Monthly Archives: February 2010

I’m well known to be a Coffee Butter junkie, but I haven’t shared my other major junkie affliction. Yes, I am a chocoholic. Doesn’t that sound like an anonymous group of sorts? “Hello. My name is Andee and I’m a chocoholic.” Whoops! I think I got off topic! Anyway, I […]

Chocolate Cold Process Soap

February 22, 2010 in Cold Process Soap by Andee

Wow! I can’t believe that it is almost the end of February already. Time has flown by and I’ve had a few questions of what is upcoming for blog posts. I’m excited to announce that starting next week, we will have a short series on Cream Soaps as well as […]

Upcoming Blog Projects

February 19, 2010 in Thoughts from The Sage by Andee

It has been a while since our last challenge, so I believe that it is time to extend another challenge to all blog readers. We just finished a week of milk soaps and now I’d like to see how your milk soaps turn out. Rules: 1) Submit a picture to […]

Blog Reader Challenge

February 18, 2010 in Challenges and Q&A by Andee

Whenever I want to take a long soothing bath, I can’t help myself and you will always find me adding this or that to the bath water. Bath Fizzies, Bath Oils, Tub Teas, Bubble Bath and more have been added to my bath water at one time or another. However, […]

Using Tea Bags

February 17, 2010 in Product Assistance / Thoughts from The Sage by Andee

Yippee! I was able to correct all of the lighting problems with our photo shoot and I now have a excellent comparison photograph to share with you. You can click on the photo to enlarge it. Top row of soaps, starting at the top left of the picture: Cows Milk, […]

Milk Soaps Comparison

February 16, 2010 in Cold Process Soap / Soap by Andee

Last week, we made fresh Almond Milk for our Cold Process Soap: Half and Half Method with Almond Milk blog post and I promised that I would take a picture of the Almond Meal that was left over after straining the milk. If I had not slipped all of the […]

Almond Meal

February 15, 2010 in Thoughts from The Sage by Andee

Ready for final part of milk cold process soap? We are going to follow the same recipe and steps as the posts before, but we are going to use Almond Milk instead. I made fresh Almond Milk using the SoyaPower Plus Soy Milk Maker and pressed the “Beans +” button. […]

Cold Process Soap: Half and Half Method with Almond Milk

February 13, 2010 in Cold Process Soap / Soap by Andee

Ready for part 4 of milk cold process soap? We are going to follow the same recipe and steps as the posts before, but we are going to use Soy Milk instead. I made fresh Soy Milk using the SoyaPower Plus Soy Milk Maker. Again, here are the directions that […]

Cold Process Soap: Half and Half Method with Soy Milk

February 13, 2010 in Cold Process Soap / Soap by Andee

Ready for part 3 of milk cold process soap? We are going to follow the same recipe and steps as the posts before, but we are going to use buttermilk instead. Again, here are the directions that we will follow in a step by step format. 1) Calculate the amount […]

Cold Process Soap: Half and Half Method with Buttermilk

February 11, 2010 in Cold Process Soap / Soap by Andee

Ready for part 2 of milk cold process soap? We are going to follow the same recipe and steps as the post yesterday, but we are going to use goats milk instead. What is the advantage to using the Half and Half Method rather than adding the milk to the […]

Cold Process Soap: Half and Half Method with Goats Milk

February 10, 2010 in Cold Process Soap / Soap by Andee

I’ve had many questions pop up in the last few weeks about making milk soaps, so today we are going to start a 5 post series for milk soaps using the Half and Half Method. The Half and Half Method is actually very easy to follow. Here are the directions […]

Cold Process Soap: Half and Half Method with Cows Milk

February 8, 2010 in Cold Process Soap / Soap by Andee

It’s that time again! We had four fantastic submissions for January blog posts and I just had to share all of them with you. I’m giving away two kits this month. Jennifer won one of the January MMS Perfumer’s Kits with her blog post about making a Sea Salt Cold […]

January MMS Perfumer’s Kit Winner

February 3, 2010 in Drawings and Contests by Andee

Thoughts and ideas from the world of Majestic Mountain Sage.