Posts Tagged With: essential oils

Lavender Buds Goat’s Milk Soap

Posted on September 29, 2024 by pauldelancey

LAVENDER BUDS GOAT’S MILK SOAP

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INGREDIENTS
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1 teaspoon pale blue, lavender, or summer violet mica powder
¼ cup isopropyl alcohol
1 tablespoon butter or alcohol
2 pounds goat milk’s soap base
1 teaspoon lavender essential oil
1 tablespoon lavender buds
butter or alcohol to coat molding
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Makes 10½ bars. 1″ wide. Takes 3½ hours.
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PREPARATION
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Add pale blue mica and ¼ cup alcohol to mixing bowl. Blend.
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Rub silicon mold with alcohol or butter.
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Use spice grinder to grind lavender buds into powder
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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.
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Pour melted goat’s milk base to soap mold
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Add essential oil. Mix.
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Add lavender powder and mica/alcohol blend. Mix.
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Let sit for 3 hours. Use soap slicer to cut soap into slices 1″ wide.
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TIDBITS
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1) Things you can do with bars of lavender buds goat’s milk :(LBGMS):
Shower
Bathe
Barter for things you want when you don’t have enough money. Note: some things like houses will take quite a lot of soap bars in trade.
Corner the market in LBGMS. Think of all the money you’ll make if LBGMS mania takes over, Think of how clean and fragrant you be if it doesn’t.
Build your dream house with bars of LBGMS. Note: you won’t be able to insure your dream house against rain storms. May I suggest building your LBGMS home in places that get no rain at all? The world has a few such places.
Use your LBGMS bars to create avant-garde art. Become famous overnight.
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– 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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Vanilla Shampoo

Posted on April 21, 2024 by pauldelancey

VANILLA SHAMPOO

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INGREDIENTS
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½ cup Castile Soap
2 teaspoons coconut oil
½ cup distilled water
12 drops vanilla essential oil
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SPECIAL UTENSIL
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1 cup, or larger, bottle
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PREPARATION
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Add all ingredients to bottle. Stir with fork, or shake, until well blended.
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TIDBITS
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1) “Vanilla Shampoo” is an anagram for “vanilla shampoo.”
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2) Fun fact: All words, or phrases, are anagrams of themselves. Culinary beauticians call these “first-order anagrams.”
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3) Second-order anagrams actually rearrange the letters. As an example, the second-order anagram for “twelve plus one” is “eleven plus two.”
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4) Don’t forget, an anagram for “Aloha salmon VIP” is “Vanilla Shampoo.”
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5) Try these anagrams at parties. Nothing but good can come from liberally sprinkling you conversations with these witticisms. People will admire your intellect and you become the life of the party. Vivacious, beautiful people will want to date you. Corporate executives will fall over themselves trying to hire you. Or . . .
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6) Partygoers will have heard these anagrams before. (I mean, what are the odd? Right?) In this case, the revelers will leave you alone. Take this reaction to grab some tasty hors d’oeuvres as you make your unnoticed exit.
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7) Dart back inside. Fit as many shrimps as you can into your Tupperware(tm) container. (You should always carry one.) As you zip out again, defiantly yell, “Hors d’oeuvre doesn’t need to be italicized as it has become an accepted part of our language.” That’ll teach them for shunning you.
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– 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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Bergamot Lavender Charcoal Soap

