Wax and Bubbles

Promote a specific mood inside your home by using a purchased diffuser (a glass or ceramic container and votive candle) to disperse the scent of an essntial oil. Follow the diffuser’s instructions. If you do not have a diffuser, simply add a few drops of eential oil to a pan of water and heat it on the stovetop. Try the following basic combinations, or experiment with your own blends.

Relaxing Blend:

4 drops bergamont essential oil
3 drops lavender essential oil
1 drop frankincese essential oil
1-2 drops neroli essential oil

Energizing Blend:

5 drops peppermint essential oil
3 drops geranium essential oil
1 drop eucalyptus essential oil
1 drop wintergreen essential oil

Cleansing Blend:

2 drops lemon essential oil
1 drop thyme essential oil
4 drops geranium essential oil
2 drops manderin essential oil

Place the essential oils into the glass bowl or diffuser of your choosing or in the pan if doing it on the stovetop. Light the candle to heat the oils and release the scent through the room. Use for 5 to 15 minutes at a time. If you use a tealight candle, when the candle burns out the oils should be gone as well. Watch your water, for the oils will burn if the water has evaporated before the candle burns out compeletely. (Source: Herb Companion 2007)

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WAX AND BUBBLES PRODUCT SHOWCASE:

The Bullfrog Candle got its start nearly three decades ago, when the Stewart children asked for help with a candle- making school project. The children moved on to other interests while Bill continued to experiment with candles of his own design. After many years, the secret candle glow was perfected by using the highest quality wax and “just a little magic”.

In 1981, candle-making became a vocation instead of a hobby, and the company was named for the noisy bullfrogs at the adjacent Shiawassee Flats Game Refuge. Since then, the company has created hundreds of thousands of glowing candles that have become the trademark of Bullfrog Light Co. Each candle is hand-crafted from start to finish in Charlevoix, Michigan, where the growing business was relocated in 1985.

• Aromatic Herbal Bath: Add 10 to 15 drops of essential oil to your drawn bath water. For relaxation try some lavender or ylang ylang. For skin irritation try tea tree and lavender together. Stir the water throughly after adding the essential woll before getting into the bath.

• Simple foot and hand soak: Add 5 to 7 drops of essential oil to a bowl or basin of warm water. Soak for 10 to 15 minutes. Use the same essential oil mix as above or do an online search for what oils you should use for what condition.

• Herbal Compress: To treat a headache or skin irritation, add 5 to 8 drops of essential oil to 2 cups of hot or cold water. Stir to disperse the oils evenly. Brielfy soak a cotton cloth in the water, wring out the cloth when necessary, then place it on the skin in the needed area on your body or someone else’s body. Repeat every 15 minutes for up to one hour. (Source: Aromatherapy 101)

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WAX AND BUBBLES PRODUCT SHOWCASE:

Flower Peddler. It’s a small, family-owned business located near Richmond, Virginia. They actually began the business as a floral design service. Then branched into the bath and body products company they are now. Their products were inspired by or designed specifically for members of their own family. From those with specific skin concerns were among the testers of the fresh start products. Now they have a full line of products and sell everything from soap to facial care products.

To make a perfume blend, choose three to five oils that you like the smell of. Include at least one each top, middle and base note to add to this mixture. You will also need a clean one-ounce bottle with a lid for each blended mixture you make. Also an eyedropper. Be sure and use one that is clean, and have one for each oil you add to your blend so not to mix the smells. You will need a coffee filter and cut it into strips to test your blend.

Using a clean eyedropper, begin by dropping two drops of each of your oils into on of the one-ounce bottles. To repvent crossing the scents, use those seperate eye droppers. Some essential oils come in a dropper top so to make it easier for dispensing. Cap the bottle. shake slowly. Wait a few minutes an uncap the bottle and inhale the scent. Place a drop on the coffee filter strip and inhale. If it is missing more of a scent then another, add a few drops of the essential oil that is missing.

Continue adding the essential oils, drop by drop, until you have a scent you like. Once you have the oil blend you like, you will need to add 15 drops of your oil blend to one ounce of vodka. Add these together in a glass bottle and shake well. You will need to let your perfume combinatio If you would like, you can add the oil blend to a spray top bottle to make it easier to use.

