Click the links below for product sizes and pricing. FREE CLASSES - ESSENTIAL OILS AND AROMATHERAPY This Saturday and Every Saturday from 9 to 10 AM at the Mercato in building 50 at the Grand Traverse Village across the hall from Silvertree Deli. Join Anna Sangemino at Suite 25 in the Mercato at the Grand Traverse Village for a free one hour Class to help you cope with the winter flu and cold season in an inexpensive and practical natural botanical based way using steam distilled essential oils and herbal extracts. Aromatherapy and skincare Formulator Anna Sangemino With 25 years experience in herbal products and Aromatherapy Anna is an author of 2 books involved with natural skin care, an organic farmer, and developer of world class natural and herbal health and beauty product lines both for external and internal benefit. Anna shares her knowledge of Aromatherapy and Essential Oils for free on Friday Afternoons in the Mecato at the Grand Traverse Village from 3-4 PM in Suite 25 across from Silvertree Deli. Beeswax - Bulk unprocessed, all natural direct from a natural beekeepe for safe use in soaps and natural and organic cosmetics beeswax Beeswax 1 LB $6.99 Coconut Oil Virgin – Extra Virgin Coconut Oil is highly saturated oil making it very stable against oxidation. Expeller-pressed, deodorized and organically bleached, it has a mild coconut taste and smell. Coconut oil has been used for centuries by traditional healers to soothe and cool the body and the mind. This oil is desirable in moisturizer and baby oil blends, massage oil and after sun relief. Because of its antioxidant properties, Coconut Oil is usually considered the best carrier oil for massage oils. It is very light and conditioning to the skin. Extra virgin coconut oil has the longest shelf life of any plant oil, maintaining its original fragrance and smelling like fresh coconuts lasting for 2 or more years. Coconut Oil Organic Virgin 16 oz - $8.95 Floral Waters in sizes for personal use and bulk sizes for personal care Aromatherapy products Lavender Water Neroli Floral Water Rosewater Our herbal oils are made with Fresh Organic Olive Oil Infused with Hand Selected Botanicals either Wild Crafted or Organically Grown. These oils are intended for external use only and not for internal consumption. Herbal Oils are available Infused with these individual types: Green Walnut Hulls, Arnica, Calendula, St.Johns Wort Oil and our Specially blended Herbal Ear Oil. Arnica Oil Black Walnut Hull Oil -(Green Hulls) Calendula Oil: Calendula Infused Oil Herbal Ear Oil - with Oils of Calendula, Mullein, and St. Johns Wort St. John's Wort Oil HERBAL OILS: HERBAL INFUSED OILS Essential Oil Blends Traveling to farmers markets, soap making conferences, herb or music festivals and craft shows over the years has led to us meeting and sharing and bartering with some really great folks that we want to share with you through the links below. Please enjoy their websites and indulge in their great products. Soap Making School - Now offering class dates for 2010! Our full day long fast start intensive Home Soap Making Business School is starting another season! Come and learn all about making hundreds of soaps per day with ease while preparing to launch your new home soap making business.Learn about designing recipes, blending essential oils, and some great herbs to use in your soap and herbal skin care products. TO ORDER BY PHONE CALL 1-231-352-9600 or E-Mail Us at: creationsoap@boone.net Store Hours at the Farm Monday-Friday 10-5, Saturday and Sunday by appointment call 231-352-9600 so we can make sure to be there for you when you come. Benefit from over 20 years experience selecting the finest essential oils and herbs for soapmaking and aromatherapy synergies from around the globe. In pursuit of a naturally beautiful body, please indulge yourself in my personal selection of high quality botanical essential oils, aroma soaps, tanning lotions, tanning creams, herb bath teas and aromatherapy blends. This simple indulgence with herbs is my lifelong quest about how to obtain Pure Beauty for Skin, Hair and Spirit. These products are designed from a holistic and herbal education. Knowledge developed from 20 years experience making natural herbal soap, shampoo bars and skincare from natural botanical oils for my livelihood and health. I have assembled to present here a collection of Premium Aromatherapy Oils and Natural Ingredients for making the most natural and highest quality botanical based herbal soaps, shampoo, toiletries, natural perfumes and scents possible. These essential oils may be used for scents, aroma synergies, in diffusers, soapmaking recipes, in glycerin base or natural hair care. These world class steam distilled essential oils of herbs have several therapeutic benefits when blending synergies for aromatherapy or herbal skin care and toiletries. Our Natural Aromatherapy soaps are delicously scented with pure essential oils and herbs. Essential oils of Tea tree, Lavender, Rosemary, Sweet Orange, Peppermint and others alone and in aroma blends provide excellent herbal benefits skin care. These aromatic products also contain specialty herbal ingredients like Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, Evening Primrose Oil, Pomace Olive Oil, Lavender. Many of these essential oils may be effective treatments for Acne, Rosacea and other skin maladies. Handmade Soaps or shampoo bars also make wonderful gifts and suggest uses with other Aromatherapy bath salts and glycerin herb soaps as Gift Ideas! Check out our full selection of Soapmaking supplies for creating your own skin or hair care products as great gift ideas. you will find everything from coconut oil and palm oil to jojoba oil, herbs and herbal remedies for optimum health. Creation's wholesale soapmaking supplies and wholesale essential oils provide an extensive variety to select from for making your own skin and hair care products with natural perfume and scents for pure beauty. Creation Soap: noun - Soap- pronounced-"kree-ashun soap" The original hand made soap with herbs in North America. An all natural and botanical handmade herbal soap produced by Anna