Posted on November 6, 2023 by pauldelancey

BERGAMOT LAVENDER CHARCOAL SOAP

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INGREDIENTS
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2 pounds charcoal soap base
½ teaspoon bergamot essential oil
½ teaspoon lavender essential oil
isopropyl alcohol or butter to coat molding
isopropyl alcohol to spray away bubbles forming on soap
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SPECIAL UTENSILS
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soap mold
spray bottle
soap slicer (optional)
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Makes 10½ bars, 1″ wide. Takes 3 hours 30 minutes.
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SPECIAL UTENSILS
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PREPARATION
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Spray silicon mold with isopropyl alcohol or rub with butter.
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Cut charcoal base into 1″ cubes. Add charcoal cubes to large glass measuring cups. Melt base in 30 second intervals. Stir after every time. Add bergamot and lavender essential oils.
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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.
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TIDBITS
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1) The following claims for charcoal that come up repeatedly are that it detoxifies, exfoliates, and calms. That’s pretty good as charcoal soap even cleans youl.
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2) Culinary soapologists also say that charcoal soap gives you the following superpowers:
You will never need more than 30 seconds to find your car keys and glasses.
Vampires will never attack you. If you add garlic to your charcoal soap, neither will werewolves.
DMV lines will be half the length they are for other soap users
Your memory will improve to the point that you will always find the TV remote.
Orphan socks will become a thing of the past.
Chickens will no longer run away from you.
All people named Bert or Sarah will always say, “Hi.”
So will elephants. Be prepared to run.
Staff from both political parties will ask you to run for office for them.
People will be much more attracted to you. If that becomes a problem, rub yourself with garlic.
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– 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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Pumpkin Shea Butter Soap

Posted on November 2, 2023 by pauldelancey

PUMPKIN SHEA BUTTER SOAP

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INGREDIENTS
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½ pound pumpkin pulp* (no stringy bits)
1 teaspoon orange mica powder
2 teaspoons pumpkin** spice
2 tablespoons isopropyl alcohol
2 pounds shea butter soap base
1 teaspoon cinnamon leaf essential oil
isopropyl alcohol or butter to coat molding
isopropyl alcohol to spray away bubbles forming on soap
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* = Use the pumpkin pulp from your Halloween pumpkin or possibly pick up a free Halloween pumpkin from your supermarket on November 1.
** = Or substitute with 1 teaspoon cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon ground cloves, ½ teaspoon ginger, and ¼ teaspoon nutmeg.
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SPECIAL UTENSILS
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food processor
soap mold
spray bottle
microwave
soap slicer (optional)
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Makes 10½ bars, 1″ wide. Takes 3 hours 30 minutes.
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PREPARATION
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Puree pumpkin pulp in food processor and set aside. Add orange mica powder, pumpkin spice, and 2 tablespoons isopropyl alcohol to small mixing bowl. Mix with fork until well blended.
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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 orange mica powder/isopropyl mix and cinnamon leaf essential oil. Stir with knife until well blended. Let sit for 6 minutes. (This inhibits pumpkin bits from settling to the bottom of the soap mold.) Add pureed pumpkin. Mix with knife until well blended.
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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.
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TIDBITS
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1) Spoiler alert, this soap, Pumpkin Shea Butter Soap uses pumpkin.
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2) So does pumpkin pie.
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3) So do many recipes from Africa.
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4) Pumpkins have other uses.
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5) Like jack o’lanterns.
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6) Like pumpkin bowling ball.
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7) Culinary sport historians assert that pumpkin bowling started in the northern states of the Union in 1865.
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8) Because every Northern soldier returning home after the end of the Civil War was given 50 pumpkins when mustered out of the army.
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9) This meant northern towns and cities became inundated with pumpkins.
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10) Pumpkins that would eventually rot. Ugh.
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11) There were only so many pumpkin pies and African entrees featuring pumpkins that people would eat.
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12) So naturally, pumpkin lawn bowling leagues sprang up in any town greater than 6 people.
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13) Didn’t the pumpkin bowling balls break apart when they hit the bowling pins? Yes, they did. But remember, each returning soldier returned with 50 pumpkins.
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14) Pumpkins still remained. Pumpkin Baseball flourished for two weeks in the summer of ‘65.
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15) Frank Butler and Bartolomeo Diaz of Madison, Wisconsin thought up the game of basket ball on June 15th, 1865.
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16) Pumpkin basketball was such fun. The 39 seconds of the first game thrilled the local fans.
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17) But it took only two shots to demolish the pair of pumpkins. Madison would not get anymore pumpkins until harvest time in the fall.
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18) By which time, people plain forgot about Pumpkin Basket Ball, what with the long days devoted to harvesting and eating pumpkin pies.
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19) This is why June 15th is only remembered as a day to pay taxes and not by the National Basketball Association.
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– 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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