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| Buttercup and Babycakes |
Well, the holidays are over and the fairy dust is settling.
The soap kitchen has been bustling as in late November I made my first batch of
Rose Body Butter. Today I made batch #4, as it has been the most popular single
product I've made. I guess we're all dry and itchy this winter.
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| Melting Shea butter |
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| Beginning to whip body butter |
Ingredients: Sweet almond oil, beeswax,
coconut oil, water, Shea butter, sodium borate, beet root, madder root and
essential oil.
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| Yummy, Yummy |
What I've learned about making body
butter is that the recipe must be put together in a particular order for the
final product to be smooth and creamy. This is a very heavy moisturizer that
initially feels greasy but will penetrate the skin within about fifteen
minutes. It will leave the most desiccated skin velvety soft.
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| Lots of fun inside |
This is a photo of Bechard's Botanicals
convenient "Browse and Sniff Box". It's stuffed full of soaps and
skin care creations that I deliver to potential clients. They get to keep the
free surprise gift inside and shop at home in their leisure time. It's been a
big hit for local customers.
Aside from making out-of-stock soaps,
the latest production for our little business is "Dream Pillows".
Sweet husband and I have worked on this in fits and starts and have decided to
set all else aside the next week and get some of these ready and on the
website. Tomorrow is the day the first model will be ready for testing. Last
summer I grew a lot of mugwort that I've dried, cleaned and bagged. I have some
swatches of fabric cut and ready to sew. As luck would have it, my
mother-in-law taught her son the fine art of sewing. I didn't fully appreciate
his talents until a few years ago when he was making his own designed kites.
Working with that slippery stuff would have made me barmy, but he completed
several projects perfectly. He loves it when I tell him to go fly a kite!
Maybe by next week we can put the Dream
Pillows on the website. Check out our soap making videos at
bechardsbotanicals.com.
Your package arrived in good condition and timely. I am so excited to try your soaps. Love, love the rose butter. It smells wonderful!
ReplyDeleteCrybaby followed me from the front door and through the apartment until I sat down to open the package. She knew there was a catnip treat for her. Thank you so much. Can't wait to try all of your scents.
Pam Claussen
IOWA