Basic Lotion and Cream Making E-Video and E-Class Handout By Joan Morais

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Basic Natural Lotion and Cream Making with Joan Morais

Learn to make lotions and creams in the comfort of your own home and at a time that is convenient for you. Joan Morais is a Cosmetic Formulator, Certified Aromatherapist and Seasoned Instructor to show you how easy it is to make lotions and creams. Joan demonstrates making a tried, tested and favorite Moisturizing Body Lotion with a reliable shelf life.

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You will learn

~ An excellent formulation using emulsifying wax and palm stearic wax.

~ How to preserve lotions and creams.

~ Good Manufacturing Practices.

~ All about the best ingredients for natural lotions and creams.

~ How to use essential oils for scent and therapeutic value.

~ Packaging and labeling lotions and creams.

~ Resources for supplies; a great source for airless pump containers at a reasonable price plus lots more

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Easy Gift Tags or Hang Tags

Hang tags are labels frequently seen on clothing or other soft goods. They literally hang off the product they are used to label. Hang tags or gift tags are used to label gifts. They can be tucked inside the gift or pasted on.

Hang tags can also be used to decorate gift sets or anywhere that a label is needed. Hang tags can be used instead of a soap cigar band to label soap simply by wrapping soap with a pretty paper and tying a hang tag to label it.

This project is a finished project meaning that all the components are complete and the only thing that is needed is for you to print the design on paper or cardstock.

Paper:

The black and white designs can be printed on any color paper. If you want a gift tag with a green background, then use green or whatever color cardstock paper you wish. Cardstock paper is a heavier weight paper much like the type used for greeting cards. Any other stiff kind of paper can be used also. The designs that are colored are for those with really good printers that can print those highly saturated colors that are the backdrop to the designs.

Customize:

The hang tags are very customizable. They come in different colors and they are available as plain black and white files to print on whatever color card stock paper you wish. These are the designs and colors:

There are 3 designs:

- Modern Flower - features a modern flower and the words "A gift for you"
- Happy Holidays - features a modern Santa and the words "Happy Holidays"
- Simple Flower - features a simple, pretty flower illustration with the word "A gift for you". This design is available only in black and white.

Colors Available:

Yellow, Green(light green), Dark Green, Light Blue, Pink (light pink), Dark Pink, Beige and Purple.

File Specs:

- Each hang tag is 2 inches x 3 inches.

- There are 9 per page and the page size is 8.5" x 11"

- The graphics used in the document are Tiff files

- The labels are for personal use

- If someone makes bath and body products and sells them and needs to use a couple if you email me and ask, I will allow you to use them if certain conditions are met.Hang Tags are available for download below:

Happy Holidays Hang tag with a Modern Santa:

Black and White Happy Holidays

Green Happy Holidays

Dark Green Happy Holidays

Blue Happy Holidays Pink Happy Holidays

Dark Pink Happy Holidays Red Happy Holidays

Modern Flower Hang Tag with words "A Gift For You"

Black and White Modern Flower

Green Modern Flower

Modern Yellow Flower

Simple Flower Hang Tag with words, " A Gift For You"

Black and White Simple Flower

Instructions for Use

1. Download the file and save. Open in Microsoft Publisher. First thing you want to do is to organize your workspace. Check the Zoom Button to zoom in on the file so you are able to get a better view of the tiny details on the hangtag. I like to set the zoom to 100 or 150%. The file is already setup with all the hang/gift tags in place. Either you can print as is and handwrite the 'To' and 'From' areas or type in your information.

2. Next step is to add your own text box if you want to type in the To: and From: area. To add a text Box GOTO ---- THE TOP MENU BAR AND ------ INSERT ---- TEXT BOX. The text box is dragged across the page and can be resized or shifted up or down. The hang tags can be printed as is and finished by hand to add that personal touch.

3. Once the file is customized and printed, it is easy to cut them out with scissors or a paper cutter.

Permission to reprint by Winsome Tapper, Soapmaking Editor, www.bellaonline.com/site/soapmaking.

Source: http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art60007.asp/zzz

Homemade Beeswax Ornaments

with David Fisher

If you like making candles, then you can use your hobby's supplies to try out a fun and simple craft: beeswax ornaments. Add a personal touch to your Christmas tree with these easy to make beeswax holiday ornaments.

http://video.about.com/candleandsoap/Homemade-Beeswax-Ornaments.htm

Transcript: Homemade Beeswax Ornaments Hi, I'm David Fisher for About.com. Today we are going to make some ornaments out of bees wax. Many people still make their own ornaments out of cookie or candy molds. But soap molds work just as well, so we're going to be using soap molds to make them today.

Beeswax Ornament Supplies

For this project you'll need some bees wax in either block or pellet form - scraps from sheets of bees wax work too.

