How to Make Homemade Shaving Soap Recipe – Round Up for Wet or Dry Shave
The first homemade shaving soap recipe features the traditional soap in a container with a brush applicator. This recipe comes from the soap queen She explains how to make this homemade shaving soap recipe in this video. You might want to try our easy and forgiving...
5 All-Natural Homemade Soap Recipes Make Superior Holiday Gifts
Before we get into the all-natural homemade soap recipes for holiday gift giving, let’s review a few basics about making homemade cold process soap. Safety first! Always be sure to wear eye protection and gloves. Keep a jug of vinegar on the counter easily...
How To Preserve Eggplant – 3 Methods That Might Surprise You
How to preserve eggplant now as summer ends and fall hints at making her appearance. All these beautiful pieces of eggplant goodness, but really how many times can one eat eggplant Parmesan in a month? Let me clue you in on three ways to preserve eggplant that result...
How to Beginners Guide to Keeping Bees – Don’t Be Afraid
I remember the feeling of trepidation I had when I decided to keep bees was going to be part of my farm plan. What I really needed was a beginner’s guide to keeping bees. Instead, I found some piecemeal information and went for it. There are variety of bits you...
How to Make Homemade Laundry Soap That Works
How to Make Homemade Laundry Soap That Works. Want to save money by making your own cheap laundry detergent? This homemade laundry soap that works recipe will make almost four gallons of fabric cleaning laundry detergent for under one dollar a gallon. Safe for all...
Make Comfrey Oil – It is a Carpel Tunnel Natural Remedy!
How to Make Comfrey Oil Making any type of herbal oil is a simple process of infusing the herb into a good quality oil that will allow absorption into the skin. I prefer Almond and Coconut oils for making ointments, oils and lotions. You could add the Comfrey infused...
Lose the Bottle – 5 All Natural Shampoo And Conditioner Ideas
Over the years we have become so conditioned to purchasing our shampoo and conditioner at the local grocery story that we have forgotten the time honored, all natural shampoo and conditioner ideas that our grandmothers used to use. There are some things we need to...
Warning – Photos of Goats
One of the biggest benefits of making goat milk soap is that you get to keep a dairy goat farm. On that dairy goat farm you get to keep goats that have babies in the spring. Enjoy the photos of goats. This is Gandalph the White. He helps make spider silk. From goats,...
Danish Dough Hand Whisk My New Favorite Tool
So, for my birthday, I decided to really dive into artisan bread making and bought myself (from my family, of course) several bread baking gadgets. My father in Law, however, took home the “best gift ever” prize when he gave me a Danish Dough hand whisk....
Welcome! Hartnana (and her husband Dave the truck driver) share the self sufficient living skills that we have gleaned from living on a homesteading.
Find this on Amazon:The soap maker’s journal is designed to help both the novice and experienced soap maker (really any bath & body product crafter) keep track of their soap making experiences. With a place to record your recipes, additions & results as well as a place to include pictures of your finished products, this journal should help you remember those little details necessary to duplicate successes and avoid repeating “fails”. Also included is a SAP chart, directions for creating your own soap recipes, a couple of basic soap recipes, and a chart highlighting essential oils fragrance notes. Having all of your crafting notes in one place makes the process so much easier. And you don’t have to be technology dependent for creating new recipes