These Curious Days

These are some of the new “rough-edge” soaps I handmade in my workshop: O’Hara Lavender (purple color) and Clouds in My Coffee (at the center with ground coffee granules). The honey-brown-colored soap on the far left is Skinny Dip, a honey and goatmilk based facial bar mixed and molded for me from By Nature Handmade [...]

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It’s undeniable. Natural and organic beauty products are slowly taking over women’s cluttered dressing tables and showers. It’s a double-whammy: they appeal to more informed, health-savvy consumers and answer the growing demand for effective, environmentally responsible products.

(image from lifehackery.com)
But another thing that’s got women like me interested is revisiting native beauty habits, usually gleaned from [...]

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