Yearly Archives: 2009
6 I love our Lip Solutions, but sometimes I want more than just Coffee Flavor. If other java junkies are like me, I think they would want to know how to add Coffee Butter to the Lip Solutions and have it work. This lip balm will be firmer than our Lip […]
Coffee Lip Balm
10 Wow! Saint Patrick’s Day is just two weeks away! I loved coloring shamrocks as a kid because the bright green color meant spring was just around the corner. Spring has always meant fresh smells and bright colors, so why can’t we have a fresh lip balm? I want to have […]
Saint Patrick’s Day Mint Balm
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 […]
Shipping Alert
10 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. The […]
Fluffy Lip Scrubs
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 […]
Mother’s Day Announcement
27 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
10 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
23 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
7 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
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
54 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 […]