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This wonderful soap was created with natural vegetable and plant oils such as olive oil, palm oil, coconut oil and castor oil.  The great thing about making soap is the control you have in your ingredients.  One of the ingredients I was able to incorporate in my recipe was Heineken beer at 50% of my [...]

Today I embarked on a new journey in my soapmaking venture.  I made my first batch of cold process soap.  What is cold-process soap?

Cold-process is the saponification of vegetable oils or animal fats with lye and water. The process has a cure time of about 4- 6 weeks and the end result of this process [...]

How yummy does this soap looks to you?! Scented with tropical mango-papaya it takes you back to the tropics and an order for a daiquiri.

For those of you who are lucky to find a laptop/notebook sleeve for an average sized- laptop you are lucky!
My new laptop is a Dell 15.6 inches, and it’s wider than the average 15″ notebook sleeves you can purchase at any retail store.  Any sleeve that I did find was just over my budget.

So I [...]

What to do when company is arriving in less than half hour and you have no carpet powder to freshen up the living room carpet?
If you have these two household products sitting in your pantry closet then you’re in luck! You can whip up some homemade carpet powder in less than 5 minutes and [...]

I made this glycerin-based soap creating about 10 individual layers.  It is scented with luscious lime fragrance -

I love fizzy bath bombs. They guarantee me the best “Me” time ever. It means that I can fill up the tub all the way, light up some candles and drop a bath bomb and watch it fizz up the tub. It leaves behind not only a chock-full of great scent either [...]

I became interested in making soap and toiletries back in the spring and learned of an instructional class being held at the OpenCenter in New York City.  Our instructor La Shonda Tyree, is owner and creator of Nyah Beauty – Handcrafted Beauty and Skin Care, and a member of the Handcrafted SoapMakers Guild.
The class comprised [...]