tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86582193903108132692024-03-14T02:02:27.392-07:00Ranch Rustics Handcrafted Soappeteyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04842363901612535790noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8658219390310813269.post-21778426246854198892014-02-25T05:47:00.000-08:002014-02-26T09:35:32.794-08:00What's in Store for 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In between watching these little guys making their entrance into the world, 2014 has been a sensational year for Ranch Rustics. The <a href="http://ranchrustics.com/" target="_blank">web store</a> is up and running, please DO go check it out and any input you might have is surely appreciated. There is a page for customer reviews. It's a little funky because it is more like an interactive chat page, but it's what we have to work with and I would like to thank everyone who has left comments there.<br />
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The biggest seller so far this winter, has been <a href="http://www.ranchrustics.com/whipped/bath.html" target="_blank">Whipped Tallow Body Butter</a>. This is an amazing product that soaks into your skin and most people claim to love it after the first time they use it. Made with tallow I have rendered from grassfed beef, combined with a couple of other beneficial oils and calendula, which has wonderful healing properties in itself.<br />
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Tallow is a perfect base for skin care as its cellular make up is basically the same as our own and goes to work immediately, something vegetable based products cannot compete with. I offer 3 fragrances, Lavender, which has benefits of its own, CoconutLime and Cool Water (men tend to like this one)<br />
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<a href="http://www.ranchrustics.com/tartwarmers/tart.html" target="_blank">Wax tarts</a> have gained a special place in my heart (and home... and nose!). I am now stocking tart warmers in the store because I love having all the benefits of a nice candle without the flame. They work great as nightlights and I personally, think the scent throw on the wax tarts is stronger than the candles. They are made using clean burning and sustainable soy wax. I currently only have a few fragrances as I am waiting to see how these things sell, but I am having a wonderful time making them. I personally, love the ones I have so far, Simpy Vanilla, Chocolate Brownie, Spiced Cider, Pumpkin Spice, Cranberry Marmalade and MacIntosh Apple. I also have these in 4 and 8oz tins and 8 oz mason jar candles.<br />
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I am running a <a href="http://www.ranchrustics.com/sale/page.html" target="_blank">soap sale</a> this week (Feb 24-Feb28, 2014) only. 6 bars for the price of 5 (salt bars not included). Just peruse the store, then email me with your choices. You can either pay through the online store, or I can invoice you through paypal, or if you prefer, you can mail a check. There are 2 pages of soaps online so there are many to choose from.<br />
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Another new item in the lineup is <a href="http://www.ranchrustics.com/soap/soapa.html" target="_blank">laundry soap</a>. For those wanting to try it out, we sell a small sample size, enough to do about 10 loads.<br />
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I've recently added <a href="http://www.ranchrustics.com/whipped/bath.html" target="_blank">lip balm</a> to the store, as it has gotten really good review from my trial testers. At this time there is only chocolate to choose from, and will possibly expand the choices in the next month or so.<br />
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Thank you for stopping by the blog, and I hope to hear from you soon.<br />
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Lots of new things are in the works here! Ranch Rustics is expanding into candles, wax tarts and body butters. We still have a full inventory of soaps and have added Himalayan Salt bars which are nice, nice, nice!<br />
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And I plan to be making whipped top soaps again, for you.<br />
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Wax tarts are particularly nice, as you can use an electric tart warmer and avoid the hazards of a flame, where traditional candles aren't an option. There are warmers that plug directly into a wall, which are handy in kitchen or bath, and double as nightlights, as well as larger warmers with longer cords that are nice for living and bedroom areas.<br />
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We are working on being able to make those available to you.<br />
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We have candles in 4 oz tins which are great for traveling, or for the bath as there is no concern about breakage. 8 oz tins and jars will soon be available.<br />
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Currently, we are offering our very popular Whipped Tallow Body butter. This is made using a tallow base, which is of a similar cellular makeup as our own skin, so it is ultra nourishing in a way that vegetable based lotions and butters cannot compare to. Using our own grass fed tallow, it is carefully rendered and to this has been added calendula and jojoba oils for an even more luxurious product. It is available in a variety of fragrances.This will not be a FDA tested product. It is shelf stable but best if used within 6 months.<br />
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Additional lotions, lip balms and other products will be available later in the year as time allows.<br />
