Goats supply Dickinson family with milk, meat, soap

AP Wire | 08/20/2005 | Goats supply Dickinson family with milk, meat, soap: "Lisa grew up around goats and purchased her first one in 1992. She serves only goat's milk to her family.

'It tastes like cow's milk,' she said. 'It's naturally homogenized. The fat globules are easier to digest. For that reason, it's good for people with stomach problems.'

Because she doesn't have what is considered a Grade A dairy, Lisa can't sell the goat's milk. 'There's no way to market it, basically,' she said.

That's one of the reasons she turned to making soap. About 1 1/2 years ago, she started making the soap with a recipe she found on the Internet.

'It worked out the very first time. It was so exciting,' she said.

She always uses goat's milk, but cow's milk or water can be substituted in some recipes.

'The secret to mine is the frozen goat's milk,' she said. She blends it in a bowl with distilled water and the lye. The oils are heated to 110 degrees Fahrenheit and poured in a bowl.

The goat's milk mixture is poured slowly into the bowl and blended. The soap is poured into molds and is allowed to set for 24 hours."

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Dig cut flowers? Check out this nursery

Dig cut flowers? Check out this nursery: "Dig Nursery on Vashon Island is well known by anyone who's into rare and unusual plants, but it also is a destination in its own right, featuring spectacular demonstration gardens and intriguing works of garden art. The coup de gras comes once a year when the amazing flower-filled wholesale cutting garden is open to the public.

The one-acre garden supplies flowers to wholesale florists all around the area. You'll see a dazzling display of old-fashioned 'grandma plants,' including 12-foot-tall empress dahlias, huge blue delphiniums combined with yellow and red Tigridia shell flowers, old-fashioned asters, salvias, Amaranthus 'Love Lies Bleeding,' gazillions of zinnias and much more.

When you're exhausted from strolling, attend a class on making bouquets, learn how to create your own cutting garden or see if you can do the impossible by stumping me with your garden questions. The event runs Saturday and Sunday, 1-5 p.m., and all proceeds from the $5 entry fee benefit Vashon Allied Arts. For information, call 206-463-5096, or go to www.dignursery.com and click on 'Workshops.'"

Check Out How To Buy Flowers for Any Occasion With Confidence

Soap Naturally - Ida teaches us how to recalculate a soap recipe

Soap Naturally - Ida teaches us how to recalculate a soap recipe: "I have to defer to your fellow Aussie's knowledge and concerns about obtaining certain 'raw materials'. But to answer your question about reducing (or increasing) recipes, the easiest way I have found is to turn the weights into percentages and then multiply them by the amount you do want to make. You will have to excuse my US fondness for ounces but, of course, the theory is the same whatever measurement you use.

So for this recipe:"

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Scents and Mood

Scents and Mood: "Scents and Mood
People are finally catching on that scents from candles and soaps truly can affect and/or enhance your mood. Jacqui MacNeill, of British Columbia, has recently rebranded all of her company's soaps and candles into six mood 'categories' - unwind, fresh, passionate, energize, balance and indulge, incorporating elements of aromatherapy and color theory into her recipes and product design. Read the Full Article."


There is so much to a fragrance.....

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Carmel

The Soap Dish Brings You More....Now It's Soul Soap

Bon Vivant: SOAP for the Soul: "Here are instructions for making attractive, great smelling and healthful hand milled soap:

First assemble your supplies. For approximately 22 ounces of cured soap you will need the following:
-Covered saucepan that can hold six cups of water and can be placed in a 200 degree oven.
-Plastic or wooden stirring spoon
-Measuring cups
-Muffin tin, loaf pan, some other kitchen item that can be used as a mold. Click here to see some examples. Or, ideally a soap making mold.
-Wire cookie or cake rack
-Knife

The Raw Materials:
-1 pound soap block that has been hand milled.
-1 cup of goat’s, white or soy milk
-1 cup of carrier oil such as sweet almond, grapeseed or olive oil.
-Pam cooking spray

These items based on personal preference:
-Pure essential oils
-Grated fruit skin such as lemon, grapefruit or orange
-Herbs, flowers, berries"


The Soap Dish brings you more......
Soap for the soul, good recipe here for you

Cheers
Carmel

Not Wind In The Willows, Now It's Soap In The Willow

SoapWire | Newswire for the Natural Personal Care Products Industry: Willow Way Now Offers, A Complete Line of Soap Making Accessories: "Willow Way now offers a complete line of soapmaking accessories to help make your soap making business easier, safer, profitable and more productive. Our quest is to be the “one stop shop” for all your soapmaking equipment needs.

We have added an extensive line of soapmaking accessories to our popular line of soapmaking equipment. Our accessory line has everything from safety equipment to material handling equipment.

Just point your browser to www.soapequipment.com/accessories/ and check out our complete line of quality products."


Just leave it to Willow, now they are into soap making lines, Could be to our benefit, bigger better range?????

Cheers & bubbles

Carmel