Lightening Skin at Home with an Easy to Make Organic Soap
By Naweko San-Joyz January 24, 2008
There was a time in history when almost everyone crafted their own soap. The Earth is coming full circle and once again soap making has made itself a welcomed and rewarding past-time. But a few things have changed in the past 200 years of soap making.
For one, you can custom tailor soaps to your specific beauty needs while adding herbal elements to make the end-product more therapeutic. Moreover, milling soaps does not take all day or even months as it did with our predecessors. Now you can combine the healing and beautifying powers of soap into an organic skin lightener with just a few hours of work. Here’s how:
Short-cut soap milling
A major time saver in the world of soap making is using premade, all natural soap bars. Soap making from scratch can get messy and greasy. You can spare yourself, and your kitchen, such untidiness by buying an organic, creamy soap bar from your local health or drug store.
Ingredients
1 bar of organic soap (3.5 to 4 ounce bar)
1 navel orange
2 tablespoons of safflower or almond oil
4 tablespoons of filtered water
2 drops of lemongrass essential oil
1 teaspoon of vegetable oil
½ teaspoon of cinnamon
Utensils
Spoon
Large, microwave-safe bowl
Plastic wrap
Freezer-safe and flexible plastic cup
Cheese grater
Paper towels
Creating a Skin Lightening Soap
Prep work
Shredding
Shred the bar of soap into a bowl, using the cheese grater. Next, into the same bowl, with the cheese grater, shred the orange peel. Grate the orange until you reach the white-yellowish area of its peel.
Soap molds
To prepare the molds, dip a paper towel into the vegetable oil and coat the cup with the oiled towel.
Melting the soap
In the bowl used above, to the shredded soap and orange peels, add the water and safflower (or almond) oil.
Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place it in the microwave on high for 30-45 seconds.
Note: Watch the soap as it melts because it could bubble over into the microwave. If the soap has not completely melting after 45 seconds, place it in the microwave for another 30 seconds.
Mixing the soap
Once the soap has melted, remove it from the microwave and take off the plastic wrap.
Add the cinnamon and lemongrass essential oil to the melted soap and stir the mixture with a spoon for one to two minutes.
Molding the soap
Option 1: Cup moldAfter you have mixed the soap, pour it into the cup. Use the spoon to pack the soap in and remove large air bubbles.
Option 2: Hand-moldedAlternately, you can just scoop the soap with your hands and mold the soap into balls or patties.
Hardening the soap
Now, top the cup of soap with plastic wrap to save it from possible freezer odors. If you made soap patties, just wrap them in plastic wrap.
Place the soap in the freezer for 1-2 hours to let it harden, then remove the bars.
Once the soap is hard, slide it out of the cup. You can slice the cup-molded soap bar into smaller pieces using a knife.
You can store the soap in wax paper or plastic wrap.
The results
Let the soaps set at room temperature for one day before using. Then, enjoy cleansing your skin with a unique, organic skin lightening soap. The elements in the orange peel and safflower oil help promote the skin brightening effects of this soap.
Source: http://www.noixia.com/blog/?p=590
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Thursday, April 19, 2007
Essential Oils vs. Fragrance Oils
If you are wondering whether to use essential oils or fragrance oils here are some articles you may want to read:
(1) http://blogging.owlpublishing.us/bathgifts.html/?p=108
(2) http://cmgifts.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/aroma-oil-vs-essential-oils/
(3) http://iblogs.com/pupywypoge/2007/02/22/fragrance-oils-vs-essential-oils-a-never-ending-debate/
(1) http://blogging.owlpublishing.us/bathgifts.html/?p=108
(2) http://cmgifts.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/aroma-oil-vs-essential-oils/
(3) http://iblogs.com/pupywypoge/2007/02/22/fragrance-oils-vs-essential-oils-a-never-ending-debate/
Monday, April 2, 2007
How to Make Your Own Bath and Body Products The Easy Way
Here is an article about making your own bath products that I thought you would enjoy reading:
How To Make Your Own Bath and Body Products The Easy Way
by: Katherine Durkes
If you think about making your own spa products - such as lotions, body washes, and exfoliating scrubs - you probably think it sounds difficult. It probably brings to mind lots of weird ingredients, chemicals, and slaving away over a hot vat of goo for hours.