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Feel free to <a href="mailto:ranchrustics@me.com" target="_blank">email me</a> for a list of what is on hand along with any questions you may have!<br />
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With the economy in meltdown there are still ways to pamper yourself or pamper others with homemade soap.<br />
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Other soaps are currently being cured for the Christmas season and will be listed as soon as they are ready for sale!<br />
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Soaps are 3 for $12<br />
Up to 6 soaps can be shipped Continental US flat rate for $5. 85<br />
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Spring is finally coming, the grass is starting to green up and there are more sunny days than rainy ones now. EmmaLouMoo and the sheep are enjoying grazing out in the back pasture during the day with the Maremmas keeping watch over them. It's time for me to go into heavy duty soaping mode.<br />
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CALENDULA CITRUS<br />
G'OATMEAL MILK N HONEY<br />
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FIESTA<br />
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To all who ordered soap this year, I want to wish you a heartfelt thank you and a very Merry Christmas from Ranch Rustics!</div>
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Bay Rum-<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">SOLD OUT</span></div>
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in addition to the above, we also have a new soap, CRACKLIN' BIRCH which is a great scent reminiscent of the holidays with a spicey evergreen scent and COUNTRY APPLE.<br />
In addition, there is plenty of DRAGONMOO- A naturally colored, deliciously spicey scented milk soap, one of my personal favorites<br />
BROWNSUGARHONEYMOO-Natural color incredibly yummy fragrance. VERY popular!<br />
Lots of EUCALYPTUS/SPEARMINT, different appearance than above, with nice, fresh scent.</div>
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to order, <a href="mailto:ranchrustics@me.com" target="_blank">email me with your order, ranchrustics@me.com</a></div>
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Today was a big soaping day. I poured 86 oz of Brownsugar Honeymoo while my bread was baking, then made 130 oz slab of a new soap called...are you ready for this? ...Monkeyfarts. It has a great fragrance of bananas and pineapple and tropical fruits. I just can't improve on the name. I did some little 'imbeds' in the slab for fun so we will see how that turns out tomorrow when I cut.<br />
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Lots of soap is curing but I do have plenty cured out and ready.<br />
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Their fragrance calms the mind and their appearance entices the eye.<br />
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Handmade Artisan Soap is always a welcome gift, appropriate and appreciated at birthdays, baby showers, anniversaries, holidays, thank you gifts, get well gifts, or just a gift to yourself.<br />
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The spring and summer soaps are ready to come off the racks and into your bath.</div>
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Real soap has so much to offer. It's an inexpensive luxury that will truly benefit your skin.</div>
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All soap, homemade or commercial, is made by combining lye with fats and/or oils, and as a result of that combination it contains natural glycerin which is a humectant, drawing moisture from the air. It is removed from commercial soaps to be used in more expensive beauty products, leaving the product more of a detergent, which cleanses, but also strips the natural oil from skin and hair.</div>
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Quality Artisan soap will give you a much different result.</div>
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Customers have reported that using RanchRustics soaps has solved their 'flaky skin' problems.</div>
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IT's a great way to get clean, while enjoying both the smooth, creamy, skin-pampering lather, and enjoying the benefits of a variety of Essential and Fragrance Oils. </div>
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Each type of oil brings a different property to the soap. </div>
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<b>Apricot Kernel Oil</b>-great for sundamaged or mature skin, helps maintain elasticity</div>
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<b>Castor Oil</b>- highly emollient and great suds</div>
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<b>Cocoa Butter</b>- skin conditioning, makes for a hard soap</div>
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<b>Coconut Oil</b>- Natural anti bacterial, anti fungal, very cleansing, with lots of suds</div>
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<b>Olive Oil</b>-High in both Vit E and Oleic acid it is very nourishing to skin. Castille soap is 100% Olive oil</div>
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<b>Vegetable shortening</b> (ie:Crisco) good conditioning. [Was actually designed to be used in soaping and candlemaking, was never intended for food! That's a little FYI for you.]</div>
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<b>Oatmeal</b>-anti inflammatory, gentle exfoliator, helps to soothe dry, itchy skin, great for acne and eczema</div>
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<b>Calendula</b>-anti inflammatory, promotes tissue regeneration, used in many skin products</div>
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<b>Nettle</b>-astringent, good for acne, dandruff, and medicinal uses</div>
