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...
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...
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,...
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...
Salt soap is sometimes called Spa Soap because of how you feel while using it, as well as the luxurious benefits that it gives to the skin. It never hurts to treat yourself once in a while, especially when it comes to improving your skincare. For those of you who do not have much experience...
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