TGIF

Here are a few newly completed products, ready for the cabin. Thanks to the flu I am still needing to finish a few things, but I did make a good start at it.


This is a Candy Cane Bath Salt, made with Dead Sea Salts, and scented with essential oils.

These twist up lotion bars are made with jojoba shea butter and other great ingredients. Perfect for deeply moisturizing winter skin.

These bars are made with the same great ingredients as the twist up containers, just  without the container. These all weigh between two and three ounces, plenty enough to share with the family, or just enough to last you a good long while!

This is one of my newest essential oil blends, Spiced Lavender. Spiced Lavender is a mixture of several essential oils, with pure Bulgarian Lavender at its heart. Add to that some nice, warm, slightly sultry base notes and a light, airy, top note, and you have the perfect lavender, both for cold winter weather, and for steamy summery nights.

The scent of these heart shaped soaps take me on  a walk through snow filled woods, perhaps in search for the family Christmas Tree. Frosted Forest sounds  like the perfect name to me!

Next week I hope to finish with the cabin inventory, and I will then have a few more pictures to share with you. Think ice cube snowmen, ornaments, wreathes and more!

Enjoy your weekend and remember, Christmas is only a matter of weeks away! 

Make it Yourself Monday- Apricot [Blender] Moisturizer

For this recipe you will need;


6 dried apricots
2 cups of distilled water
1 ounce of beeswax
1 cup apricot oil
1/2 cup coconut oil
1/2 cup aloe vera gel
5 vitamin E caps broken open
*You can buy the oils, beeswax and aloe over the net from a lot of places, but I recommend Brambleberry.com 


Bring the water to a boil in a saucepan and add the dried apricots. Boil for about 20 minutes, then set aside to cool. Place the beeswax in the top of a double-boiler and begin to melt over simmering water. Add the apricot and coconut oils to the beeswax, stirring constantly for about ten minutes until all is melted and combined, then pour into a glass container and set aside. Place the apricots and water into into a blender and blend until smooth, then strain through cheesecloth, discarding the solids and reserving the liquid. Put the liquid back into the blender and add the aloe vera and the vitamin E oil from the capsules. Blend together on low speed for a moment or two, then remove the lid (while still blending on low) and slowly drizzle the beeswax mixture into the blender. Continue to blend (on low) and drizzle until the mixture has the consistency of frosting. Keep a good eye on the mixture as you are adding the beeswax, you may not need to use it all. Once you have a nice frosting like mixture, pour it  into jars and store it in a cool place. As it cools it will thicken up. Apply to hands after every washing and as needed.