After this article, you'll know that nothing could be further from the truth! In fact, using my method (which I call The Easy Way), making your own bath and body products takes less time than going to the mall, and you get twice the quality of skin care.
The Two Ways Of Making Products - Hard and Easy
There are two ways to make your own bath and body products - The Hard Way, and The Easy Way. The Hard Way means investing a lot of time in books and trial-and-error in your kitchen, and a lot of money in ingredients. Often, you need patience and perseverance as you attempt to make a basic lotion or liquid soap, but it doesn't come out as well as you'd hoped. Heck, you didn't even get to the fun part, which adding the scent and color!
The Hard Way Takes Time and Practice
The Hard Way is what is taught in soapmaking classes, websites, and books. It can be fun and rewarding because of the natural ingredients and the high-quality products that result. Shea butter lotions... aloe body washes... If you are prepared to invest the time and money, and you have a lot of patience, The Hard Way does pay off. You get wonderfully moisturizing products in your favorite fragrances - even hard to find ones - that are much better than Bath and Body Works.
The problem is, The Hard Way is often incredibly discouraging to beginners. As they pour their failed body wash down the bathtub drain, most beginners start to wonder if it's really worth the trouble. Sooner or later, they go back to the mall and pay too much for what is essentially drugstore-quality products in fancy bottles and scents.
Beginners Can Master The Easy Way
The Easy Way of making bath and body products is, well, easy! With The Easy Way, you get all the benefits - the natural ingredients, the high-quality skin care products, and your favorite scents - for only 10% the work. The Hard Way is like baking a fancy Julia Child cake recipe, but The Easy Way is more like making a cake mix.
The Easy Way uses professional unscented product bases (also called "cosmetic bases") that are specially manufactured for this purpose. These bases are made with natural ingredients, such as shea butter, avocado oil, aloe, and goats' milk, so you still get high quality skin care, the same as if you had made the bases yourself with The Hard Way.
Quickly Make Lotion, Shower Gel, Shampoo, Scrub
You can get unscented bases for almost any liquid product you can think of: body lotion, massage cream, bath oil, shower gel, bubble bath, salon-quality shampoo and conditioner, body scrub, hand soap, and face wash.
Customize High Quality Unscented Products With Your Own Ingredients.
To these basic products, you add your own fragrance, color, and other special ingredients, such as silk proteins and botanical extracts. You can even experiment with natural anti-aging ingredients such as carrot seed oil, green tea extract, and collagen. These ingredients are what makes your products unique!
Just Like The Professionals
If you compare three bottles of shower gel from Bath and Body Works, The Body Shop, and Origins, you will see a lot of similarities in their first few ingredients. That's because they're all taking a basic body wash and making their own improvements on it, just like you can with The Easy Way.
Free 8-Page Report Gets You Started
There's no need to reinvent the wheel (or a basic body wash.) If what you want is to quickly and easily create your own bath and body products, The Easy Way is the method for you! If you want to get more information, I have written a quick 8-page PDF with a recipe and photos. To read it, just send a blank email to productreport@excellentlivingguide.com, and it will be emailed to your inbox. You must be able to receive attachments over 1MB (it's 1.1MB.)
About The Author
Katherine Durkes is an experienced teacher of bath and body. She runs a popular website on how to make bath and body products, as well as the Yahoo Group "Home Bath & Body." Her first e-book, "The Fast Guide To Making Bath Bombs (& Fizzies)" has over 10,000 downloads and has been featured on About.com and in Ready Made Magazine.
