Beginner Soapmaking Series - Fats and Oils

Are you new to making your soap by the cold process method? There is alot to learn.....especially about working with fats and oils and how each adds an unique properties to your soap.  In this posting from the Soap Blog called Beginner Soapmaking Series - Fats and Oils  discusses about the most common fatty acids most common and important to soap makers.

How to Make Glycerin Extracts

Are you someone who likes to make their own tinctures?  And are you looking for alternative to alcohol tinctures?  Would you believe you can make a vegetable glycerin tinctures?  It is true.  In a recent post from The Mountain Rose Blog called How to Make Glycerin Extracts tells you all about it.

Shimmer Fall Layers Melt and Pour

Now that Fall is here, the leaves will be turning their beautiful color of green to oranges and yellow (except maybe here in California where we are suffering from a severe drought). If you love the changing colors of the leaves, here is a melt and pour project from The Soap Queen called Shimmer Fall Layers.  It is an intermediate level project that takes two hours to complete and results in four 3.3 ounce bars.

Essential Nutrition for Healthy Hair

According to The Natural Beauty Workshop, "The old adage, "you are what you eat" is hardly more true than when it comes to natural beauty. There's almost nothing better to support a great head of hair than a healthy body fueled by excellent nutrition. Eating a varied diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables usually does the trick, but you can take your commitment to healthy hair one step further by making sure to include some hair super-foods in your regular menu."  To find out more about healthy hair, read their blog posting Essential Nutrition For Healthy Hair.

Coconut Sugar Body Polish Recipe

Love coconuts?  Here is a really nice recipe that is found on the From Nature With Love website called Coconut Sugar Body Polish Recipe.  The recipe was submitted by Angelica of Inglewood, CA for all of us to try and fall in love with.  It contains very few ingredients including sugar, graded coconut, sweet almond oil and coconut powdered milk.  I have only seen non fat powdered milk at my local grocery store.  So I am not sure if you can substitute it for coconut powdered milk since I have not seen it at my local grocery store.  It probably be found somewhere. Does anyone know?