Are you looking for some color ideas for this Spring’s projects, whether it be candle, soaps, lip glosses or just home decor?  We’ll we have the answer.  Here is Pantone’s Spring 2012 Color Report.

I love this recipe!  It provides a gorgeous pink color and the end result is amazing.  The soap is mild, silky soft and sudsy.  A winner in my book!!

Yields 3.50 pounds

Ingredients:

• 12 oz. Distilled Water
• 2 Tablespoons Aloe Vera Liquid
• 12 oz. Coconut Oil
• 12 oz. Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• 12 oz. Palm Oil
• 5.2 oz. Lye
• 2 oz. Sweet Pea Bouquet Fragrance Oil
• 1 Tablespoon Pink Kaolin Clay
• 1 cup Pink Himalayan Sea Salt, Medium

1. Make your lye solution, weigh out your melted oils and combine both when temperatures are at around 100 degrees F.  Add the Sweet Pea Bouquet fragrance oil to the entire batch at a light trace.
2. Then separate half into a second dish and stir in the pink kaolin clay mixture, leaving the other half uncolored.
3. Pour your pink colored soap into the white soap in a circular pattern.  Try not to stir the two colors together too much or you will have a solid color.  You want a two toned, swirled pattern.
4. By pouring the soap, gravity and the actual pour creates the swirl patten for you.  No stirring is necessary.
5. Top off the bars by sprinkling the pink himalayan sea salt on the top while the soap is still wet.  Gentle tap the salt so it sticks to the soap.
6. Let the soap sit for 24 hours, pop it out of mold and slice into desired bars.  Set the finished bars on a drying rack to cure for 4 to 6 weeks.

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Yields 2.75 pounds

Ingredients:

• 6 oz. Distilled Water
• 6 oz. Aloe Vera Liquid
• 2 oz. Caster Oil
• 4 oz. Cocoa Butter
• 4 oz. Coconut Oil
• 12 oz. Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• 5 oz. Palm Oil
• 5 oz. Palm Kernel Flakes
• 4.4 oz. Lye
• 1.5 oz. Geranium Rose Essential Oil
• 0.5 oz. Cranberry Seeds
• 1/4 tsp. Burgundy Oxide

1. Make your lye solution, weigh out your melted oils and combine both when temperatures are at around 100 degrees F.  Add the Geranium Rose essential oil to the entire batch.
2. Separate about half of the batch into a smaller container for the bottom layer.  Add cranberry seeds at this point.  Pour this layer at a very thick trace.
3. In another small container, separate out 1/4 of the rest of the batch.  Add burgundy pigment.  Pour this layer at a medium to thick trace.
4. Pour the rest of the uncolored soap on last.  As the top layer sets up, use a whisk to sculpt peaks (if desired).  The cut bars are beautiful, mild and luxurious as is or you can stamp the face of each bar for an added touch.

The information contained herein is, to the best of our knowledge, complete and accurate.  All solutions, advice, instructions, and formulas are purely recommendations and should be further investigated by the customer.  Nu-Scents are a supplier of candle, soap, bath, and body making supplies, not a manufacturer.  Therefore, it is the sole responsibility of the customer to thoroughly research all of the products purchased from Nu-Scents and adequately test the finished products to ensure compatibility and safety.  The customer is solely responsible for the research, testing, and quality control for all of their finished products.

Ingredients:

Basic 1 pound batch

• 10 ounces Shea Butter
• 6 ounces Coconut Oil
• 2 teaspoons Corn Starch (helps cut down the greasy feel)
• 0.5 ounces Kukui & Macadamia Nut F/O

*For an 8 ounce batch, divide all ingredient amounts in half

DIRECTIONS:  In a pot, melt your shea butter and coconut oils very slowly on the stove.  Once melted, add your fragrance oil and corn starch.  Stir very well.  Pour into a large mixing bowl and set over another bowl filled with ice to cool faster, or cover and set in refrigerator to cool.  As it cools it will become thicker, every 20 minutes or so, use a hand mixer, and whip the butter for several minutes, then place back to cool more.  It will begin to get thicker each time as you keep mixing, it will start to look like whipped cream.  Once the butter has solidified all the way and is no longer runny, spoon it into your desired container and you are finished.

