Well I arrived in time for the end of the news slot. Our speaker was Libby Syddall hello@somerset.soap.com - subject soap-making. This is the ad bit - 100% natural vegetarian/palm and dairy-free soaps, bath salts and lip balm.
The soap-making was fun to watch and involved 'measuring' various ingredients' - heating lots of oil, beeswax, coconut etc up then adding a mixture of water & soda crystals (the alkaline) - stirring in essential oils and colourings - in this case powdered spinach which produced an 'odd' colour BUT evidently this will improve after 7-8 weeks storage!! Lots of facts en route - palm-free is very good as it stops our forests being knocked down - do you search out palm oil free items when shopping - read the ingredients you will be surprised how many items include palm oil - we should avoid it if we can. Somerset Bees Wax - most items are Somerset sourced (not the Coconut surprisingly!!). Oh and it had set before she went home!!
Next step all members had a go at making our own 'scrub' - ideal for using after gardening for that 'proper cleanse' of your hands - you do wash off after use but only DAB dry to retain goodness. So then we split into two groups (first lot ate all the biscuits!!) and we each made our 'scrub' to take home.
Ingredients in mine: 8oz sugar, enough oil (mixture of sweet almond oil/sunflower oil) to mix, one tspn avocado oil, one tspn evening primrose oil, calendula dried pieces for 'herby interest' and 2-3 ml of essential oil - I chose 'litsea cubeba' (from China but gives a sherbert lemon smell). Needs a lot of stirring and has a slight oily topping - pot up and stir before use - keep on your window sill to remind you to use it!!
Ruth finished the evening with a list of all the things that went wrong for 'our other Ruth' in February - goodness it seemed she had 'so many problems' and even wished there wasn't an extra day this year. It did make us laugh (in horror of so many bad events) and then it turns out her immersion heater has broken down now as well!! As they say - it never rains but it pours!!
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