Discover a plethora a deliciously scented chocolate soap recipes. Plus, learn about the benefits of chocolate when used in skin care applications to cleanse skin as part of your daily routine. DIY Chocolate Soap Bathing is a necessary task to keep our bodies clean. However, that doesn’t mean we can’t indulge a little. Get some extra enjoyment out of your daily skin care routine with chocolate soap! Whether you’re a…
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Easy Melt and Pour Soap Recipe: Plus How to Make Sunflower Soap
Discover how easy it is to make melt and pour soap at home! This sunflower soap recipe is perfect for beginners. Whether you’ve made soap previously, or you are new to melt and pour soap making, this easy recipe will serve as a handy guide to making adorable, handcrafted soaps. This adorable soap can be used as a hand soap or for the body, and it makes a great gift…
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Winter Soap Recipes: Plus How to Make Melt and Pour Snowflake Soap
Discover how to make winter soap recipes, including an easy melt and pour snowflake soap. This coconut oil soap recipe without lye is perfect for beginners and makes a wonderful homemade gift. Kids love the fun shape, and the coconut oil is naturally moisturizing for dry winter skin. I change my skin care products with the changing seasons. In the summer, I like to use lighter oils to keep my…
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DIY Essential Oil Gifts & Ideas (Plus How to Make Orange Spice Soap)
Discover DIY essential oil gifts and ideas you can craft for friends and family for the holidays, along with additional homemade gift ideas for year round gift giving. Learn how to make my orange spice soap with essential oils, plus over 40 more homemade gift ideas made using essential oils. How to Make Essential Oil Gifts with Simply Earth The Simply Earth essential oil box this month contains a slew…
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Soap Packaging Ideas: Ways to Package to Soap To Gift or Sell
Presentation is the key to showcasing the value of your homemade soaps. These soap packaging ideas will help your homemade soaps get the attention they so readily deserve, whether you’re giving them as gifts, or making homemade soaps to sell. You spend a lot of time learning the craft of soap making. For some, it comes naturally. For many of us, we dedicate years to the process, perfecting our own…
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How Long Does Produce Last? Plus How to Use Ripe Produce to Make Soap
Wondering how long does produce last? Check out these handy tips and tricks for storing fresh fruits and veggies and learn how long your fresh produce will last with proper storage. Plus discover how to use overripe fruit and vegetables to make homemade cold process soap as a fun twist when produce becomes too ripe or soft to eat. I try to eat healthy, which isn’t cheap. I only go…
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How to Use Hydrosols: Plus Hydrosol Recipes for Skin, Face and Hair
Hydrosols are a wonderful way to add the benefits of plants to your natural skin care and beauty routine. Learn how to use hydrosols for skin, face and hair and explore my collection of unique hydrosol recipes to craft plant based toners, lotions and soaps. Hydrosols are essentially flower waters. You may be most familiar with rose water, which is created using the same process. Like rose water or rose…
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Banana Soap Recipe: Cold Process Berry Banana Smoothie Soap
Learn how to make a cold process banana soap recipe. Plus discover the benefits of banana soap when used as part of your daily, summer beauty regimen. Summer is all about fresh fruit — and fresh fruit smoothies! So I really wanted to create a seasonal summer soap with a smoothie theme. My berry banana smoothie soap recipe does just that! Made with real banana and a wild berries &…
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Neem Oil Soap Recipe: Cold Process Soap Recipe for Problem Skin
This neem oil soap recipe makes a wonderful addition to any natural skin care routine for problem skin. It helps improve skin appearance and promote skin health. Whether you suffer from dry skin, eczema, acne or even fungal skin issues, this cold process soap helps to soothe a variety of common skin ailments and can prevent reoccurence. Leave it unscented or mask the smell of neem oil with a warm…
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Calendula Soap Recipe: Cold Process Soap Recipe with Calendula Infused Oil
Learn how to combine herbs and essential oils to create a cold process calendula soap recipe to soothe problem skin and promote skin health. This natural soap recipe is formulated with neem oil, calendula infused oil, cocoa butter and a simple essential oil blend to create a hydrating soap that not only improves skin’s appearance, but also eases symptoms of everyday skin issues including acne, dry skin and eczema. Keep…
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Solid Dish Soap Bar Recipe: How to Make a Zero Waste Dishwashing Soap
