Category: Tutorials and Recipes
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Using Epsom Salt for Healthy Growth in Plants
Hello Handmakers! We recently came across this post by Gardening Know How on how you can use epsom salt for your plants, and thought it was fantastic so we wanted to share it with you here 🙌 PSSST! If you’d like to buy some epsom salt, you can get them from our shop here! Information…
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Make Your Own Beeswax Wrap with 3 Ingredients
Sustainable, reusable and multipurpose, beeswax wraps are the earth-friendly alternative to plastic wraps, cling wrap and single-use plastics. They’re incredibly versatile and can be used to cover containers, wrap solid food, veggies, soaps, candles and more! You won’t have to worry about chemicals leaching into your food or products anymore when you use beeswax wraps.…
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Cold Process Dish Soap Using Premium Extra Red Palm Oil
Hi Crafters! We’ve recently included a new carrier oil to our catalogue and are excited to share the gorgeous orange-red color your cold process soap bar will naturally gain by using our Premium Extra Red Palm Oil. Our Premium Extra Red Palm Oil is also known as Unrefined Palm Oil. It is rich in carotenes,…
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9 Household Uses for Sodium Carbonate (Soda Ash)
A powerful natural cleaner thanks to it’s high alkalinity (pH 11), Sodium Carbonate (Na2CO3) is commonly known as Soda Ash. It’s an active ingredient in washing soda which is also called soda ash. This can make it confusing to differ between the two, but the most obvious difference is that sodium carbonate has a fine…
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DIY Leaf Shine with 3 Ingredients
Dust and debris naturally collects on the surface of indoor plants which can affect their ability to absorb sunlight, photosynthesis process and growth. Thus, it’s important for us to wipe the leaves of our plants every now and then to keep them clean and healthy. But, what else can be done for our plants? Why…
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What is Tung Oil and How to Use it
Hi Crafters! We’ve gotten a few questions on our 100% pure Tung Oil recently and have come up with this informative blog post to help introduce this wonderful product to you all What is Tung Oil? Extracted from the seed of the nut of the Tung Tree (Vernicia fordii), Tung Oil (Chinese: 桐, tóng ;…
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DIY Eyeball Soap for Halloween
October is here which means Halloween just around the corner! We’re excited to decorate our shop and make it more suitable for the occasion, but while we were taking all the old props out of their storage boxes, we got the idea to make some that can be used for other purposes as well 👻…
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Lifecast with Alginate and Plaster of Paris in 6 Steps
Life-casting is a craft where you create a three-dimensional representation of a subject from a mold of their living body. It allows for the creation of exact portraits and body reproduction—works which may have artistic and/or personal value. In other words, it’s perfect for capturing details and keeping something frozen in time. Fun Fact! Life-casting…
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All Natural Watermelon Clay Face Mask for Glowing Skin
As the Malaysian weather flip-flops between humid/dry heat and heavy rains, we’ve noticed that our skins are getting duller, breaking out or losing moisture (and thus, producing more sebum to compensate this which then leads to more breakouts and the cycle never ends). Normally, we can confidently say that this is due to the ever-changing…
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Guide for Adding Honey to Melt and Pour Soap
Hi Crafters! Some of you have come to us, explaining that your honey soaps made using melt and pour soap bases are too soft or have honey leaking out of them. So, we’ve come up with this little guide for you using our Crystal Glycerin Soap Base and our Organic Longan Honey. PS: If you’d…
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