Do you remember wanting to race to the mail box to find out what was delivered? Was there anything for you? Andee is feeling this way in China. She wants a crazy mail day. Would you be interested in sending her a letter or postcard? All letters, cards or postcards […]
8 Here I am changing my recipe yet again to get the product that I want. Remember that you should never have to settle for anything! If you try a recipe and you like the basic ingredients but the viscosity, color, or texture isn’t quite what you wanted, change it! Today […]
Bottoms Up Day 4
I’ve just received an email from UPS notifying us of a severe weather delay in Louisville, Kentucky. I’ve attached the text of the email I received. Wednesday, September 26, 2012 Severe weather in Louisville, KY, at WorldPort, one of UPS’s primary hubs in the US, caused a significant disruption to […]
UPS Shipping Alert!
5 Today I am adding a different color to the baby ointment. I need to be careful not to use anything that will cause skin irritation, however. I chose Seabuckthorn Fruit Oil. It is a brilliant orange that intensely colors anything it is added to. Seabuckthorn also has some regenerative properties […]
Bottoms Up Day 3
7 Today I am working on refining my first formulation for the Bottoms Up Balm. To recap yesterday’s notes, I need to reduce the peculiar odor and color and make the formula a little more viscous. To start, I am going to drop out the Neem Oil and reduce the percentage […]
Bottoms Up Day 2
8 Do you have a baby or know someone who has a baby? Are you frustrated with the baby bottom ointments and creams available? As a mother, I know and understand these frustrations. The standard ointments available just do not seem to work well with a baby with sensitive skin, especially […]
Bottoms Up Day 1
6 Apparently when I wrote the Freebie Friday last week, I completely spaced on mentioning the latest new products! Good gravy boats! Some of these new products are super exciting and I’m jealous that you will get a chance to play with them first. 😉 If you remember our Houston Project, […]
Freebie Friday! (Plus New Products Review)
As our fourth year of blog posts begins to come to a close, we have almost 900 blog posts that we have to review and update to match our current catalog. This is where we need your help! So many of you find not only these blog posts but also […]
Blog Challenge: Help us fix our errors!
Recently, I decided to make an Oil Free Lotion. I wanted to have an oil free lotion that met the requests I’ve heard from our readers. Let’s check out the ingredients and I’ll share why I chose them! I chose Isopropyl Myristate because I wanted to ensure this lotion wouldn’t […]
Oil Free Lotion
The hibiscus plant and flowers have been used in China and India as a traditional medicine, tea and even shoe polish for a long time. The hibiscus has been noted in Chinese history by depictions of the plant on porcelain pottery from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD) and when it […]
Hibiscus Foot Soak
Recently, we have had lots of questions about how to get Cocoa Butter out of a pail without melting the entire pail at one time. To help our customers solve this problem, we created a video that can be found either on YouTube or on our website (http://www.thesage.com/pub/m4v/Cocoabutter.m4v). This video […]
How to get Cocoa Butter out of a pail
18 Recently, while touring the Dong Cheng District of Beijing, Jerry and I walked past a building that was really fragrant. The scent stopped me in my tracks and I looked around trying to determine what smelled so good. I couldn’t tell what the source was at first, so I decided […]