Spring is a wonderful time to start a new hobby. If you’ve never made soap before, make sure to stop by my tutorial pages and check out my book: Natural Soap Making Book for Beginners. Handmade soap is fun, frugal, and healthy. Below, I’ll teach you how to make 3 Spring handmade vegan soap recipes...
Soap making is a creative craft that allows you to express your artistic abilities, learn a new skill and improve upon it over the year, make something healthier than store bough versions, and it means you are learning an age old skill that can be very valuable for you in the future. Surprisingly, you can...
There are a number of reasons to hand mill soap. The biggest reason people hand mill soap is to fix botched soap and other soaping problems. Sometimes you forget to add enough water, enough oil, or add too much lye. If you know what you did (and sometimes if you’re not quite sure) you can...
Berries are growing and summer is coming. Combine the beauty of blackberries with a nourishing goat milk soap and you have gold! I’ve put together a fun soap recipe for you. Don’t worry. If you’re vegan then I’ve given you an alternative to make a goat milk blackberry soap recipe that works for you. Making...
Being able to design your own soap recipe is fantastic! You are no longer inhibited by someone’s else’s ideas, favorite oils to use, or even batch size amounts. Instead, you make all the decisions. Want a large 36 bar, 9 pound batch? Great, start designing. Want to use the oils you have in the house...
I love making handmade herb and essential oil gifts. They are pure, healthy, beneficial, and they even help to teach those who do not use herbs and essential oils very often. That’s another reason these last minute herbs and essential oil gift ideas are so great. On top of all of that, you can make...
Natural handmade soaps are wonderful for the skin and fun to make. If you’ve never made soap, just getting started, or are an experienced soap maker, it’s important for you to better understand which soap making oils are better for what you’d like to accomplish. In other words, different oils bring different properties to soap....
It’s the perfect time to start making handmade soap. I’ve put together a wonderful variety of Handmade Christmas Soap Recipes so that you can get started right away in creating gifts that are natural, healthy, and greatly appreciated by family and friends. If you’ve never made handmade soap before, learn how by starting with my...
This Aloe Vera Facial Soap Recipe was specifically designed to be gentle on the face. Our facial skin takes a lot of abuse compared to the rest of our body. It is constantly stretched and pulled by just laughing and talking. We rub it, scratch it, apply products to it that the rest of our...
Handmade Salt Soap is a fun, exfoliating, hard soap bar that is great for the skin and body. I’ve included 6 Handmade Salt Soap Recipes so you can choose which one fits your needs. (Note that salt soaps will not dry out your skin! See 8 Reasons Salt Soap Bars are Fabulous for the Skin...
A few of you have asked for my Christmas Soap recipes. I’ve shared my Pumpkin Spice Recipe. Over the next few days I’ll share a few more Christmas Soap recipes. If you’re just buying for gifts, you can find these in my shop. You may think these are coming out too early, but if you...
It’s definitely time for a giveaway! This soap review and giveaway centers on Grandma’s Pure and Natural Soap. I was not given compensation for this review and all views are my own. All of you by now probably know that I make all of my own soap and LOVE it!!! It’s a fun hobby of...
So now that you’ve made the simple cold process soap recipes, you’ll want to add design, layers, and make it your own. Learning how to add color to soap is not difficult. It’s a matter of finding out what to put in. There are a lot of ideas on the internet that I would not...
I’ve put together these 8 homemade palm oil soap recipes because a lot of people like to use palm oil in their soaps. It makes a good hard bar with a creamy lather that will last longer. Palm oil can be used in place of tallow in a favorite recipe you have, but I, personally,...
I wanted to tackle laundry. I’ve made homemade laundry soap, how about Homemade Dryer Sheets and Fabric Softener? DIY Fabric Softener Many people will find that when you make your own laundry soap, there’s little need for a fabric softener. But, for those who would still like to use some type of fabric softener, there...
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