My sister got us two sets of Creativity for Kids Make Your Own Layered Lotions
Basically the kit comes with 4 canisters of colored, scented shimmering hand lotion (note, do not use on your face), which you put in one of two heart-shaped bottles in whichever order/pattern you want. There are also two pieces of ribbon to tie around the bottle.
Even though the concept is so easy, the lotion likes to stick to the sides of the bottle when you push it in, so you can’t really get the nice layered look that you see on the bottle. But I don’t think the kids care much. In all, they (7 and 4 yo girls) seem to enjoy making the layered lotions. And for $4 each set, I’m not sorry we bought them.
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I looked for the sponge cake recipe in the Better Homes & Garden cookbook. There are a couple of cake recipes and several of lemon filling. I have to guess which one my grandmother made.
The kitchen. It had no counter space at all – but there was a table. Granny’s mixer was white, I don’t know what brand but similar to my KitchenAid Stand Mixer
Tomorrow is the first part of Mika’s birthday party (a sleep over with a couple of friends, if that), and I promised to bake her a cake. I want to bake her a sponge cake, that same one that was a specialty of Granny and Gladys. It was delicious with lemon curd, but I preferred it with whipped cream, but Argentina’s whipped cream is so much better than America’s.
I think I still remember the taste, hints of the taste at least. The texture. Their specialty – along with a white cake with chocolate-dulce-de-leche frosting and a chocolate cake with peppermint frosting. I think two of those recipes came from the Better Homes & Gardens New Cookbook
Will I bake this cake in homage to my grandmother and aunt? In remembrance? In a mistaken attempt to give my children a slice (ha ha) of the childhood I had and that they will never comprehend? Will the cake even come out?
It’ll be for Mika’s 7th birthday. I can’t remember for what birthday Granny baked me the sponge cake with cream. Did she die when I was 8 or 9? How can I not know?
I still haven’t decided if it’s good to remember or if it’s just too painful, too senseless.
As you know, I’ve been really into soap-making with the girls lately. I’ve been also wanting to branch out into other “beauty” products, and I already made a foot and a face scrub. I also bought some Epsom salts (99c at the 99c only store) to make bath salts. But my next project is to make lotions. Mika and I already made some using lotion making kit, but in that case it only consisted of mixing a pre-made lotion base with color and fragrance – not too exciting.
Now I got a lotion making kit from Bran Berry Soap Making supplies, so I will try the real deal. The kit comes with:
8 oz. Sweet Almond Oil
8 oz. Avocado Oil
8 oz. Shea Butter
1 oz. Phenonip
1 lb. Stearic Acid
1 lb. Emulsifying Wax or Ceteryl Alcohol
12 – 4 oz. Clear Reverse Tapered Ovals w/White Caps
1 oz. Lavender 40/42 Essential Oil
1 oz. Cucumber Melon Fragrance Oil
Lotion Making Booklet
After buying it, I thought I’d have been better off just buying the individual ingredients in larger quantities, so I could make products other than lotion, but c’est la vie. This kit will make 48 oz of lotion – which is not that much in comparison to another kit I was thinking of buying – but I can’t imagine having a need for more. Indeed, I have so many store-bought (by my mother) lotions at home, that I don’t really have a personal need to make my lotion myself. But I’m hoping it’ll be fun for the girls š Now, thinking back, that other kit was probably a better value. Oh well.
Anyway, what I actually wanted to say on this post was that Branble Berry was a good company to buy from. Everything came well packaged, the recipe booklet came with general as well as specific lotion-making instructions, and, most importantly of all, the package arrived 5 days (which included a weekend), after I’d ordered it. I did pay over $11 in shipping – but the package was almost 8lbs.
I’d probably buy from them again – though this hobby is getting expensive (I bought the kit as a birthday present to myself), so I don’t anticipate doing it soon.
Update. I was wrong when I said the Bramble Berry kit would only make 48oz of lotion. I calculated that based on the fact that the kit came with 12 4-oz bottles – I thought that there would be as much lotion as bottles. Well, I was wrong. I don’t know exactly how much lotion you can make with this kit, but it’s a LOT. The real problem is getting cheap bottles/jars where to put all the lotion you can make – and finding uses for said lotion.
I’ll also report that I did order more stuff from Bramble Berry (hey, you only turn 40 once), and once again it arrived in less than a week from when I ordered it. The shipping charges are high – but I’m very happy with them.
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