I’m excited to share with you a new and updated tutorial on how to make soap from scratch. My first step by step guide is 7 easy Steps to Homemade Lye Soap for Beginners. It’s a great guide and I encourage you to head over there and read that article as well. The reason that...
How to substitute oils in soap recipes is probably the number one question I get on a weekly, if not daily, basis. It stands to reason. You have a fun looking recipe and are excited to try it, but then you see that it has one or more oils that you don’t have on hand,...
Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Now on to the hop… Homestead Blog Hop will take place every Wednesday and is for all things homesteading: real food recipes, farm animals, crafts, DIY, how-to’s, gardening, anything from-scratch, natural home/health, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, natural remedies, essential oils, & more! Basically anything related to homesteading. Meet Your Hosts! Follow...
Adding little flares and decorations to your soap making can give your projects that special touch that shows your personality; like pencil line soap! It can also be very exciting to try something new within your designs and accomplish something beautiful that you’ve never tried before. Adding a pencil line to any soap is actually...
I had a lot of fun making this soap. I’ve been wanting to make a charcoal soap recipe with a peppermint scent and white specks or swirls for a while now. I like the white on black or black with white highlights look. It just seems that peppermint fits. Of course, you can add whatever...
Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Now on to the hop… Homestead Blog Hop will take place every Wednesday and is for all things homesteading: real food recipes, farm animals, crafts, DIY, how-to’s, gardening, anything from-scratch, natural home/health, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, natural remedies, essential oils, & more! Basically anything related to homesteading. Meet Your Hosts! Follow...
A lot of people like to make hot process soap, because they know it will be ready to use as soon as it cools. It’s a great way to get kids involved, and a quick way to get your family natural soap to use right now. Hot Process Soap Making Tools Hot process soap making...
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....
Natural herbal soap making is something I LOVE to do! I love the creativity that’s involved, as well as the nourishing benefits of the final product. So I’m excited to teach you how to make herbal soap! I only use natural, healthy ingredients and stay away from anything that’s even questionable. There aren’t a lot...
I recently realized that I hadn’t given you my Anti Aging Face Bar Recipe. I’ve been selling it in My Shop for months now and it’s been super popular. I actually put it together at the request of someone who wanted the same or similar oils that I use in my Anti Aging Serum Recipe...