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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Today’s blog is about how to approach color. When coloring a soap, we often think, “I want half my soap blue and half white in a lovely swirl.” In reality, the color is nowhere near half the mixture. True mixtures which are half white and half color have too much […]

Cold Process Soap, Day Five

February 27, 2009 in Cold Process Soap / Color In Products by Andee

Today’s Recipe: 6 ounces weight Hydrogenated Soybean Oil 5 ounces weight Coconut Oil 4 ounces weight Olive Oil 1 ounce weight Grapeseed Oil 2 TBSP dried Peppermint Leaves 7 mL Peppermint Essential Oil 2.2 ounces weight Sodium Hydroxide 6 fl oz water This mixture is much the same as those […]

Cold Process Soap, Day Four

February 26, 2009 in Cold Process Soap by Andee

As you know now, we are working on a basic formulation that has slight changes to determine WHAT effect an ingredient has. Today’s recipe is this: 6 oz wt Hydrogenated Soybean Oil 5 oz wt Coconut Oil 4 oz wt Olive Oil 1 oz wt Lanolin 6 fl oz Black […]

Cold Process Soap, Day Three

February 25, 2009 in Cold Process Soap by Andee

People can spend a lot of money on soap molds for cold process soap. We try to use what is easy to find for our test batches. Certainly we aren’t looking for equal-sized bars or perfectly shaped edges. We make soap in disposable cookie trays like the elf cookies from […]

Cold Process Soap, Day Two

February 24, 2009 in Cold Process Soap by Andee

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Sometimes, when a delivery man comes to our receiving door, we will hear comments of how nice it smells. Yesterday afternoon, we had a delivery man come in. He sniffed and said “Your place always smells better than the other places I deliver.” After we told him thank you, he […]

MMS Snapshot

February 24, 2009 in Thoughts from The Sage by Andee

Today I won’t go into depth on the hows and whys of our soap recipe, but I will give you one. I want to cover the basics of how to get ready as our primary focus. HAIR If you have long hair please pull it up in a clip or […]

Cold Process Soap, Day One

February 23, 2009 in Cold Process Soap by Andee

I thought that rounding out our scrub week with a scrub specifically for the lips would be nice. This scrub is great for helping remove the dry skin on your lips. Needed Items: Macadamia Nut Butter Macadamia Oil Vitamin E Natural Flavor of your choice, we are using Cucumber Melon […]

Lip Scrub

February 20, 2009 in Fast and Simple Gifts / Lip Balms / Scrubs / Spa Related by Andee

So far this week, we’ve worked on scrubs. Now we’re going to make a scrub using the Glycerin Scrub Base. This base has a similar sudsy effect to yesterday’s Cranberries & Lime Body Polish, but it creates a few more bubbles. We are going to use the Glycerin Scrub Gift […]

Glycerin Sugar Scrubs

February 18, 2009 in Color In Products / Fast and Simple Gifts / Fragrances / Scrubs / Spa Related by Andee

I’m going to expand on yesterday’s post. We are going to make the Cranberries & Lime Body Polish, using sugar instead of salt. We’re still going to have oil and an exfoliant, but we are going to add the Shower Gel & Liquid Hand Soap in One for a slight […]

Cranberries & Lime Body Polish

February 17, 2009 in Fast and Simple Gifts / Fragrances / Scrubs / Spa Related by Andee

Today I’m going to start our spa week with a simple Sugar Scrub. Last week, with my mistake on the Coffee Butter Latte Cream, I realized that testing and comparison are always needed to find your favorite products. When making a sugar scrub, you need to choose the oil you […]

Simple Sugar Scrubs

February 16, 2009 in Fast and Simple Gifts / Fragrances / Scrubs / Spa Related by Andee