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    Brandied Pear

    I made 2 of these batches, and I added 28 g of Candlescience Brandied Pear Fragrance Oil to each batch. To one batch, I added Titanium Dioxide (about 3/4tsp), to give it a light ivory color. To the second batch, I added some honey, and a bit of cocoa powder to give it a more brown color. Added...
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    Coffee Recipe - Tellervo

    brew the coffee as per directions. Strain, and set out 1 tsp of the grounds (dry them out) melt oils and butters let the oils cool once coffee is frozen, add lye to it, and stir until it's dissolved back to the oils: add 2.5 tsp cocoa powder to the oils, and blend with an immersion blender in a...
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    Coffee and Irish Cream

    Can't remember where I got this recipe. Coffee and honey fragrance oil - 1.5 oz coffee, 0.5 oz honey Irish Cream - 1.5 oz, 0.5 oz honey 2.5 tsp kaolin clay - mix equal parts kaolin clay to FO and add this to the oils before the lye For the Irish Cream, add titanium dioxide (1tsp per lb of...
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    Gentle Shea - Redwood and Moss

    Spirulina and French Green Clay will (hopefully) help make this batch nice and green. Take out 3 tbsp of the oils, and add the spirulina (½ - ¾ tsp), and clay (4 ½ - 5 tsp), and mix these together. Add these at light trace. In order to get a nice dark green, don't use milks for liquid….water...
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    Rosemary Gel Soap

    Put rosemary in a container and add boiled distilled water. Let this steep Place 130g of fresh rosemary in a double boiler, or a glass container, and add 400g olive oil. Let this infuse for at least 6 hours on low heat Strain the rosemary infused oil, and measure out the given recipe amount...
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    Calendula, Honey, & Oat Milk Soap

    This recipe is from Tellervo. In this recipe, she used 600g total oil weight, and mine is 1800. So the following measurements have already been tripled. Calendula petals (45g) add to olive oil (900g), and blended with immersion blender. Place this in a double boiler, or crock pot, or whatever...
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    Gentle Shea

    This recipe is from the “Natural Soapmaking Handbook”, and I want to increase the hardness, so I will add 2tsp of salt, and I want to increase the bubbly, so I'll add 18g of honey.
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