The Ponte Vedra Soap Shoppe has a great little recipe for a Vitamin E stick to help protect your lips and under eye area. Sooth and protect your face with this easy to make balm! Find the instructions here. 
Properties of jojoba butter
Jojoba Butter profile from Oils by Nature
Jojoba Butter (Simmondsia Chinensis)
Jojoba Butter (Oil) comes from a shrub that grows well in the arid and semi-dry regions of southern California, Arizona and northwest Mexico. The Jojoba plant begins bearing seeds once it reaches its fifth year of maturity.
Highly regarded by Native Americans for its … Read More ...
Urban Decay 30% sale
Urban Decay is having a 30% off friends and family sale, now through April 13th! Just enter FNFS9 during checkout to redeem.
Milk bath recipe
Milk baths are great for the skin thanks to milk’s many nourishing properties. The lactic acid in milk contains natural beta hydroxy acid to exfoliate your skin and help remove dead skin cells. It’s also moisturizing and will help make your skin silky smooth!
How to Make a Milk Bath
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Bath jelly recipe
Beth jellies can be hard to find, so try your hand at making your own! This bath jelly recipe comes courtesy of Teach Soap.
Bath Jelly Recipe – by Amy Vollmer
1/2 cup melted transparent Melt & Pour base
2 cups water
1 envelope Knox unflavored Gelatin
1/2 oz Germaben II
Fragrance oil
3 … Read More ...
Goldfish in a bag soap tutorial
This super cute goldfish in a bag soap is a great project to make with your kids (or friends!) one weekend. It requires a few more ingredients than the average melt and pour project, but the results are so fun that it’s worth it! Find all the instructions here.… Read More ...
Swirling with the Best tutorial
Saponifier Magazine has created a fantastic, 28 page full-color tutorial on creating swirls in your hot process, cold process and melt and pour soaps! The tutorials were written by the winners of their Best Swirl contest, so you know the tutorials are well worth the money! Buy it here.
Coffee scented kitchen soap recipe
I had never even thought about using coffee scented essential oil until reading this interesting recipe for a coffee scented kitchen soap from Essential Oil Recipes. Give it a try and let me know how it works!
Coffee Scented Kitchen Soap
Use this recipe to create signature scents for your kitchen. It doesn’t get … Read More ...
Tropical cuticle cream recipe
Tropical Cuticle Cream from Homemade Beauty Recipes
Ingredients:
7 tsp. Cocoa Butter
6 tsp. Jojoba Oil
6 tsp avocado oil
3 drops Tea Tree Essential Oil
Directions:
Melt the Cocoa Butter. When it’s melted, mix in the other oils. As the mixture cools, mix in essential oils. Let it sit overnight. Apply to cuticles. Also, … Read More ...
DIY Cleansing Honey Face Mask for Glowing Skin
Gentle. Healing. All-Natural.
If your skin’s feeling tired, dull, or just a little “meh,” it might be time to treat it to something simple, sweet, and surprisingly powerful—like this homemade honey face mask.
This recipe has been a quiet favourite in my skincare stash for years. It’s gentle enough for mature or sensitive skin, but … Read More ...
Easter soap kit
Brambleberry has put together another wonder holiday-themed kit for Easter. The soap kit has everything you need to make Easter soaps for yourself or gifts! Included in the kit are soap base, 2 molds, colorants, fragrances and even gift tags and organza bags for packaging! Find it here.… Read More ...
Happy Passover soaps
I came across these cute Happy Passover soaps today from 4 Sisters Soaps. The soap ingredients have been approved as kosher. There’s still time to order before Passover begins on April 9th!
Handmade soap packaging ideas
Debra McDuffee has some pretty ideas on how to package your handmade cold process soap. Visit here for the inspiration.… Read More ...
Funnel soap tutorial
I love this funnel soap tutorial! The swirls are an interesting take on the “usual” swirls we usually see in cold process soapmaking. This tutorial is written as a cold process soap tutorial, but can easily be adapted by the melt and pour soapmaker using two separate M&P batches and a loaf mold. Find the … Read More ...
DIY Make Your Own Hemp Oil Soap recipe
Hemp oil
has wonderful skin nourishing properties and is easily absorbed into the skin. Make this great cold process Hemp Body Bar Soap from Ponte Vedra to help fight skin problems, excessively dry skin, or for its anti-aging properties.… Read More ...