Pumpkin Soap

I am not a big fan of Haloween, actually I have never liked this period of year . But I love pumpkin. I have always loved it. And because I wanted to use pumpkin in soap, this year I decided to like Halloween also.

I spent a lot of time thinking which essential oil to use in my soaps,  as I want to make a synergie which wouldn’t go wrong and, when a colleague brought some spice bread/ pain d’épices at work( a typical French bread made of  a mix of spices like  cinnamon , ginger,  clove ,  anise , muscade) I was very delighted to discover some spices I haven’t used before like clove bud or anis , for example.  So I decided to try a new essential oil blend  - clove bud –  for my pumpkin soap, combined with cinnamon essential oil.

Clove Oil is aphrodisiac in nature and hence serves as an excellent stress reliever. It has a stimulating effect on the mind and removes mental exhausion and fatigue. Clove Oil also induces sleep so is very helpful for insomnia patients. The health properties of cinnamon are due to its antibacterial, antifungal, antimicrobial and astrigent properties.

The ones who make soaps know that the plans we make before making them are sometimes totally different from the final result. Maybe it’s the combination of clove oil , cinnamon oil and goat milk, but my soap got the trace so quick that I didn’t even had time to put it in my mold( the darkest part, as you see, looks more like a rebatch). And the colour changed from a nice yellow to a red brown colour.

Personnaly, I love this sweet scent combination of clove bud oil and cinnamon. I put this soap in the kitchen and the perfume is irresitable…

Soap made of:  coconut oil, castor oil, olive oil, palm oil, cacao butter, shea butter, goatmilk, pumpkin puree, cinnamon essential oi, clove bud essential oil.

Ingrediente: ulei de cocos, ulei de ricin, ulei de palm, unt de cacao, unt de shea, lapte de capra, piure de dovleac ,ulei esential de scortisoara, ulei esential de cuisoare.

My First Landscape Soap

Interesting challenge, but i didn’t have so much time to think about this soap as I wanted, because I had to prepare the luggage for a mini-holiday :)

Soap made of coconut oil, safflower oil, shea butter, sunflower oil, palm oil. For this rustic soap I wanted to have a rustic scent also, so I combined the lavender essential oil with a little bit of sage essential oil (salvia officinalis) .

Exotic result, I just wish you could smell it…

Thank you Amy for bringing the smile and optimism with this lovely challenge.

Long live the holidays!

Deodorant

Sunt cea mai fericita: ieri seara mi-am facut timp, printre fugareala de pregatire pentru o noua saptamana, de un deo. De fapt am facut doua pentru ca oala mea era cam maricica si am zis ca daca fac doar unul, nu prea am ce amesteca :) .

Am inceput cu sotul, am zis ca merita si el saracutul, o altfel multumire ca ma ajuta atata cu fetele care mai mult nu dorm noaptea decat dorm :) . I am dat sa aleaga intre uleiul esential de dafin, chiparos si estragon. Nici unul nu i a placut, insa eu pana la urma am pus dafin si cateva picaturi de  …,  sincer, nu stiu care ulei. Cred ca e estragon, dar nu sunt sigura. Vreau sa zic ca sunt mai mult decat multumita de amestecul de uleiuri , miroase super, proaspat, in fine, nu pot reda mirosul :( . Cred ca al doilea in pastrez pentru mine , imi place atat de mult ce a iesit!!

Ik heb gisteren iets nieuws geprobeerd: een deodorant maken en ik ben heel blij met het resultaat. Op internet vind je verschillende recepten , en de ingredienten waren niet zo moeilijk te vinden. Ik heb als geur component essentiele oliën als laurier, estragon en cyprès gekozen. Om eerlijk te zijn, weet ik niet zeker welke andere oliën ik toegevoegd heb aan mijn laurier olië, maar de geur vind ik heel goed en verfrissend. Wat bevat mijn deodorant: cacaoboter, bijenwas, zetmeel, alun steen, natrium bicarbonat en de hierboven vermelde EOs.