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Winter moisturizing lotion

Winter  equals dry chapped hands  👐 ! I usually have to go for glycerin-rich, highly hydrating commercial creams otherwise there's no chance I can fix my cracked skin. Besides using my home-made soap, which doesn't contain aggressive ingredients, every night ⭐⭐⭐(well, almost every night 😁) I put on my hands a consistent amount of cream. This usually works very well, but t his year it has been pretty cold and the tap water in my area is particularly hard, so my problems persisted... I frankly hate to use thick and oily products during daytime (I always stain my clothes!!!), that's how I ended up with idea of making a fresh, light and handbag sized lotion. The original lotion recipe is from The Soap Kitchen but I've personalized it with some of my favourite essential oils. Sweet Almond Oil : 24g  Coconut Oil : 16g Glycerine : 2g Stearic Acid : 5g  Citric Acid : 0.5g  Emulsifying Wax : 10g  Cetearyl Alcohol : 5g  Ster...

#3/3 Double ELLE soap's recipe

This is DOUBLE ELLE   Recipe: Olive oil (pomace)  26.50% Coconut oil  29.75% Palm oil (organic) 19.50% Canola oil  20 % Castor oil  4.25% Note that the palm oil I buy from  The Soap Kitchen   'carries Organic Certification and comes from Columbia. It is not produced on land that has been taken from the Rain Forests, nor are there any Orangutangs made homeless. Our suppliers do use 'ethical' methods in their production (we have actually visited the site). Our Columbian suppliers are members of the RSPO (Round Table for Sustainable Production of   PalmOil).' Scent:  Lemongrass + Lavender essential oils from CEVEN'Arome Colours : 1)  Chromium oxide green (hydrated) powder  2)  Ultramarine violet powder   Note: I've only used a pinch of ultramarine violet powder just to 'buffer' the yellowish colour that palm oil can sometime give to soaps Mineral pigments are from  The Soa...

#1/3 Golden citrus soap's recipe

This is the first of three short posts about the last soaps I made! This is GO LD EN CI TR US Recipe: Olive oil (pomace) 50% Coconut oil 25% Palm oil (organic) 20% Castor oil 5% Note that the palm oil I buy from The Soap Kitchen   'carries Organic Certification and comes from Columbia. It is not produced on land that has been taken from the Rain Forests, nor are there any Orangutangs made homeless. Our suppliers do use 'ethical' methods in their production (we have actually visited the site). Our Columbian suppliers are members of the RSPO (Round Table for Sustainable Production of   PalmOil).' Scent: grapefruit + tangerine EO from CEVEN'Aromes   Colours : 1) gold sparkle metallic mica + buttercup yellow mica 2) copper metallic mica + c lementine orange mica  and 3) deep bronze metallic mica  All micas are from  The Soap Kitchen 2 days in the mould + 2 days as whole bar outside the mould before cutt...