Here are some blends to try:

• Calming Musk:
8 drops sandalwood
3 drops frankincense
2 drops rose
2 drops sweet orange
2 drops tangerine

• Uplifting Citrus:
6 drops grapefruit
5 drops lavender
3 drops tangerine
1 drop ylang ylang
3 drops lemon

• Instant Vacation:
15 drops of rose otto
15 drops of neroli
5 drops of lemon
5 drops of verbena
3 drops of benzoin
3 drops of marjoram
2 drops of clove
2 drops of mimosa

• Summer Breeze:
10 drops of bergamot
10 drops of melissa
10 drops of neroli
5 drops of lanvender
5 drops of petitgrain
7 drops of frankincense
3 drops of juniper

• Spicy Sparkler:
10 drops of grapefruit
10 drops of ginger
10 drops of ylang ylang
10 drops of melissa
5 drops of patchouli
3 drops of cardamom
2 drops of holy basil

• Sweet Floral:
12 drops of Roman chmomile
12 drops of frankincese
12 drops of lavender
4 drops of marjoram
4 drops of melissa
4 drops of linden blossom
2 drops of vetiver

• Fragrant Salvation:
10 drops of frankincense
10 drops of lavender
10 drops of marjoram
10 drops of grapefruit
6 drops of jasmine
4 drops of violet leaf

(For more ideas on oil blended, leave me a comment of what you are seeking and I will be glad to share with you some oil blends that will deliver the mood you are wanting.)

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Wax and Bubbles Product Spotlight:

Zionsville Candle Company.
Their natural soy candles are made using lead-free wicks, soy bean wax, high quality fragrance, and quality color dyes. In fact, they are considered to be one of the best soy candle companies for making truly natural soy candles.

These home-made massage oils can be used to give you great relief after working out or just any type of sore muscles. Some of the ideas below can also be used on children or used for congestion relief when the cold-bug hits your house hard.

Ginger Massage Oil:
Makes 4 ounces

1/2 cup light oil, like canola, almond, jojoba, grapeseed or sunflower
1/4 teaspoon vitamin E oil
1 teaspoon dry, powdered ginger
1 teaspoon dry thyme leaves
1 to 2 drops of lavender essential oil
1 to 2 drops eucalyptus essential oil
1 to 2 drops rosemary essential oil
1 to 2 drops teatree essential oil

Mix together ingredients. Pour misture into a clean bottle with a tight-fitting lid and shake gently. Let the mixture sit for a few days. To use, shake the bottle again, then pour a quarter-size amount into your clean hand. Massage onto your body, or where your muscles are sore. Spend more time in those areas to make sure the essential oils penetrate those muscles completely.

Camphor Massage Oil:
Makes 4 ounces

1/2 cup light oil, such as sesame, canola, almond, jojoba, sunflower or grapeseed oil
1/2 teaspoonm camphor oil

Combine ingredients and pour into a clean bottle with a tight-fitting lid. To use, pour a quarter-sized amount into your clean hand, then masage onto your body. This recipe is great to use on your chest before bed to relieve congestion in your lungs. It is really good to use on children 3 years or older to help against coughs and congestion in thier little lungs.

Stress Relieving Massage Oil:
Makes 4 ounces

1/2 cup light oil, such as jojoba, grapeseed, sesame, canola, almond, and sunflower oil
1 to 2 drops of lavender essential oil
1 to 2 drops ylang ylang essential oil
1 to 2 drops lemon essential oil

Combine ingredients and pour into a clean bottle with a tight-fitting lid. To use, pour a quarter-sized amount into your clean hand, then apply a small amount to your temples and your chest. You can also combine this oil with an unscented lotion and apply a small amount anytime during the day you feel stress tugging on your shirt-sleeve.

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FUTURE POST LOOK-ON:

• Spicy Mouthwash

• Herbal Body Soak

• Make Your Own Soy Candles

• Making Bath Salts

The Burt’s Bees means line of products has come a long way. Starting out as a honey sales man, Burt Shavitz would sale bottled honey out of the back of his pickup truck on the side of the road in 1984. While heading home one evening he picked up Roxanne Quimby and her two children who were hitch-hiking. They began talking and she eventually started helping Burt make more and more products from his honey, beeswax and royal jelly, such as candles and shoe polish. One popular product being their line of lip balm. Now the company has taken leaps and bounds for the greater good.

They manufacture over 150 products for facial and body skin care, lip care, hair care, baby care, men’s grooming, and outdoor remedies. Distributed in nearly 30,000 retail outlets including grocery stores and drug store chains across the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, and Taiwan from their headquarters in Durham, NC.