Carter Sangemino since 1978 beginning in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Scented with Pure essential oils for natural fragrance. Anna's hand made soap is often used for specific skin care solutions, types include dry skin mositurizing, shampoo body, poison ivy, psoriasis, ecxema, acne, oily skin, sensitive skin. Soap using God's Best botanicals from the point of Creation including Botanical Oils, essential oils, herbs, and Love. Handmade Soap: noun - Hand made soap - A hand crafted cleansing agent, manufactured in bars, granules, flakes, or liquid form, made from a mixture of the sodium salts of various fatty acids of natural oils, fats, and essential oils. Soapmaking: verb - Soap making - the creative action or craft activity that is the act of creating handmade soap by combining herbs, essential oils, base oils or soap base with aromas, essential oils, or fragrance and molded to color and shape according to the skin care designers desire. This information is the general procedure for making cold processed soap at home. For detailed safety information, soap recipes and complete detailed specialized instructions including bits of information on incorporating herbs and other wonderful ingredients, get the book: Country Living's Handmade Soap, Recipes for Crafting Soap at Home. The jacket cover is pictured above and features the Creation Soap oval oak style bar in the center. The book is currently in its 7th printing! General Procedure for Cold Process Recipes Put on eye protection and rubber gloves. Place the weighed amount of solid fats that need melting in your recipe into a stainless steel stock pot for the stove top or suitable container for the microwave and heat gently until the fats become liquid. When these fats have become liquid combine with the other weighed amounts of oils for your recipe and check the temperature with your thermometer. Be sure the thermometer doesn't touch the bottom of the container and give a false reading. Now either heat or cool the fats and optional ingredients to the temperature specified in the recipe. Measure the amount of cool or tepid water (65 to 75 degrees F) specified in the recipe. Cool water is important. Combining lye with water that is too hot can cause a volcanic type eruption of lye solution that can be quite dangerous as well as a major pain to clean up, please don’t ask me how I know this, just believe it. On the other hand if your water is too cool the solution may not reach a high enough temperature needed for some recipes. Stirring the water, slowly add the lye. The water will get real hot and turn cloudy as the lye dissolves in the water. Continue stirring until the lye dissolves thoroughly. Remember not to breathe these fumes directly and wear your face mask when mixing the lye & water. At this point check the temperature of the solution. We will need to match the temperature of the lye solution to the temperature of the oils at the temperature specified in the recipe. To help accomplish this I usually bring up the liquid oil temperature by adding the melted oils, while bringing down the lye solution temperature in a cool water bath. Checking both the lye solution and oil temperatures every few minutes. When the lye solution gets within 5 to 10 degrees of the temperature I’m looking for I’ll add it to my pouring jar (as I described earlier). Since the glass jar will be at room temperature it will usually pull that last few degrees into the glass of the jar bringing it to the desired temperature. The idea is to get the lye solution and the oils to the same temperature at the same time. This gets easier as you get more experienced. Tips: It takes the lye water longer to cool than the fats to melt. If you get the fats too hot, the lye solution will get too cool before the fats have cooled. In this case set your lye solution in a hot water bath to hold it hot enough until the fats begin to cool to the desired range. Now to begin mixing the soap I start slowly drizzling the lye/water from my modified mayonnaise type jar into the fats while stirring rather briskly(not fast, just faster and more intently than slow, making sure to mix all parts of the container as I am stirring). With my larger batches poured into a single mold the temperature seems more critical than small batches poured into smaller molds. I have quite often poured small batches into individual molds at a slightly higher temperature without any problems. I have found that most recipes will work quite well mixing them fairly close to 100 degrees. If you use fats with higher than normal melt temps such as 96 degree coconut oil(as opposed to the 76 degree which is more readily available)or 107 degree palm kernel oil(as opposed to the 86 degree palm oil more readily available)then I recommend increasing the blending temperature to between 110 to 120 degrees. For recipes using beeswax you'll need to increase the temperatures to about 130 degrees as most beeswax melts at about 147 degrees and will not blend properly below the melt temperature. After combining the fats with the lye solution you’ll need to keep stirring until the reaction is nearing completion and begins to "trace". Tracing is when you can drizzle soap from the spoon onto the surface of the soap and the line of soap dripping from the spoon retains it shape for a few seconds. After you have stirred for fifteen or twenty minutes and you soap has not traced you can take a rest for ten minutes or so checking it every few minutes in case it changed gears. Then come back and stir for a while and break for a while until it traces. My soaps usually trace within the first half hour but sometimes take 1 to 2 hours. If you can write your name on the top of the soap with the spoon it’s tracing. This is the point where you add your essential oils and herbs if any and stir until blended. When making larger batches that I’m pouring into individual molds I’ve found I need to add the essential oils and begin pouring into the molds slightly before trace in order to get it all poured before it sets too much to pour(it will begin to thicken in the pitcher and become too stiff to work with the spoon).