Source: http://www.articlecity.com/articles/women/article_2439.shtml
How To Make Your Own Bath and Body Products The Easy Way
by: Katherine Durkes
If you think about making your own spa products - such as lotions, body washes, and exfoliating scrubs - you probably think it sounds difficult. It probably brings to mind lots of weird ingredients, chemicals, and slaving away over a hot vat of goo for hours.
After this article, you'll know that nothing could be further from the truth! In fact, using my method (which I call The Easy Way), making your own bath and body products takes less time than going to the mall, and you get twice the quality of skin care.
The Two Ways Of Making Products - Hard and Easy
There are two ways to make your own bath and body products - The Hard Way, and The Easy Way. The Hard Way means investing a lot of time in books and trial-and-error in your kitchen, and a lot of money in ingredients. Often, you need patience and perseverance as you attempt to make a basic lotion or liquid soap, but it doesn't come out as well as you'd hoped. Heck, you didn't even get to the fun part, which adding the scent and color!
The Hard Way Takes Time and Practice
The Hard Way is what is taught in soapmaking classes, websites, and books. It can be fun and rewarding because of the natural ingredients and the high-quality products that result. Shea butter lotions... aloe body washes... If you are prepared to invest the time and money, and you have a lot of patience, The Hard Way does pay off. You get wonderfully moisturizing products in your favorite fragrances - even hard to find ones - that are much better than Bath and Body Works.
The problem is, The Hard Way is often incredibly discouraging to beginners. As they pour their failed body wash down the bathtub drain, most beginners start to wonder if it's really worth the trouble. Sooner or later, they go back to the mall and pay too much for what is essentially drugstore-quality products in fancy bottles and scents.
Beginners Can Master The Easy Way
The Easy Way of making bath and body products is, well, easy! With The Easy Way, you get all the benefits - the natural ingredients, the high-quality skin care products, and your favorite scents - for only 10% the work. The Hard Way is like baking a fancy Julia Child cake recipe, but The Easy Way is more like making a cake mix.
The Easy Way uses professional unscented product bases (also called "cosmetic bases") that are specially manufactured for this purpose. These bases are made with natural ingredients, such as shea butter, avocado oil, aloe, and goats' milk, so you still get high quality skin care, the same as if you had made the bases yourself with The Hard Way.
Quickly Make Lotion, Shower Gel, Shampoo, Scrub
You can get unscented bases for almost any liquid product you can think of: body lotion, massage cream, bath oil, shower gel, bubble bath, salon-quality shampoo and conditioner, body scrub, hand soap, and face wash.
Customize High Quality Unscented Products With Your Own Ingredients.
To these basic products, you add your own fragrance, color, and other special ingredients, such as silk proteins and botanical extracts. You can even experiment with natural anti-aging ingredients such as carrot seed oil, green tea extract, and collagen. These ingredients are what makes your products unique!
Just Like The Professionals
If you compare three bottles of shower gel from Bath and Body Works, The Body Shop, and Origins, you will see a lot of similarities in their first few ingredients. That's because they're all taking a basic body wash and making their own improvements on it, just like you can with The Easy Way.
Free 8-Page Report Gets You Started
There's no need to reinvent the wheel (or a basic body wash.) If what you want is to quickly and easily create your own bath and body products, The Easy Way is the method for you! If you want to get more information, I have written a quick 8-page PDF with a recipe and photos. To read it, just send a blank email to productreport@excellentlivingguide.com, and it will be emailed to your inbox. You must be able to receive attachments over 1MB (it's 1.1MB.)
About The Author
Katherine Durkes is an experienced teacher of bath and body. She runs a popular website on how to make bath and body products, as well as the Yahoo Group "Home Bath & Body." Her first e-book, "The Fast Guide To Making Bath Bombs (& Fizzies)" has over 10,000 downloads and has been featured on About.com and in Ready Made Magazine.
Source: http://www.articlecity.com/articles/women/article_2439.shtml
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