Archive for January, 2010

www.CosmeSoap.com – Organic Soap Manufacturing Process

CosméSoap is a French soap manufacturer that combines passion and creativity to create a wide range of all natural soaps, shower gels, shampoos, lotions and bath salts. We combine our private label manufacturing & design expertise with your company brand, to produce a beautiful product, custom designed to meet the diverse needs of your customers.

Visit us at http://www.CosmeSoap.com

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admin on January 12th 2010 in soap making process

Soap Queen TV Episode 3: Swirling M&P

Ever wonder how you can achieve multi-colored swirls in melt & pour? In this Episode watch Anne-Marie as she shows you the trick to swirling Melt & Pour soap and makes a gorgeous loaf that looks complicated but isn’t!

This is one of Anne-Marie’s favorite projects. Want to join in the fun? Buy your own Swirling Soap Kit and make your own! Find it here http://www.brambleberry.com/Kits.aspx#grpSWIRLKIT

Are you a blogger? Please feel free to embed this video on your blog. If you need any help just let us know! info@brambleberry.com

Anne-Marie Faiola is the owner of Bramble Berry http://www.brambleberry.com, author of Soap Queen Blog http://www.soapqueen.com, and developer of Teach Soap http://www.teachsoap.com.

Music by the PsyWoofers titled ‘Dancing 4 Joy’

All of the supplies used can be purchased at http://www.brambleberry.com

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admin on January 12th 2010 in melt and pour soap

How to make Cold Process Soap

This video will show you how to make cold process soap. For more info, visit how2soap.com.

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admin on January 12th 2010 in how to make soaps

The Chemisty of Soap Making

This video will show you the chemisty of soap making. For more information, visit www.how2soap.com.

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admin on January 12th 2010 in soap making

Where can buy Cheap Melt and Pour soap in the philippines? ?


try Divisoria :-)

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admin on January 7th 2010 in melt and pour soap

Finding video and recipes in word form on how to make soap from scratch?

it will be nice if there is a ingredient and equipment list thanks best answer will be selected

There are loads of text tutorials on how to make soap yourself in various ways online, and some lessons will also be videos.

Check out the many links in these two searches I did on those topics:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=how+to+make+soap

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+make+soap

HTh,

Diane B.

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admin on January 4th 2010 in soap recipes

buying melt and pour soap base?

In the uk does anyone know where i can buy a melt and pour soap base?

Do you have a Craft store near you? I have no way of looking for one from the US

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admin on January 4th 2010 in melt and pour soap

how to start a soap making buisness?

well ive started making some soaps and i really like it but im confused on how i should sell them?

You can get a soap making business book (used) for under $10 at Amazon.com. The advantage to this is getting advice from soap making experts on how to package, price and where to sell your soap products for the best results.

To sell online, you may be better off starting to sell on an established website like Etsy.com, which already gets lots of traffic everyday from customers looking for craft products to buy.

To sell locally in your area, you may want to partner with a local salon or spa, whose customers may be interested in your soap products. Offer the business owner a cut of the profits and maybe some free soaps to try, so they can help market your soaps.

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admin on January 4th 2010 in soap making

Organic Pest Control – Resolve Your Problem Naturally

Organic Pest Control

We’re all searching for ways to live in a more earth-friendly fashion. But when it comes to gardening, it’s difficult to find out how to kill or prevent garden pests in a safe way. Organic pest control has come a long way, and we’re lucky to have many more effective tools to resolve this problem.

Create Natural Barriers

Picking off grubs and other critters by hand is an easy way to reduce your pesky problem. You can also build many types of barrier environments which entrap the insects. Plugging holes is also fundatmental. Snails can be caught hiding in damp places under rocks and towards the base of plants with straplike foliage. Simply exploring your garden and adjacent areas for potential insect hideaways is one of the most useful forms of organic pest control.

Use Biological Control

Encourage predatory insects such as green lacewings and dragonflies to feed on aphids and other pests that attack your plants. You can do this by placing a shallow bowl of water in the garden. Beneficial insects such as dragonflies will hover around water. Bacterial insecticides such as B. thuringiensis could also be used against caterpillars.

Finding the Safest Repellents

How to kill or prevent garden pests? Organic pest control methods can be effective and the ingredients for most of the recipes can be found in your kitchen cupboard. If chemical repellents are truly necessary, try to use the least-toxic and apply using the manufacturers instructions. These include insecticide soaps, horticultural oils, dehydrating dust, etc.

Make It Yourself

Against Green Aphids and Mites – Mix 1 tablespoon of liquid soap and a cup of vegetable oil. Dilute a teaspoon of this liquid in a cup of water and spray on aphids and mites.

Against Cockroaches – Dusts of boric acid can be placed on cracks or entry points around your home. Bay leaves on pantry shelves can also help in deterring these critters.

Make sure that the chemicals you use are made specifically for the insects you are targeting.

When researching how to kill or prevent garden pests, there is a world of information on the internet. Organic pest control may seem more challenging at first, but once you spend a little time creating a beneficial environment, you will be happier living in a safe, natural garden where you and your plants can flourish without the risks of unsafe chemicals and pesticides.

Ron King
http://www.articlesbase.com/gardening-articles/organic-pest-control-resolve-your-problem-naturally-369008.html

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admin on January 1st 2010 in soap recipes

Drugs Bring Hope To Cancer Patients

Of course, with the growth rate of population in the environment and the alarming effects of technology in food and water, it is imperative that you start taking detox diets. Other risks such as skin and lung problems due to molds, etc., might be negligible in a dry sauna which also may impose less heart stress (because of lung cooling); a study reported only 50% pulse rise in dry sauna but 130% in wet; dry air is survivable over 20 minutes at 260° F, but very moist air at 115° F is unbearable even a few minutes.

