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For Lice
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There are many treatments for lice on the market, some effective, some not. I have created a plant oil based on fresh olive oil
and some essential oils well known and documented to assist with the destruction of lice and nits. The oil may be of assistance in ridding your family of these pests.
It contains olive oil, rosemary, lavender, tea-tree and sweet orange essential oils, plus some vit E to keep the oil fresh for longer.
Obviously, with sensitivities and allergies to almost anything, a skin sensitivity test is advised to ensure that no one is going to react adversely to having it on their head and in close contact with their scalp.
Apply the oil to the affected scalp liberally, comb through. Cover the head with a showercap or plastic wrap and leave for a few hours. Then wash as normal. Follow up with a final rinse of vinegar, doesn't matter if you use cider vinegar or white household vinegar, it is the acidic properties you want.
All the adult lice will be dead, and the nits will be very easy to comb out.
As this is a chemical free solution there will be no residual protection, thus it must be repeated when further infestations are found.
Basic Soap Recipe
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There are a squillion variants on how to make soap. I have tried many of them, and have done what many others have done before me, that I have learnt from - I have developed a quick and easy way (notice I don't say mess free, coz it isn't!!) of making soap. The following recipe uses olive and castor oils and shea butter, but there are many many different oil combinations you can use.
The most useful link for me is the lye calculator at Majestic Mountain Sage
http://www.thesage.com/calcs/lyecalc2.php
This most helpful site allows you to design your own recipes and calculate the lye and liquids required.
Buttery Olive Soap
320g olive oil
40g castor oil
40g shea butter
50.9g sodium hydroxide
100g room temperature water
5-10ml essential oil or fragrant oil
colours or additives as desired
Assemble all ingredients, any colours and flavours you may want to use, as well as preparing your mold. With this recipe, you will made approximately 550g of soap, so you will need a mold of plastic (take away food containers work well), or the silicon muffin trays or icecube trays work well too.
Using strict safety controls such as wearing gloves (ALWAYS wear gloves), goggles, closed in shoes and long protective clothing, and a mask, measure out the water into a heat resistant container. I generally use glass or stainless steel, although you can use heavy plastics. Don't use wood, aluminium or teflon coated containers as the aluminium and teflon react badly with the caustic solution, and the wood may absorb it.
Using digital scales, measure the sodium hydroxide and add to the water.
Stir gently. The solution will get VERY hot, up to 80degrees C immediately, and will give off fumes for a very short time. You need to stir immediately up on adding the sodium hydroxide, or it will set like a rock in the bottle of the container.
Once the solution is clear, set it aside. It will no longer be fumey.
Blend oils in a different glass or stainless container, one that is large enough to hold the entire volume of liquids, so in this instance, greater than 550ml.
Add the hot lye solution to the oils, and stir until the shea butter is melted.
Keep stirring with a stainless, silicone or plastic spoon, or you can use a whisk (a bit quicker). this is like making custard really, except you can't eat it.
Once your mixture can hold the shape of the spoon or whisk on the surface, or you drizzle a small amount of liquid onto the surface and it stays there, you have reached what is known as "trace". This is when you add colours and flavours.
Use 1-2% essential or fragrant oils, remembering that essential oils do have medicinal properties so you need to wear gloves and be in a well ventilated place.
***** Some fragrant oils may cause what is known as SEIZE. This is when the soap mixture becomes very hot very quickly, and initially goes lumpy then sets hard like a rock. It will still be usable, and even may have a certain rugged charm, but if you want smooth soaps, then you have to be mindful of the possibility of seize and take your soap mix to a light trace only, maybe even let the lye solution cool a bit before adding it to the oils.*****
Once everything is mixed, then pour into your mold, cover with plastic wrap and wrap in a blanket. Keep the soap mix wrapped for about 24hrs, then as long as it is set, unmold and slice up with a sharp kitchen knife.
Allow the soap to cure for about 4 weeks. It will harden in that time, and the lye smell will disappear. You should be left with a lovely batch of soap bars that smell wonderful.
Summer Special
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Summer Special
For every purchase over $20 a free bar of soap flavour of your choice! New soap flavours include sandalwood and vanilla, apple blossom and magnolia.
New Products
Travel soap
Small Toothpaste style tube of take anywhere handmade cream soap. Gloriously moisturising, available in several flavours. The little tubes so SO CUTE! Photos coming soon.
Sunscreen ($18 - 200ml squeeze tube)
Now selling natural sunscreen, made from black sesame and ricebran oils, ricebran wax, bees wax, titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. Flavoured cherry sorbet. This produces a balm and is in a push up stick. It will also be available as a non-greasy lotion, with addition of emulsifier and rain water.
Insect Repellent ($8 - 100ml spray)
This is made from lavender floral water, with essential oils of lemongrass, tea tree with sandalwood to keep away those pesky summer mozzies.
Lip Gloss ($6 - 15ml pot)
Lip gloss in soft pink, cherry and raspberry colours, made with castor and ricebran oils, flavoured with vanilla.
Lavender
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Lavender
Lavender is a wonderful herb that can help with problems such as insect bites, irritated itchy skin and minor burns. Some people can't stand the fragrance of lavender, and some are allergic to it, but many do really love it, and use it every day. It can be sprayed on pillows for calm at night, drunk as a delicious tea, hot or cold. It is one of the most versatile of all the European herbs that are still in use today for healing and general well being.
If you have heard that Lavender was pronounced as an oestrogen mimic , ( along with other herbs such as tea-tree), then it is worth checking the date on the article you may read. Since the article was published in February 2007 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa064725
However, since then, other reports and articles have been published to show that this original article was not researched fully or thoroughly - the sample used was only 3 boys, with many questions over the methods, results and overall performance of their original research. See
http://bubbleandbee.blogspot.com/2009/09/lavender-tea-tree-estrogenic.html
It is worth remembering that during testing the researchers did not use pure essential oils, but extracts, and in fact used lotions that contained lavender. There was, at no time, questions over the influence of the components of the lotions, such as emulsifiers, preservatives etc.
There have been other studies which link coffee consumption with breast cancer with much larger subject ranges and more controlled environments, yet we have not had the sensationalist broadcast of giving up coffee. How many of you out there have given up coffee because of the oestrogenic affects?
I have also been told by clients that chamomile has an oestrogen mimic action. In fact on several sites I found that chamomile contains a component that is ANTI-oestrogenic, placing chamomile on the recommended diet list for breast cancer patients!
It goes to show you that there is a LOT of information out there in cyberspace. We just need to be mindful and seek the truth
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