Learn how to make a zero waste dishwashing soap bar. An eco-friendly solid dish soap bar recipe will not only help to save money, it also reduces waste and your impact on the environment. Like you’d expect from a liquid dish soap, this cold process dish soap recipe gives you plenty of suds, and it cuts through grease to thoroughly clean your dishes. Learn about the different methods for making…
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Gummy Bear Soap DIY Using a Gummy Bear Soap Mold
Learn how to make these fun, pool party DIY gummy bear soap bars using a regular size gummy bear soap mold and any other soap mold of your choice. This easy melt and pour soap recipe and tutorial makes a fun family project when you’re stuck indoors. Plus it’s easy to customize to create your own unique soap designs! So, my son bought me an awesome Boozy Bears gummy bears…
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Coconut Milk Soap Recipe with Lavender Essential Oil
This coconut milk soap recipe with lavender essential oil is an easy way to add coconut milk to your everyday skin care routine as part of a natural beauty regimen. Learn about the natural skin care benefits of coconut milk. Plus explore other hydrating soap making ingredients like chia seed oil, shea nut oil and walnut oil to craft a natural cold process soap recipe for maturing or dry skin.…
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Watermelon Soap Recipe with Skin Brightening Vitamin C for Glowing Skin
Naturally rich in vitamin C, this cold process watermelon soap recipe is an easy way to enjoy the skin care benefits of vitamin C without irritating sensitive skin. Discover the benefits of using this DIY soap as part of your daily skin care routine. Plus learn how to make this natural summer soap from scratch in the comfort of your own home. DIY Watermelon Soap One of my favorite things…
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Play Dough Soap DIY: A Fun Kids Activity That Encourages Hand Washing
Encourage hand washing and make bath time fun with this play dough soap recipe, made with liquid Castile soap. This DIY play dough bath soap is easy to make, and older kids can even make it themselves. Don’t have liquid Castile soap on hand? Try it with body wash or baby shampoo. You can even scent these with kid safe essential oils for aromatherapeutic bath time fun! A creative, kid-approved…
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Fall Essential Oil Blends for Soaps (Plus A Fall Soap Recipe with Cocoa Butter)
Looking for fall essential oil blends for soaps? Try one of several great essential oil blend recipes in your fall inspired soaps this autumn. Plus learn how to make my easy fall soap recipe. Decorated with cute leaf embeds, this cold process fall soap recipe with cocoa butter is the perfect choice for daily cleansing as temps cool down and the stifling humidity of summer dissipates. Plus discover fall skin…
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Gardeners Soap Recipe with Exfoliating Botanicals
This homemade cold process gardeners soap recipe is made with exfoliating botanicals and three skin conditioning body butters. So it doesn’t just get you clean, it also helps to nourish skin! Life is messy. Sometimes it’s even dirty. So when it comes time to clean up the dirt left behind from your summer shenanigans, projects and gardening, you need a soap that’s created just for such situations. Formulating a Gardeners…
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Homemade Beauty Recipes: The Most Loved Recipes from the Past Year
My favorite part of blogging is being able to share my homemade beauty recipes with all of you, my readers. My hope is that we can explore new ways to create beauty and skin care products together – both for fun and as a more natural alternative to commercial products. Knowing that my readers enjoy and share my homemade beauty recipes helps to keep me inspired to create more homemade…
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Homemade Holiday Gifts & Ideas for Winter
Make homemade holiday gifts with these DIY ideas for winter in just 30 minutes or less. These easy winter crafts make the perfect DIY holiday gifts for bath and body lovers. Keep reading to discover two simple winter gift ideas, including an easy gingerbread man melt and pour soap recipe and fizzy bath salt recipe with essential oils. This post is sponsored by Sticker You. All opinions are my own.…
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DIY Christmas Gift Ideas for Friends This Holiday Season
I love giving the gift of handmade. If you want to give meaningful holiday gifts this year, then this collection of 40 DIY Christmas gift ideas for friends is a must! Keep reading to discover the best Christmas gift ideas to craft and gift this winter. If you’re like me, you adore your friends. They are true blue to the end. So it seems only fitting to give them a…
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Homemade Honeysuckle Soap Recipe for Savoring The Last of Summer
