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Silken Linen or Body Powder
This combination of ingredients make an excellent silky powder. 1/2 cup of arrowroot powder
Edible powder
Here is a recipe using vanilla and honey powder.
Arrowroot Powder:
The arrowroot plant tubers are dried, powdered and filtered. Arrowroot can be used as a thickener in cooking and it can be used interchangeably with Cornstarch. What makes Arrowroot good for body and linen powders is the look it gives to the other ingredients. Body powder made with arrowroot almost glows white, a wonderful look. An interesting note, Arrowroot was used by the South American people to heal the wounds made by poison arrows. |
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Lip Balm
56 grams Beeswax 70 grams Virgin Coconut Oil 42 grams Cocoa Butter 56 grams clear Jojoba 56 grams Sulfated Castor Flavor to taste
This is the best blend that I have tried. Melt all ingredients and heat in the microwave. Add flavor and pour into lip balm tube or lip balm pot. |
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Lip Gloss
57 grams Beeswax 57 grams Sweet Almond Oil 144 grams Castor oil 1/2 oz of honey Flavor to taste
You make this the same way you would for Lip Balm, but this is a much softer product that must be put into a pot as it is too soft to be in a tube. Melt all ingredients and heat in the microwave. Add flavor and pour into lip balm tube or lip balm pot. |
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Soothing Bath Tea
A soothing blend of herbs to sooth you. Try putting these herbs in a muslin bag or a cheesecloth bag and steep in your tub. 2 tablespoons lavender flowers 2 tablespoons chamomile flowers 2 tablespoons calendula petals 2 tablespoons peppermint leaves |
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Milk and Oatmeal Bath
A soothing scrub for troubled skin. Tie in a muslin or cheesecloth bag and rub skin while relaxing in a warm bath.
5 tablespoons ground oatmeal 2 tablespoons powdered milk 2 tablespoons chamomile flowers 30 drops lavender eo Mix all of the dry ingredients and drop lavender eo while blending the mixture. |
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Eo Splash
Use this splash after a shower or bath. 100 ml witch hazel 100 ml distilled water 50 ml alcohol 15 ml glycerin
1 teaspoon Polysorbate 20 (tween 20) 50 drops of your favorite eo blend.
The polysorbate 20 is used to blend the essential oils and water, and helps your eo’s last. Mix the eo’s and polysorbate and then add to the mixture of other ingredients. |
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Natural perfume oil
150 ml sweet almond oil 150 ml jojoba oil 30 ml eo or fragrance oil 30 ml polysorbate 20
Rub this on your pulse points for a personal fragrance. |
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Recipes
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Coloring Tip
Try infusing your oils in botanical matter for color. Alkanet has been used for centuries as lip coloring |
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All Veggy Shaving Soap
875 grams Palm oil 750 grams Coconut Oil 250 grams Castor Oil 125 grams Shea Butter 500 grams Olive Oil 358 grams Lye 903 grams Water 2 Tablespoons of Fullers Earth Fragrance to preference
Castor oil will make soap sticky, so make sure you line your molds. Make soap using your usual method. Add Fullers Earth at trace. |
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Kitchen Soap
5.5 tablespoons of Ground Coffee 936 grams Tallow 936 grams Coconut Oil 624 grams Olive 368 grams Lye 928 grams Water Fragrance to preference
Steep the coffee in your distilled water and strain through a coffee filter. Measure out 928 ml of water and use it in your recipe. Make soap using your usual method. |
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Traditional Shaving Soap
1540 grams Tallow 770 grams Coconut Oil 192 grams Lanolin 28 grams of Beeswax 355 grams Lye 896 grams Water 2 Tablespoons of Fullers Earth Fragrance to preference
Make soap using your usual method. Add Fullers Earth at trace. |
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Fullers Earth Soap
250 grams Olive Oil 750 grams Coconut Oil 1500 grams Tallow 1 1/2 cup of Bentonite or green clay Fragrance to preference
The soap is great for very oily skin, but avoid it if you have normal or dry skin, the clays will dry your skin. Make soap using your usual method. Add Fullers Earth at trace. |
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General Tips |
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Facial Masks