Their mens line started out as Bay rum scented products and now has taken off into a great product that would satisfy any man’s preference. Here are the products they currently carry in the men’s line.

WASHES AND SOAPS:

• Men Body Wash

• Citrus Spice Exfoliating Shower Soap

• Men Bar Soap

MOISTURIZERS:

• Men Aftershave

• Bay Rum Aftershave Balm

SHAVING LINE

COLOGNE LINE

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FUTURE POST LOOK-ON:

• Herbal Massage Oil

• Spicy Mouthwash

• Herbal Body Soak

The bottom line in candle making is patience. Next would come the equipment. If you have been wanting to make you own candles but just haven’t really know where to start, there is candle making kits avaliable almost everywhere, even Wal-Mart. The best candle making kit that I have run across is at Great Candle. They pretty much include in their kit everything you will need in order to get started right away. Their kits include:

• Votive Kit $28.00 - Perfect Kit to start with, Kit contains: 4 lbs of Soy/Blend votive wax, 8 votive molds, 32 wicks 4 - 1oz. bottles of fragrance, Honeydew Melon, Apples and Berries, Kiwi Strawberry, Cherry, approx 1/2 red color block, approx. 1/2 green color block, and complete instructions . Kit makes approx. 32 candles.

• Basic Soy Container Kit $28.00 - Perfect for the beginner. Kit contains: 5.25 lbs Southern Scentsations GW Soy, 12 Jelly jars, 12 Htp wicks, 3.95 oz’s of Southern Apple Pie, 3.95 oz’s of Love Spell fragrances, a Red Dye Block. Kit contains instructions, and Candle Making tips.

• Deluxe Soy Container Kit $75.99 - Kit includes all of the Basic Soy Kit: 5.25 lbs Southern Scentsations GW Soy, 12 Jelly jars, 12 Htp wicks, 3.95 oz’s of Southern Apple Pie, 3.95 oz’s of Love Spell fragrances, a Red Dye Block. Kit contains instructions, and Candle Making tips. Plus you get a Presto Pot for melting wax, A Pouring Pot, Thermometer, and a Ladle.

You can take any of these candle making recipes and supplies and add an essential oil to them and make them original and your own. You can even get a register from your own state and patent these candles for profit. Simple as that. The more you make the better you will get and the more you experiment with oils and floral scents the more you will learn about what scents last longer and what scents don’t.

More supplies you may need are as follows.

° Wicks

° Dye

° Containers

° Molds

° Scents

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FUTURE POST LOOK-ON:

• Sore Muscle Soak

• Cucumber Facial Mask

• Herbal Facial Steam

• Herbal Massage Oil

• Antiseptic Mouth Wash

With the chemicals that are in the room sprays on the market currently, making your own with the ingredients you know are healthier and contain no lung harming products. You can experiment with your own blend of oils and see what works best for you or your family’s smell. Essential oils are important in everyone’s sense of smell. Finding what scent is best for you, is a task that will take you on a great journey that will take your senses to places they have never been. Once you find that perfect scent, make a room scent or spray and use it whenever you need to refresh your house or car. Here’s how:

Cleansing Room Scent For Your Home or Car®™ BeeSpa Naturals

2 cups distilled water
20 drops lemon essential oil
10 drops thyme essential oil
40 drops geranium essential oil
20 drops manderin essential oil
20 drops grapefruit essential oil

Place distilled water in a pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Meanwhile, place essential oils in an aluminum or glass spray bottle. After distilled water begins boiling, pour, very carefully, using a funnel into the bottle with the essential oils. Shake vigourously for several minutes. Place mixture in a dark environment till it has cooled down quite a bit. Once it is cool, spray in several locations throughout your home. To see a drastic scent change in your home or car, spray everyday for at least a week. Be sure and shake several times before use each time.

This recipe can even be used as a perfume on the body. Try it out and experiment with different essential oils till you find one that smells great on your skin. You may find that making your perfume or cologne is a lot easier than buying it at one of the name-brand stores. Just have fun with it.

