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Donna submitted her milk soaps for our Milk Soap Challenge. Here is her perspective on the process of making milk soap. Enjoy! First, here’s the recipe I used — it’s a little varied from my usual mix, because I wanted to use the last of my cocoa butter & shea […]

Milk Soaps Challenge

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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

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I’m well known to be a Coffee Butter junkie, but I haven’t shared my other major junkie affliction. Yes, I am a chocoholic. Doesn’t that sound like an anonymous group of sorts? “Hello. My name is Andee and I’m a chocoholic.” Whoops! I think I got off topic! Anyway, I […]

Chocolate Cold Process Soap

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

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It has been a while since our last challenge, so I believe that it is time to extend another challenge to all blog readers. We just finished a week of milk soaps and now I’d like to see how your milk soaps turn out. Rules: 1) Submit a picture to […]

Blog Reader Challenge

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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

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Yippee! I was able to correct all of the lighting problems with our photo shoot and I now have a excellent comparison photograph to share with you. You can click on the photo to enlarge it. Top row of soaps, starting at the top left of the picture: Cows Milk, […]

Milk Soaps Comparison

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

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Ready for final part of milk cold process soap? We are going to follow the same recipe and steps as the posts before, but we are going to use Almond Milk instead. I made fresh Almond Milk using the SoyaPower Plus Soy Milk Maker and pressed the “Beans +” button. […]

Cold Process Soap: Half and Half Method with Almond Milk

Ready for part 4 of milk cold process soap? We are going to follow the same recipe and steps as the posts before, but we are going to use Soy Milk instead. I made fresh Soy Milk using the SoyaPower Plus Soy Milk Maker. Again, here are the directions that […]

Cold Process Soap: Half and Half Method with Soy Milk

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Ready for part 3 of milk cold process soap? We are going to follow the same recipe and steps as the posts before, but we are going to use buttermilk instead. Again, here are the directions that we will follow in a step by step format. 1) Calculate the amount […]

Cold Process Soap: Half and Half Method with Buttermilk

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Ready for part 2 of milk cold process soap? We are going to follow the same recipe and steps as the post yesterday, but we are going to use goats milk instead. What is the advantage to using the Half and Half Method rather than adding the milk to the […]

Cold Process Soap: Half and Half Method with Goats Milk