Sweet Potato Soap

Sweet potatoes are a nutritionally rich food. They are loaded with

Vitamin C, High in Calcium, Potassium, and Beta-carotene

which converts to Vitamin A in your body.

 Because Sweet Potatoes have a high level of Vitamin A and beta-carotene it is a super food for your skin.

It got me thinking about making a Sweet Potato Soap!

For this soap I used:

Cocoa Butter

Coconut Oil

Grapeseed Oil

Olive Oil

Palm Oil

Sunflower Oil

Beeswax\

Lard

 Tallow

Sodium Hydroxide

Arizona rain water

Titanium Dioxide 

Pureed Sweet Potatoes

Greek Yogurt

and Rice Flower & Shea Type Fragrance Oil.

Cut the next day

ValerieAnn

Creamy Carrot Soap

I have been wanting to make a carrot soap for sometime now.
I was wanting to use organically grown carrots. Knowing
an acquaintance of mine was growing her own carrots, I asked

  if she wouldn't mind sparing a few. 
Many thanks to her generosity!

I was so excited to get these babies in a puree!

I peeled them, 

(each carrot was as long as one of my fingers)

cut them into small slices, and added them to a small pot with some water, and let them cook away.

I ran them through our Ninja and pressed then through a fine mesh strainer.

And here is the puree!

You may be saying: wow....that is not much for all that work!

well, you are right! 

But....all I wanted to put in my soap

recipe was about 2-3 oz. This is 3.1 ounces of fresh

organic carrots!

I also put in some Greek Yogurt.

It made my soap a perfect color.

I took out about 12 oz of the soap batter and

added some Titanium Dioxide to it to lighten

it up a bit. 

I was going for a two toned creamed orange look.

All was going well.

I poured the bulk of the soap batter in the bottom half of my soap mold.

I then placed in melt & pour curls.

(I made the melt & pour from scratch)

I was pouring in the 12 ounces of the lighter batter

on top 

when I remember I forgot one important thing:

THE FRAGRANCE OIL! Yikes!

Honestly.....how many of you have done that? sheesh-louise!

Where was my head?! LoL

I didn't think I had much choice here, so I slowly poured in

the fragrance oil (with the soap IN the mold) and gently stirred it all in.

Sigh.....so much for it turning out the way you wanted

it to!

The curls were now moved, and I was not sure how that was going to look.

The two color was now just about....one color.

I have to admit, I was not totally unhappy with this soap!

You never know what might or might not happen, and

You never know what you will or will not get when you are soaping.

But.....it is all good!

ValerieAnn

Quinoa

Quinoa

Quinoa (pronounce: Keen-Wa) is a wonderful grain chalk full of protein, has more calcium than milk, and is a great source of iron, phosphorus, B vitamins and E!

Quinoa satisfies you more and provides lots of energy than white rice and white pasta. The reason being it digest slower.

After a big meal of white bread, rice, and pasta you can 

have a warm happy satisfied feeling. The reason is your metabolism is running high.

After awhile you start to feel that sleepy don't want to move feeling. 

This is the result of eating simply carbohydrates. They turn into sugar, get your motor going, and then you run out of steam.

  

  Unlike simple carbohydrates which break down easily into sugars, complex carbohydrate burns and digest slower, and helps control and stabilize blood-sugar levels. 

Some complex carbohydrates are high in fiber and protein:

Kidney beans, Lentils, Navy beans, Pinto bean, Split Peas, and....Quinoa.

I have been trying to eat Quinoa, again, the last few weeks. I have been searching

for recipes that include Quinoa and have found a number of them. 

One recipe I found is: 

popped quinoa and cheesy eggs

serves one

1/2 cup cooked Quinoa

2 ounces cheese, sliced thin

2 eggs

sea salt

Spray skillet and heat to medium high. Add quinoa and cook for several minutes, until it begins to crisp and pop. Make two wells in the Quinoa, crack eggs into wells. Top with cheese slices and continue to cook a few minutes. Cover with lid for an additional minute or so, to cook the egg and melt the cheese. Salt to taste.

Tip: Rinse Quinoa in hot water, or soak for 20 minutes, then rinse to get rid of the bitter taste.

I found this recipe at: Spebettie.com by Kristina  

The brand of Quiona I buy is:

Thanks for stopping by

ValerieAnn

What do I put in my Lotion Bars

Lotion Bar 

Available:

Tangerine 2

Lemongrass 10

Oatmeal Milk & Honey 5 

Ingredients

Olive Oil, which is rich in mono-unsaturated fats, anti-inflammatory agents, ormeg-3 fatty acids, and antioxidants. Has healing qualities, but also has a natural, deep penetration moisturizer. 

Coconut Oil,  Coconut oil can be used as a skin moisturizer, helping with dry skin. 

