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Learn to make beautiful bath and body products from scratch. Here you find free tutorials for making cold process soaps, bath bombs, body butters, face masks, serums and a lot more.

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Easy Snowman Bath Bomb DIY (+Cute Packaging Idea)

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These cute snowman bath bomb sets are the perfect small handmade Christmas gift for everybody on your list: neighbors, coworkers, family and friends. They’re easy and fun to make, smell delightful and come with an adorable packaging idea that’s part of the snowman design.

I have no idea how it’s December already, this year it totally snuck up on me. And it really hasn’t felt very winter-y around here until recently. But, now that we’ve been snowed in for a couple of days, holiday season is officially upon us. And what better way to ring in the winter season than by building snowmen in the yard with your kids? So much fun and it gave me the wonderful idea to make snowman bath bombs 😉

What I wanted was not only to have the snowman face, but the entire snowman just like you would build in real life with three parts, buttons and a scarf – the whole shebang. I’m very happy with the way these came out. Not only do they look adorable, but they are also perfect as a gift. The packaging ties it all together into a little bundle of holiday cheer.

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Christmas Tree Cold Process Soap Recipe with Essential Oils

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It’s that time of year again… crunch time for cold process soap makers. If you want to get your Christmas soaps done in time for holiday gift giving you need to get cracking. I’m pretty late to the game this year myself, but not to worry, I’ve got us covered with this recipe. It uses a pretty steep water discount which allows this Christmas tree soap to cure in about 3 weeks. Procrastinators rejoice 🙂

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DIY Christmas Cupcake Bath Bombs – 2 Holiday Designs

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red and white Christmas bath bomb cupcake

Handmade gifts are always a big hit for Christmas. There’s something special about them. The thought, the time and love that goes into making them really let’s the recipient know you care.

Last year I made these adorable Santa Bath Bombs and folks loved them. So, for this year I wanted to make some sort of Christmas themed bath bombs again, but with a little twist, moving away from the traditional sphere shape. A couple of months ago I came across these super cute and, best of all, pretty fool proof cupcake bath bomb molds and knew I had to use them this Holiday season.

The result: Adorable Christmas cupcake bath bombs that look festive, are easy to make and nourishing for your skin. One design is reminiscent of a peppermint candy cane and the other of a Christmas tree. Once you’ve got your ingredients together you can easily make either one of the designs. As for the scent I’ve chosen essential oils that go with each theme, but feel free to use your own favorite essential oil or blend.

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Soothing Lavender & Oatmeal Cupcake Bath Bomb DIY

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This easy cupcake bath bomb DIY is made with soothing oatmeal and lavender essential oil. These would make for amazing homemade gifts.

I’ve always wanted to make cupcake bath bombs. Don’t they look amazing? But the problem until now was that in order to make a cupcake bath bomb you had to make the base first out of your usual bath bomb mix and then whip up the material for the piping separately. The piping often required ingredients that I either didn’t have on hand – like meringue powder – or that I didn’t want to have in my bath water – like powdered sugar. So, I never actually made bath bomb cupcakes until I saw this mold 🙂

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Rose Clay & Coconut Milk Facial Soap

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Rose clay and coconut milk powder make this cold process soap recipe especially gentle and nourishing for use on the face. Scented with beautiful essential oils and full of skin loving oils.

I’ve been resisting using handmade soap on my face for the longest time. My own handmade soap mind you – where I know exactly how it’s made and what went in. I always had in the back of my mind what had been drilled into our heads at esthetitian school: “Never ever use soap on your face”.

I could see, that for someone with very oily, acne prone skin a nice bar of charcoal tea tree soap could be beneficial, but for my dry and sensitive skin? Uh, no thanks.

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Indigo Ombre Cold Process Soap (One Pot Technique)

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Beware: After 5 weeks of cure time I noticed the two bottom layers starting to fade. I’m working on an updated tutorial for you, in the meantime I hope you find this information helpful nonetheless.

Indigo is an interesting natural colorant to work with in cold process soap. As with most natural colorants you never quite know what you’re going to get. The color results can vary greatly from greenish to grayish blue depending on the type of indigo used and how it’s incorporated into the soap.

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Rose Clay & Coconut Milk Face Mask DIY

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It took a little trial and error for me to find a clay mask that was gentle enough for my skin. Clays like rhassoul and bentonite are known for their powerful ability to draw impurities and excess oil from your pores. They work like a charm on oily skin, but what if you have dry skin and there isn’t a ton of excess oil? Then, some clays can be a little too strong and leave your skin feeling rather tight and dry. Enter: Rose Clay.

This 2 ingredient face mask is an easy beauty DIY. It's great for your skin and suitable for sensitive skin types. It makes a beautiful handmade gift or stocking stuffer.
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Rejuvenating Face Oil Serum

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You know how it goes: one busy day leads to another busy day and before you know it you’ve fallen off the skin care routine wagon and your skin needs some instant TLC.

With two small children this scenario is way too familiar to me. There’s only so much neglect my sensitive and dry skin can take before it starts to show signs of stress. What I do in this case is whip up a batch of my favorite face oil. It has been formulated with skin regeneration in mind and simply feels gorgeous on the skin.

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Moisturizing Avocado & Shea Butter Soap (Using Fresh Avocado Puree)

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I love avocados! As food they’re delicious, satisfying and super healthy, and they’re also great to use in cold process soap giving it a decadent rich creamy lather that is delightful.

Avocado oil, shea butter and fresh avocado are the key players for this soap. Fresh avocado fruit as well as avocado oil contains vitamins A, D and E and nourishing omega 3 fatty acids. Both contribute amazing conditioning properties and creamy luxurious lather to the finished soap.

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