Category 'Handmade'

Dec 3
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DIY Coffee Bean Soap

If you’ve ever wanted to try your hand at soap making but found yourself a little put off by the thought of possibly losing an eye to lye, then thi...

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Dec 3
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How to Make Homemade Soap Without Lye

I get such satisfaction from making natural personal care products from scratch like my Nourishing Sugar Scrub, Healthy Lip Scrub, Homemade Foami...

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Dec 3
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Recycled Magazine Storage Box

Using items from your recycling bin, you can turn a plain old cardboard box into a decorative storage bin. 

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Dec 3
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Snow Soap with Indigo & Cambrian Blue Clay

So before we even make soap, we’re going to capture some fresh fallen snow for our soap, melt it down, filter it, and then get to work!

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Dec 2
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Coconut Lime Soap

This soap is made with coconut milk and coconut-lime fragrance oil. With the added chopped coconut and lime zest exfoliant on the edge, these bars ...

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Dec 2
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Vegan Soap

There are several recipes on this site that are made with vegetable oils only, but some of them also use additives such as milk, honey or beeswax.&...

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Dec 2
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Bamboo Charcoal Soap

Bamboo charcoal powder is prized in Asia for its skin care benefits. It’s great to use with any skin type, but absolutely heaven for oily skin!

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Dec 2
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How to Make Soap at Home: A Recipe for Kitchen Coffee Spice Bar Soap

But those soaps you buy in the store just dry my hands out and I hate using “anti-bacterial” hand washes. So, I set out to find a homemade solution...

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Dec 2
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Tea Tree Shampoo Bars

Tea tree essential oil is an antiseptic and is known to help treat scalp conditions such as dandruff and head lice. 

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Dec 2
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Grapefruit Lavender Soap & Coconut Mint Soap

They’re the perfect treat for your skin, your nose, your peace of mind.

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Dec 1
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Anise Soap

Anise is native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery. It’s sw...

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Nov 29
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Acne Detox Soap Recipe

A lot of people have shown interest in these recipe. Well, here’s the recipe so that you can make your own. This is a basic soap recipe with j...

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Nov 29
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Ginger Spice Cookie Soap

I really liked how this particular one turned out!  I’ve really been enjoying soap-making. This soap really reminds me of a cookie. It’s sweet...

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Nov 29
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DIY Peppermint Soap

Starting this week you’ll see easy handmade soaps. These are my favorite kind of gifts to give. Not only are they easy to make, they usually cost a...

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Sep 18
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Handmade Tote Bag

Supplies needed: Freezer paper stencil, a tote bag and fabric paint.    

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