Posts Tagged With: essential oil

Nutmeg Glycerin Soap

Posted on October 28, 2024 by pauldelancey

NUTMEG GLYCERIN SOAP

INGREDIENTS

1 tablespoon nutmeg

3 tablespoons isopropyl alcohol

isopropyl alcohol or butter to coat molding

2 pounds glycerin soap base

½ teaspoon nutmeg essential oil

isopropyl alcohol to spray away bubbles forming on soap

SPECIAL UTENSILS

soap molding

spray bottle

soap slicer (optional)

Makes 10½ bars, 1″ wide. Takes 3 hours.

PREPARATION

Add nutmeg and 3 tablespoons alcohol to mixing bowl. Mix with fork until well blended.

Spray silicon mold with isopropyl alcohol or rub with butter.

Cut glycerin base into 1″ cubes. Add glycerin to large glass measuring cups. Use microwave to melt base in 30 second intervals. Stir after every time. Let sit for 15 minutes or until well blended. (This inhibits nutmeg from settling to the bottom of the soap molding.) Add nutmeg/isopropyl mix and nutmeg essential oil. Mix with knife until well blended.

Pour into soap mold. If desired, lightly spray bubbles with isopropyl alcohol to make them disappear. Let sit for 3 hours. Use soap slicer to cut soap into slices 1″ wide.

TIDBITS

1) Nutmeg and nitro sound the same.

2) But they are not. This recipe, nutmeg glycerin, produces a nice scent. You can safely make nutmeg glycerin. You can ever safely shower with it.

3) Nitroglycerin, however, possess explosive tendencies. Making nitroglycerin in your kitchen will likely blow a hole in a wall. On the plus, the nitro blast passed over because you bent down to pick up a dime. You now have easy access from the kitchen to the dining room. And you’re ten cents richer.

3) Strange to say, no soap recipe enjoins us not to use nitroglycerin. Let me be the first to do so.

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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Cinnamon Shea Butter Soap

Posted on September 26, 2024 by pauldelancey

CINNAMON SHEA BUTTER SOAP

INGREDIENTS

½ teaspoon brown mica powder

1 tablespoon isopropyl alcohol

2 pounds shea butter base

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1 teaspoon cinnamon essential oil

isopropyl alcohol

SPECIAL UTENSIL

soap mold

spray bottle

soap slicer (optional)

Makes 10½ bars, 1″ wide. Takes 3 hours.

PREPARATION

Add brown mica and 1 tablespoon isopropyl alcohol to small mixing bowl. Mix with fork until well blended.

Cut shea butter base into 1″ cubes. Add shea butter base to large glass measuring cups. Melt base in 30 second intervals. Stir after every time. Add pale brown mica powder/isopropyl mix and cinnamon essential oil. Stir with knife until well blended. Let sit for 15 minutes. (This inhibits cinnamon from settling to the bottom of the soap mold.) Add cinnamon. Mix with knife until well blended.

Spray silicon mold with isopropyl alcohol. Pour melted soap into soap mold. If desired, lightly spray bubbles with isopropyl alcohol to make them disappear. Let soap sit for 3 hours. Use soap slicer to cut soap into slices 1″ wide.

Let sit for 3 hours. Use soap slicer to cut soap into bars 1″ wide.

TIDBITS

1) The New York Mets played baseball in Shea Stadium from 1964 to 2008. Most people agree that Shea Stadium was named after William A. Shea the man who led the effort to bring National League baseball back to New York.

2) Culinary historians disagree. They maintain the stadium got its name because it was built mainly from cinnamon. Indeed, culinary engineers tell us that cinnamon sticks when subjected to enough pressure will be stronger than steel. Unfortunately, the cost of producing super strong I beams and pillars out of cinnamon proved to be prohibitive. All future stadiums would employ steel for all sorts of things. Now you know.

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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Earl Grey Shea Butter Soap

Posted on September 25, 2024 by pauldelancey

EARL GREY SHEA BUTTER SOAP

INGREDIENTS

2 pounds shea butter base

1 teaspoon bergamot essential oil

½ teaspoon lemongrass essential oil

½ teaspoon orange essential oil

2 tea bags Earl Grey(tm) tea

isopropyl alcohol

Makes 10½ bars. 1″ wide. Takes 3½ hours.

