What could I use as a natural dish soap? Would boiled water be enough to sanitize dishes?
You could soak the dishes in vinegar/hot water…. For something more natural… Just don’t let them soak too long..
Or try using LESS dishsoap or a few tablespoons of bleach to the water…
Good luck
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Where can you buy floating candles here in toronto, ontario?
I have been trying to find floating candles everywhere? Does anyone know a place where i can get them?
Please look floating candles at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1236696523/ref=sr_nr_seeall_1?ie=UTF8&rs=&keywords=floating%20candles&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Afloating%20candles%2Ci%3Agarden&tag=discount.save-20
Hope this help.
Good Luck.
Does anyone know where i can find a shop to buy candle making supplies (either wax or gel) in the sydney area?
Look in the yellow pages under candles, candlemaking, or wax maybe. Also ask around and try this website, all the shops are in Sydney I think;
http://www.streetsofsydney.com.au/sydney/c/candles.htm
http://www.localdirect.com.au/view_detail.php?browse=cats&id=8156&priority=0&page=subcat&subcat_id=313&cat_id=18&mloc_id=2&sloc_id=11&other=8017,8156
http://www.craft-search.com.au/listing/17261/candle_factory_candles_candle_making_supplies
hope i helped 
can someone tel me how to make handmade soap?
i need to know materials needed and how much of them
plz make a list for wat u do in steps
(this is just to help me make some soap for 1/4 of my science fair project)(not the whole thing)
HAVE FUN!
Ingredients:
1 can (12 oz or 340 grams) 100% lye
21 1/2 oz (605 gms) ice cold or part frozen distilled water
5 lbs, 7 1/3 oz (2.48 kg) lard or all vegetable shortening
Equipment:
1 ea, 1-2 quart Pyrex or oven ware bowl
1 ea, 4-6 quart plastic bowl or stainless or cast iron pot
1 ea, plastic, wooden or stainless big spoon
1 ea, shallow cardboard box lined with plastic trash bag
Rubber gloves
Canning pot (for water bath if you use plastic reaction bowl)
Instructions:
Prepare the lye water by freezing 1/2 of the water into ice cubes. Put the ice cubes and the rest of the water into the 1 to 2 quart bowl. Using the stirring spoon (known to soap makers as the "crutch"), pour lye slowly into the ice and water, stirring until the lye is all dissolved. Take great care with the lye, it is very caustic and will burn the skin and eyes! Any splatters must be washed off immediately with lots of water!
Cover the solution to keep out air and allow to cool (or warm up ) to about 85 degrees F.
Melt the fat in the 4-6 quart bowl or pot. Don’t use aluminum or galvanized bowls! Plastic ware can be heated in the water bath.
When the fat is melted, cool it down to 95 degrees F. Prepare the box with it’s plastic trash bag lining, so the fresh liquid soap can’t leak out.
When all is ready, begin to stir the liquid fat in a clockwise direction while pouring the lye water into it in a thin steam (pencil size or thinner) until it is all added. Crutch (stir) the mix vigorously, using “S” pattern or use a hand blender alternating with a circular pattern until the mix begins to cool and thicken.
At this point do NOT stop or the mix may separate!
First the soap will be murky, then creamy, then like heavy cream and finally, like hot cooked pudding and will show traces when you dribble a stream from the crutch onto the surface. This process can take from 10 minutes to 45 minutes, depending on the temperature, weather and purity of your ingredients. Stir vigorously but patiently! With hand blender stir time is cut to 1/10 of the regular time.
When your "trace" does not sink back into the surface, the soap is ready to pour into the lined box. Wear rubber gloves and treat the raw soap like you treated the lye water. Wash off all splatters immediately. Have 10% vinegar and water and a sponge to neutralize splatters.
After 3-5 hours the soap may be cut into bars with a table knife, NOT a sharp knife. Allow the soap to cure in the box for about a week before breaking it up and handling it, and another month before using it.
The old farm ladies carefully "tasted" the fresh soap with the tip of their tongues for the sharp bite of unreacted lye, as I do today.
The soap from this recipe makes a bath and facial soap, and if you want old fashioned "Grandma’s Lye Soap," use less fat; about 5 lbs 5 oz instead of the original amount called for in the recipe. Allow this soap to mature in open air for six months.
Should you wish to color your soap you may stir in about 20 gms children’s powder tempura paint when the mix reaches the heavy cream stage. Perfumed soap may be made by adding 60 gms (about 2 oz) of essential oil or perfume just before the soap is thick enough to pour. Sometimes I will wait for the unscented soap to cure, and then wrap the soap in muslin, anoint a cloth with perfume and wrap it with the soap in aluminum foil. Set it aside for about six weeks until the perfume has penetrated to the core of the bar.
To re-form the bar into a new shape, place some bars into a ziplock bag and warm them up by immersing the closed bag of soap in hot (120degF ) water for 30 minutes. The soap should be soft enough to cut, make into balls or even press into molds. It sets when it has cooled and rested for an hour or so.
Is it ok to wash fruits and vegetables with GreenWorks natural dish soap?
I make sure I rinse them thoroughly.
Ingredients are: filtered water, coconut-based cleaning agents (anionic and nonionic surfactants: alkyl polyglucoside, sodium lauryl sulfate and cocodimethyl amine oxide), corn-based ethanol, fragrance and essential oils, biodegradable preservative, citric acid, blue colorant. Contains no phosphorus. Contains no bleach.
It’s all natural ingredients.
If you want an all natural product to use to wash fruits and veggies the only thing you need to reach for is cheap, and safe white vinegar. It will help remove any of the wax on the fruit as well as any remaining dirt.
Just dilute about a tablespoon or two in about two gallons of water, add your produce and let it soak for about 5 minutes. Rise well.
It will get your produce cleaner then using just water and won’t leave any residue like soap will.
where can i get 3" ball flameless candles?
Try flamelesscandles.net
Where can I find a how to draw a scene of floating candles?
Please help me, I am trying to find that scene. Thanks. Like how to draw a scene of a lot of floating candles on the water with flower petals too. Thanks
Dont look for one, just experiment yourself!
Theres no fun in art if your just going to do it as a paint by numbers.
look for individual effects you may have troubble with, like reflections and flames, but you shouldnt want to copy the picture in its entirity.
Do as much of the picture as you can yourself, then for any parts you get stuck on do a search on www.deviantart.com or google for a tutorial at that specific thing, then continue once you have got past it!
good luck!
where can I find candle making supplies in Spain?
Costa del Sol
7 eleven or steal it from church tat make funeral.
Selling and shipping handmade soap?
I eventually want to start making handmade soaps to sell at local craft fairs and perhaps even online. However, with summer coming up, does anyone know some techniques to help so the soap won’t melt in the heat? Also, what are the best ways to package the items? Thanks!
Hi,
I’m not sure if you’re making melt and pour soap or cold processed soap – but either won’t melt in the heat – so no worries there.
With both types of soap, you do however, have to air them out (aka: cure) to ensure that any water/liquid added to the soap has evaporated – or the bars will "sweat" in the heat – with or without packaging.
Many people use handmade paper wrapped around the soaps – or handmade paper as cigar bands wrapped around the soap – or shrink wrap bags.
Don’t forget to list all your ingredients on the soap labels – you never know what people can be allergic too, and the last thing you need is a whopping law suit ending your soaping career.