Auntie Clara's Handcrafted Cosmetics
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Auntie Clara's Handcrafted Cosmetics is a family owned business making luxurious handcrafted soap from high quality ingredients. We are passionate about formulating, designing, making and presenting soap that is conditioning and skin-loving, smells good, feels great and looks beautiful.
Auntie Clara's Handcrafted Cosmetics
2y ago
A month ago I posted about my brine design experiment. I put soap made with brine (saline solution) next to the same soap made with plain water and found that the brine turned the soap more opaque and much lighter …
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Auntie Clara's Handcrafted Cosmetics
2y ago
Salt makes coldprocess soap appear opaque and therefore lighter in colour. Brine (Nacl salt solution) can be used as an alternative to synthetic brighteners like titanium dioxide and zinc oxide.
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Auntie Clara's Handcrafted Cosmetics
2y ago
When it was really cold in September I ran out of firewood. Bad planning on my part – especially since all the local firewood suppliers were flat out of stock at the end of winter. Finally I got hold of …
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Auntie Clara's Handcrafted Cosmetics
2y ago
Eighteen years ago we emigrated to South Africa. Then, like now, it was early October and the open fields around Cape Town were covered in thick carpets of purple flowers. I remember asking our driver what the purple flowers were? …
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Auntie Clara's Handcrafted Cosmetics
3y ago
Auntie Clara does a recap of the Ghost Swirl soapmaking technique and answers some frequent guestions about the Ghost Swirl Soap
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Auntie Clara's Handcrafted Cosmetics
3y ago
Auntie Clara discovers local, natural African clay for spindle whorls and for breathtakingly beautiful natural colours in coldprocess soap!
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Auntie Clara's Handcrafted Cosmetics
4y ago
The Karoo a magical place. It’s an endless region (one third of South Africa) of arid semi desert. Fields of sharp rocks as far as the eye can see with scarce, low, dry vegetation. An enormous bright blue sky in …
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