This recipe may not be all that romantic, but I can promise it’s wonderfully practical. It yields hard white bars that are inexpensive to make and nicely bubbly. The bars shred down beautifully into soapy flakes and bits that make great laundry powder and cleaning concoctions. I like to ensure I always have a few bar aging in my basement. It’s not sexy, but it’s practical.
This vibrant green bar is loaded with eczema conquering goodies. It gets its smokey green scent from the ingredients, so fragrance-sensitive users need not worry. It’s also wonderfully easy to apply thanks to the wonderful push-up tubes I’ve chosen to pour the body butter bar into. Feel free to swap the push-up tube out for an empty deodorant tube or a tin, but I sure love these adorable little tubes.
This delightful tart comes together quickly, and with far less fuss than a straight-up pie. It’s a fantastic way to use up that mildly freezer burnt bag of rhubarb bits from last summer, and the finished tart is fantastic served warm with a bit of ice cream and caramel sauce. Craig and I brought one of these beauties to a housewarming barbeque and baked it in their oven—it was a big hit.
As much as I generally detest winter, I will concede that it can be very pretty. My favourite winter sight is that of trees coated in sparkling ice crystals—it’s as if the entire world has been coated in diamond dust. That’s what this silver shimmer lip balm makes me think of, all the way down to the wee chill from the peppermint essential oil.
This fun project was another reader request. I can’t find the email or comment to thank her, but thank you! This was an awesome thing to puzzle out, and I’m really happy with the result. I first made this cream towards the end of Movember (otherwise known as November), and I gifted wee bottles of it to all the men in my life who had sprouted dodgy mustaches over the previous weeks in what could be called a none-to-subtle hint.
