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.
This breast milk soap recipe is an easy and great way to use any leftover breast milk you might have. The no lye recipe is quick and easy especially for beginners.
It’s milk central at Tweak & Tinker HQ these days. There’s milk spit up, milk throw up, milk leakage and pumping. Let me just say: We don’t have a milk shortage around here.
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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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In the last few months my kids have been watching me unmold and cut a lot of soap. If you have kids you know this: They want to imitate everything you do, especially if it looks like you’re having fun. Finally Small (4 years old) demanded one day: “Mom, I want to make soap too.” In my head I had already prepared all the reasons why that wasn’t a good idea – kids couldn’t work with lye, it was too dangerous and so on. But then I thought of making melt and pour soap. Yes, that could work….