Making homemade soap is such a beautiful, simple skill to learn—but if you’ve ever had a batch go wrong, you know how discouraging it can feel. One minute everything looks perfect, and the next you’re in the middle of soap making troubleshooting because your soap is thickening too fast, cracked, crumbling, or just… wrong. Here’s...
I’m so excited to try our featured recipes this week: turkey brine bomb, homemade bone broth and meat broth differences, and how to make mozzarella at home. Share your own recipes and DIYs below. I just shared how to make your own yogurt this week. Do you have an instant pot? Use the yogurt setting...
Welcome to the Homestead Blog 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 Their Blogs Natasha – Houseful...
Enjoy this day as you have it! I hope you have a great day and are ready to dive into this week’s blog hop. What are you excited about making or creating this week? Leave a comment below. We’re glad you’re here. Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! I’m glad you’ve stopped by today. We’ve...
I’ve been making soap for 15 years or more already. Hard to believe that so much time has gone by since my first batches of soap. I had no idea what I was doing and it really looked like it for a while. But I think that’s part of the process. You don’t give up...
How has your week been? We’ve been staying busy here on our small homestead. My little seedlings are stretching tall and starting to gain strength. I’m so excited for weather to turn warm and STAY warm. we’ll get there eventually. If you’re wanting to jump into Spring soap making, check out these recipes to incorporate...
We’ve had a lot of fun over the past few years experimenting with homemade beauty products, making makeup, soap, trying out various oils and learning about their healing properties. These Top 5 makeup and homemade beauty products are the best of the best and get the most views on Simple Life Mom. I’m happy to...
Welcome to the Homestead Blog 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 Their Blogs Natasha – Houseful...
Welcome to the Homestead Blog hop. Did you know that my shop is now here on my wesbite? It is! You can find it in the menu above, or just go to SimpleLifeMom.com/shop. You can still get free shipping on domestiv orders over $35, plus lots of coupons all the time. You can sign up...
Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! We’re gearing up for more gardening and animal care around the Simple Life Mom family. Everything is starting to bloom and we’re getting more sunshine in Western Pennsylvania. I’ve shared my all natural ingredient melt and pour soap base recipe. You can get it here. You can also learn...
When I first started making a milk soaps or milk shampoo with the cold process method, I thought there was only one way to do it. After making hundreds of batches, you learn how to switch things around, what works, and what doesn’t. I want to teach you how to add milk to soap in...
Goat milk soap is a classic handmade soap that is sought after for a reason. The milk added to soap makes such a moisturizing soap that it’s a traditionally THE soap to buy from artisan soap makers. It can make a hard soap bar that’s long lasting, especially when made with tallow, and so wonderfully...
Though men are known to like all types of scents, from rose and vanilla to patchouli, they often like woodsy and earthy scents. My husband’s favorite scents are patchouli and vetiver. I’ve put together three soap recipes with herbs and essential oils so that you can make soap for men; soap that will appeal to...
You can learn how to make you own liquid hand soap in just a few easy steps. It’s an easy thing to make and has a lot of advantages. For starters, it’s very frugal! I make my own soap (For recipes, go here.), so there is very little cost to using two to three bars...
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 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 I...
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