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January Newsletter 2007
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| Recipe:Whipped Body Butter |
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Whipped Body Butter
Makes approximately (6) 2 oz jars
¾ cup shea butter
¾ cup cocoa butter
5 oz almond oil
up to ½ tsp essential oil
Melt shea butter in a double broiler
Add cocoa butter, melt
Add almond oil, stir
Remove from heat
Pour into a bowl (metal is best)
Set bowl with mixture into a larger bowl with ice and cold water in it, until cloudy on top
Add essential oils when cooled
Whip oils until a frosting consistency
Spoon into containers
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| Tips:Revitalize your Body with a Bath |
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Set aside a half hour this week for a luxurious bath. A bath helps us to stop, breathe, relax and take in the healing powers of water and the ingredients we put in it. Light candles, add rose petals, herbs, essential oils or bath salts to the water.
Rub sea salt with a little water over your body in a circular motion. Do this standing in your bathtub before sitting in the water. Then soak in the water with the salt on your skin. Do this before shaving your legs and don't rub salt over any cuts or it will sting.
Sea Salt helps to remove dead cells from our skin and invigorates our skin. It also helps to stimulate our own natural skin oils.
After your bath, massage your body with a soothing massage oil or body butter. If you don't have a bathtub, you can do a foot bath.
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| Recommended Book of the Month |
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The Herbal Home Spa by Greta Breedlove
Lots of recipes to nurture and revitalize your body at home. Facial steams, herbal foot baths, red rose oil, herbal body scrubs are just a few of the 110 recipes.
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