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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have an excellent coffee scrub recipe!
I have an excellent coffee scrub recipe!
anyone into making their own beauty products? like soaps, oils, butters and what not?
i recently got into it...its cheaper...works better and its fun
lets trade some recipes
oooo please share onyx
i plan on mixing some jojoba oil, lavender oil, coconut oil and a little bit of tea tree oil with some sugar for a sugar scrub
have you gotten into any emulsifiers for water based products? i found some natural alternatives but i dunno how it will turn out
i also found a copycat miss jessies curly pudding recipe...might be trying that this weekend too
i plan on mixing some jojoba oil, lavender oil, coconut oil and a little bit of tea tree oil with some sugar for a sugar scrub
have you gotten into any emulsifiers for water based products? i found some natural alternatives but i dunno how it will turn out
i also found a copycat miss jessies curly pudding recipe...might be trying that this weekend too
Desire PLEASE post that copycat. Found a store up here not too long ago selling a tub of Miss Jessies for 60 bucks 
Where do you get your oils from?
(Dang didn't I just have this conversation)
Where do you get your oils from?
(Dang didn't I just have this conversation)
Desire PLEASE post that copycat. Found a store up here not too long ago selling a tub of Miss Jessies for 60 bucks
Where do you get your oils from?
(Dang didn't I just have this conversation)
yea i stopped buying that expensive shit...kinky curly too
the shea butter i made myself is just as good as carol's daughter...and a jar of that is $40
as far as the recipe...check out this video...there is a recipe in the link
as far as my essential oils...im still looking for a good place...i bought the ones i have now at sprouts...most wholefoods natural market kinda places have it...i bought coconut oil and sweet almond oil there tooo
i also found that my beauty supply store carried some oils too and they had tea tree oil, jojoba oil, a vitamin e oil
there are some places online but i think im gonna check out an aromatherapy spot.....the prices ive seen out and about havent been too different than what ive seen online
Thank you ma'am!
I'm still trying to find a spot where I can find some oils...based on what you said I think I'll keep looking physically instead of the 'nets. It's amazing what is so hard to find in a metropolis area
I'm still trying to find a spot where I can find some oils...based on what you said I think I'll keep looking physically instead of the 'nets. It's amazing what is so hard to find in a metropolis area
Thank you ma'am!
I'm still trying to find a spot where I can find some oils...based on what you said I think I'll keep looking physically instead of the 'nets. It's amazing what is so hard to find in a metropolis area
do you have a wholefoods? i would try there or any farmers market/organic type grocery store
google aromatherapy..there may be some specialty stores in your area
i also saw some oils (peppermint, patchouli, lavender, rosemary) at my local head (smoker) shop...they had some synthetic oils so you have to be careful when you are looking at a place like that
I just made a crap load of soaps lol. I was going to make them as gifts for clients but nah it gets messy. So I made a bunch for the fam.
I did a "Gardeners Soap"
with a shea butter base, tumeric, and chamomile/cajeput/myrrh essential oils and rice bran.
I actually made this for myself because I notice working in my yard would sometimes give me contact dermatitis. All the ingredients are anti-inflammatory. Wearing gloves and washing my hands with that soap has been working great.
I made a charcoal and lemongrass soap. I love charcoal soaps but they do stain your towels gray temporarily.
I also made one of my favorites- green tea and rice bran shea butter soap with Palmarosa and Seabuckthorne EO.
Made another one with pink kaolin clay and powdered acai berry.
That one is mainly just cute because it is pink.
Yeah, it's kind of fun but I don't have the love to do it on a regular basis or do a cold process or all that soap head stuff.
I love "gourmet" soaps though. I buy a lot from etsy!
I just bought some raw coco butter. I do some salves and creams for pain, massage, etc.
I did a "Gardeners Soap"
with a shea butter base, tumeric, and chamomile/cajeput/myrrh essential oils and rice bran.
I actually made this for myself because I notice working in my yard would sometimes give me contact dermatitis. All the ingredients are anti-inflammatory. Wearing gloves and washing my hands with that soap has been working great.
I made a charcoal and lemongrass soap. I love charcoal soaps but they do stain your towels gray temporarily.
I also made one of my favorites- green tea and rice bran shea butter soap with Palmarosa and Seabuckthorne EO.
Made another one with pink kaolin clay and powdered acai berry.
That one is mainly just cute because it is pink.
Yeah, it's kind of fun but I don't have the love to do it on a regular basis or do a cold process or all that soap head stuff.
I love "gourmet" soaps though. I buy a lot from etsy!
I just bought some raw coco butter. I do some salves and creams for pain, massage, etc.
I just made a crap load of soaps lol. I was going to make them as gifts for clients but nah it gets messy. So I made a bunch for the fam.
