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Old-Fashioned Lard Soap Recipes, Then and Now
Homesteaders cooked a lard soap recipe in kettles over fires. You can make it in your own kitchen.
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What are Essential Oils?
By now you have probably heard mention of essential oils even if you have not yet experienced them. However, with the rise in multi-level marketing of essential oils along with the increase in popularity of natural grocers and health food stores, perhaps you also have experienced an essential oil or two.
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Kids and Soap: Homemade Arts and Crafts for The Holidays
Winter holidays often involve cold weather, hot drinks, and homemade arts and crafts. It also means the kids are out of school for one to three weeks. What homemade arts and crafts can kids do, without risk of injury, that can also serve as holiday gifts?
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Soap Scents in Home Soap Making
Cosmetic-grade soap scents can transform the experience of using handmade soap. There’s nothing like the simple luxuriousness of a good, gentle bar of natural handmade soap.
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How to Make Honey Soap
Honey lends many beneficial qualities to homemade soap, but it can be a touch tricky to work with.
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How to Make Tallow and Lard
Learning how to make tallow was once a regular yearly task during slaughter. The white, firm fat produced could be used in cooking, candle making, and salves, as well as soap making.
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How to Make Milk Soap: Tips to Try
Learning how to make milk soap provides another use for that excess goat milk. It’s not as hard as you’ve probably heard!
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A Simple Soap Frosting Recipe
There is a lot of disagreement in the world of soap making over the proper soap frosting recipe. While some use a soap frosting recipe that requires chilling the lye water and whipping the hard oils, others prefer using soap batter that has naturally come to a firm enough state for piping.
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A CBD Bath Bomb Recipe that Works!
When formulating and testing for a CBD bath bomb recipe, I realized that just about any recipe you like will do the trick. The best CBD bath bombs are the ones you can custom craft to suit your preferences.
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How to Make Castile Soap
Vegan, sustainable, and often organic, castile soap is highly sought after. Properties are comparable to soaps made with tallow, lard, or coconut oil but the bar made from olive oil ranks higher.
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Harnessing Green Tea Skin Benefits in Your Soap
The benefits of green tea are becoming widely known. One way that we can receive green tea skin benefits is by using tea and extract in our soap and other bath and body products.
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How to Make Oatmeal Soap: 4 Techniques to Try
You can learn how to make oatmeal soap within a few minutes of research. It’s one of the easiest and safest recipe additions.
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Making Shampoo Bars
Making shampoo bars is a very different process from making body soap in a lot of ways. Unlike body soap, it is important to limit the number of unsaponifiable substances in a bar made for hair.
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How to Make Tomato Soap
In August, hopefully your garden is in full swing. Tomatoes are ripening, and the fresh herbal snap of tomato leaves fills the air each time you brush past them.
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Using Kaolin Clay in Soap
The use of kaolin clay in soap occurs for many different reasons. Among soap additives, it is one of the most common.
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