Natural Home & Body Care: Handcrafted Wellness
Discover the satisfaction of creating your own gentle body soaps, nourishing hair treatments, and effective cleaning solutions using simple, recognisable ingredients. My tried-and-tested formulas for handcrafted body care products let you take control of what touches your skin – without harsh chemicals or mysterious additives.
Beyond personal care, explore my eco-friendly recipes for laundry detergents, all-purpose cleaners, and household products that keep your home sparkling while being kinder to the planet.
Calendula soap (Beginner’s recipe)
Calendula is known for its skin-soothing and wound-healing effects. This easy recipe for calendula soap makes for a very mild soap that's even suitable for babies. The recipe is beginner-friendly which means that the process is not too complex. If this is your first...
Five uses for calendula
The first year I cultivated my garden, I decided to sow a few calendula between rows of red cabbage. The patch looked beautiful with its combination of thick violet cabbage heads and the bright orange calendula flowers floating above them like tiny suns. Not knowing...
Orange peeling soap
Earlier this year, I got my hands on some organic orange peel... well, ok: a lot of organic orange peel and apart from all the other things I made out of it, I tried my hand at making my first ever hydrolate. It turned out pretty well and I immediately thought about...
Green Mint Soap: Beginner Recipe
This mint soap beginner recipe was the first soap recipe I made and it's still one of my favourites! It's suitable for beginners which means that it doesn't require many ingredients. This is a soap specially for sensitive skin due to the green clay. Consistent with...
Soapmaking equipment
To start with soapmaking, you only need some basic soapmaking equipment. Later, when you are infected with the soapmaking virus, you can always buy additional tools that'll make the process easier and allow you to make more elaborate designs. When looking for...
Soapmaking Safety Guidelines
Soapmaking is a wonderful and rewarding occupation! We can be creative and invent our own recipes, add fragrances and colours to our liking and try out different techniques. However, it bears a certain risk and therefore it's absolutely necessary to be familiar with...
Soapmaking Step-by-Step
Before you start making your very first batch of soap, you should be familiar with the process. Please read this soapmaking step-by-step instruction thoroughly to make sure that your first soap - and the many soaps to follow - will be a smashing success! It's most...
The Science behind Soapmaking
Soap is the oldest and most used washing detergent in the history of mankind. The oldest soap recipe that has been found is thousands of years old! And the best thing is: we still know how to make soap. The process differs a bit from that of our ancestors; after all,...
12 uses for orange peel
As you know – at least if you’ve read my About Me Page – I work at a school. There, we have a contract with a local grocery distributor who delivers organic fruit or vegetables once a week for the pupils in primary school. Depending on the produce and size, some moms...