Suggested Container to use: Square Designer Blue Jars, Dome Cream Jars, or Tapered Designer Jar

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• 3/4 cup Peppermint Indian Essential Oil
• 5 Tablespoons grated Milk Chocolate
• 1 cup Sugar

DIRECTIONS:  Stir all the ingredients together until mixture thickens.  Gently massage the scrub onto your feet in the shower or bath.  Use once-a-week for gorgeous feet.

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• ½ cup Sugar
• ½ cup Sunflower Oil
• A  few drops of your favorite Essential Oil for scent
• ½ a Lemon or Lime

In a small bowl, mix the sugar, sunflower oil, and any Essential oil you choose.  Squeeze the lemon or lime juice into the mixture right before you’re ready to use.  (Citrus if left to long, will melt the sugar crystals).  Stir, and then rub the mixture onto hands and feet, paying close attention to dry spots.  Rinse; follow with moisturizer.

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• 2 cups Calspa Fine Pacific Sea Salt
• ½ cup baking soda
• ½ cup cornstarch
• 2 Tablespoons Sweet Almond Oil
• 1 Teaspoon T-50 Vitamin E
• 2 eggs
• 5-6 drops Essential Oil of your choice

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Mix together all the ingredients.  Take a teaspoon of the dough and roll it gently into a 1-inch diameter ball.  Continue doing this with all the dough and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.  You can decorate the cookie with clove buds, anise seeds or dried citrus peel if you wish.  Bake the cookies for about 10 minutes, until they are lightly browned (do not over bake).  Allow the cookies to cool completely.  Store in a decorative tin marked Bath Cookies.

Yields 24-cookies- enough for 12 baths.

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****BRING ON THE BLISS****

1. Heat up ¼ cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil, until it’s warm but still comfortable to the touch.
2. Blend in 12 drops of Rosemary Morroccan Essential Oil.

Dip your fingers into the oil and, starting at your hairline, make circles with your fingertips.  Use medium pressure as you move down your scalp.  Once you reach the nape of your neck, rake your fingers through your hair and give a gentle tug at the roots; repeat through your head.  Finish by applying the oil through the shaft and ends of your hair.  Relax for 10 minutes, then shampoo and condition as usual.

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Want to give your winter-weary skin a treat?  Try this simplified version of a signature exfoliating treatment.  The salt sloughs off dead skin cells, the spices boost circulation, and the oils smooth and soften!

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Calspa Fine Pacific Sea Salt
• 1 cup Sweet Almond Oil
• Pinch of ground cinnamon
• Pinch of ground clove
• 20 drops Grapefruit Essential Oil
• 20 drops Lemon California Essential Oil

1. In small bowl, mix all ingredients.
2. In shower, apply to skin (avoiding face) with circular movements.
3. Rinse off, then towel-dry and moisturize.

Shelf Life: Scrub will keep for one month in airtight container.

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Infused with clove essential oil and ground cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg.  Takes less than 10 minutes to prepare.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Brown Sugar
• 1 cup White Granulated Sugar
• ¾ cup Sweet Almond Oil, Soybean Oil, or Hazelnut Oil
• 2 teaspoons each ground cinnamon, Ginger, and Nutmeg
• Drops of Clove Leaf Essential Oil, ( to your liking)

1. In a medium size bowl, combine all ingredients except the essential oil.
2. Using a whisk, blend the ingredients thoroughly, making sure to break up any lumps of brown sugar.
3. Add the essential oil drop by drop, blending after each addition.  Spoon the mixture into a styrene container.
4. No refrigeration is necessary.
5. Shelf life, no more than 6 months.

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