This seasonally inspired homemade honeysuckle soap recipe is the perfect way to savor the scent of honeysuckle year round! Plus discover 34 more homemade melt and pour soap recipes that you DIY as your next weekend craft project! Honeysuckle, A Childhood Favorite. One of my favorite childhood memories is the smell – and taste! – of fresh honeysuckle. When I was growing up we had huge bushes of honeysuckle and…
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Natural Gardeners Soap Recipe That’s Not Just for Gardeners
It doesn’t have to be gardening season for you to enjoy this natural gardeners soap recipe. In fact, you don’t need to be a gardener at all! Formulated to quickly and easily wash away tough dirt and grime, you’ll find that this natural gardeners soap is also a great option for mechanics, artists and kindergarten teachers. So if you know how to get good and dirty, then this soap is…
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Summer Citrus Soap Recipe with a Natural Essential Oil Blend
This homemade summer citrus soap recipe contains a citrus inspired natural essential oil blend of peppermint, orange and lemongrass. Formulated to be both cleansing and conditioning, this natural soap works great at tackling sweat and grime without over drying skin. Discover how to make this cold process soap for your summer skin care routine. Plus get ideas for using the finished soap bars as embeds in an easy melt and…
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Natural Calendula Soap Recipe for Healthy Looking Skin After 40
This natural calendula soap recipe is handcrafted with skin nourishing ingredients that promote skin health. Calendula hydrosol, calendula powder and chia seed oil are key ingredients for healthy looking skin. Natural shredded loofah is also included for its gentle exfoliation that leads to brighter, smoother skin. I had the unfortunate realization today, while reading an article on another blog, that I am a mid-lifer. I mean, mid-lifers are my parents…
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Plantain Soap Recipe with Date Sugar & Frankincense
Nourish dry skin and promote skin health with this natural plantain soap recipe with date sugar and frankincense. This natural plantain soap recipe is handmade using the cold process soapmaking method and is perfect for dry or problem skin. Formulated to produce a low cleansing, super nourishing soap with an exceptional lather, this homemade plantain soap is also palm free. Last summer I made a wonderful plantain herbal oil infusion…
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Orange Spice Tea Soap for Winter Skin Care or Seasonal Gifts
Learn how to make orange spice tea soap with this cold process soap recipe. Formulated for winter skin care, this hydrating homemade soap is an easy way to nourish and care for dry, skin. Make it for the holidays or for everyday winter skin care. DIY Orange Spice Tea Soap If hot orange spice tea is one of your favorite winter luxuries, then I have the perfect soap recipe to add to your…
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Shark Week Soap DIY for Fish Fans & Ocean Lovers
Celebrate sharks with this super fun shark week soap DIY! Whether you’re celebrating shark week or want a bloody fabulous Halloween gift, these melt and pour soaps are sure to add some excitement to anyone’s bath. Not only are they easy to make, but they also make great gifts as well as party favors for say, a shark themed birthday or pool party. (Sense of humor required, of course.) Shark…
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Fun Bath & Body Recipes to DIY This Weekend
Looking for fun bath & body recipes to DIY this weekend? Here are just a few of many favorite bath & body recipes that I’ve either collected on Pinterest or created myself to help your creative side get into the spirit! Fun DIY Bath & Body Recipes These DIY glitter cupcake bath bombs from Aww Sam! blog are easier to make than you might think and make bath time more fun…
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How to Make Orange Soap with Blood Orange Essential Oil
This orange soap recipe is made with real orange powder and blood orange essential oil. Similar to other citrus essential oils, blood orange essential oil has anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and antibacterial properties. This makes this DIY citrus soap especially suitable for acne prone and combination skin. Keep reading to discover how to create this orange cold process soap for your natural skin care routine this summer. DIY Orange Soap These DIY orange…
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How to Make Apple Soap with Apple Fruit Powder (Cold Process Recipe)
Discover how to make apple soap using real fruit powder. My green apple soap recipe is created using the cold process soapmaking method. Formulated using real apple fruit powder for its skin care benefits, this homemade soap makes a wonderful addition to your summer beauty routine. Learn how to get gorgeous glowing skin today when you make this natural summer soap for your face and body. DIY Apple Soap If…
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Homemade Chia & Charcoal Soap Recipe to Naturally Hydrate Maturing Skin (Even If It’s Acne Prone!)
