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Soothing Lavender & Oatmeal Cupcake Bath Bomb DIY

August 13, 2019 by Celine 6 Comments

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

August 4, 2019 by Celine 13 Comments

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)

July 21, 2019 by Celine 4 Comments

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

July 14, 2019 by Celine 4 Comments

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

July 4, 2019 by Celine 2 Comments

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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Sea Shore Cold Process Soap Using Real Sand

June 28, 2019 by Celine Leave a Comment

You might’ve noticed by now that when it comes to soap I like to experiment with new and different types of ingredients. As it happened this time I had this little bottle with pristine white sand that I brought home from Florida sitting on the shelf taunting me to do something with it. Well, into the soap it went.

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

June 15, 2019 by Celine 4 Comments

Moisturizing Avocado and Shea butter soap

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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Banana and Cream Soap

March 3, 2019 by Celine 13 Comments

For this cold process soap recipe I'm using banana, heavy cream and essential oils. To top it of I'm doing some cute piping.

Last month I experimented with different ways to use bananas in soap. I wanted to find a visually pleasing outcome for today’s banana and cream soap. The results ranged from light cream color with a little bit of specks to really brown with lots of specks. You can check out the post here and see the side by side comparison.

For this soap I decided to use a fairly ripe banana since I knew from my experiments that I would get this awesome speckled effect which would contrast well with the white piped top. After I was done making the soap I put it in the freezer since I absolutely wanted to avoid gelling.

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Coconut Milk Bath with Soothing Oatmeal

February 24, 2019 by Celine 2 Comments

Winter time can be rough on your skin. The cold air outside, the dry air inside and the back and forth between the two oftentimes leads to dry, cracked and itchy skin. None of us can escape this completely and we end up reaching for that lotion bottle pretty often. But folks with dry skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis in particular can really suffer this time of year.

My son has mild eczema that practically disappears in the summer, but right now it looks pretty bad. We slather him up with whipped shea butter before bed and have eliminated any irritating ingredients and fragrances from his bath time and even switched our laundry detergent. But it’s tough to keep him from scratching, especially at night.

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Easy Dinosaur Melt and Pour Soaps

February 22, 2019 by Celine 2 Comments

I’m a cold process soap maker through and through, but sometimes you just gotta love the convenience and easy handling of melt and pour soap. It’s great for quick and easy projects and I like that I can melt small amounts of material and pour it into tiny molds to create cute details. Melt and pour soap is also great if you want to get your kids involved, like I did last year with my son.

I wanted to surprise my kids with these little soaps. They loved the “Dino Bombs” from a couple of months ago so, I was sure they’d love these dinosaur melt and pour soaps as well.

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