So here is our easy-to-make recipe for green tea, but this one tastes so good you’ll never guess how good it is for you! A great, healthy thirst-quencher for hot summer days. Technology. We live in a grand time of technological development. Computers, the Internet, cell phones, digital cameras and DVDs. But the human body has not ‘kept up’ with technology.

Illegal drugs and alcohol are addicting. Records show that the younger you are when you experiment with illegal drugs or alcohol you are more prone to become an addict in the future.

Class of Drugs Brings Hope to Cancer Patients

This is an exciting time in cancer research. Recent information on angiogenesis — the growth of new blood vessels — is providing researchers opportunities to find new ways to slow or stop a tumor’s growth by cutting off the blood supply it needs.

Angiogenesis performs a critical role in the development of cancer. To grow, solid tumors need oxygen and nutrients provided by new blood vessels. Once a vascular network has been generated, cancer cells can also invade the rest of the body, a process called metastasis. Currently, researchers believe that more than 90 percent of all cancer cases are angiogenesis-dependent. The good news is that a novel class of drugs, which acts as angiogenesis inhibitors, shows great potential in fighting more than 20 different diseases, including many types of cancer.

These “anti-angiogenesis” drugs being developed and tested block the formation of new blood vessels, starving cancerous cells and stopping tumor growth. One drug being tested, Neovastat, was discovered in 1994 and is derived from cartilage tissue. Neovastat is the only angiogenesis inhibitor being developed in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical universe that has four mechanisms of action to combat blood vessel growth. Furthermore, Neovastat is taken orally, making it convenient for patients who need long-term treatment, and it has shown minimal side effects in clinical trials. This means that unlike standard chemotherapy, Neovastat is not likely to interfere with a patient’s immune system, or cause adverse gastrointestinal symptoms or hair loss.

In addition, because most cancer cells are genetically unstable and more prone to mutations, resistance is a major problem with many chemotherapy agents. But since anti-angiogenesis drugs target normal endothelial cells that are not genetically unstable, drug resistance is less likely to develop and has not been a problem so far in clinical trials.

Have you ever washed greasy dishes without hot water or dish soap? The dishes don’t get clean, do they? When toxic metals and chemical food additives get inside your body, it takes a strong “cleanser” to scrub your body clean from the inside out.

Hence, it is important to create an alternative that will promptly help the body to gain back its detoxification capacity and fight back imminent diseases.

Do I believe in detox? Well, most of it is plain simple commonsense – proper diet, judicious supplementation, adequate rest, exercise, stress-relieving techniques.

Metal toxicity can cause health issues that range from headaches and aching bones to memory loss and discoloration of the skin and nails.

People with addiction work hard to resolve them, and with the support of family members and friends they are able to recover on their own. However in most cases, people they usually cannot stop drinking or using drugs by willpower alone. A lot of them require outside help, mostly from Alcohol Rehab or Drug Rehab.

Another hope is that angiogenesis inhibitors can be used in combination with therapies that directly target tumor cells. Because anti-angiogenic drugs and chemotherapy are aimed at different cellular targets, it is possible that the combination will prove even more effective than either therapy is as a stand-alone. Currently, Neovastat is the subject of three clinical trials, targeting three forms of cancer for which there are urgent needs for new therapies. For multiple myeloma, the second most common form of blood cancer, the drug is in phase two trials with 125 patients in the United States, Canada and Europe. This trial should be completed by the end of 2002. For progressive renal cell carcinoma, the drug is in phase three trials with 280 patients in the United States, Canada and Europe, which should be completed in early 2003. For non-small cell lung cancer, Neovastat is in a phase three trial sponsored by the National Cancer Institute with 760 patients in the United States and Canada. This trial should be completed in 2005. Once the clinical trials are complete, health authorities in various countries can then assess test results and make decisions on approval.

Neovastat is being developed by Aeterna Laboratories of Quebec, Canada. For more information about current trials, call (888) 349-3232. If you are an oncologist, contact Claude Hariton, PhD, vice president of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs, (418) 652-8525, Ext. 306.

To learn more about anti-angiogenesis and Aeterna Laboratories, visit the Aeterna Web site at http://www.aeterna.com. For more information about the NCI’s clinical trials, visit http://cancertrials.nci.nih.gov.

There are a variety of ways that drug and alcohol rehab work to help a person stop abusing a controlled substance. One way is commonly referred to as ‘cold turkey’.

There has been a lot in the news lately about the amazing healing properties of turmeric, a free-radical-fighting antioxidant-rich curry spice that has been hailed as a defense against both cancer and Alzheimer’s. In addition to serving as a powerful chelating agent, this product will support the liver in its process of cleansing and detoxification and replenish the body with minerals that are often depleted by these metals.

Conventional, mainstream (allopathic) medical practitioners have yet to latch on to this concept, since they’re only trained to treat diseases and symptoms specifically without treating the patient as a whole. Detox Drugs from your body and live a healthier life

Vegetables will help your body get rid of toxins brought about by pollution, smoking, and other environmental stress.

Greg Haehl
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/drugs-bring-hope-to-cancer-patients-122793.html

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admin on January 1st 2010 in soap making process