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Cold Process Soap Vs. Hot Process Soapmaking
Learn about the cold process soap vs. hot process soap and the equipment and ingredients needed for each of the different ways to make soap.
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How to Make Bath Salts, Soaps, Scrubs, and Balms
Making spa products started as a fun experiment starting with bath salts. Then came the Eureka moment.
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Starting Your Own Soap Making Business
I remember when I first discovered I could make my own soap and started my own soap making business. I was intrigued and obsessed with the various scents and ingredients.
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Combining the Best Essential Oils for Soap Making
If you make soap, you probably do it for one of two reasons. First, it allows artistic creativity while making something useful. And second, it allows control over all the ingredients.
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How to Make Shea Butter Soap Three Ways
If you’ve already made soap from scratch, you know how to make shea butter soap. Just add shea butter, then alter the other oils for proper saponification, and you have a moisturizing and luxurious bar.
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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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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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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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Soap Making Techniques: Which is Right for You?
Soap making is an old art with changing history. And it’s not all made the same way. Different ingredients, temperatures, and curing times come into play. If you want to learn how to make soap, first decide which soap making techniques you’re most comfortable with using.
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How to Make Beeswax Soap
Beeswax has more than 100 uses; knowing how to make beeswax soap harnesses natural benefits for your finished product.
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Gift Guide for Those Favoring Self-Sustaining Living
Standard holiday gifts and baubles don’t work for homesteaders and a self-sustaining living.
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Reap Bay Leaf Benefits in Teas, Oils, Foods
Add to Favorites The first couple of years when I was growing bay leaves I didn’t know much about the many bay leaf benefits. I used the leaves for culinary use …
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