SPECIAL UTENSILS

soap mold

spray bottle

soap slicer (optional)

PREPARATION

Cut shea butter base into 1″ cubes. Add shea butter to 2 large glass measuring cups. Melt base in 30 second intervals. Stir after every time. Add essential oils. Let sit for 20 minutes. (This inhibits Earl Grey tea from settling to the bottom of the soap mold..) Add Earl Grey tea. Mix with knife until well blended.

TIDBITS

1) Earl Grey tea is named after the second Earl Grey. Bummer for the first earl. Anyway, the second Earl Grey was a British prime minister. He helped pass the Durham University Act. His reward? That college got named Grey College. The third earl did little of interest to us. Although, rumors persist that went undefeated in Parcheesi. The fourth earl served at Governor General of Canada in 1909. The Canadian Football League name its championship trophy after him, the Grey Cup. Clearly for about a century, this was a happening family

2) But so was the La Fong family. Harry La Fong invented the stackable balloon cube. Can you imagine a party without a tsunami of little kids screaming through La Fong’s StackablesTM? but it was Carl La Fong’s film career that really put Hollywood’s film making on the cinematic map. You might have thought that the inability to memorize lines would have stopped cold any acting career. But the owner, Earl Zane Grey, of FlautasTM Studios noticed La Fong’s calming effect on movie making, So, Earl Grey, hired La Fong. Whenever actors addressed characters who couldn’t be seen, they’d be speaking to the off-stage La Fong. Thus Carl La Fong became the quintessential Man Off Stage for decades to come. He even has a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

Categories: soap | Tags: Canada, Canadian Football League, Comic Chef, cookbook, essential oil, film making, Governor General, Hollywood Boulevard, isopropyl alcohol, Lutheran, prime minister, silicon mold, star, thriller, tsunami | Leave a comment

Honey Lavender Goat’s Milk Soap

Posted on January 13, 2024 by pauldelancey

HONEY LAVENDER GOAT’S MILK SOAP

INGREDIENTS

1 tablespoon lavender buds

1 teaspoon gold mica powder

2 tablespoons isopropyl alcohol

2 pounds goat’s milk soap base

1 teaspoon lavender essential oil

2 tablespoons honey

isopropyl alcohol

SPECIAL UTENSILS

soap molding

spray bottle

Makes 10½ bars. 1″ wide. Takes 3½ hours.

PREPARATION

Add lavender buds to spice grinder. Grind until the bud bits are small as possible.. Add gold mica and 2 tablespoons isopropyl alcohol to small mixing bowl. Mix with fork until well blended.

Cut goat’s milk base into 1″ cubes. Add goat’s milk base to large glass measuring cups. Melt base in 30 second intervals. Stir after every time. Add gold mica powder/isopropyl mix and lavender essential oil. Stir with knife until well blended. Let sit for 15 minutes. (This inhibits lavender bits and honey from settling to the bottom of the soap mold.) Add lavender bits and honey. Mix with knife until well blended.

TIDBITS

1) Earth has gravity. The gravity of anything on Earth’s surface is defined to be one bar. The gravity of one soap bar is one bar. They’re the same! The same, I tell you! Let’s see if the reverse is true. Does one bar weigh one bar? It does! It does!

2) Oh my gosh, gravity comes from soap bars. Without soap’s gravitational field, nothing on Earth would stay on Earth. All of humanity and all our remote controls would eventually float off into space. Without our remote controls, how would we watch our favorite television programs?

3) So, scatter as many soap bars as you can around your home and for pity’s sake, keep a firm grip on your Honey Lavender Goat’s Milk soap whenever you shower. Your future depends on it.