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<b>Beer-</b>great for coating hair and tightening hair shaft, adds shine, great for dry or thin hair</div>
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A luscious, creamy, skin pampering soap</div>
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Goatmilk, and Apricot Kernel Oil</div>
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Natural color, Almond fragrance</div>
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Fantastic body and shampoo bar with</div>
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Beer for shine and added cocoa butter for natural detangler.</div>
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Outstanding for dry, aging or sensitive skin. My top seller</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It seems that Ranch Rustics has been wildly successful, because of YOU! I want to let you all know how much I appreciate both your orders and your feedback!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have been diligently making more soap, to keep stocked up. This is our busy time of year as we not only have lots of baby goats and baby lambs, but we also are raising a flock of meatie chicks, the egg layers hatched out a couple more babies on their own, and the garden is taking up much of my time. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Nevertheless, I go out every morning and evening to milk the goats so I can make the Goatmilk Soaps, as well as enjoy fresh creamy yogurt, milk and cheeses.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My ‘little people’ will be coming for their annual visit soon. I am truly looking forward to it. They will be able to help out with the milking and feeding of the babies. I don't see nearly enough of them, and they are very beautiful little people.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It’s great to have goat milk available again for soapmaking...of course I don’t mind cheese and yogurt from it either.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Miss Prissy, the goat seems to have an abundance this year. She is feeding the triplets off of one side and giving me a half gallon from the other each day...wether I want it or not!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Not all soaps are milk soaps, however. My ‘HoneyMoo’ soaps all contain either goats milk or milk from my Jersey cow.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There are some other fun soaps I am making this summer. I had an overwhelming response so I am a bit low on inventory at the moment but I am busy making soap as fast as I can.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is a colorful crinkle-cut layer soap with CoconutLime Verbena fragrance.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This soap will be ready to sell in July 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Along with remembering our fallen heroes and the rest of the brave soldiers who have stood in the gap for our country, Memorial Day heralds the beginning of summer vacation. Many celebrate with big barbecues, so I thought, “what better soap to make this weekend than beer soap?”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A derivative of hops, which have a relaxing quality as well as anti-bacterial qualities, beer soap is soothing to the skin as well as cleansing and moisturizing. I have found it to be a great shampoo bar for my own hair, adding body and making my hair feel thicker. Added cocoa butter in the soap acts as a de-tangler and is easily absorbed into the skin, benefiting dry scalps. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“This Sud’s For You” is a natural colored bar with a hint of added cocoa, making a luscious smelling, creamy, sudsy soap bar with great cleaning qualities.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This soap will be ready to sell in about 4 weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Hope you had a great weekend!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">It’s Memorial Day weekend and lots of people are BBQing and hitting the ‘suds’. Here it’s cold and it’s snowing outside. Nevertheless, I need to get the Summer soaps made. There is a CucumberMelon and G’Oatmeal HoneyMoo (goat milk, oats & honey) on the racks. I’ll be working on a plain Honeymoo today and still have 9 other kinds of soap I sold out of that need to be restocked. It’ll keep me off the streets next month...that is, if there WERE any streets here. The closest pavement is 35 miles away.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">The goats are due to freshen soon, so I won’t have to use my frozen milk from last year much longer. Milk in soap is skin nourishing and makes for a very creamy and moisturizing lather. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">It’s a very luxurious soap and goat milk is even a tad better than cow’s milk, as it is nearly the same PH as our skin. Cow’s milk is only very slightly more alkaline, although the Jersey Milk Soaps are my very best sellers. The milk offers alpha hydroxy acids which assist in gently removing dead skin cells, unlike harsh commercial soap.It also has proteins which kill acne producing bacteria. Milk soaps also tend to be highly moisturizing and beneficial to dry, flaky skin. In addition to this, they are loaded with vitamins and minerals that are able to be absorbed into the skin .</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">All soap is made with lye and fats or oils. The chemical reaction of combining them turns it into a type of ‘salt’. Oils and fats are made up of ‘triglycerides’. Combining them with an alkaline solution such as sodium or potassium hydroxide (lye) causes a chemical reaction known as saponification, which combines and becomes soap. Glycerine, a highly prized, skin softening humectant, is a natural by product of soap. Unfortunately, in commercial soap, this is processed out to use in more expensive beauty products, leaving the soap you buy in the store lacking any of the natural benefits of real, homemade soap.