Make Your Own – Gallifrey Forest Farm

Chemistry for Fun & Profit: Cracked Heel Balm

2024/04/05 Danielle 0

Alright, mostly for fun, not so much for profit. Unless you count a good foot ointment as profit (which I sort of do)… I suffer from dry skin and cracked heels on my feet. Used to be, I could just use whatever body lotion I was using on the rest of my skin (I also get really dry skin on my knees and elbows, so body lotion is a thing I have opinions about). I have tried using just a straight skin-friendly oil, which works pretty well (I believe that coconut oil is popular in the African American community, so […]

Lost Skills: Soapmaking

2022/10/26 Danielle 0

Soapmaking, as a hobby, tends to get either the enthusiastic interest of people who are into homesteading and do-it-yourself make-your-own hobbies, or half-amused references to the 1994 Fight Club scenes about stealing medical waste from liposuction operations and turning the fat into soap to then sell back to the wealthy customers of those same cosmetic surgery clinics. That is possible, by the way. The making of soap from human (or, more usually) other animal fat. Lard (beef fat) and tallow (sheep or lamb fat) are traditional ingredients for soapmaking, and make a nice, hard soap with a good lather. One […]