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

Categories: soap | Tags: Comic Chef, Earth, essential oil, goat's milk, gravitional field, gravity, honey, humanity, lavender, mica powder, one bar, Paul R. De Lancey, remote controls, shower, soap base | Leave a comment

Basil Glycerin Soap

Posted on January 6, 2024 by pauldelancey

BASIL GLYCERIN SOAP

INGREDIENTS

6 tablespoons fresh basil

1 teaspoon pale green mica powder

2 tablespoons isopropyl alcohol

2 pounds glycerin soap base

1 teaspoon basil essential oil

isopropyl alcohol

SPECIAL UTENSILS

soap mold

spray bottle

soap slicer (optional)

Makes 10½ bars, 1″ wide. Takes 3 hours.

PREPARATION

Add basil to spice grinder. Grind until the basil bits are small as possible.. Add pale green mica and 2 tablespoons isopropyl alcohol to small mixing bowl. Mix with fork until well blended.

Cut glycerin base into 1″ cubes. Add glycerin base to large glass measuring cups. Melt base in 30 second intervals. Stir after every time. Add green mica powder/isopropyl mix and basil essential oil. Stir with knife until well blended. Let sit for 15 minutes. (This inhibits basil bits from settling to the bottom of the soap mold.) Add basil bits. Mix with knife until well blended.

TIDBITS

1) Perhaps the most famous Basil of all time is Basil Rathbone, who is most remembered for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes.

2) The next most renowned Basil is Basil II emperor of the Byzantine Empire, 976 – 1025. He proved to be more aggressive than the above actor as evinced by his nickname, “Bulgar Slayer.” Bulgars, or Bulgarians, come from Bulgaria. However, bulgur wheat is a nutrient dense cracked grain that improves blood sugar control, heart health, and digestion.

3) Basilicas were first designed by the famous architect Basil Ica in Greece in 452 AD.

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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Buddha’s Hand Glycerin Soap

Posted on January 1, 2024 by pauldelancey

BUDDHA’S HAND CITRON GLYCERIN SOAP

INGREDIENTS

¼ pound Buddha’s hand citron*

1 teaspoon yellow mica powder

2 tablespoons isopropyl alcohol

2 pounds glycerin soap base

¾ teaspoon lemon essential oil

isopropyl alcohol

* = May be found in organic food stores..

SPECIAL UTENSILS

soap mold

spray bottle

microwave

soap slicer (optional)

Makes 10 bars. 1″ wide. Takes 3 hours 30 minutes.

PREPARATION

Cut Buddha’s hand citron in food processor into little bits and set aside. Add yellow mica powder and 2 tablespoons isopropyl alcohol to small mixing bowl. Mix with fork until well blended

Chop glycerin base into 1″ cubes. Add glycerin to large glass measuring cups. Melt base in 30 second intervals. Stir after every time. Add yellow mica powder/ isopropyl mix and lemon essential oil. Stir with knife until well blended. Let sit for 15 minutes. (This inhibits Buddha’s hand citron from settling to the bottom of the soap mold.) Add bits of Buddha’s hand citron. Mix with knife until well blended.

TIDBITS

1) Buddha’s Hand Citron resembles the hand of many-fingered people praying to Buddha.

2) Buddha’s hand fruit is a symbol of happiness, longevity, and good fortune. Indeed, Buddha’s Hand is often given to family and loved ones in Japan as a symbol of good fortune.

3) Washing with Buddha’s Hand Citron Glycerin Soap helps you smell nice. Plus, with the Buddha citron bits inside it, you also get happiness, longevity, and good fortune. What more could you want?`

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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Lemon Poppy Seed Goat’s Milk Soap

Posted on November 14, 2023 by pauldelancey

LEMON POPPY SEED GOAT’S MILK SOAP

INGREDIENTS

2 pounds goat’s milk soap base

1 teaspoon yellow mica powder

¼ cup isopropyl alcohol

¾ teaspoon lemon essential oil

1 teaspoon poppy seeds (1 teaspoon more later)

1 tablespoon fresh lemon zest (1 more tablespoon later)

1 tablespoon fresh lemon zest

1 teaspoon poppy seeds

isopropyl alcohol

SPECIAL UTENSILS

soap mold

spray bottle

microwave

soap slicer (optional)

Makes 10 bars. 1″ wide. Takes 3 hours 30 minutes.