Clays can be used by themselves or with added ingredients as facial masks. If you are just using clay, you would mix it half and half with the liquid of your choice. Each clay has different properties which you may want to take into consideration when you are creating your masks. French Green Clay, like the Moroccan Red, is efficient at drawing oils from the skin. Use this clay for oily skin. Kaolin Clay (or China clay or white clay) is one of the mildest of all clays and can be used on even the most sensitive skin, and because it doesn’t draw oils from the skin it can be used on the driest skin types. This is clay is also used in face and linen powder. Pink clay is mild clay that can be used everyday without drying skin. If you will be selling your products and you want to keep as natural as possible you should just sell the dry clay with instructions, otherwise if you add your moisture to your clay you will have to use an acceptable preservative, which means a synthetic preservative. You can use these liquids for normal to dry skin: distilled, spring, or mineral water milk or cream honey vegetable glycerin floral hydrosols cooled herbal teas cold pressed oils essential oils: lavender, chamomile, rose geranium, jasmine, and patchouli. For oily or problem skin: yogurt buttermilk Apple cider vinegar witch hazel vodka honey orange flower water herbal vinegars aloe vera gel cooled herbal infusions essential oils for dry skin: rosemary, eucalyptus, peppermint, thyme, lemon verbena, cedarwood, petigrain, lemongrass, sage. essential oil for blemished acneic skin: eucalyptus, thyme, tea tree, juniper, cypress, pine, fir, and lemon. |
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Milk Soaps
There are several ways of making milk soaps, I have included two. Some things to remember when making a milk soap: Milk soaps will heat up so don’t use a light weight plastic mold. For the first week or more you milk soap may smell like ammonia, this is completely normal, it will disappear. Using canned milk
I was very lucky, I found some condensed goat milk. But you can use any canned condensed milk. I shorted my recipe by the amount of condensed milk I was going to use and added the canned goats milk at trace. Keep in mind that if you short your water, you trace will speed up, so be ready with all of your ingredients ahead of time. How to use goat milk powder
For cold process soap add 1-2 Tablespoon of goat milk powder per pound of oils in your recipe. Reserve some of the water from your recipe and add enough water to the goat milk powder to create a slurry or paste. Add the goat milk paste to your soap at light trace. |
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Clays
Clay gives soap a smooth creamy lather and can be used to dry oily skin or in a shaving soap. Clay can also be used as a natural colorant. Depending on the clay use it at a rate of 1 teaspoon to 1 Tablespoon per pound of soap.
Clay: Bentonite
Bentonite clay is commonly used in shaving soaps to make the razor slippery to avoid cuts to the skin.
Clay: French Green
French Green Clay, like the Moroccan Red, is efficient at drawing oils from the skin. Use this clay for oily skin.
Clay: Fullers Earth
Fullers earth has a type of silicone in it and makes the best clay to use when making a shaving soap. It is also a good facial clay for oily or scaly skin types. Add 1 Tablespoon per pound of soap
Clay: Kaolin
Kaolin Clay (or China clay or white clay) is one of the mildest of all clays and can be used on even the most sensitive skin, and because it doesn’t draw oils from the skin it can be used on the driest skin types. This is clay is also used in face and linen powder.
Clay: Moroccan Red
This clay is a strong cleansing clay that will draw oils from the skin, so it may not be a good idea to use this clay if you have normal to dry skin.
Clay: Pink
Pink clay is mild clay that can be used everyday without drying skin. You can also add a bit of this to your body powders to make a lovely pink body powder. |
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Non Greasy Hand and Body Lotion
36 grams Jojoba Oil 36 grams of another light Oil (we use sweet almond) 8 grams of stearic acid 8 grams of glycerin 2 grams citric acid 20 grams emulsifying wax NF fragrance or essential oil to preference 4 grams Germaben II
Heat all of the ingredients except the Germaben II and the fragrance, in stages using the microwave. Try not to over heat the lotion, the hotter it is the longer it takes to emulsify. Heat until the emulsifying wax just melts. Let the lotion cool mixing occasionally with a hand blender. When the lotion has cooled add the Germaben II and the fragrance. If you add the Germaben II too early it will lose some of it’s effectiveness due to the heat.
What the lotion ingredients are for: Light Oil: Our first assumption is that oil is the ingredient that moisturizes our skin. The real truth is that the water in lotion is the ingredient that adds moisture. The oil in lotion holds the moisture next to our skin. Think back to the commercial that put lotion onto a leaf. After a few minutes the leaf was soft and supple. Try that with oil Jojoba oil sinks into your skin very quickly, too quickly for lotion made with only jojoba oil to be able hold moisture to your skin for long. Jojoba oil is very similar to our bodies own natural oils. This makes Jojoba and excellent oil for lotions. Emulsifying wax surrounds the water molecule so that the oils will bind with the water Glycerin is a humicant. Humicants also help hold moisture to the skin. Vegetable Stearic Acid is a Citric Acid moves the ph of the lotion closer to the natural ph of your skin. Germaben II. Lotion is an |