I did a "Gardeners Soap"
with a shea butter base, tumeric, and chamomile/cajeput/myrrh essential oils and rice bran.
I actually made this for myself because I notice working in my yard would sometimes give me contact dermatitis. All the ingredients are anti-inflammatory. Wearing gloves and washing my hands with that soap has been working great.
I made a charcoal and lemongrass soap. I love charcoal soaps but they do stain your towels gray temporarily.
I also made one of my favorites- green tea and rice bran shea butter soap with Palmarosa and Seabuckthorne EO.
Made another one with pink kaolin clay and powdered acai berry.
That one is mainly just cute because it is pink.
Yeah, it's kind of fun but I don't have the love to do it on a regular basis or do a cold process or all that soap head stuff.
I love "gourmet" soaps though. I buy a lot from etsy!
I just bought some raw coco butter. I do some salves and creams for pain, massage, etc.
wow i really like that "gardners soap" im gonna make a version of that for my mom
did you make that in a bar or liquid?
also..i love ur pink soap! i may have to try that too!
has anyone tried to make hair gel from flaxseeds? how did it turn out?
Izzy need to drop instructions 
There are some around here but they are like 30 min to an hour from where I live. Damn I hate the ghetto.
There's a farmers market near me though, I'm trying to find some time to go check it out. June is so not a good month...
There are some around here but they are like 30 min to an hour from where I live. Damn I hate the ghetto.
There's a farmers market near me though, I'm trying to find some time to go check it out. June is so not a good month...
I should clarify, I used real tumeric powder not tumeric essential oil. It turned the soap a buttery yellow. I used a SLS free shea butter base from http://www.elementsbathandbody.com/. I melted the shea butter over a double boiler and then spooned some of the melted base in a seperate container and stirred in the tumeric. If you just try to drop the tumeric or most powders into the warm base it clumps so you separate a little, stir it, then pour it back it (kind of like mixing cornstarch and water to thicken sauce). I did the same thing for mixing in the pink clay,acai powder, and charcoal.
Once the base cools enough you add the essential oils. I wanted the rice bran only on one side of the soap so I lined the soap molds with rice bran and poured the shea base on top. It made a nice bar. I think it could work as a liquid (minus the bran). You would just need a liquid base. The bar bases harden when they get cold.
I tried the flax gel but it was too annoying for me, and I didn't want to fool around with preservatives.
Legacy Infinity is more the queen of home made hair care products. Shoot her a pm.
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You know I was wondering when that chick was gonna pop in here...
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You know I was wondering when that chick was gonna pop in here...
LI is still knee deep in those crazy coon ass color wars on the boys side.Pray for her.
LI is still knee deep in those crazy coon ass color wars on the boys side.Pray for her.
rofllmao
I got sick i was laughing so hard at this.
I came in and looked at this thread but .... i was just thinking i'd put enough stuff up here. I didn't need to...... i dunno....redo it.
Black Soap Recipe
You're going to need a table, flat table for your molds, so you can pour the soap mixture into them.
3 full coconut husks, 7 plantain skins, 7 cocoa pods, 1/2lb shea bark, 4 cups water, 1 cup natural shea butter, 2cups Oatmeal RAW, 2 sprigs of aloe plant, 2 tblspoons palm oil, 1tblspn apricot oil
Hand Press, Double Boiler, Bowl, Buckets for curing, just storage buckets. strainer
1 Press the coconut husks in a hand press to extract oil.
2 Burn the plantain skins, cocoa pods and shea bark to ash.
3 Mix the ash with water in the bowl, and pour through the strainer into the double boiler.
4 Add the oils and glycerin to the double boiler and cook over low heat.
5 Stir the mixture until smooth. It has to no have bumps or lumps.
6 When it's smooth add in the oatmeal, and shea butter, aloe oil. Let this cook for another 15 min.
7 Scoop hot soap off the surface of mixture when it begins to rise to the surface, and leave it to cool.
9 Pour the cooled wax into the mold of your choice and leave to sit until hard.
10 Leave the hardened soap to cure for two weeks.
Black Soap Shampoo
-16oz of distilled water
-1/2 lb african black soap
-1/2 lb shea butter
- 2tblsp jojoba oil
- 2tblsp coconut oil
-4oz extra virgin olive oil
-1/4lb vegetable glycerin
- 10 drops rosemary essential oil
-6 drops tea tree essential oil
1. Fill a plastic containor with distilled water and crumble pieces of black soap into it. Note that the more pieces you put in will turn out a thicker consistency of shampoo.
