Denise

About Denise

I'm a crazy goat lady who got into making my own soap with goat milk, found MMS to order supplies, and now I get to combine my love of creating skin care products with a job to pay the feed bill. I live in Alaska and greatly enjoy the unique aspects of my northern home - summer days when it never gets dark and the Northern Lights dancing above in winter. Favorite scents include Wild Mint and Ivy, Rhubarb & Sugar Cane, and Eucalyptus Spearmint.
Three cheers for a great masculine scent! We get lots of requests for fragrances men will love, so we developed Gladiator. This fragrance is very sexy; smelling of woods and musk. Everyone agreed that it smells like a man that is fresh from the shower. A fresh mountain air sweeps […]

Fragrance Friday: Gladiator

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Don’t you love how everything turns green for St. Patrick’s Day? When I was in college, I’d been to the obligatory St. Patrick’s Day party and had overindulged in green beer. The following morning the dining hall had green eggs, green biscuits, and even green milk! Needless to say, I […]

Green Lotion for St. Patrick’s Day

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All information in this blog comes from the excellent book “Soap & Cosmetic Labeling” by Marie Gale. If you make true soap, and you don’t make any cosmetics claims, your soap can be sold without any label. What?! That was my reaction. True soap is defined in the Food, Drug […]

Labeling Your Soap

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Lavender always makes me smile. It’s a fragrance I enjoy smelling. Lavender Flowers Fragrance Oil is a beautiful, spring-fresh scent of lavender without excess or the medicinal smell often associated with lavender essential oil. I love that Lavender Flowers Fragrance Oil plays nicely in cold-process soap with no discoloration and […]

Lavender Flowers Soap

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Ginger Milk makes the list of favorite fragrances around here. It’s an exotic scent with notes of ginger flowers, nutmeg, bergamot, coriander, with the heart of peach, jasmine, ginger root, ending with hints of musk and sandalwood. Better than ginger ale. Better than ginger tea. It’s Ginger Milk! This fragrance […]

Fragrance Friday: Ginger Milk

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Searching a calendar website for inspiration, I discovered that March 7-11 is National Foot Week. While the focus of the week is primarily foot health, pampering your tooties is never a bad thing. This week we will look at ways to make your feet feel great! This time around we’ll […]

Cinnamon Foot Soak

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Searching a calendar website for inspiration, I discovered that March 7-11 is National Foot Week. While the focus of the week is primarily foot health, pampering your tootsies is never a bad thing. This week we will look at ways to make your feet feel great! Today we’ll make a […]

Luffa Sugar Foot Scrub

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Searching a calendar website for inspiration, I discovered that March 7-11 is National Foot Week. While the focus of the week is primarily foot health, pampering your tooties is never a bad thing. This week we will look at ways to make your feet feel great! Today that looks like […]

Minty Foot Moisturizing Cream

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I’m going to mix things up a bit this week and feature two similar fragrances. Intense Almond is one of those iconic fragrances that nearly everyone loves. It gives a down home, warm, wrap-you-in-comfort feeling. This is a good one to put in facial bars or luxurious body bars. Honey […]

Fragrance Friday: All The Almonds

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We all know Shea Butter, but how familiar are you with Liquid Shea Oil? This was a new ingredient to me, so I decided to make a cream with it, adding Almond Butter and Squalane Butter to round out my formula. Liquid Shea Oil is a pretty greasy oil, but […]

Shea Oil & Squalane Cream

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Aloe is a standard in skin care; I’ve never met an aloe-based product I didn’t like. Today I’ll make a lotion using our fantastic Aloe Vera Butter and some Macadamia Nut Oil to round out the formula. Aloe Butter is a softer oil that is just dreamy to use! Aloe […]

Aloe Vera Butter Lotion

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