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Category Archives: soap making
Bathing With Royals
Image by mharrsch via Flickr I was researching Cleopatra and her bathing habits recently when I came across information about royal bathing…or not, I should say. I was quite amused to see that historically, bathing has not always been in … Continue reading
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Tagged cleopatras milk baths, glycerine soaps, Goat, goat milk products, herbal soaps, natural soap
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Shantara’s Soaps Are Now At Anderson’s Markets!
Image via Wikipedia If you are one of the many loyal customers of Anderson’s Amish Store in Madison Heights, Va. you’ll be glad to know that you can now find a selection of our soaps in both the Madison Heights … Continue reading
Posted in Country Living in Virginia, soap making
Tagged Bath and Body, Beauty, Handmade, Health, Shopping, two small farms
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Castile Soap Experiement Successful!
For some reason I just didn’t think that a soap made without coconut oil would set up very well. I was wrong, as usual. I heated the oils a little hotter than normal because it was so cold in the … Continue reading
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Today’s Soapings
Today’s soaps were two varieties of baby soaps in the round molds. The first is “Citrus Baby” baby soap. The essential oils used were sweet orange, 5X orange, litsea, geranium and spearmint, no colors of course, and all liquid used … Continue reading
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Tagged Bath and Body, Beauty, Essential oil, goats milk soaps, Handmade, handmade soaps for christmas giving, Health, soap, soaps for babies
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The Holiday Season is Almost Here!
The Christmas season is bearing down on us pretty fast now, with each dwindling summer day a minute or two shorter than the previous one. Before I moved to the country and got horses and goats and chickens, I didn’t … Continue reading
New Soap Pictures
Just packaged up today and ready! Left to right are Lemongrass, Tea Tree, and Patchouli. And introducing our latest project….Soap Stars! These stars were created to allow a customer to buy a small, attractive soap that they haven’t tried before … Continue reading
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Tagged Free sample, Health, Programming, Service-Oriented Architecture, Shopping, soap, Web Services
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More Soaps in the Oven
Ahhhh, here’s what I’ve been waiting to do…Kefir and Salt Bars! They are turning out beautiful so far. I realized at the last moment that I didn’t have room in my freezer for the big mold, so had to stick … Continue reading
Soap Day!
I got up a little early this morning to make soap. That’s the only time of the day the kitchen is fairly cool. I was completely out of Bay Rum and had customers who wanted it. So I made that … Continue reading
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Tagged Bath and Body, Bay Rum, Beauty, Color, Health, Saponification, Shopping, soap
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Tea Tree And Patchouli Oils Just In
I finally got my tea tree and patchouli oils in and will be soaping these this week. Talk about expensive oils! I only ordered 8oz of the patchouli…I really don’t know how many people actually want this soap. I get … Continue reading
Great Soap Cakes!
Okay, so this first one isn’t so great. But remember a couple of weeks ago I told you that we were working on a new product that was going to be a surprise? Well, I did a lot of research, … Continue reading
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Tagged Baking and Confections, Bundt cake, Cake, Coconut, Cooking, Cookware and bakeware, Home, soap, soap cakes
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