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I usually work with oxides, ultramarines, and clays for coloring my soap. Now my niece has asked me to make two types of soap as guest gifts for her upcoming wedding in April. Her husband's bath will be royal blue, which I think I can do with what I have on hand, but my niece has her heart set...

In my spam today, up popped this, supposedly written by a doctor on a website called healthydirections.com and I have to vent : "(intro)......Instead, you can make your own natural, homemade sunscreen out of vitamin C powder. Vitamin C plays a potent role in diminishing the effects of...

I'm looking for wooden soap dishes, soap saver bags, luffas, manicure and back brushes, etc as accessories to my soap. I used to be able to get a wide variety of these products from Soapania in VA. Since the embargo on trade with China and now covid and supply chain problems, they are out of...

Equal amounts of Portland cement powder, peat moss and perlite or vermiculite. Water. Optional colorants. Recycled cardboard boxes, take out containers, plastic bowls, anything that's the size you want to make...mix it to thick mud consistency (holds its shape but doesn't ooze liquid). You can...

I got an email from a guy - I recognized his name and looked him up in my records - he bought some shaving soap from me a couple of years ago, so yes, he's a customer but not a regular. He claims to have a big Instagram following and he proposed posting product pics and testimonial in exchange...

I lived in Italy for 20+ years and pasta is a fall-back for when we're in a hurry for dinner. This is a variation on the olive oil/garlic/parmesan late night standby: Heat the oven to 450 F and put on a pot of salted water to boil. Cut up a head of cauliflower into itty bitty pieces - you want...

During the pandemic, my sales have diminished so I've been ordering less from my usual suppliers. I finally needed to order some packaging and discovered that SKS is out of stock of so much it's scary. I set several "alert me" notifications for various products. I got an "in stock" notification...

I've been in business for thirteen years and had a website up for eight years but most of my sales have been at farmers markets and festivals. With the pandemic I've had to rely on web sales and I finally realized how outdated my website was! Now that we're working on updating it, I've also...

Does anyone make or use "micelle water" for facial cleansing as a leave-on product? I just heard the term today, someone on Twitter from the UK was saying that they made it with 50/50 glycerin and water, with a few drops of an oil added. I was wondering if that is approximately the formula for...

I made a shaving soap with my baseball soap scent blend (earlier this year I made felted round soaps and embroidered them with baseball stitching): it's supposed to be reminiscent of the smells I associate with baseball like fresh dirt, grass, leather, wood. But I need a name for it. Baseball...

I was shopping on Amazon for face shields yesterday. There are lots of low-cost options that are basically a sheet of plastic attached to a strip of foam to hold it to your forehead in front and an elastic band around the head. There's a more elaborate version that has an extension piece that...

A victim of the pandemic, Sugarloaf Craft Shows is closing. One of my friends who sold his paintings at their shows told me that they've had to declare bankruptcy. h ttps://sugarloafcrafts.com/ (take out the space in https) I always had my own things going on when they had their shows so I...

The saga continues...at the beginning of the summer I made some self-watering planters out of all of my 5 gallon coconut oil pails. I planted a variety of the tomato seedlings that our farmer's market neighbor vendors were selling - some heritage, some not, one cherry, one plum type...a variety...

A good farmer's market customer place a big order since we're not doing markets this year. She knew I'd made some limited edition felted baseball soaps and she got two for her boys. When the package was delivered, it had a huge hole in the side! Weirdly, only the two baseball soaps and a salt...

I mailed an order to Spain in April, and it still hasn't arrived. The customer has been very patient but is getting antsy. Air traffic is down and I imagine that postal employees both here and in Spain have been hard hit by the virus. I read that some postal shipments are going by sea. His...

For years I have been buying from Soapania in Virginia: wooden soap dishes, back brushes, luffas, soap bags, etc for resale. Their stuff comes from China and since last fall they have been gradually running out of stock. They have never been good about answering their phone or responding to...

This is a question for the beekeepers: I had built a hugelkultur raised garden bed: lots of logs at the bottom of the raised beds walled with cement blocks and covered with compost/soil/cardboard/etc. Long story short, last summer I removed the blocks and now am digging the soil away, to enrich...

I've been using the WSP Crystal Clear which is clear but it tends to cloud after a couple of weeks, and I wondered if there's a better alternative? I use it for embeds and the clarity is important. I also think that the Crystal Clear doesn't create abundant lather.

I just got an unsolicited email that raised my blood pressure to the danger zone. I don't know how the heck I got on this mailing list but the website is over-the-top self-promotion and breaking FDA regulations. Apparently this stuff (goat's milk soaps and creams) cures everything from diabetic...

Does anyone here know a lot about pruning tomatoes? I bought several different types of tomatoes at our farmer's market and while Youtubing looking for growing tips, I discovered that there are determinate and indeterminate tomatoes and you're not supposed to prune the determinate kind but you...