L'ARABICA "RE-LAUNCH"

Keep your lips moisturised with l'arabica lip balm.

A gorgeous little pot with rich refreshing aromatic coffee butter brimming with delicate flavours of virgin organic coconut oil and Ghananaian premium unrefined cocoa butter.

A touch of vanilla absolute compliments this silky lip balm - just don't lick your lips!

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NO REST FOR THE WICKED!!

I have been busy making soap in between helping to build a brighter future and trips to the post office. I find soapmaking somehow therapeutic although my concentration level has to be spot on. As I make natural soap using the cold process method, I have to allow anything between 8-16 weeks or more to cure.

This is the latest one with heavenly coffee butter. Although I am not a great coffee lover, I get all excited when I decant coffee butter to blend in products or to decant for the discerning customer. This particular soap (l'arabica) has more than 50% of pure

unrefined fair trade cocoa butter,

enough coffee butter to make you swoon whipped with creamy coconut milk and dusted with organic vanilla powder.

Here is a collage of other soaps on the curing rack.

SHEA SOAP With more than 70% of pure unrefined sheabutter - fragrance free.

ROOIBOS SOAP Infused with South African rooibos and scented with guaiacwood essential oil

PAPAYA SOAP Full of natural AHA (Alpha hydroxy acids) for a clearer skin

FRESH With organic extra virgin olive oil & juices of freshly squeezed organic fruits

SHED THE OLD SKIN

Last Friday, I had plans to take things easy as I have been "running around" all week. However, the rascals had a different idea - they were both off school feeling under the weather. After managing to get them off to sleep in the afternoon, I got myself into the kitchen to concoct this African Black soap sugar scrub.

Ingredients:

Lots of patience (about 3 hours)

230g sugar (Whitworths Fairtrade demerara sugar)

132g African Black Soap

66g unrefined sheabutter

66g unrefined cocoabutter

66g fractionated coconut oil

20g veg. glycerin

The scrub makes 2 x 270g and smells wonderful even without any essential oils. The unrefined cocoa butter gives it a different edge to it. When you get to the M stage, your skin plays games with you. I live in a hard water area and managed to use only a tablespoon size of this scrub. My skin was really soft to touch.

Demerara sugar is very soft so this scrub is a bit porous when applied to the skin.