Making your own toiletries...

[Rouge]

So hit with some recipes.

I have a great soap and deodorant recipe that I'll be making some time this week, but would love any other recipes you may have.

[Lulu]

Ummmm depends on what you want. I usually go to the pantry and rub handfuls of food on my face

[Rouge]

I want to know what people do who like making their own stuff

[Lulu]

Food ----> Face. Lemme know how the soap goes!

[Traveller]

I need to make something to wash boytwin in, his eczema is awful, big red rough patches all over his chest shoulders and back. Can I have your soap recipe Rouge? Would it be kinder on his skin than something from the chemists?

[Olive]

not to highjack cai traveller try oats soaked in pantyhose! i use an oatmeal powder in the bath.

Cai whats the soap recipe? as in smells etc..?

[Rouge]

Yeah thanks for that

Will post some pics of stuff if I get it done today.

[Lulu]

Oh, I was going to dig out a couple of books for you that you might find useful. I have some recipes tucked away somewhere copied from the books that I learnt from. Sorry to annoy you.

[Rouge]

And she's back!

That would be awesome Sorry hun, but you were coming off a bit condescending... I would love to learn as long as it's a cheaper alternative. I have a few books here but they call for really expensive ingredients, and I want the simple life stuff. Cheap and easy but still effective. I don't plan on using it for gifts or selling or anything like that. Just would love some easy tried and true recipes that don't involve Lye or anything too exxy.

I like blogs because it seems a lot of people experiment with recipes from this very funky book I'd like to have, I also like the fact there are pictures and trails of comments from people who've tried it. But books are definitely good, especially if you have tried them. I guess I was just hoping for a place that we could share the cheaper alternative, the more natural alternative and having fun all in the same process as it appeals to me a lot

The liquid soap I'm making today (if I can find the bloody glycerine) is with soap flakes, glycerine, essential oils and water. I tried the other type with olive oil but it solidified instead of liquified even after adding lots of water.

[Daydream Believer]

I have a book called Homemade & it has heaps of stuff in it. You can get it from readers digest online for $50 or in Kmart for $21

[Netix]

Rouge, all the Lye is, is the sodium hydroxide or caustic soda (borax). lt's not expensive. You just buy it form the supermarket in the cleaning section. If you want to borrow my book, you are more than welcome, I'll post it to you and you can copy what you want from it and post the book back to me.

[kimmi]

Goat's milk soap is wonderful and gentle for childrens skin conditions. Google it, and you will find plenty of recipies.

[Rouge]

Thanks Kimmi, that sounds great. I will have a look today. So far been to 3 different supermarkets and come home minus Glycerine. I think a trip to bunnings is in order.

[Olive]

cai have you tried a health food shop??

you have inspired me to make some stuff too, im itching to go to the shops now... will see how DD is this arvo and i might go

[Rouge]

I'm also making Clothes Detergent... but thats another thread