Χειροποίητα‬ Lip Balms για τις κρύες μέρες που έρχονται

Ενυδατικό, θρεπτικό βάλσαμο για την περιποίηση των χειλιών σας από λάδι ελιάς και άλλα πολύτιμα λάδια και βούτυρα, εμπλουτισμένο με μερικές σταγόνες αιθέριο έλαιο. 

Μπορείτε να επιλέξετε ανάμεσα σε αυτά τα δύο, για τώρα. Σύντομα θα υπάρξουν περισσότερες επιλογές.

1) Cranberry & Λεβάντα με βούτυρο καριτέ, αμυγδαλέλαιο, λάδι από κουκούτσια σταφυλιού, το μελισσοκέρι, βιταμίνη Ε και αιθέριο έλαιο λεβάντας.

2) Σοκολάτα & Μέντα, με βούτυρο κακάο, αμυγδαλέλαιο, ελαιόλαδο, καστορέλαιο, μελισσοκέρι, σκόνη κακάο και αιθέριο έλαιο δυόσμου

Έκανα αυτές τις ετικέτες μόνη μου, χρησιμοποιώντας το PicMonkey. Μου αρέσει να πειραματίζομαι με αυτό, δημιουργώντας μια διαφορετική ετικέτα κάθε φορά. Αυτό μάλλον θα πρέπει να αλλάξει όταν θα έχω να κάνω μεγαλύτερες παραγγελίες, αλλά μέχρι στιγμής είναι διασκέδαση και όχι αγγαρεία.

Coconut Oil Soap

Ever since I first read about properties of different oils for soap making and found information that even though large amount of coconut oil in soap can be drying for the skin, it is still possible to make a good, nondrying Coconut oil soap, I wanted to try making one myself.

Some of my soap making buddies even make 100% Coconut oil soap without lye discount and they swear that it's the best soap for the laundry. I didn't want to use so much Coconut oil for a laundry soap, because it's not a very cheap ingredient here in Greece, but I decided to make a small batch of Laundry soap with 50% Coconut oil and 50% Lard. While I was at it, I figured i could try making a small batch of 100% Coconut oil soap with the remaining 250 g of oil I had left.

Lavender & Mastic Soap: First time doing a Secret Swirl

Hello everyone! I've been busy soaping lately and I didn't have much time to blog about it. This is the soap I made back in March and it was the first time I tried the secret swirl or the so called "hanger swirl". It was also the first time I used Mastic in soap, but since then I wrote about couple of other soaps I made with Mastic, but forgot to write about this one that was actually the first.

I used Olive oil, Palm oil, Coconut oil, Shea butter and Castor oil for this batch of soap.

Mastic resins in the mortar

So, the first thing I did was to ground the Mastic resins in the mortar until it turned into powder. Then I set it aside and prepared my oils and lye.