2. Leave in cool dry place for 24 hours.
3. After the wait the black soap should be dissolved and the water more thicker. Give it a stir and continue to add 2tbsp of jojoba oil, coconut oil, olive oil, 3 tbsp of glycerin, 10 drops of rosemary and 6 drops tea tree oil.
4. Give it one last stir and pour into an empty shampoo bottle you can adjust ingredients depending on your bottle size and hair type.
This is the best soap in the universe. And i believe in energy. And good energy you put into things YOU Make. Which is also why i believe in cooking your own food for your family, using as many natural products as you can. Everything you touch, and think about you impart with your energy.
Including soap. Handmade, you're putting the good things of this soap...along with your love energy for your family to use.
The real.........GOOD ingredient in the soap is the shea of course. Shea is a super product. You can use it to cook with as well. Shea oil, unrefined is very healthy.
You can put it on cuts, it's a natural inflammatory. If you're a new mama and you got stretch marks? Shea, Cocoa, and Shark fin oil....Stretch marks GONE.
I did a post somewhere on here about the different oils i use...i'll find it in a bit.
i have been beliving this for a long time but i only have taken the step recently to start making my own stuff
i would love to try that black soap but all those ingredients look intimating!! id hate to go thru all that and the soap turn out bad
is the homemade version just as good as the kind i can buy at the bss? if so i may buy a bar just to try it...then ill make it
im doing a crap load of research on all the different oils, clays and butters
do u have any personal favorites other than the black soap?
That's very Daoist of you LI. I believe that to a large extent too. I do homemade/natural first if possible. I don't down other methods as I do resort to them for things I don't have a good handle on or ingredients I don't want to mess with, or sheer efficacy. Otherwise a lot of basic things you can do. The second is to try to support small batch and individual artisans. I always feel like those things have better energy. That's why I order from etsy too much.
It's nice to support people actually putting some love into a product.I order my black soap from a lady on etsy and yes it is very good! It works as good as a medicated soap I was paying almost 30.00 a bar for. I wouldn't touch that black soap at the beauty supply store Desire. There are a lot of bad, mass produced brands. Onyx mentioned it in another thread about the fake me out brands out there.
i have been beliving this for a long time but i only have taken the step recently to start making my own stuff
i would love to try that black soap but all those ingredients look intimating!! id hate to go thru all that and the soap turn out bad
is the homemade version just as good as the kind i can buy at the bss? if so i may buy a bar just to try it...then ill make it
im doing a crap load of research on all the different oils, clays and butters
do u have any personal favorites other than the black soap?
No ma'am. Cocoa Butter, Shea butter, different oils is pretty much all i use. It works. Goat milk for my hair someitmes because i got that messed up cubana crap texture hair. And avacados. I have an avacado tree, nothing better than stuff you use as food and hair care! lol
If you follow the directions perfectly it'll come out fine. Don't fudge on the first try. Get everything i wrote there and work it and you'll have your soap. I get mine from this woman who's a naturalist here in town. She comes to my shop and i let her sell her goods and services there.
I only make my own during the summers when the kids are gone.
That's very Daoist of you LI. I believe that to a large extent too. I do homemade/natural first if possible. I don't down other methods as I do resort to them for things I don't have a good handle on or ingredients I don't want to mess with, or sheer efficacy. Otherwise a lot of basic things you can do. The second is to try to support small batch and individual artisans. I always feel like those things have better energy. That's why I order from etsy too much.
I order my black soap from a lady on etsy and yes it is very good! It works as good as a medicated soap I was paying almost 30.00 a bar for. I wouldn't touch that black soap at the beauty supply store Desire. There are a lot of bad, mass produced brands. Onyx mentioned it in another thread about the fake me out brands out there.
Nah i'm practical, i don't make everything homemade. I just try too. And they do have better energy. People don't realize how much energy they put out. How connected we are to the spirit realms and are just cut off from them.
I've been involved in santeria and candomble for quite sometime. When i went to africa i learned more about our natural religious beliefs. we miss out on alot being americans.
I agree we do miss out on a lot. I think that is why so many of us are so untethered spiritually and emotionally.
i have to agree with you...shea and coco butter is the TRUTH...have u tried mango butter...ive read such good things about mangoes
so i tried my all natural curly custard with flaxseed oil
i used about 4 tablespoons of carier oils (jojoba, coconut, sweet almond) and 4 tablespoons of shea
i eyeballed it and thought i was using the same amount of flaxseed gel to the oil/butter
oh and i added some lethichin
i beat the shit out of it until it was like cakebatter consistency...then it started getting really gross...it was like ribbons of shea butter in the gel
i added more lethicin and it ended up with the consistency of icing...little to dense for what i wanted
i used it the next day in a wash and go...it set the curls kinda ok but it was greasy...im gonna try again with alot more flaxseed gel
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