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">There is an endless variety of oils that can be used in soaping. Each type of oil brings a different quality to the soap. Some are moisturizing, others create bubbles, some make a harder bar of soap...there are endless variations. Adding ingredients such as milk, aloe, or other liquids to the lye mix can add different properties as well. Top it all off with some nice essential oils or fragrances and/or a pretty color and it can feed more of your senses. For the fragrance allergic, I also make unscented soaps such as the Plain Honeymoo, Oatmeal/Honey/Milk bars and my famous beer soap (This Sud’s for You).</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Things are hopping here at the ranch. The grass is growing, calves are being born, it's time for branding and lots of other dirty work.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The weather has been warm and I’ve been putting a lot of time into the garden. Along with the tomatoes, peas, squash and other veggies, I have started Calendulas, and a few other herbs to use in soaping. I plan to start making some specialty soaps this year. Among them, needs to be a gardeners soap, as I am needing it pretty badly myself.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">At any rate, i</span>t’s a great spring for making soap.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I was making a couple of logs of HoneyMoo to replenish what I had sold and my stick blender died just as I started mixing. There I was, in my mad scientist gear, everything combined in my ‘cauldron’ and holding a totally impotent stick blender. There was no turning back. I grabbed a whisk and began stirring. Just in case anyone is dying of curiosity, it takes about 2 1/2 hours of heavy stirring with a whisk to bring HoneyMoo soap to trace so you can pour it. This is an exciting undertaking when your wrists are already sore.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Into the freezer it went, to help keep it light, although there is nearly always some color where the honey heats up and causes a little gel. I rather like the look, myself.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A natural colored LilacMoo is off the racks and curing now, and as soon as the new emulsifier comes I’ll be jumping up to make soaps with summer scents and replenish my supply of the others. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Thank you to all who participated in answering my poll questions and most especially to those who have purchased soap.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I still have a good supply of these soaps...</span></div>
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ButtermilkAlmondMoo<br />
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And restocking will commence with the arrival of the new stick blender!!!<br />
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<br />peteyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04842363901612535790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8658219390310813269.post-19353778322318475672012-05-08T10:34:00.000-07:002012-05-12T15:10:13.994-07:00A Little Poll<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are 3 aspects to soap.<br />
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Fragrance scented or unscented<br />
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Appearance natural or colored<br />
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Performance cleansing, creamy, moisturizing<br />
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ButtermilkAlmondMoo/Unscented Honeymoo Bar & Boot</td></tr>
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In what order are these aspects most important to you, on a scale of 1-10 - Ten being the highest?<br />
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Many of my milk soaps are of a natural color. Vegetable soaps and a few milk soaps have coloring added.<br />
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In addition, if you would take the time, would you let me know which of these scents most appeal to you?<br />
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KiwiLemongrass/BlackRaspberryVanilla/Honeysuckle</td></tr>
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Would you be interested in specialty soaps?<br />
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I make a beer soap that I love to use on my hair.<br />
A "gardener's soap" is in the works as is a "kitchen soap".<br />
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ranchrustics@me.competeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04842363901612535790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8658219390310813269.post-11506152966885107222011-12-20T15:37:00.000-08:002014-03-09T09:05:36.442-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Handmade soap is an inexpensive luxury. That may be an oxymoron, but its true. I love sinking into the warm, steamy, water of my claw leg tub, surrounded with the scent of lavender and a bar of soap that feels like drawing silk across my skin. It's a very decadent, lavish experience.