Free Organic Homemade Solid Lotion Barn Tutorial ...

I want to share my recipe to create organic, chemical free solid lotion bars!

It is easy to make and the perfect lotion bar for  your hands, elbows, or any other part of your body. I have never used a store bought hand care product again since I began making this solid lotion bar!

Ingredients:

3 oz. beeswax
3 oz. cocoa butter
3 oz. sunflower oil
essential oil or fragrance oil (optional)

I only use organic ingredients from my local Fair Trade store!

- Gently melt the beeswax and cocoa butter 'au bain marie';

- When melted add the sunflower oil and stir until thouroughly mixed;

- Keep stirring until the mixture is slightly cooled, then add essential oil or fragrance oil if you want (about 1  tea spoon);

- Pour the mixture into moulds and let it harden. (I use a silicon muffin mould).

Voila! Your chemical free all natural Solid Lotion Bars are ready for use!

Enjoy!!

Ground-elder , a Wonderful Weed . . .

Most gardeners consider Ground-elder (Aegopodium podagraria) a most annoying weed. I have to admit, once you have it in your garden, it's there to stay! 

But it's also a very tasteful and healthy vegetable. Basically you can use it in the same ways you cook with spinach. Cooked, stir-fried or raw as a salad.

Pluck the young leaves from Februari to May, before the plant starts to bloom (at least in my part of the world). You will be pleasantly surprised by this healthy, tasty and free vegetable from your own garden!

Walnuts and Pears You Plant for your Heirs . . .

How true is this adage that encourages us to think long term and look after future generations!

Almost every house in my village has a little orchard. We harvest pears, apples, plums and more to share with everyone. The people here aren't 'hip' or 'green' or 'new wave'. They have lived with the land for many generations and every new day I learn from them. How to work the land, how not waste resources, how to create, re-use and give back.

The pears in the photo are from my last Autumn harvest. This Autumn the trees will provide me with a new crop, as they will for my children and children's children . . .