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Natural Handmade Soap
Handmade soap, especially an olive oil soap, can be an amazing treat for your skin. Olive oil is a natural humectant, meaning it attracts moisture without clogging up pores. If ou've never tried an olive oil soap, we urge you to look through our list of handmade soaps on the products page. They are all designed to treat your face and body with gentle, moisturizing care.
Our handcrafted soaps contain naturally-occurring glycerin (usually extracted by commercial soap manufacturers for lotions) for a wonderfully luxurious, silky feel.
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Tea With Vita Summertime Essential Oil Blend
Here is another summertime essential oil blend to try.
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Great Herbs for Skin
The Medicine Hunter searches out herbs that can be used in handmade soap and body products that are helpful for natural skin care.
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Anti-Aging Benefits of Emu Oil
Wonderful, wonderful emu oil are used in natural body products and natural soaps. Here's why.
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Madder Root Soap Making
A step-by-step description of using madder root, a natural coloring, to achieve pink and red hues in handmade soap.
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How to Blend Essential Oils
This blog describes a mathematical formula for blending essential oils in handmade soap making
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Dreaded Orange Spots (DOS) An Experiment In Soap Making
Handmade soap makers often discuss orange spots that develop as soap ages. This author describes her own experiments and makes suggestions.
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Why Are By the Batch Personal Products Better?
This article describes the difficulties commercial producers of body care products have and the way the handmade soap and body care industries can offer solutions.
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Digital Photography Troubleshooting
Are you needing good digital photography of your handmade soap for brochures or festival applications? Here's a helpful article about getting it right.
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It’s that time of the year, and the horrible nasties are lying in wait! I wait all year for these warm days of summer (never mind that this summer has been uncomforWhat's In the Soap...Part 1..."Sweet Cheeks"
What do you wake up thinking about in the middle of the night? Soap addicts like myself admit, at least once in a while, to middle-of-the-night inspirations a