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Not given to a lifetime of pampering myself, it has become an event that I look forward to every evening. After I began manifesting more symptoms of an immune system gone haywire, my skin began to suffer. It was often itchy, dried out easily and nothing seemed to help or soothe it. Out of desperation, I began to research things that might make a difference. For over 7 years, the idea of making my own soap had intrigued me, but I hadn't the courage to overcome my fear of lye. Deciding that for hundreds of years, women did make their own soap, using unstable ingredients and inconsistent outcomes, I decided if they could do it, so could I. I took the plunge.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I studied, read, followed internet boards, blogs and every other modality of information on soap making I could find. I slowly purchased the needed equipment over the course of time and appointed myself a date that I was going to begin. Randyman made me a couple of molds, I donned my goggles, elbow length hazmat gloves, bandana over my face <i>bandito</i> style and even added shoes to the ensemble, in the name of safety. I opened windows, locked out dogs, put a DO NOT DISTURB sign on the door and warned Randyman not to speak, touch, or otherwise engage me while I was immersed in the undertaking. I stepped into the kitchen in my soap making uniform and after glaring at him for his failure to suppress his hilarity and admonishing him for his "mad scientist' comment, I began.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I had already made several 'dry runs'. My recipe and instructions were clearly displayed, my oils were measured, my lye was measured, all my equipment and ingredients were close at hand. With grave concentration and a few misgivings, I began.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Into the water, I began to pour my lye. Never, ever, do this the other way around. The lye must go into the water, not the water into the lye, or you risk spattering and serious burns. Lye is an extremely caustic material able to melt skin, oils, hair and other things on contact. That's why it is such an effective drain cleaner. As I slowly poured and stirred, I waited anxiously for the great toxic cloud of lye fumes. They began to rise and I turned my head away to gasp for breath before turning back to my work. Having kept the lye water in a stainless steel bowl in a sink full of cold water helped the fumes stop early and cooled the mix down quickly, as it had almost instantly shot up over 200 degrees. This is <i><u>not</u></i> child's play.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">With a thermometer moving back and forth, my bucket of oils and pan of lye mix finally came close enough in temps for me to mix. I poured them together, watched them begin to emulsify almost immediately and began to stir with my stick blender. It didn't take long before I reached what is known as 'trace' and I added my lavender essential oil to the mix, poured it all into my freezer paper lined molds and spirited them away to the back room where I insulated it all with towels.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I took off my uniform, tossing the bandana and goggles nonchalantly on the kitchen table. I pulled off my gloves and went to look in the mirror. There was definitely a change. I was now a 'soaper'. I had conquered and prevailed. Tomorrow night would tell me if I was victorious or not.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The following night, I pulled the molds out from under their insulation and was able to pull the soap log out. I cut them into bars, eyes rolling in ecstasy as I inhaled the lavender wafting from the bars. Now I had to wait but two more weeks to see if the product was worth all the effort.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The end product was unlike any soap I had ever tried. It left my skin feeling not just clean, but silky smooth and moisturized. There was a definite difference. I began to experiment with some different formulations. Each type of oil brings a different quality to soap. Some are moisturizing, some make great bubbles, others creamy lather, yet others are super cleansing. After several months of testing, working on soap calculators and trying things out, I had pretty much fine tuned my formula to what i wanted. I added milk, which nearly matches the PH of our own skin and it made the bars superior.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">All my soaps are handmade and hand cut, right here at the ranch. The milk soaps are made with milk from my own Nubian goats and Jersey cow. Some soaps even have organic ingredients that grow right here in our pastures.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Soaps are made with combinations of lard, tallow or vegetable shortening, lye, olive oil, coconut oil, apricot kernel oil, palm kernel oil, castor oil, cocoa butter, shea butter and essential or fragrance oils.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Specialty soaps may have additional ingredients such as egg, honey, beer, pumpkin, milk, pine tar or nettle tea.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Glycerin is a natural, skin conditioning, by-product of homemade soap. In commercial soap it is extracted to be used in more expensive beauty products leaving the soap more of a detergent which strips the natural oils out of skin and hair. All soap, commercial or artisan, is made with lye and fats. That is what soap <i><u>is</u></i>. After combining, the chemical reaction turns the lye and fats to soap, which is technically a salt!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Granma's old lye soap, however, used lye made from wood ashes, which was very unstable and she was unable to weigh out the oils and measure to 1/10 of an ounce to produce a consistently safe and usable product. Today we have stable and consistent ingredients to work with and can confidently turn out a luxury soap time after time.</span><br />
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