PREPARATION

Cut goat’s milk base into 1″ cubes. Add goat’s milk to large glass measuring cups. Melt base in 30 second intervals. Stir after every time. Add yellow mica and ¼ cup isopropyl alcohol to mixing bowl. Blend. Add yellow mica powder/ isopropyl mix and lemon essential oil. Stir with knife until well blended. Let sit for 6 minutes or until well blended. (This inhibits lemon zest and poppy seeds from settling to the bottom of the soap mold.) Add 1 tablespoon lemon zest and 1 teaspoon poppy seeds. Mix with knife until well blended.

Rub silicon mold with isopropyl alcohol. Pour melted goat’s milk base to soap mold. Sprinkle goat’s milk base with 1 tablespoon lemon zest and 1 teaspoon poppy seeds. If desired, lightly spray bubbles with isopropyl alcohol to make them disappear.

Let sit for 3 hours. Use soap slicer to cut soap into slices 1″ wide.

TIDBITS

1) Poppy is a girl’s first name.

2) Many people have Lemon be their last nane.

3) So, Ms. Poppy Lemon this soap is dedicated to you.

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

Categories: soap | Tags: alcohol, Comic Chef, cookbook, essential oil, goat's milk, isopropyl, lemon, melt and pour, mica powder, Paul R. De Lancey, poppy, recipes, seed, soap, zest | Leave a comment

Coffee Vanilla Shea Butter Soap

Posted on November 9, 2023 by pauldelancey

COFFEE VANILLA SHEA BUTTER SOAP

INGREDIENTS

2 pounds shea butter base

1 tablespoon isopropyl alcohol

¾ teaspoon coffee essential oil

½ teaspoon vanilla essential oil

½ cup used coffee grounds

isopropyl alcohol or butter to coat molding

and to spray away bubbles forming on soap

SPECIAL UTENSILS

soap mold

spray bottle

microwave

soap slicer (optional)

Makes 10½ bars. 1″ wide. Takes 3 hours 30 minutes..

PREPARATION

Cut shea butter base into 1″ cubes. Add shea butter base to large glass measuring cups. Melt base in microwave with timer set at 30 seconds. Stir after every time. Add 1 tablespoon isopropyl alcohol, coffee essential oil and vanilla essential oil. Stir with knife until well blended. Let sit for 6 minutes or until well blended.. (This inhibits coffee grounds from settling to the bottom of the soap mold.) Add coffee grounds. Mix with knife until well blended.

Rub silicon mold with isopropyl alcohol or butter. Pour into soap mold. If desired, lightly spray bubbles with isopropyl alcohol to make them disappear. Let soap sit for 3 hours. Use soap slicer to cut soap into slices 1″ wide.

TIDBITS

1) Estimates of how many cups of coffee are safe each day for an adult human vary with weight. For our purposes we assume 3 cups of coffee per day is the upper limit of safety for the average Botswanan adult, who weighs in at 140 pounds. Using average weights for various animals we can determine their limits for their daily safe coffee consumption. And here they are:

Botswanan 3 cups

Butterfly 1/700 teaspoon

Cats 3.4 tablespoons

Corgi 7 tablespoons

Goat 1.9 cups

Grizzly bear10.7 cups*

Orca 236 cups*

Rhinoceros 51.5 cups*

Tiger 5 cups*

Wren 1/50 teaspoon

* = People are especially cautioned not to give wild man-eating animals more than their safe limit.

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

Categories: observations, soap | Tags: alcohol, butterfly, cats, coffee, corgi, cups, drinking, essential oil, isopropyl, orca, rhinoceros, safe, soap, vanilla, wren | Leave a comment

Orange Goat’s Milk Soap

Posted on October 19, 2023 by pauldelancey

ORANGE GOAT’S MILK SOAP

INGREDIENTS

1 teaspoon orange mica powder

2 tablespoons isopropyl alcohol

2 pounds goat’s milk soap base

¾ teaspoon orange essential oil

2 tablespoons fresh orange zest*

isopropyl alcohol or butter to coat molding

isopropyl alcohol to spray away bubbles forming on soap

* = zest from 1 orange or 2 tsp dried orange zest

SPECIAL UTENSILS

soap mold

spray bottle

microwave

soap slicer (optional)

Makes 10½ bars, 1″ wide. Takes 3 hours 30 minutes.

