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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 6 Comments

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

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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Vegan Coconut Milk Bath with Soothing Oatmeal DIY

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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Using Bananas in Soap (Cold Process)

February 18, 2019 by Celine 17 Comments

I’ve had this idea for a banana soap in my head for quite some time. Something like a banana cream pie soap maybe. But what would the end result look like and would I be happy with it? I started to do some research and saw a variety of banana soaps that ranged from very brown to very speckled to creamy yellow with few specks. Some soap makers reported the specks would disappear after a while. Well, I decided it was time to do my own little research project on using bananas in soap.

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Cucumber Mint Cold Process Soap

February 12, 2019 by Celine 17 Comments

I live in the Garden State. Yes that’s right, New Jersey. The state known for it’s closeness to NYC, it’s stinky highways, industrial areas, and also it’s beaches. What most people don’t know is that we do have plenty of greenery here, as the name suggests. Folks really love to grow their veggies in our neck of the woods and when summer rolls around, we have cucumbers for dayyys.

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Lemongrass Calendula Soap (Exploring Natural Colorants in Cold Process Soap)

January 23, 2019 by Celine Leave a Comment

This Lemongrass Calendula Soap Recipe was originally published on May 8th, 2018 and updated on January 23rd, 2019. I’ve added an update an how the colors and scent have fared over time. So, scroll down to the bottom to see what this soap looks like after 9 months.

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Lime Coconut Milk Bath Bombs

January 20, 2019 by Celine 4 Comments

Right around this time of year I totally start to sound like a broken record. It goes something like this:”I really don’t like winter. I’m cold. Everything looks so gray. I need some sun. Why do we even live here?”… And on, and on it goes. And every year as my tolerance to the cold and gray seems to diminish so does my skin’s tolerance to dry air and extreme temperature swings – arrgh, the itch is real, you guys.

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