from Nancy
Three Friends a'Craftin

Here is my favorite castile recipe:
74 oz olive oil
6 oz coconut oil
6 oz palm oil
11.5 lye
24 oz distilled water
Oils at 140, lye at 110
At trace add whatever additives/eo's/fo's/etc. that you desire.

Nancy's glazed soaps

Angie's Chocolate Covered Cherry Soap

Kae's Famous Almondoolah Soap

Angie's Yummy Cocoa Butter Soap Recipe

10 oz. Coconut Oil
14.5 oz. Palm Kernel or Palm Oil
8 oz. Cocoa Butter (the yummy chocolately kind)
20 oz. Olive Oil
1 oz. Sweet Almond Oil
I emailed Angie; here is the amount of lye needed for this recipe. ;-)
amount of lye needed is 7.16 oz. wt. It's superfatted at 7%.

Let water/lye solution cool to 98 F

Melt together coconut, palm, and cocoa butter on stove top. When melted remove from stove and add the olive oil. Stir well, and set aside to cool to 98 F.

Combine water/lye with oils and stir to trace. At trace add your 1 oz. sweet almond oil.

This makes a delicious soap. Smells sooooo good. Chocolately and yummy. Add a little Bitter Orange EO or some Cherry FO for a great smelling bar of soap that you'll want to pick up and eat instead of bathe with!

June's Vaniladula

595.51 grams Calendula infused sunflower oil
453.7 grams Coconut oil
396.91 grams Palm oil
113 grams Shea butter
585 milliliters Texas rain water
221.45 grams lye
temps: 100 degrees for oils and lye water.
mixed in 3 chopped vanilla beans heated in oil and strained. Also forgot to add that I used 2 tsp. of Robbie Poo’s annatto seeds for coloring.

June's Spicy Ginger

595.51 grams Sunflower oil
453.7 grams Coconut oil
396.91 grams Palm oil
113 grams Shea butter
585 milliliters Texas rain water
221.45 grams lye
temps: 100 degrees for oils and lye water.
Took part of the water for the lye; and put a large hand of fresh ginger (peeled) in the blender. Warmed this ginger water and added it when I mixed the oils and lye water. Also put in about a tsp. of powdered cornsilk; just to see what it would do???? Seemed to color the soap brown. I mixed the cornsilk with the remainder of the lye water. I added cinnamon and 4 tsp.’s of sugar. The sugar seemed to work for making more bubbles; but will continue to test it.

Paiges Favorite Soap Base

30 oz coconut oil
30 oz palm kernal oil
30 oz olive oil
1 1/2 tsp stearic
2 T borax
13.5 oz lye
10 oz ice into lye
24 oz condensed Goats Milk (very cold actually partially frozen)

Heat up oils, add ice to lye watch temp, it should not heat up much due to the Ice...add cold milk to lye and when oils are at 90 blend lye GM into oils. Stir to trace Add eo's or fo's and whatever else you want. Hint try to have the oils ready to blend in the lye as soon as you get the milk into the lye/ice mix.
This sets up and is ready to cut in 1 1/2 hrs!

Paiges Tansy Goats milk Castile
Olive oil....30 oz
Palm Kernal oil...12 oz
Coconut Oil...6 oz
Stearic 1/2 tsp
Borax 1 tsp
lye 6.62 to 6.84
18 oz liquid...(I used 9 Tansy infused water and 9 oz Condensed Goats Milk *Ice cold)

Blend oils & heat to just below 100 lye and water (chill to below 100 then add ice cold milk whisking into lye mixture. Immediately add into oils. stir to trace and add ea of the following eo's 100 drops Pepper, rosemary, Basil, Nutmeg, Lavender
150 drops of lemon
50 drops of Eucalyptus
This is one of my favorite scented soaps!

K.I.S.S. Lotion bars

1 part beeswax
1 part oil (can be sunflower, olive, almond etc)
1 part butter (cocoa, shea, mango, shealoe)

Melt beeswax; add oil and butters. When all are melted; pour into molds or deoderant containers.
To use a lotion bar; just rub on skin.
Play around with amounts; add more beeswax for harder bars. More oils for softer bars. You can use part shea and part mango; mix your butters the way you want. Also add any fo's or eo's that you want. HAVE FUN

Kelly Reno Jelly Jar Room Scents
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Knox Jelly Jar Scents
Creator unknown??

2 envelopes knox gelatin (envelopes, not boxes)
2 cups of distilled water
1 teaspoon EO or FO
1 oz vodka

Put 1 cup water plus vodka in a bowl sprinkle gelatin over water heat 1 cup of water to boiling, pour into gelatin mix divide the tsp of scent among the containers (I use glass votives, sherbet glasses, etc. Some people use the small jelly jars. Anything made of glass would work.)
Pour gelatin mix into containers Let sit uncovered in a cool spot until set (Some people put in frig uncovered for a couple of hours--you're milk will end up smelling like the EO if you do.)
You can tint the jellies with food coloring, if you like.
Cover each containter tightly with plastic wrap until you're ready to use.

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