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Well it's that time of year again where we're all using lip balm! So of course what am I to do but make another batch of my Alaska grown lip balm. This lip balm is made using sweet almond oil infused with Alaskan rose petals and Alaskan fireweed flowers. It also contains Alaska grown beeswax...

Its been awhile since I posted in the group but I figured this was worth posting! Gifts from the garden! Last spring I decided to start some calendula flowers when I started my garden veggies. I talked to my mom and she agreed to grow the flowers in one of her flower beds. And today I turned...

I know I haven't been on here in a while but I have a new idea for a soap. I canned up my experimental carrots that I grew this year. One of my experimental carrots is the black nebula carrot that I got seeds for from Baker Creek heirloom seed company. These carrots are a very dark purple/black...

So a friend of mine was telling me that her boyfriend has eczema and/or psoriasis and that she wanted to make a Devil's Club salve to help him out. I have a couple of other friends and coworkers that suffer from the same thing. So I suggested that I teach her to make a pine tar soap for him to...

Since I started making handcrafted soaps I realized I didn't have any soap dishes in my house. And really didn't like the soap just sitting on the edge of the sink. But I didn't want just an ordinary cheap Walmart soap dish for my handcrafted soaps. So I decided to go with a friend and his niece...

Guess I should have done this earlier, but what the heck I'll do it now. My name is Chris and I live in Alaska on the beautiful Kenai Peninsula. I have so many hobbies the list of what I don't do is probably shorter. But I love making things especially using Alaska grown or Alaska harvested...

So I have a friend who designs/prints all my labels for me. And he does an amazing job. I buy the blanks give him some ideas and he designs/prints them out. So when he made my wine bottle labels this year for my homemade wines he suggested I use a book of the proper height to help me line the...

A buddy's kids have been begging me to come over and make some more bath bombs with them. I made bath bombs with them once before and they really really enjoyed them. We had trouble aligning our schedules and so they bought the kids some bath bombs from The Box store and apparently some of those...