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Making your own brown sugar can definitely be more cost effective than buying brown sugar and the bonus of making your own brown sugar is that it is amazingly simple! Today I’ll show you how to make brown sugar and tomorrow, I’ll show you how to make the Brown Sugar […]

Making Brown Sugar

September 10, 2009 in Food and Recipes / Thoughts from The Sage by Andee

Today, I will be showing you how to make tofu from fresh Soy Milk. Collect needed items: 4 batches of fresh Soy Milk Large cooking pot Measuring Cup Stirring Spoon Measuring Spoons Water Nigari (Natural Magnesium Chloride) Tofu Mold Weights Cheesecloth Stove Pour all four batches of the fresh Soy […]

Making Tofu

September 4, 2009 in Food and Recipes / Thoughts from The Sage by Andee

Remember the picture of the fresh honey comb? Today, I’m going to show you some of the extraction process that we use on our hives. I hope you enjoy these pictures. After removing the super from the hive, we set aside all the supers to allow any remaining bees to […]

Extracting Honey

September 2, 2009 in Thoughts from The Sage by Andee

Last week I made a few batches of soap using fresh Soy Milk. Since Soy Milk is generally sweetened if you are purchasing it in the grocery store, you will want to make your own Soy Milk for soap. Today I am going to show you how to make Soy […]

Soy Milk – Making it with a SoyaPower Plus Soy ...

September 1, 2009 in Food and Recipes / Thoughts from The Sage by Andee

Last week I made the Blackberry Sage Light & Luscious Body Souffle and it was fantastic. Since I had blackberries galore, I had to make a blackberry pie. I used a recipe from an America’s Test Kitchen episode that was originally aired on January 3rd 2009. The Best Blueberry Pie […]

Blackberry Pie

August 25, 2009 in Food and Recipes / Thoughts from The Sage by Andee

Fresh Honey

August 21, 2009 in Thoughts from The Sage by Andee

I apologize for the delay of these photos. I hope they help!

Draining Gallon Jugs Photos

August 12, 2009 in Product Assistance by Andee

I use many of our bases for my own personal use as well as for the blog. I hate leaving extra lotion in the gallon jugs, but it can be very difficult to empty the jugs. The I came up with an idea for when I have just a little […]

Draining Gallon Jugs

August 6, 2009 in Product Assistance by Andee

Last week, I took a phone call from a customer looking for Grapefruit Seed Extract. She wanted to use the Grapefruit Seed Extract as a preservative in her lotion. I’ve done some research in the past about Grapefruit Seed Extract and I have discovered that it has little preservative abilities. […]

Preservative vs Antioxidant

August 5, 2009 in Product Assistance by Andee

If you are familiar with Twitter, I have exciting news for you! We now have a Twitter account and we will be using it to release new product notices, discontinued products and special offers. Here is the direct link to our Twitter account. http://twitter.com/mmtnsage Enjoy!

MMS is now on Twitter!

July 31, 2009 in Thoughts from The Sage by Andee

Rebatching

July 15, 2009 in Cold Process Soap / Thoughts from The Sage by Tina

I just got a request from Pat about making summer time sugar scrubs. She wanted to find a substitution for the oil in an oil and sugar scrub that wouldn’t leave her shower floor so slippery. If we remove the oil and add something like aloe juice, the potential for […]

Bath mats for fall protection

July 7, 2009 in Product Assistance / Thoughts from The Sage by Tina