You'll need some molds. I have some of the old fashion cookie molds, some soap molds and these really great new silicone baking molds. Then depending on how you want to hang them, there are several options. But you'll need some string, some wire or some ribbon.

Heat the Beeswax. Melt the bees wax in your melt pot in your double boiler. Once it's melted completely, let it cool to about 170 degrees. A little bit cooler if you're using one of the light weight plastic molds. That's what's really great about these silicone molds. They can withstand really high heat.

Add the Wax to the Ornament Molds. Set your molds on a flat surface, and pour the wax into them. Now if I was making soap I would fill the molds all the way. But with these ornaments, I generally pour just a 1/2 an inch to 3/4 of an inch of wax.

String the Ornaments. Now while those are cooling, I'll show you a couple of options for hanging them. While the wax is still melted, put a piece of string or ribbon into the melted wax. You want to wait until the skin is formed on the bottom of the mold cavity but hasn't form the skin on the top. If the skin does form, a quick blast with your blow dryer will re-melt it. You just dip the string in and let it sit. You can use a chopstick to make sure it's aligned right at the top. The other option is, once the ornament is completely cooled, pop it out of the mold and, in using a hot piece of wire or wick pin, make a hole for the string or ribbon. And then tread the string into the hole. While this is a little more work, you do have a little more control over just how the string is going to sit on the ornament and how the ornament is ultimately is going to hang.

Beeswax Ornament Storage and Care. Use a knife to trim off any edges or imperfections you might have, and that's it! These ornaments will last indefinitely if you keep them in a cool dry place. They may over time start to loose their sent and they may develop a sort of a white powdery substance on the top of them. This is called "bees wax bloom" and it's completely natural. The best way to both refresh the scent and to get rid of the bloom is to just heat them up a little bit with a warm hair dryer. You could also add color or scent to your ornaments. You would add the colorant and scent at the same time as in any other candle, when the wax is melted and before you pour it. Thanks for watching! For more information, visit us on the Web at About.com.

Source: http://video.about.com/candleandsoap/Homemade-Beeswax-Ornaments.htm

Christmas Melt and Pour Scrubbies

By David Fisher, About.com

Sometimes in all of the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, kids can take a little extra coaxing to settle into their routines and get into the bath tub.

This project was designed with those kids (mine included!) in mind. It's a simple variation of my Animal Melt and Pour Scrubbies project - except with Christmas themed nylon scrubbies.

For this project, you'll need:

A basic understanding of Melt and Pour Soap Making
Some clear and/or white melt and pour soap base
Fragrance or essential oil
Colorant and/or mica
A container or mold of some sort that will fit your nylon scrubbie (I'm using a slice of 3" PVC pipe with an end cap)

You can use anything you like for the mold - a yogurt container, small plastic bowl or jar. Just be sure that you'll be able to get the soap out of it once it's hardened.
A nylon scrubbie

Assemble your materials and ingredients and we're ready to get started.

The nylon scrubbies I had for this project were bigger than the animal scrubbies. On those, I used a 4 oz. white cosmetic jar. Here, I'm using a 3" slice of 3" diameter PVC pipe.

Note: The end caps are usually called "test caps" and are found on the same aisle as the pipe
Insert the scrubbies into the molds, making sure that the nylon is evenly distributed around the inside of the mold.

Cut up, weigh and melt your melt and pour soap base.

I'm using white melt and pour soap base for the snowman and clear base for the reindeer.

These molds took about 9.5 oz. of soap each.

You can estimate how much soap you're going to need by pouring water into the mold (with the scrubbie in it) and measuring how much water it will hold. If you're doing more than one soap, just multiply the amount by the number of soaps you are going to make.

Once the soap is completely melted, you can add your colorants, micas and fragrance. Stir well, but not so quickly as to make lots of bubbles.

For the white snowman, I added about 1/8 tsp. of snowflake mica and about .3 oz. of Fresh Snow fragrance.

For the reindeer, I used about 1/2 tsp of green gel tone colorant and about .3 oz. of Cranberry Zinger fragrance.

Note: I generally add about 3% fragrance to melt and pour soap base. That's about .5 oz. of fragrance per pound of soap base.

Slowly pour the soap into the molds. Again...go very slowly. It takes some time for the soap to dribble down past the nylon scrubbie and into the mold. If you pour too fast, it will just dribble down the side of the mold.
Trust me on this.

If the soap ends up getting to thick to pour easily, just microwave it for a few seconds to get it liquid again.

Set the soaps aside to cool. It will take a few hours for them to harden up enough to remove from the mold. Pry the "test caps" off with a knife, being careful not to damage them. (So that you can reuse them.)