This homemade chia & charcoal soap recipe is made with soothing and hydrating chia seed oil and naturally detoxifying activated charcoal. It’s an easy, natural way to hydrate maturing skin without any extra steps as part of your daily beauty regimen. Even if your skin is acne prone! Formulating A Natural Charcoal Soap for Maturing & Acne Prone Skin As I’ve aged – 42 this coming June! – my skin…
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Unicorn Macaron Soap Tutorial
Learn how to make these sweet unicorn soaps with my unicorn macaron soap tutorial! Unicorn Macaron Soap Tutorial Made using melt and pour soap bases, my unicorn macaron soap tutorial will guide you through the steps of making your own unicorn macaron soaps! Just melt, pour then paint your soaps for a sweet homemade gift! Supplies Needed: You will need at least one unicorn macaron mold to create your unicorn…
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Mermaid Soap Tutorial
Make waves with this awesome mermaid soap tutorial that lets you explore your creative side! Crafted using a combination of melt and pour soap bases, this soapmaking project makes a fun filled weekend project you can enjoy with friends or family! There are three parts to my mermaid soap tutorial. You’ll start by making your mermaid tail soaps and other soap embeds like sea creatures or shells as desired. Then you make…
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Palm Free Olive and Babassu Soap Recipe
This palm free olive and babassu soap recipe is easy enough for beginners and requires only three soapmaking oils! Formulated to be low cleansing and extra conditioning, this olive and babassu soap recipe is perfect for winter or year round for anyone who suffers from dry skin. Plus, it’s simple enough that even beginning soapmakers can give this homemade soap recipe a whirl! My boyfriend, James, recently wanted me to…
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Coffee and Cocoa Soap Recipe (Chocolate Soap with Coffee and Egg)
Learn how to make this coffee and cocoa soap recipe. This natural soap is made with fresh brewed coffee, cocoa powder and egg yolk to cleanse, nourish and condition skin. An easy chocolate soap recipe for natural skin care, this homemade soap recipe boasts rich, thick lather — and it’s palm free! Learn how to make this cold process soap recipe to use as part of your skin care routine…
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Best of 2016: Favorite Beauty and Skin Care Recipes
2016 has ended and we’ve started a bright and shiny New Year. That means lots of new beauty and skin care recipes to look forward to! In the meantime, however, be sure to check out my favorite beauty and skin care recipes I developed in 2016. Then give them a try to treat yourself or to give as homemade gifts throughout the New Year! Here’s to 2017! Favorite Beauty and Skin Care…
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Palm Free Soap Recipes
Why Palm Free Soap Recipes? Traditionally, one of the main ingredients of cold process soap has been palm oil. However, as the use of palm oil has increased primarily due to its cheap price and wide availability, there has been controversy within the soapmaking community regarding its use. Production of palm oil in Southeast Asia has resulted in not only the depletion of the rain forest which is being torn down to create palm plantations, but it…
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Homemade Lanolin Skin Care Recipes
Learn about the benefits of lanolin and discover sixteen fantastic homemade lanolin skin care recipes that can help to protect and moisturize skin all winter long! What is lanolin and what benefits can be gained from lanolin in skin care applications? So, what is lanolin? Lanolin is a naturally occurring wax that is secreted by the glands of sheep and other wool bearing animals that helps them shed water from their coats. When…
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DIY Star Wars Melt and Pour Soaps
Learn how to make your own DIY Star Wars inspired soaps with this DIY Star Wars melt and pour soap tutorial that creates fun Millennium Falcon and X-Wing Fighter shaped soaps soaring through the galaxy! DIY Star Wars Melt & Pour Soap Tutorial © Rebecca’s Soap Delicatessen Ingredients: 19.4 oz. Crafter’s Choice (or similar) clear basic melt and pour soap base 9.75 oz. Crafter’s Choice (or similar) white basic melt and pour soap…
