Handmade Lotions with Essential Oils and Bach Flowers

Home Made Creams and Recipes

I learned how to make all natural lotions from my sweet 
neighbors Julie and Francine. 

Here is the basic recipe;
1 1/2 cups Water
4 Tbs. Emulsifying Wax 
2 tsp. Glycerin
1/3 cup Sweet Almond, Grape-seed or Fractionated Coconut Oil
2 Tbs. (heaping)  Steric Acid 
1 tsp. Citric Acid

Mix all ingredients in a bowl and microwave for 2 minutes or until water is milky whit, careful not to boil. When it has cooled some (I add some ice cubes to help it cool) blend with an immersion blender until smooth and fluffy. Add you oils and and blend again. Then pour it into jars or bottles. 

I have made: 

• Queens Cream (a cleanser)
• Day Dreamer (a moisturizer)
• Diva Dreams (a moisturizer for day and night)
• Night Watch ( fabulous night moisturizer and repair for night time)
• Desert Diva (An Aloe based gel moisturizer for those "too much sun times".)
• Sulky Sultan (A Bach flower and essential oil Rescue cream) for anxiety and stress.
• Flower Power (A Bach flower and essential oil Energy cream) for a natural pick me up. -     16 drops Energy Bach Flowers and a little essential oil of you choice. 

Do those sound fun or what? We have all noticed a difference in our own skin since we have used these new face body care products. They are fun to make and fun to use. 

Love,
Grammy T. 

To order the essential oils and fractionated coconut oil that I use go to here. 

To order lotion making supplies go Pinemeadows.

Pretty new quilt

When I was in beauty college 

one of the horrors that was brought

to our attention 

was lice, 

yukky lice. 

I'd never thought much about lice at all really. 

Well one day they shut our school down early because one of the girls had 

found lice crawling around in the shampoo bowl. 

EWWE! 

It makes me itch to tell you about it. 

Our instructors all bleached their hair that night to kill any unseen threat. 

About two weeks later I was shampooing a clients hair and I noticed 

tiny little flying insects and of course you know what I thought they were. 

I excused myself carefully and got one of the now very blonde instructors. 

She assured me that they were only fruit flies coming from the 

Thanksgiving decorations near the 

shampoo bowl. 

Whew!! 

That was such a relief. 

Such a relief. 

Love,

Grammy T.

Sunshine Chicken Barley Soup

Sunshine Chicken Barley Soup

I made a chicken soup the other day that I tweaked just a bit. Instead of making my usual Chicken and dumpling soup I used pearl barley and some dill butter carrots that I had made the night before. Well guess what, it was so delicious that I have been asked or I should say begged for the recipe, so here it is. 

In a large soup pot put:

5-6 Chicken Thighs (Boneless and skinless, I use frozen)

1-2 large onions, chopped

4 cloves of garlic (halved)

4 cups frozen Sunshine Carrots (they are yellow and orange)

2-3 cups Chopped Celery with stalks (dark leaves and all)

2/3 cup pearl barley

3 tablespoons butter 

3 Tbls. dried dill 

2 Tbls. lemon juice

1/4 cup dried parsley

1 1/2 tsp. ground black pepper

1/2 cup dried Chicken Bouillon 

Fill the pot with water to a little above the ingredients. 

Bring to a boil and simmer for 2-3 hours, adjust seasonings to taste,

Shut off and let cool a bit and then serve. 

It thickens by itself and is very yummy. 

It serves a lot so I take it to sick friends and also it freezes well and I save it for me when I am sick or don't feel like cooking. 

Love,

Grammy T.

Irish Friendship Blessing

I am going to leave you with an Irish Friendship Blessing today:

May there always be work for your hands to do. 
May your purse always hold a coin or two.
May the sun always shine on your windowpane.
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Love,
Grammy T.