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I am very excited to be joining the Spring market at The Purple Windmill Plaas Mol in Klapmuts the first weekend in September.They have an awesome venue with live music, kiddies play park, an outdoor chilling area with a huge braai, and of course some mouth-watering food as well. Venue: Purple Windmill Plaas MolWhere: Uitspan, […]
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A celebration of lemons would imply to use as much of the lemon as possible so this meant the rind and the juice. I wasn’t overly optimistic about getting a lot of colour from the rind in an oil infusion but was hopeful for a touch of smell nevertheless, so I infused lemon rind in some extra virgin olive oil which would form part of the ingredients.
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People have used soap for centuries and it continues to be widely used as a cleansing agent, mild antiseptic and ingestible antidote to some forms of poisoning. Soap can be produced by a simple process called saponification that takes place when a fatty acid comes in contact with an alkali. When fats or oils, which […]
I decided to make a video the other day to showcase my natural soap. It wasn’t anything spectacular, just me washing my hands at the basin with some captions about handcrafted artisanal soap 😉 Here’s the video: https://www.soapnthings.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/my_soap_movie.mp4 It got me thinking about how people perceive having “clean hands”, especially now that there is wide […]
Soap… for some it’s an object of cleaning only, for other it has a cosmetic purpose. And it’s probably the first item to be manufactured by chemical means that is still in production today using similar production methods. It still fascinates me today that ordinary oil, fats and butters can turn into a solid mass […]
I made facial hot process bars in March using colloidal silver as full fluid and have kept them in storage to cure. I usually only do cold process soap bars, however I needed to hot process this batch to test a granite or marbled effect using activated charcoal, which turned out beautifully.