Sweet Almond Oil, is a good on the skin as an emollient, is rich in vitamins A, D, and E. Contains linoleic and oleic acids. It also has emollient qualities, which softens and soother your skin. Because of it's lower level of omega 6 and 9 it is less greasy and absorbs into the skin wonderfully.  Your skin is allowed to benefit from the nutrients in this oil.

Sunflower Oil, can retain moisture in the skin, and has a high content of natural Vitamin E oil. 

 Shea Butter, enough can not be said about Shea Butter. It has healing qualities, contains vitamins A and E. There is evidence to suggest that cinnamic acid esters in  Shea fat help to prevent skin damage from he ultraviolet radiation. 

Cocoa Butter,  has soothing, moisturizing, and emollient qualities. It is one of the most stables fats known and has natural antioxidants that can prevent rancidity.

Cocoa butter can quickly and easily be absorbed by the skin, able 

to penetrate  deep into the dermis layer, just beneath the epidermis 

(the top layer of the skin), where it has the ability to hold onto moisture. Because of this cocoa butter also makes it easier for damaged skin to be repaired. The skin has to be hydrated for the body to grow new skin and Cocoa butter has the ability to do this. 
Vitamin E Oil, Vitamin E Oil promotes healing. It is a strong antioxidants that prevent premature aging.

ValerieAnn

Natural Soaps for sale

Soaps for sale

Sunrise Soap

Available for sale: 1

The creative side in me wanted to make a soap that I had never made before.  I had this design in my mind

for sometime. What inspired me was the fragrance oil I was going to use.

Ingredients:

Coconut Oil

Castor Oil

Grapeseed Oil

Sunflower Oil

Olive Oil

Sodium Hydroxide

Rain Water

Mica's for color

Rise & Shin Fragrance Oil

Tuscan Rain Soap

Available for sale: 2  1

This soap came about out of a disappointment in a well loved fragrance oil, Feliz Navidad from Bramble Berry, that was reformulated to meet new RIFM standards.

It was back to the drawing board and this is what I came up with.

The scent is not what it was when I first started  using it, but just as awesome as it's predecessor. 

Ingredients:

Cocoa Butter

Coconunt Oil

Refined Shea Butter

Sunflower Oil

Lard

Sodium Hydroxide

Rain Water

For color: Clove powder, Titanium Dioxide

Fragrance oil: Feliz Navidad

Autumn comfort Soap

Available for sale: 5 2

This is a pretty natural soap. The scent is almost non-existent. If you have trouble with scents being too strong, this may be for you.

Ingredients:

Cocoa Butter 

Cocnnut Oil

Shea Butter

Sunflower Oil

Lard

Sodium Hydroxide

Rain Water

Color: Pumpkin Pie Spice

brown mica

Fragrance: Pumpkin Patch

Rainy Day Melon Soap

Available:  2 1

This soap was made with Parsley Infused Sunflower Oil for the color. 

I also used a new homemade mold, which was an old drawer from and Antique sewing machine.

Ingredients:

Sweet Almond Oil

Cocoa Butter

Cottonseed Oil

Olive Oil

Shea Butter

Beeswax

Sodium Hydroxide

Rain Water

Color: Parsley Infused into Oil

Titanium Dioxide

Fragrance: Cucumber Melon

Orange Cream Cake Soap

Available: 3  2

This was the second cake that I  ever made. I just had fun!

Ingredients:

Sweet Almond Oil

Cocoa Butter

Coconut Oil

Grapeseed Oil

Olive OIl

Sunflower Oil

Sodium Hydroxide

Distilled Water

Coloring: Tangerine pigment

Titanium Dioxide

Fragrance: Orange Essence Oil

Lotion Bars

Follow this link for ingredients in my lotion bars.

Prices

Update: these soaps are no longer available.

ValerieAnn

Soaps, lotions, lotion bars, creams, & lip balms soon for sale.

This has been a very busy week getting together an order for a customer wanting my Shea Butter all Natural Lotion. 

I also made some Lotion Bars. At this time the scents that I have for the Lotion Bars are: 'Oatmeal Milk & Honey, and Lemongrass.

I made two different kinds of Lip Balm. 

Both are enriched with Sweet Almond Oil, Shea Butter, Beeswax, and Cocoa Butter. 

One is called: Honey Butter

It has Honey flavored oil in it that I purchased from 

Thesage.com

The other Lip Balm is called: E Butter. 

It has extra added Vitamin E Oil, and no added flavoring in it.

I had everything made and labeled by Thursday!

I make everything here in my home, and I sell my products 

locally. 

Over the last 6 months I have had numerous request to post what I sell. So I am taking pictures of what I have left in stock, and I am going to post them for those who have been requesting this post. 

Here are the prices of what I sell. The only items not on there is my 'Shea Butter All Natural Lotion: sells for $3.50 a jar, and my Lip Balm, which sells for $2.50 each.

To see the ingredients I use in my soaps and lotions, there will be a link soon.

Have a great weekend! 

ValerieAnn