PREPARATION

Add orange mica powder and 2 tablespoons isopropyl alcohol to small mixing bowl. Mix with fork until well blended.

Cut goat’s milk base into 1″ cubes. Add goat’s milk base to large glass measuring cups. Melt base in microwave with timer set at 30 seconds. Repeat until completely melted. Stir after every microwaving. Add orange mica powder/ isopropyl mix and orange essential oil. Stir with knife until well blended. Let sit for 5 minutes.. (This inhibits orange zest from settling to the bottom of the soap mold.) Add orange zest. Mix with knife until well blended.

Spray silicon mold with isopropyl alcohol or rub with butter. Pour into soap mold. If desired, lightly spray bubbles with isopropyl alcohol to make them disappear. Let soap sit for 3 hours. Use soap slicer to cut soap into slices 1″ wide.

TIDBITS

1) Orange Goat’s Milk might come from an orange goat. Or maybe milk from goats is orange, which would be way cool.

2) It’s not clear. More uncertainty has been introduced into your life. You might find that you’ll have trouble sleeping .If so, be sure to drink some warm orange goat’s milk before going to bed.

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

Categories: observations, soap | Tags: apocalyptic, Comic Chef, cookbook, essential oil, goats, isopropyl alcohol, Lutheran, mica powder, milk, orange, recipes, sleeping, soap, thriller, uncertainty, zest | Leave a comment

Soaphenge

Posted on June 18, 2023 by pauldelancey

Everyone knows about Stonehenge. It looks way cool. We wonder how it was constructed.

Not all henges were made of stone. Some were made of wood as in the not quite as famous Woodhenge. All henges are circular or ovalar. (Note, ovalar means to be shaped like an oval and is not at all like “ovular” which has to do with “ovum,” “ovulating,” and other similar words. Stonehenge was not built to track Queen Mahb’s menstrual cycles.)

Anyway, what was the purpose of these henges?

Many people hold the reason for Stonehenge was to track the movement of the Sun and the seasons. It certainly does that. However, other theories abound. Most likely henges were ancient burial grounds or a place for complex rituals and ceremonies designed to honor the dead. If in England, you really should visit Stonehenge and the other henges.

However, traveling to Stonehenge is time consuming and expensive if you live in America. Especially if you live in California? What do you do then?

May I suggest taking a trip to Poway, California to see its renowned Soaphenge.

What is the significance of Soaphenge? – To honor the prehistoric gods of cleanliness by bathing with soap.

Why aren’t any other soaphenges? – After a point, quite a soap henges disappeared to nothing after enough ceremonial baths. Furthermore, soap henges in rainy regions simply dissolved into suds after fierce rainstorms.

So see Soaphenge now! You’ll be glad you did.

Soaphenge used huge blocks made from shea butter, cinnamon, cinnamon essential oil, and brown coloring.

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

Categories: things to see and do | Tags: cermonies, Comic Chef, cookbook, England, essential oil, henge, menstrual cycles, ovular, Queen Mab, recipes, rituals, shea butter, soap, Stonehenge, the dead, woodhenge | Leave a comment

Posts Tagged With: essential oil

Nutmeg Glycerin Soap

NUTMEG GLYCERIN SOAP

Cinnamon Shea Butter Soap

CINNAMON SHEA BUTTER SOAP

Earl Grey Shea Butter Soap

EARL GREY SHEA BUTTER SOAP

Honey Lavender Goat’s Milk Soap

HONEY LAVENDER GOAT’S MILK SOAP

Basil Glycerin Soap

BASIL GLYCERIN SOAP

Buddha’s Hand Glycerin Soap

BUDDHA’S HAND CITRON GLYCERIN SOAP

Lemon Poppy Seed Goat’s Milk Soap

LEMON POPPY SEED GOAT’S MILK SOAP

Coffee Vanilla Shea Butter Soap

COFFEE VANILLA SHEA BUTTER SOAP

Orange Goat’s Milk Soap

ORANGE GOAT’S MILK SOAP

Soaphenge

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