Rose shampoo bar is ideal for travels as well as use at home. It has a beautiful fragrance and leaves your hair smooth and shiny.
Bear Soap for Children
I share this recipe for this Bear soap for children for all you soapmakers out there so your kids wash their hands with joy!
DIY Dishwasher Tablets
Do you want to use your dishwasher in a more nature-friendly way and save money doing it? Make these sustainable dishwasher tablets from few basic ingredients.
Heart Salt Soap With Aloe Vera, Silk and Beetroot
I love salt soaps. They are great for eczematic skin, they have wonderful soft lather and their cleansing capacity comes handy when your hands are extra dirty. So enjoy this extra caring salt soap.
Best DIY Himalayan Salt Bath Bombs – basic recipe
Salt bath bombs are an ideal present and they’re so easy to make that you can enjoy this special treat with every bath you take.
Christmas Soap Mulled Wine
After the Starry Space Soap I bring you another soapy inspiration – the Christmas soap I call Mulled Wine.
Starry Space Soap
I’ve been planning this starry space soap for some time and it turned out just perfect. Here’s the recipe and instructions:-)
Salve for Dyshidrotic Eczema (and maybe other eczemas)
Dyshidrotic eczema can be pretty annoying, just like any other eczema I guess. Fortunately, there is not just effective medicine we can buy at the pharmacy but also remedies we can whip up at home. And I really recommend this homemade salve for dyshidrotic eczema that might work also for other types of eczemas.
Luxurious Rose Lip Balm
I remember my grandmother always having s flower-scented soap, usually lilac or rose. My luxurious rose lip balm smells exactly like that, only it’s not because of some synthetic aroma but thanks to a 100 % natural rose wax.
Paw Salve
Unlike the human feet the animal paws aren’t spoiled by shoes. Despite this they sometimes need extra help with staying healthy especially when it comes to extreme weather. I make this protective paw salve for out dogs which is great especially in winter because it protects the paws from the very very low temperatures. However, …
Homemade Beeswax Lip Balm
If there’s one lip balm I’d love to eat it’s this one. It’s scent is so beautiful that I just have to smell the balm every time I’m going to use it and I don’t seem to get tired of it. If you like the smell of honey, too, and if you want a lip …
Homemade Oat Make-up Remover with Rose Water
I often don’t have time to use any make-up and when it comes to taking it off, there’s even less time. And I’m not even speaking about the whole evening skincare, with my kids I basically don’t have much of an evening skincare routine and if I try to have some, there’s usually one kid …
Homemade Ointment for Dry Chapped Heels
I really like winter but it brings a few skin inconveniences. Unless you belong to the lucky few, you probably know what I’m talking about when I say words like “chapped”, “scaly” and “heels”. Basically nothing worked for me (unless you count waiting for spring to come) until I started mixing this ointment for dry …
Homemade Rose and Lemon Balm Shampoo
If the title length allowed it, this homemade rose and lemon balm shampoo would be called “Absolutely awesome rose-lemon balm shampoo that’s better than anything else you’ve ever bought in a store”. Yes, it’s that great.
Facial Butter for Winter
When my youngest was born I gave myselft three presents: a drier to prevent getting crazy from all the laundry, a person to help me clean the house and regular visits to the salon where a very brave lady does the sisyphus job of trying to fight the aging process and prevent me from developing …
Winter poppyseed oil lip balm
Winter has come and I realized we are completely out of protective lip balm. So yesterday I got down to work. I prepared several new recipes and bring you the first one, our shiny new winter poppyseed oil lip balm which will accompany us this winter.
Safety in Soapmaking
Soapmaking is a beautiful thing but it has its risks. We can eliminate these by following a few simple rules of safety in soapmaking.
Soap safety – testing safety
Soap safety is something to be aware of whenever you’re making a soap. Let’s have a quick look at the methods of testing soap safety.
Rose Clay Face Mask
This face mask is suitable for skin that is a bit on the dry side. The rosehip oil has a high content of vitamine C and A and it helps the skin stay elastic. The jojoba oil which is actually a liquid wax contains unsaturated fatty acids and vitamine E, it hydrates the skin.
Caring Hand Sanitizer with Aloe Vera
Lately our hands are living some hard times with all that necessary extra hand washing and sanitizing. The desinfection isn’t exactly good for the skin, however, it’s a necessary measure in moments when you cannot wash your hands. This is a caring hand sanitizer with aloe vera that sanitizes and soothes.