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Making a sugar scrub with Foaming Bath Butter is very easy. I made some for the Christmas swap and loved every minute of it.

Ingredients:
500gr Foaming Bath Butter
100gr Sweet Almond oil
500gr Sugar
Parfume oil
Preservative
Colour (optional)
Glycerine (optional)

Cut the FBB into pieces and put it into a bowl.

Now add the Sweet Almond oil. You can use a different oil if you like. Depending on what kind of properties you are looking for you could use for instance jojoba or other oil.


Add the sugar. I have used white sugar in this case, but you could use other sugar if you prefer.


Add the fragrance and preservative of choice.


Mix all ingredients with a whipper until it doubles in volume. Do not overbeat or it will collapse.


Once you have reached this stage you split the batch in two.


Add your colourant to one part of the mixture. If you use a powder (like mica) it is best to disolve it in glycerine. This makes it easier to get an even colour.


 Mix the colour in quickly. Normally it should take only 30 seconds or so to get the colour in.


You now have a coloured and a white batch. You can now layer them in a jar to make a perfect gift.


This is the one I made for my mum and for the Christmas swap. Ofcourse I made some for myself as well.  It has a lovely scrub and leaves my skin nice and soft.

De baby is nu bijna 11 weken oud en een heerlijk kereltje. Hij groeit lekker en heeft al veel weg van een buddhabeeldje. Soms lijkt hij ook wel op een baby-shrek, maar ik denk dat dat aan de camerakunsten van DH ligt.

De laatste paar dagen heeft hij nogal wat buikpijn s'avonds en dan gaan we even lekker in bad om te ontspannen. Het werkt als een tierelier en de kleine slaapt daarna heerlijk.
Omdat ik niet wil dat hij teveel uitdroogt heb ik een heerlijke badolie met lavendel gemaakt. Hierdoor blijft zijn huidje heerlijk zacht.

Lavendel badolie / Lavender Bath oil
1/3 PS80
2/3 Amandelolie / Sweet almond oil
0.5% - 2% Lavendelolie / Lavender oil

Gewoon mixen en je kunt het gebruiken. Door de PS80 wordt de olie met het water vermengd, waardoor hij niet blijft drijven.

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My sweet baby is now almost 11 weeks old and grows like mad. He resembles a little buddha (although DH managed to make him look like a baby shrek).
As he has quite a bit of stomach ache at night lately I have a nice relaxing bath with him. I made some Lavender Bath Oil to moisturize his skin. The recipe is posted above.

Bubble bars of bubbelbadstukken zijn op dit moment reuze populair, maar om ze te maken vergt andere technieken dan het maken van zeep. Aangezien veel mensen niet precies weten hoe ze het moeten aanpakken en er niet veel duidelijke info te vinden is, leek het me nuttig om een tutorial met foto's te schrijven. Omdat ik heb geen twee keer wil schrijven doe ik dat alleen in het engels.

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Bubble bars or solid bubble bath are very popular, but it requires a different technic to making soap. As a lot of people have problems making them and there is no clear info to be found, it seemed useful to make a photo tutorial.

Ingredients:
250 grams Bisodiumcarbonate
65 grams Cream of Tartar (wijnsteen, geen wijnsteenzuur!)
50 grams SLS or SLSA powder
+/- 50 grams fluid surfactants of choice
Little bit of Glycerine
Tapioca powder
Fragrance or essential oil (optional)
Colourant (optional)

Equipment:
Bowls
Dust mask
Spoon
Scales
Gloves
Strainer
Baking sheet (preferably silicone)

Start of by weighing the bicarb in a mixing bowl.






Now put the bicarb through the strainer into the large mixing bowl.


Now weigh the cream of tartar. Put this also through the strainer (it is quite lumpy) into the bowl.


If you want to add other powdered ingredients you can do so at this point. Mix the dry ingredients well.
Now add the fragrance and mix this through the dry mixture.



Make sure the fragrance is fully incorperated. It might be helpfull to squeeze  it with your hands until you do not feel any lumps.


Now put your mask on and very carefully weigh the SLS/SLSA. This is a very fine powder that can irritate your lungs, so keep kids/animals out of the room and air very well.
Add the powder to the mixture.


Fold the mixture very carefully. If you mix too vigorously the dust will send you out of the room coughing your lungs out.


Add your fluid surfactants little by little.


Now put your gloves on and knead the mixture. If it is too dry you add a bit more liquid surfactant, if it is too wet you add a bit of tapioca powder.


You are ready when the mixture forms a ball and your gloves are pretty clean.





Now mix your colourant(s) with a little glycerine. Try to make sure no lumps are left as these will show in your final product.


Divide your mixture in the parts you want to colour. Keep one part in the mixing bowl and set the rest aside.


Now add your colourant and knead with your hands until the colour is solid. If the mixture becomes too sticky, just add some tapioca powder.


Sprinkle some tapioca on the silicone sheet and put one part of the mixture on this.


Now push the mixture down with your fingers to make a flat pancake.


If the top gets sticky, just dust with some tapioca. The thinner the pancake, the easier to roll.


Now add your second layer on top of the first and flatten this one as well.



Now fold the bottom over and push down lightly.



Now fold the bottom of the sheet over a bit further, so more gets rolled.



Continue until the roll is fully rolled up. Now squeeze the roll lightly, so all layers stick together.


Cut the roll in equal parts.


You can see the rolled layers here.


Take each piece and hand form it to your liking. I made every piece round and lightly pushed it down.


Now let the bubble pieces dry for at least 24 hours before packaging. They should feel hard to the touch.


To use them you crumble one under warm running water. Now slide into the bath and enjoy your luxurious bubbles!

Ik heb voor mijn moeder een lekkere en verzorgende bodywash gemaakt. Dit was niet makkelijk, want ze wilde twee tegenstrijdige dingen. Het moet natuurlijk schoonmaken, maar mag de huid niet uitdrogen. Na wat research te hebben gedaan kwam ik uiteindelijk terecht bij een paar nuttige recepten die ik heb getweakt.

Fase 1 (aubain marie smelten en 20 minuten op 70graden Celsius houden)
20 gr sci
30 gr cocamidopropyl betaine
10 gr sls
15 gr disodium laureth sulfosuccinate

Fase 2 (aubain marie verwarmen en ook 20 minuten op 70graden Celsius houden)
74 gr water
20 gr aloe vera

Voeg fase 2 bij fase 1 en roer goed zonder schuim te maken.

Fase 3 (samen voegen en bij mengsel voegen)
6 gr glycerine
6 gr btms 50
4 gr hydrolyzed silk proteine
1 gr hydrolyzed wheat proteine

Fase 4 (samen voegen en goed mengen. Daarna bij mengsel voegen)
8 gr grape oil
6 gr polysorbate 80

Mengsel laten afkoelen tot 45 graden Celsius en koude fase toevoegen.

Koude fase
4 gr panthenol
2 gr fragrance (frangipane)
2 gr preservative

Ik ben benieuwd wat ze hiervan vind. Hij ruikt in ieder geval lekker en maakt de huid lekker zacht.

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My mum asked me for a nice body wash that had to clean and moisturise her skin. Nice idea, but not easy to accomplish. After doing some research I came up with the recipe above.
It seems like a very nice one, so I am curious what she thinks of it.