Spring is here! While this means that our weather can be warm in the afternoons and we use the air conditioners in our cars, the mornings are still chilly and require the use of the heaters in our cars. 🙂 To help keep the skin moisturized with the varying temperatures, […]

Pear-ly Spring Souffle

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At our location in Nibley, we have quite the collection of critters. Muskrats, pheasants, Canada Geese, and even some cats. When we first moved into the building last year, there were several kittens that lived in the area. We began feeding the kittens in hopes that we would be able […]

Meet Sadie!

I love the scent of Strawberries and Champagne. It smells like happiness, giggles and freedom. I love how scents and flavors can take us places we never thought we could go or return to. I was so excited about the Champagne Flavor we added to the catalog, it reminded me […]

Strawberries & Champagne Body Butter

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I am sure many of you know that I absolutely adore vanilla. Mnnn. It isn’t hard to see why vanilla is the world’s most popular flavor. However, I can not resist changing things up a bit. I love to blend colors, flavors and textures. I like things with excitement. While this […]

Vanilla Mint Lip Balm

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Technical suport received a phone call from Fran asking for help to formulate a lotion for dry skin. She lives in Colorado so her climate is similar to ours, a high mountain area with less oxygen per cubic foot and very dry, dry air. (By the way, did I mention […]

Fran’s Avocado Oil Lotion

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I love glitter. Okay, let me rephrase that. I love everything sparkly: glitter, jewelry, costumes, Christmas lights… I love it all. I go just nuts over something with sparkles as does my ten year old cousin. (At least I have someone to play dress up with. 😉 ) I have […]

Plumberry Spice Celebration Soap

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Last weekend, I found myself trying to explain EXACTLY what the difference between soap and detergent was. Wow! That was a lot harder to answer than I thought it was. My original thought was that while a soap and detergent may have a bar or liquid appearance, they are different […]

Soap & Detergent: What is the difference?

I know it has been a while since we have done Tea Tuesday, two weeks to be exact. I have finally gotten caught up with the requests and all notes are written with a few going out today. This fun promotion has caught the attention of a few blog relay […]

Tea Tuesday – April 12

I am so excited for spring, I can’t stand it. I am up early in the morning to watch the sun rise over the mountains, a cup of tea in hand hoping I will watch plants grow before my eyes. (I am up even before the chickens! That’s early.) It […]

Spring Potpourri Salts

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Recently, I was asked to show how to make a batch of liquid soap that was a 100% Olive Oil batch. This batch of soap was easy to make, but definitely a learning experience during the dilution phase! Collect needed items: Ingredients Olive Oil Potassium Hydroxide Water (I used Reverse […]

Olive Oil Liquid Soap

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If you liked the Special Feature on March 21st, I’m sure you will also enjoy today’s feature. As you may know, I love surfing the blogs from soapers and other crafters. One of the blogs I follow, The Great Cakes Soap Works Blog, had the cutest Valentine style soaps. Amy […]

Special Feature: Amy Warden of Great Cakes Soapworks

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Ever since I did that Lemon Poppy Seed Week, I have had lemons on my mind. My salads have been topped with a squeeze of lemon juice, my drinks sport a lemon slice, my perfume is Vanilla Lemon and my Post-It Notes are… you guessed it. Lemon Yellow! I decided […]

Lemon Lip Scrub