Hello friends
This is my first week at home due to my pregnancy… it’s a pleasure stay at home… actually it’s a little strange to have so much spare time… No panic… let’s see how I can use this spare time in excess!
In my honest opinion the best way to use the time is doing something we like. And I like making home made things, baking and trying new ideas and make some mess!
For this reason I took my hold block notes in which I wrote all my DIY ideas in the past few months and I pick one of these ideas: home made soap.
I had this idea few months ago while I was looking for an original gift for some of my friends. These friends really enjoy natural and hand made cosmetics.
So I decided to make home made soaps and put in these a bit of my origins and a lot of fantasy!
What I need and How I Made It
For all the projects shown below we need only:
- Base soap (bought on Amazon 1 Kg for € 12,25);
- Essential oils, spices, coffee, food coloring (actually you can use almost everything you want);
- Molds.
The process is super easy and similar for all the projects:
- first of all I put my oils, spicy herbs or coffee inside the molds;
- I melted the base soap in the microwave l
- I put the melted soap in the molds;
- I let them dry and that’s it. My soaps are ready to use or to be packaged.
Let’s see what I’ve done
Home made soap with Tuscan EVO oil and aromatic herbs
Everyone know the benefits fo oil on the skin. For my first project I decided to use Extra Virgin Oil directly form Tuscany and some rosemary took directly from my balcony.
Here my result
In this second projects I choose castor oil and mint leaves the mint was from my balcony as well.
Here the result
Some tips about castor oil and sweet almonds oil.
First of all if you decided to buy them choose organic ones with only one ingredient (castor or sweet almonds oil) and prefer the ones cold pressed.
Castor oil is excellent for hair, brow and eyelashes growth and health. You can put some drops of castor oil on your eyelashes and eyebrow before sleeping for a natural growth. You can also use castor oil added to olive oil for an hair mask before the shampoo (pay attention you should be really patient because is a little a long job to remove all the oils from the hairs, if you are in hurry don’t apply this mask)
The most famous benefit of almonds oil is its ability to be super moisturizing and at the same time extremely gentle on the skin. In fact you can use sweet almonds oil during your pregnancy for prevent stretch marks on your belly. It is recommended also for newborn skin hydration: you can put few drop in the bath for a gently hydration, you can also use it for baby massages. At last but not least sweet almonds oil is a great natural make up remover and it working well also for remove the water proof make up.
Coffee soap
Some months ago i read something about the ability to caffeine to fight cellulite. Indeed coffee is one of ingredient in a lot of anti cellulite cream.
In addition of this great ability to fight fat and cellulite, I think that the smell of coffee is wonderful, so I decided to make my personal Coffee Soap
Here the results
Guests Soap
In addition of the soap shown below I used the residual melted soap for making some tiny soap bars (a kind of guests soap). I used the same ingredients of previous projects or I used food coloring for making little colored bars of soap.
Here the results
I hope you enjoied this post. Let me know if you like these ideas and if you have any suggestions for your Home Made soap bars.
That’s all for today!
Stay Tuned!
Tricks in this post: 1. Home made Soap Bar with oils and aromatic herbs and spices; 2. Home made Coffee flavored Soap Bar
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