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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Epsom Salts are my favorite soak; they don’t leave petals in my belly button or leaves between my toes. But what about the commercials of the last many decades which have said “lather means clean” through their pictures? Maybe we need to making foaming bath salts to combine the benefits […]

Foaming Fruity Layers

January 30, 2009 in Color In Products / Fast and Simple Gifts / Fragrances by Andee

Epsom Salts are magnesium sulfate. They are used as a soak to help sore and achy muscles and increase magnesium absorption to the body. For the Valentine’s Day theme, I am making layered salts for the Bath Salt Tubes. You will need Epsom Salt, Bath Salt Tubes, Purple Raspberry Color […]

Pink Layered Bath Salts

January 29, 2009 in Color In Products / Fast and Simple Gifts by Andee

I’m Treva, guest blogger today. I work in the Graphics Department here at Majestic Mountain Sage. Are you on your feet all day? I have a cream that will make your feet feel revived. When I got home last night, my feet were really tired and achy. Before I went […]

Minty Foot Cream

January 23, 2009 in Color In Products / Fast and Simple Gifts / Fragrances / Lotions and Creams by admin

My name is Andrea. I work in the production area here at Majestic Mountain Sage. I am the guest editor today. Andee is home with the flu. When she gets back, she will be so sad that she missed our special cookie day. These cookies are soft sugar cookies. They […]

Valentine’s Sugar Cookies

January 22, 2009 in Food and Recipes / Thoughts from The Sage by admin

Have you ever wondered how we choose the fragrances that go into our catalog? There are several tests each prospective fragrance goes through to be possibly added to the catalog. The cold process soap test is the hardest test and one that most fragrances fail for one reason or another. […]

Fragrance Testing at MMS

January 20, 2009 in Cold Process Soap / Fragrances by Andee

What if you don’t want bubbles or a fizzing, but you want a nicely scented bath? Bath salts can be your answer! I’ll scent these Bath Salts with Punch Party Fragrance Oil and color them with Purple Raspberry. Bath salts are also another great project to do with kids. #1 […]

Bath Salts

January 19, 2009 in Color In Products / Fast and Simple Gifts by Andee

Since Valentine’s Day is around the corner, I thought we would have the weeks leading up to February 14th focus on lovely gifts. Today, I’m going to start with an easy project, Magic Color Bath Fizzies. This recipe has been in our Recipes Section for years, but I am going […]

Magic Color Bath Fizzies

January 18, 2009 in Color In Products / Fast and Simple Gifts by Andee

Yesterday, we chose a green color for our Body Milk Gift Kit scented with Cucumber Fragrance Oil. Now for the fun part of making the kit. #1 Collect the items you need. Body Milk Gift Kit Premixed dyes from Jan 12, 2009 post Paper towels #2 Add fragrance. The entire […]

Using the Body Milk Gift Kit

January 16, 2009 in Color In Products / Fast and Simple Gifts / Lotions and Creams by Andee

I’ve talked about mixing colors with the Water Soluble Colorant Kit, but what about colors that aren’t in this kit? Today, we’ll blend green. Did you know that green is approximately 70% yellow and 30% blue? This means that I need to start blending colors at these percentages. I’m going […]

More Colors – Green!

January 15, 2009 in Color / Color In Products by Andee

Have you wondered what we will do with the samples we make for this blog? Once the samples are finished, I will place them in bags and affix a label similar to this orange one. Then I’ll take them back to the shipping department to be sent out with orders. […]

Samples made on the blog

January 14, 2009 in Thoughts from The Sage by Andee

Let’s color the world! Oh. The world colors are actually pretty. Let’s mimic the world! This blog entry will use a Bubble Bath Gift Kit and the dyes we mixed yesterday. Today I’ll demonstrate the Purple Raspberry dye in Bubble Bath scented with Cotton Candy Fragrance Oil. #1 Collect the […]

Using the Bubble Bath Gift Kit

January 13, 2009 in Color In Products / Fast and Simple Gifts by Andee

Today, I’m going to show how you can mix a dye and keep the mixed dye ready for anything you want to do. We’re going to use the Water Soluble Colorant Kit for this post. #1 Collect everything that you need. Water Soluble Colorant Kit Water 1/2 teaspoon measuring spoon […]

Starting with Color

January 12, 2009 in Color / Color In Products by Andee