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I lived in Italy for 20+ years and pasta is a fall-back for when we're in a hurry for dinner. This is a variation on the olive oil/garlic/parmesan late night standby: Heat the oven to 450 F and put on a pot of salted water to boil. Cut up a head of cauliflower into itty bitty pieces - you want...

Dandelion leaves are a diuretic and make you pee, dandelion roots are cleansing for the liver. I'm going to try the salad, it sounds wonderful. We took up all of our lawn years ago and have been sheet mulching and planting native plants since then, so we have lots of spontaneous plants popping...

I think that what we forget is that before the 1930's, all people had to wash their hair with was soap made with lye, unless you lived in a culture that used saponin-rich plant materials like soapnuts, soapwort or yucca. My grandmother taught me that after washing your hair you used final a...

If I'm using clay to color cp soap I always mix it with a little distilled water and stir the lumps out. Bentonite clay needs a LOT of water to loosen it up and I'll definitely use some of the water from the recipe before using the rest to make my lye solution. I will also microwave the...

I had the most disturbing conversation with some 20-somethings at my farmers market table a few years back. They had been by, bought some some, came back a couple of times and hung around, asking questions...finally they got to the crux of their questions, "how do you get it to bubble?" I...

During the pandemic, my sales have diminished so I've been ordering less from my usual suppliers. I finally needed to order some packaging and discovered that SKS is out of stock of so much it's scary. I set several "alert me" notifications for various products. I got an "in stock" notification...

At the moment I have three tiers: Very small, <8 oz, packages are sent by 1st class mail for $4. Like a single bar of soap, or a few samples, or a few lip balms - things like that. Over 8 oz I charge $7 flat rate but since recent raise in price that no longer covers the average cost. and over...

Exactly. I don't want to make money off shipping, but don't want to lose either. In the beginning, my east coast customers were subsidizing the west coast customers to some extent. But over the holidays, I sent a lot of $8.00 + packages for $7, sometimes closer to $10 or more. And that's not...

I'm actually in Maryland, KY was the other person who responded, who offers free shipping on every order. One reason why I have difficulty with the two-tiered price system is that most of my local farmers market and annual festival customers are ordering online now (I'm offering them free or...

I've been in business for thirteen years and had a website up for eight years but most of my sales have been at farmers markets and festivals. With the pandemic I've had to rely on web sales and I finally realized how outdated my website was! Now that we're working on updating it, I've also...

"Mish" is the phonetic abbreviation of my name, Michelle. When she was young, my stepdaughter used to double it up and call me Mish mish.

I read an apocryphal story that Ivory Soap was invented when an apprentice forgot to turn off a mixing machine and beat a lot of air into the soap. Instead of declaring the batch ruined, it became the big selling point. Back in the '50's my great uncle used to take a bar of floating Ivory soap...

If you have any Latino grocery stores near where you live, they always have good-sized buckets of lard for sale. Columbus Foods sells it in larger quantities.

The gal at the end of the bar wants powdered freeze-dried chicken sprinkled on all of her wet food or she won't eat it.

I use arrowroot, cornstarch, a little white clay, tapioca starch and fragrance.

Does anyone make or use "micelle water" for facial cleansing as a leave-on product? I just heard the term today, someone on Twitter from the UK was saying that they made it with 50/50 glycerin and water, with a few drops of an oil added. I was wondering if that is approximately the formula for...

Well of course, but it's still happening, right? Women all over our country are being ***** by family members, "friends", strangers, employers, "mentors", prison guards...and too often, their word isn't believed. Mothers don't believe daughters, schools don't believe students, etc. I'm a ****...

I agree. the problem is men taking advantage of their position or their strength to harm women. I had a bank manager boss who always tried to cop a feel in the close confines of the photocopier room. After talking to other admin staff, we discovered that he tried it with all the younger women...

I get beef kidney fat from a meat vendor at our farmer's market for free (I make some soap for her from it at that I sell back to her at wholesale price) - once a year she brings me a cooler full. You wouldn't need that much for an experiment. It's not hard to render, but if you're doing a lot...

These are some great suggestions! My DH has suggested Field of Dreams after the Kevin Costner movie. Third Base is hilarious!