With most soap bases, you'll be able to just pull gently on the scrubbie and the soap will come out easily. Some soap bases will be a bit harder to get out. If they are, just put the molds in the refrigerator for an hour or so. That usually makes it easier.

Another trick, should you need it - with these particular PVC pipe molds, put a regular size can of soup on the counter and push the mold down onto the can. The can will exactly fit into the inside of the pipe mold, pushing the soap up out of the mold.

Trim or round the edges, if needed, and you're ready to go. Since it's melt and pour soap, you can use them right away!

Source: http://candleandsoap.about.com/od/holidayprojects/ss/xmasscrubbies.htm

Candy Cane Sugar Scrub

Author's Note: Dear readers, Thank you for making the Candy Cane Sugar Scrub the most popular Natural Beauty Workshop recipe ever! I am thrilled with the success of this recipe, and have truly enjoyed sharing it with you all.

Due to its success, we've added the Candy Cane Sugar Scrub Craft Kit to our line of New Body Care Craft Kits at FromNatureWithLove.com. Happy Holidays and Happy Crafting, from all of us, here at FromNatureWithLove.com!

Since scrubs are one of my all time favorite bath and body products, I've decided to feature a new scrub recipe every month on The Natural Beauty Workshop. Every month I will share a different recipe using some of our favorite natural and complimentary ingredients. I'm looking forward to the challenge of creating new and interesting scrubs on a regular basis.

The first scrub of this series was inspired by one of the season's sweetest mascots, the candy cane. Creamy Shealoe Butter has been scented with peppermint and mixed into white sugar. Red Jojoba Wax Beads give this recipe an added flair of color! Shealoe Butter is a wonderful base for scrubs. It adds a thick texture, an even consistency, and it rinses away without any additional emulsifier.

Candy Cane Sugar Scrub

Ingredients

1/2 cup Shealoe Butter*
10 tablespoons Granulated White Sugar
1/2 teaspoon Red Jojoba Wax Beads
2 teaspoons White or Pale Yellow Beeswax
1/2 teaspoon of Peppermint Essential Oil** or Fragrance Oil

Directions

To create a duo-colored scrub, like the one pictured, you'll need two small mixing bowls. Add 5 Tablespoons of sugar to each bowl. In a double boiler, melt 1 teaspoon of white beeswax completely.

Next, add 1/4 cup of Shealoe Butter to the double boiler and turn the burner off. Be careful to warm the Shealoe Butter very gently. Overheating Shealoe Butter can cause it to separate. When it has melted completely, stir the butter and wax mixture into one of the bowls of sugar.

Next, add 1/4 teaspoon of fragrance or essential oil to the bowl and stir. Add 1/2 teaspoon of Red Jojoba Wax beads and mix well. Pour the mixture into a resealable bag. Repeat this process with the second bowl of sugar, this time, leaving the Red Jojoba Wax Beads out of the mixture.

To make the piping easier, refrigerate the bags of scrub for ten-fifteen minutes. When the scrub is ready, roll one bag's contents into the corner of the bag and cut the corner. Just like piping icing onto a cake, pipe your scrub onto the walls of a clear jar. This may take some practice, but even if you're lines aren't perfectly straight, it should create a lovely effect. Repeat this step with the second color of scrub. When the walls are covered, pipe the remaining scrub into the center of the jar in whatever style you prefer.

This scrub can also be made in one color. This is a little easier, but it still looks lovely. Instead of mixing two separate bowls, as described above, simply mix all of your ingredients in one bowl and spoon into a clear jar!

Packaging, Usage & Preservation

A natural or synthetic preservative may be added to this recipe at your own discretion. For information on preservatives, please visit our informational library. Without a preservative, this product should be used up as soon as possible, ideally within 3 weeks. If it not preserved, or if it is preserved with a natural agent, please handle this product with care. Keep the jar closed and in a cool, dry area. Do not bring the jar into the shower or bath. Instead, use a clean spoon or popsicle stick to scoop single portions into a paper or plastic cup.

This beautiful scrub looks great in a clear container. Try a PET jar to show it off!

Directions

There are many scrubbing techniques out there, but this is one I am particularly fond of. Step into the shower and before turning the water on, scrub your body all over! (Of course, avoiding very sensitive areas or broken skin.) When you are thoroughly scrubbed, turn the shower on and rinse. When the shower is over, make sure to moisturize your skin with a body oil, cream, or lotion.

*This scrub yields about 4 ounces of scrub. However, you may lose some product in the piping bags. To ensure that you make enough to completely fill a jar, you may want to add 1-2 extra tablespoons of Shealoe Butter to this recipe.

**Peppermint Essential Oil should not be used around babies and small children.

Source: http://www.naturalbeautyworkshop.com/my_weblog/scrub_of_the_month/page/2/