations in the Northeast Georgia area. No Pickups, Deliveries, and On-Call Pickup are being made in impacted areas listed.

Expected Resolution: Once weather permits.

If you live in these areas, I hope your packages get to you safely. If you need information regarding your package, please call our office (435.755.0863) between the hours of 8 am and 4 pm, Monday through Friday. If you are needing assistance after hours, e-mail info@thesage.com and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Fluffy Lip Scrubs

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Whoops! I published before the recipe and photos were added!

I was playing around with the lip scrub idea and I thought why can’t I mix it just like frosting? After all, I make a chocolate frosting in my food processor occasionally and I love it on saltine crackers. My point is that the chocolate frosting still has a granular texture from the sugar and that is fairly close to what I want in a lip scrub. If you don’t know what I mean, imagine creaming butter and sugar together in the mixer for cookie until the butter is nearly white and the entire mixture is fluffy. That is the texture I’m looking for.

Back to the lip scrub. We have a food processor in our kitchen here at work, so I “borrowed” it for a while for testing purposes. I thought “If I can make candy in a plastic bowl and not have the flavor stick, I wonder if a cosmetic flavor would stick?”

I’m going to use the same recipe that I posted on February 20th. First things first, I weighed my ingredients into a beaker and then used a rubber scraper to scrape the ingredients into the food processor bowl. I put the lid on the bowl and pulsed the lip scrub until completely mixed. I did have to scrape the sides of the bowl twice to make sure everything was mixed.

Perfect! The mixing in the bowl meant I didn’t have to melt any ingredients and I love the fluffy look of the scrub. The best part in my opinion is that I washed the bowl and the flavor didn’t stay!

Collect needed items:
Macadamia Nut Butter
Macadamia Oil
Vitamin E Natural
Flavor of your choice, we are using Cucumber Melon Flavor Oil
Scale
Mixing container
Sugar
Containers for finished product

Recipe:

0.50 ounce Macadamia Nut Butter
0.25 ounce Macadamia Oil
0.10 ounce Vitamin E Natural
1.70 ounce Granulated Sugar
0.04-0.08 ounce Cucumber Melon Flavor (I used the most I could use2.25 mL in this example)

Notes:
If you have a smaller bowl that fits inside your food processor, I would highly recommend using that. If you would rather use a mixer, go ahead and use that. You are just wanting the sugar and oils to be beat together. The longer you beat them together, the smoother finish it will have. If you don’t like the feeling of a regular granulated sugar, you could use a ultra fine sugar (not powdered sugar).

Andee
Next week is our Cold Process Soap Follow Up Week! We are going to cover botanicals, milk soaps, curing, saving a batch, Lye Heavy Soap and Using the Lye Calculator.

Weigh sugar and put in food processor.

Weigh sugar and put in food processor.

Add oils to food processor.

Add oils to food processor.

All ingredients in the food processor.

All ingredients in the food processor.

Mix until fully blended.

Mix until fully blended.

Our finished Fluffy Lip Scrub.

Our finished Fluffy Lip Scrub.

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Mother’s Day Announcement

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

I know it is only the beginning of March, but I have an exciting announcement for Mother’s Day, which is May 10th. Now, through April 20, we will be making items to put into a Mother’s Day personal care gift basket. Our blog on the 20th and 21st of April will focus on putting together a gift basket. The drawing, for the 5 baskets I am making, will be held on April 23rd.

How to win a gift basket:

To enter this drawing, simply comment on the blog between March 1st and April 22nd. Each comment will be assigned a number in the order they are received. On April 23rd, we will draw 5 different numbers out of a bucket. If your number is chosen, you will win!

On April 24th, we will ship the gift baskets out of our facility to get to you with time for Mother’s Day. Only one basket per winner, but that doesn’t mean you can only post one comment!

I’m so excited that I could scream, and I’m hosting this drawing!

Anyway, remember, commenting enters you into the drawing. You don’t need to do anything else. We send a free gift basket to you AND we pick up the shipping too! Considering the items that are in this gift basket, I must restrict entries to the US and Canada. If you are outside these countries, you can still comment. I’ll find something else to send to winners outside the US and Canada.

Good luck to all participants!

First Day of Spring

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

March 20, 2009: Today is the Spring Equinox.  Celebrate the first day of Spring!

MMS Staff Day

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

March 27, 2009: This is our MMS Staff Day.  We are closed to the public on this date.  Do not plan on any orders leaving our facilities on this day.  We use this day to catch up with our warehouse chores, order processing and product preparation.  We allow our staff a day renewal.

If your order has already shipped, UPS and USPS are delivering today.

St. Patrick’s Day

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

March 17, 2009: Don’t forget to wear your green and kiss the Irish today!  What about making green lip balm for the holiday?

Full Moon

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

March 10, 2009:  The March full moon is here!

Daylight Savings Time Begins

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

March 8, 2009: Daylight Savings Time Begins.  Majestic Mountain Sage is located in northern Utah.  We are subject to Daylight Savings Time.  Our time zone is Mountain.  If you live in an area that implements Daylight Savings Time, don’t forget to set your clocks an hour ahead.