this is great, thank you so much! we will probably experiment with the leaf lard & coconut oil since we already have it.
one of the reasons we bought this land was the big cottonwood trees. when the little house (we call it the cottage, though it's not very cottage-like) was built around 1920, they planted 9 cottonwood trees around the house, all about 20' away from the house but surrounding it. Those trees are now giants. they are a hybrid called mountain cottonwoods, so they don't produce cotton fluff, unfortunately. (i love the fluff. the Rio Grande cottonwoods along the river and throughout the neighborhood do produce it though, so I still get to enjoy it in early summer!) one of the trees fell in 2016, and we had to have the one closest to the street taken out because it was threatening to fall on our cars (it was dying also), but the rest are strong and healthy, and i love living under their massive presence.
shea butter is a moisturizer, yeah. you see it in lotions a lot. it's solid at room temp, and plant-based (i think it's from some kind of nut). i experienced an amazing goat-milk soap from Pastures & Pine in Montana recently, and she uses finely-ground coffee as an exfoliant, and it was so perfect that i'm going to have to try it.
thank you for the soapcalc link! BrambleBerry soap supplier has a Lye Calculator on their page where you plug in the different fats you're using & how much of each, and it tells you how much lye you should use, similar to this one.
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Date: 2020-10-21 05:51 pm (UTC)one of the reasons we bought this land was the big cottonwood trees. when the little house (we call it the cottage, though it's not very cottage-like) was built around 1920, they planted 9 cottonwood trees around the house, all about 20' away from the house but surrounding it. Those trees are now giants. they are a hybrid called mountain cottonwoods, so they don't produce cotton fluff, unfortunately. (i love the fluff. the Rio Grande cottonwoods along the river and throughout the neighborhood do produce it though, so I still get to enjoy it in early summer!) one of the trees fell in 2016, and we had to have the one closest to the street taken out because it was threatening to fall on our cars (it was dying also), but the rest are strong and healthy, and i love living under their massive presence.
shea butter is a moisturizer, yeah. you see it in lotions a lot. it's solid at room temp, and plant-based (i think it's from some kind of nut). i experienced an amazing goat-milk soap from Pastures & Pine in Montana recently, and she uses finely-ground coffee as an exfoliant, and it was so perfect that i'm going to have to try it.
thank you for the soapcalc link! BrambleBerry soap supplier has a Lye Calculator on their page where you plug in the different fats you're using & how much of each, and it tells you how much lye you should use, similar to this one.