Lipstick Recipe

Love wearing lipstick?  How would you like to make your own?  This Lipstick Recipe from Natures Garden contains two recipes.  The first recipe is an easy recipe which contains lip base which you purchase from Natures Garden and then add beeswax, vitamin E, lip tint, mica pigment and titanium dioxide.  The other recipe which is the from scratch version includes all for the same ingredients  beeswax, vitamin E, lip tint, mica pigment and titanium dioxide but you are using jojoba oil and castor oil instead of the pre-made base.  My only question is that for the easy recipe you are using a pre-made base shouldn't that already have the beeswax in it? According to the link of the lip balm base the ingredients include coconut oil, beeswax, organic shea butter, organic cocoa butter and vitamin e.  So it seems like the beeswax and vitamin E in the easy recipe are too much.  Wouldn't adding more of these make the recipe to liquid?  What do you  think?

Lavender Apple Sugar Scrub Recipe

Do you love to use a scrub in the shower?  Here is an interesting sugar scrub recipe from Natures Garden Candle and Soap Supply called Lavender Apple Sugar Scrub. To be honest I never thought to combine lavender and apple to fragrance any body products.  I have heard of lavender and rose but this sounded interesting.  This downloadable recipe makes (7) 4 oz jars which is a great amount to give out as gifts or as party favors at your bridal or baby shower.

Felted Soap Tips

If you have some really ugly soap that you do not want to get rid of you may want to take a look at Great Cakes Soap Works blog because Amy Warden has tips on felted soap. I never made felted soap before and would like to try it some day. If you would like to see their suggestions, visit the posting on Felted Soap Tips on Great Cakes Soap Works. Amy has suggested that you should bookmark the instructions on how to felt soap from Little Birdie Secrets. Now I must warn you if you are allergic to wool, this technique would not work for you.

Lavender Cream

Do you love the scent of Lavender?  Here is a cream recipe from Saffire Blue called Lavender Cream  that you just may love to make. The author of this recipe states that it is a very think. Some of the oils can be expensive so the author suggests substituting more affordable carrier oils.

Why do we need preservatives in products containing water?

Are you wondering why you need to add a preservative in your body products that contain water? Would you believe that microbes need water and oxygen to live?  Just give them the right conditions and they can breed like bunnies. If you want to learn more about this subject,  I would recommend reading Point of Interests' post titled Why do we need preservatives in products containing water?  This post has some good information in addition to links to other postings including a video on the importance of preservatives.