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Mango Citrus Body Butter
Mango Citrus Body Butter p. 78
This recipe is listed as mango and LIME body butter, but I added a citrus essential oil blend which had an even balance of lemon, lime, sweet orange, and tangerine.
Ingredients:
■10g beeswax or jojoba wax
■25g cocoa butter
■30g shea butter
■25 g mango butter
■1 tsp almond oil
■1 tsp vitamin E
■20 drops citrus essential oil (recipe suggested 10 lime, 5 sweet orange, 5 lemon)
Equipment
■Double boiler
■Metal spoon
■Airtight 100ml jar
■Digital kitchen scale (this wasn’t listed in the recipe but it is essential for weighing your ingredients)
Instructions:
1. Melt the beeswax, cocoa butter & mango butter in the double boiler. Leave mixture over a gentle heat for 20 minutes to prevent the butter from going grainy when it cools.
2. Add the almond oil and vitamin E and heat for a few more minutes until completely liquid.
3. Remove from heat and add essential oils, stirring thoroughly
4. Pour into jars and leave to set.
Five stars! This recipe is great. It’s easy, smells delightful, and makes your skin feel amazing. Some people may be adverse to the oilyness that takes a bit of good massaging to rub in, but I don’t mind in the least. My skin feels delightfully soft if I apply right out of the shower and it is even healing my dry heels after a week of use when no other moisturizer has.
This recipe is listed as mango and LIME body butter, but I added a citrus essential oil blend which had an even balance of lemon, lime, sweet orange, and tangerine.
Ingredients:
■10g beeswax or jojoba wax
■25g cocoa butter
■30g shea butter
■25 g mango butter
■1 tsp almond oil
■1 tsp vitamin E
■20 drops citrus essential oil (recipe suggested 10 lime, 5 sweet orange, 5 lemon)
Equipment
■Double boiler
■Metal spoon
■Airtight 100ml jar
■Digital kitchen scale (this wasn’t listed in the recipe but it is essential for weighing your ingredients)
Instructions:
1. Melt the beeswax, cocoa butter & mango butter in the double boiler. Leave mixture over a gentle heat for 20 minutes to prevent the butter from going grainy when it cools.
2. Add the almond oil and vitamin E and heat for a few more minutes until completely liquid.
3. Remove from heat and add essential oils, stirring thoroughly
4. Pour into jars and leave to set.
Five stars! This recipe is great. It’s easy, smells delightful, and makes your skin feel amazing. Some people may be adverse to the oilyness that takes a bit of good massaging to rub in, but I don’t mind in the least. My skin feels delightfully soft if I apply right out of the shower and it is even healing my dry heels after a week of use when no other moisturizer has.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Top Tip from the Sew Daily Archives: My Favorite Trick for Cutting Bias Strips
I was looking through the Sew Daily archives recently and saw that this post from early January 2012 was one of the most viewed to date. It's such a time-saving tip for bias strips that I had to share it again:
brilliant method for cutting bias strips lickety-split:
1. Cut a square of the fabric you want to use to make bias strips. I use the entire width of the fabric.
2. Fold the fabric in half, matching two opposite corners, like a napkin.
Steps 1 and 2
3. Bring each lower corner to the center, so that they are overlapping, and your fabric now resembles an envelope.
Step 3
4. Fold the fabric in half again, bringing the right side to the left. Your fabric now looks like half of a house.
Steps 4 and 5
5. Cut perpendicular to the last fold, cutting across in strips. When you unfold the strips, they will be on the bias. Tada!
P.S. John has this monstrous scissor machine that can cut through the thickest of home dec fabric. For home sewists, this technique works best with a rotary cutter.
I was looking through the Sew Daily archives recently and saw that this post from early January 2012 was one of the most viewed to date. It's such a time-saving tip for bias strips that I had to share it again:
brilliant method for cutting bias strips lickety-split:
1. Cut a square of the fabric you want to use to make bias strips. I use the entire width of the fabric.
2. Fold the fabric in half, matching two opposite corners, like a napkin.
Steps 1 and 2
3. Bring each lower corner to the center, so that they are overlapping, and your fabric now resembles an envelope.
Step 3
4. Fold the fabric in half again, bringing the right side to the left. Your fabric now looks like half of a house.
Steps 4 and 5
5. Cut perpendicular to the last fold, cutting across in strips. When you unfold the strips, they will be on the bias. Tada!
P.S. John has this monstrous scissor machine that can cut through the thickest of home dec fabric. For home sewists, this technique works best with a rotary cutter.
Saturday, June 16, 2012
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
T shirt dress
2 tshirts.....one embroidery machine...one set of urban threads designs...... and u have this
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Sit and sew this sat! @ the library!
Sit and Sew at the library this sat. 10am to 1pm anybody wanna go?
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