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The Apprentice makes soap, a mess and a costly mistakeWe've been glued to The Apprentice this week as not only have the teams been making and selling their own soap, but one of the teams raided a beehive to extract honey! *Squeaks of delight* My lovely husband gave me a beehive and accessories for Christmas and I am currently undertaking a bee keeping course. I can't wait until I can harvest our own honey and beeswax for use in cosmetic products. Rest assured, I shan't add as much honey as the Apprentice team did - theirs was positively oozing and dripping and probably unusable as a washing bar! However, adding too much honey didn't end up being a problem for them as that team won. Adding too much sandalwood became the problem..... |
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Rose Candles anyone?Why should adding too much Sandalwood be a problem? The amount they used was well within the skin safe levels, the aroma would have been divine......no, the problem was all down to cost. Had they added Cedarwood, as I believe they had originally planned, the cost of the essential oil would have been in the region of £70. But no, Sandalwood it was, resulting in a cost of over £700 for the essential oil alone! This meant that although they sold out of their lovely soap, the didn't make a profit whereas the dripping honey soap did. I shuddered and recalled a student who recently added a 10ml bottle of my rose otto oil to a candle. The size of the candle would have quite happily taken the 10mls and burned nicely (and very fragrantly) but my poor old heart still misses a beat when I realised...the cost of the rose oil was just over £60 - in one candle!! Quick, pass me the lavender...deep breaths...deep breaths! Here our review of Plush Folly & The Apprentice on BBC Radio Solent this week. It'll take a few seconds to load. And yes, I mention the rose oil in the candle.......
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Just like buses.....Having already been very excited with The Apprentice and BBC Radio, we were delighted when *plop* onto our doorstep landed this month's edition of Quick & Crafty magazine. There is an interesting feature on making your own cosmetics and guess who has a page to themselves....here's a sneaky preview ....
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