Me too!! I made it last year for Christmas gifts and loved it!! Thank goodness for Pinterest. Time to make some more!!
I made cocoa butter cream too!
Here's one recipe I used:
Sea Salt Citrus Body Scrub
1/2 cup sea salt
1/2 cup sweet almond oil
(can substitute light olive oil or vegetable oil)
1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
1/2 teaspoon orange zest
Directions
In a medium dry bowl, combine all ingredients making sure to not let any water touch them as it will dissolve the salt. Pour mixture into an airtight container and store in a cool dry place.
To use: Just before showering, swirl ingredients together with your fingertips to mix. Clean body completely and just before exiting shower, apply Citrus Salt Body Scrub to body in a firm circular scrubbing motion with hands or a soft washcloth. Rinse off the mixture and pat body dry with a clean towel.
I'll have to try it with the zest! I was considering the lemon essential oil at the store the other day.
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Originally Posted by Titus2woman
I keep our milk in old fashioned milk bottles like the milk man used to leave. I have one that has a cream collector on the top... in the morning the cream is poured off for coffee and then the milk left in the bottle is not so heavy.
Mind sharing your recipe for body scrub?
I use this one, and I modified it a little bit. It's a basic formula, so you can pretty much make it however you want.
1/2 cup oil. Use sweet almond, grapeseed or another light-textured massage oil. Don't use simple cooking oil from your pantry.
1 cup fine sea salt. Don't use simple iodized table salt -- it's too harsh. If you have sensitive skin you can substitute sugar, which is gentler.
5-15 drops high quality essential oils.
I love almond oil, but my skin can also use the extra *sticking power* of the olive oil, so I mixed 1/4 c. almond oil and 1/4 c. EV olive oil. I added 5 drops of lavender essential oil, but when I smelled of it this morning, I couldn't even smell the lavender. The almond oil overpowers it. I like the smell of the almond oil, so that's fine with me. I'm thinking if you really wanted the lavender to stand out, you'd have to double the drops.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Last edited by MissBrattified; 09-27-2012 at 11:39 AM.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Sometimes when I have extra time to make them. This has been a really heavy canning year because we were droughted last year and our garden burned up... so I am replacing a lot of our food... May get to soaps soon.
I'll have to try it with the zest! I was considering the lemon essential oil at the store the other day.
I use this one, and I modified it a little bit. It's a basic formula, so you can pretty much make it however you want.
I love almond oil, but my skin can also use the extra *sticking power* of the olive oil, so I mixed 1/4 c. almond oil and 1/4 c. EV olive oil. I added 5 drops of lavender essential oil, but when I smelled of it this morning, I couldn't even smell the lavender. The almond oil overpowers it. I like the smell of the almond oil, so that's fine with me. I'm thinking if you really wanted the lavender to stand out, you'd have to double the drops.
? Really? Well, you might just Google "raw milk" then; I found my (goat) dairy on CL...or ask T2W, I'm a def neo here. Surprised she would recommend cow over goat, or pasteurized v not. Personally, I like enzymes, and calcium retention, but I have to believe she knows more. Calcium is a metal, and the calcium that can't be absorbed from cow's milk--a higher % than goat's, is my take--must be eliminated.
I milk A2 mini-Jersey and Dexter cattle. Especially the Dexters have milk with a much smaller fat and protien globules and is very akin to goats milk for digestion while not having the goaty flavor. Also I can make butter, sour cream, ice cream, clotted cream and all those wonderful full fat cheeses.
I do NOT recomend pasturized milk... where did you get that idea?
Ah, my bad--and I thought you
milked goats? And goat's milk
doesn't have any goaty taste,
if not pasteurized, or rams not
kept around milkers. I was floored,
did not believe it myself.
Sometimes when I have extra time to make them. This has been a really heavy canning year because we were droughted last year and our garden burned up... so I am replacing a lot of our food... May get to soaps soon.
Have something you'd like to try?
Well, when you get around to making soaps, why don't you send (or post) a list of what you have and prices? What kind of soap do you normally make?
__________________
"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Ah, my bad--and I thought you
milked goats? And goat's milk
doesn't have any goaty taste,
if not pasteurized, or rams not
kept around milkers. I was floored,
did not believe it myself.
I milk a herd of Kinder goats. Goats milk is by far more delicate than cows milk. It must be kept scrupulosly clean, it must be chilled very quickly, goats must not be getting too much grain, no buck goats around, not in heat... And even still after a few days I can detect some goaty flavor in the milk. Also there is a very strong goaty taste after milk is heated for cheese or yogurt... I enjoy goat cheese but not essence of goat in my coffee or on my steel cut oats
Two different food products... goats milk does not have to be cows milk and vice versa... I simply said... if one does not enjoy goats milk, drink cows milk... just CLEAN, FRESH, RAW, GRASS FED, ANTIBIOTIC AND HORMONE FREE... cows milk.
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