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FUTURE POST LOOK-ON:

• Sore Muscle Soak

• Candles Made From Soy

• Cucumber Facial Mask

• Herbal Facial Steam

• Herbal Massage Oil

Do you have trouble waking up in the morning? Does a great cup of “joe” normally do it for you, or how about a good shower. Well, after your morning cup of coffee is brewed, why not bathe in it while you are in your shower in the morning. Sound crazy? Try this:

Wake-Up Coffe Scrub:

1/4 cup olive oil
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup pure turbinado sugar
15 drops peppermint oil (Menta piperita)
15 drops rosemary oil (Rosmarinus officinalis)
1/2 cup used coffee grounds from a freshly brewed pot

Apply to wet skin in a circular motion. Best to start at feet and work toward the heart. After scrubbing follow wash routine with your regular body wash routine.

Scrub contains oil so be careful not to slip when applying it in the shower. The product can be used daily and store up to two weeks from the day made, in your shower. Or stored two months in your refrigerator.

FUTURE POST LOOK-ON:

• Sore Muscle Soak

• Candles Made From Soy

• Green Tea Astringent

• Lip Balm For The Winter

• Making Room Scents For Your Home

Some “BomChichaWahwah” Anyone?

Okay ladies we know we all could use some “BomChickaWahwah” in our lives! That’s why one of my favorite companies is offering a huge “Axe” scent pre-buy. Straight in on the email list, from her email I give you all the information you need to get your orders in quickly. Let me tell you a little about Day Star Supplies, when they put out a knock off type fragrance you can be pretty sure its going to smell 99% like the real thing. Stacy Harold (owner) takes pride in her company and it truly shows in the products she offers for sale.

Now onto that Email Pre-buy…

Greetings!
CLARIFICATIONS for PreBuy!
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My apologies for overloading your inbox, but I want to clarify that the AXE Pre-Buy for August is RUNNING! Please place your orders via EMAIL at info@daystarsupplies.com - Our website is NOT updated, but the Pre-Buy is going on now!

Thanks to all of our loyal customers for sending in your requests for another Pre-Buy for our AXE type fragrances!

Day-Star Candle & Soap Supply / Serendipities Scents is pleased to announce our newest pre-buy. These are the ORIGINAL Serendipities Scents AXE type fragrances that you know and love!

Details of Pre-Buy:
• Must meet a minimum of 10#s per each fragrance
• If minimums are not met, we may extend the Pre-Buy for a longer period of time
• Order now to receive the special pricing listed below:
• 8oz size pricing is $14.45ea
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• Sample and sniffies are not applicable or available during this Pre-Buy
• Pre-Buy Begins July 30, 2007 and Ends August 27, 2007

AXE Groove type
Serendipities Scents formulation
A very clean, citrus-woody accord with an effervescent bergamot top note; and freesia, muguet at the heart and ending with notes of cedar, sandalwood, and musk.

AXE Phoenix type
Serendipities Scents formulation
Crisp, clean masculine blend of bergamot, lavender, jasmine, orange and grapefruit on a light woody background.

AXE Recovery type
Serendipities Scents formulation
This is a spa-type fragrance with an invigorating citrus blend of lemon, lime, mandarin, and orange with a note of smooth jasmine heart ending on a woody musk note.

AXE Reload type
Serendipities Scents formulation
A fresh citrus with a light medicinal touch on a smooth woody background.

AXE Snakepeel type
Serendipities Scents formulation
Opening notes of fresh citrus combined with French lavender and jasmine ending on bottom notes of sandalwood, cedar, and musk.

AXE Touch type
Serendipities Scents formulation
This begins with top notes of fresh aquatic citrus enhanced with fruits and flowers ending with notes of amber, sandalwood, and musk.

AXE Tsunami type
Serendipities Scents formulation
This is a whirlwind of bracing notes including a bouquet of citrus, jasmine, rose and ending with notes of aquatic marine and woods.

Keeping bugs at bay with citronella candles is simple and effective, but some of us aren’t all that fond of the smell. I don’t mind the smell much at all until the candle is lit - then it just puts me right off. We still use them, but I’ve started to search for some scent alternatives to add to my outdoor candles that will keep the bugs away and not cause me to wrinkle my nose.

So far, there are a few scents that are promising. Alone or in combinations, try these essential oils in your outdoor candles:

• rosemary
• lemongrass
• clary sage
• eucalyptus
• thyme
• clove
• peppermint

Most fruity or flowery scents will actually attract bugs, with the possible exception of lavender. Lavender essential oil can be combined with one of the above fragrances and still be effective. Citronella oil can also be combined with other scents, but generally the citronella will overpower whatever you add to it.

Here’s to a mosquito-free summer!