If you have ever been the Master Food Preserver Program with your local university extension office, then today’s paper might be familiar to you. If you aren’t familiar with home canning, this paper will still be useful to you as it explains why jars break, just like the jar in […]
Thoughts from The Sage
6 Last week, I made two batches of lotion for a finished product comparison between Hydrovance and Sodium Lactate. The recipe is the exact same except for the Sodium Lactate and Hydrovance. These samples will be going out with orders. If you get a sample of these two lotions, try them! […]
Lotion Comparision Test
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
6 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
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
1 It is always great to receive thank you letters from customers who have dealt with our Technical Support Staff and received the help they needed. Today we received an amazing package from Kim E. and I’ll admit, we were pleasantly surprised to find some yummy pears from Harry & David […]
Surprises for Technical Support
We just added extracts to the After Swim Conditioner and now we should make a matching Shampoo so your hair gets the best treatment possible. This complete set will be great for any hair needing a little bit extra love and attention. Some users think that additives to our bases […]
Adding Extracts to the Daily Shampoo
Sometimes we put lots of stress on our hair just with our daily activities. Our After Swim Hair Conditioner is perfect for competitive swimmers or those just swim for the exercise. Even runners in city smog should take special care of their hair. Today I’m going to add some of […]
Adding Extracts to the After Swim Hair Conditioner
1 I love to bake and I usually end up bringing the extra goodies to work because my family can’t eat all of my baked goods. Of all my favorite and well used ingredients, baking chocolate tops the list because it can make brownies. I’m a complete and total brownie junkie. […]
Brownies, MMS Style
1 Around our house, we always use baking chocolate in various baking projects and someone kept having to run to the grocery store until we realized that we could make our own baking chocolate at home. Now, instead of needing to go to the grocery store for baking chocolate, we simply […]
Making Baking Chocolate
5 Have you ever had a birthday sneak up on you so suddenly? I have and it usually means I’m scrambling to find the perfect gift at the last minute. Today, I’ll show you how to make a money rose for those surprise occasions or the recipient that is next to […]
Money Roses
Dirk, one of our web programmers, wrote this guest blog post for us and I just had to share it with you! His cornbread recipe by weight is fantastic and we are lucky to get this recipe where we can use our scales for something other than bath and body […]