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Our website is in transition! :-D~~
Hello Dr. Flower followers! We are on this beautiful Saturday evening, we are transitioning our website from it’s original format to a totally new one! You may see some “funky” things in the next few days but the dust will settle very soon! So hang tight with us for a few days and if you EVER have questions or if you need help with an order in this transition time, please e-mail: sales@dr-flower.com or call 404-915-5686. Happy Washing! ~Regina
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Essential oils and the environment
I came across an interesting article today as I surfed through my normal blog update feeds. This one caught my attention because it has to do with essential oils which are what I use in my soaps almost exclusively. I have/will be making a few exceptions here and there and they will be CLEARLY marked as such. If you look at my products page, I have a list of products coming soon. Georgia Peach is one that will not be from essential oils. (soap bars for sale on site soon! made, just curing…) It has been my observation that most fruit EO (essential oils) do not hold well in soap. Lemon and…
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Piedmont Park Green Market
I wasn’t born in Atlanta…but I was months old upon moving here. I grew up for the first 6 years of life in my grandmother’s house in the Morningside area. That was before it became the posh fixed up vintage neighborhood that it is now. In my time there, I spent many a day playing at Piedmont Park. I took swimming lessons at the old pool and bathhouse. (It’s getting renovation, yippee!) I saw my first tadpole from the lake there. Because of those things, it will always have a special place in my heart. I’m excited about the new changes going on. This Green Market is an example of…
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The Story of Stuff
I found a link to this from ecotransitions which is on my feed list – 😀 This 20 minute movie is WORTH your time! Sort of goes with the “we have consumer power” theme… story of stuff
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Did you know?? We have Consumer Power!
I’ve found facebook and registered…in my surfing through it, I also found neat groups like the big green purse and the green parent. One of the articles on the green parent: (http://thegreenparent.blogspot.com/2008/03/grab-cup-of-eco-savvy-java.html) Coffee is the second largest agricultural crop in the world, after cotton. It is also the third most heavily sprayed crop in the world; cotton and tobacco are first and second. If you drink conventional, non-organic coffee, you are likely consuming a slew of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. And these chemicals are not only terrible for your health, but they are also harmful to the fields, streams, animals, birds and people who live where the coffee is grown.…
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I just bought some at the grocery store…rhubarb
I’m afraid it won’t grow in the new hot hot no water environment we have here in hotlanta. 🙁 Goodnews is that they do sell it at the grocery store!! I know I should be looking for produce that is local! Somethings are just on the exception list. *skips off to hunt down the Ohioan cousin that has the cool kind rhubarb pie recipe* Here’s some reading about rhubarb! Did you know that rhubarb helps the ozone? But in 1995, two Yale scientists discovered that oxalic acid, found in rhubarb, helped neutralize CFC’s. Rhubarb to the rescue!
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Yayy! Moo.com Mini-cards arrived today!
I’m an avid blog and group reader… A supplier of mine mentioned on her blog that she’d order Moo Mini-cards when it was time to get new business cards. *ding* I need business cards! I have original soap images that would help sell my product! So off I went to moo.com to place my custom print order! They just arrived today in prestine order and exactly as I requested. I’m thrilled, can ya tell? ~
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Turmeric in Citrus Blend handmade Soap
My original reasoning for adding turmeric to Dr. Flower’s Essentials Citrus Blend handmade soap bar was initially due to natural color. It seems that tumeric has many other good properties for skin care as well as culinary. See the quotes below… Pulled directly from: Turmeric for Cosmetic Use Since time immemorial, turmeric is very popular in cosmetic use especially for woman. In the East, Turmeric is precious as the therapeutic goldmine inhabits significant position in the psyche of Hindu. It forms an important part of various sanctified Hindu rituals focus its importance for mankind. In the late 1970s a scientific study on turmeric was taken up and in the beginning…
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scientific method and the fish catching you…
I just watched a video here on the internet. (I’ll post the link, promise.) I’ve just “put to bed” another batch of soap. I’ve been listening to all of the wisdom and input from many experienced soap makers. Some of their lessons are coming home to roost. Back to basics…experiment and explore…but do it in microbatches…change only one thing and then see how it does…document document and did I say document? I have to laugh at how many of those rules got broken on today’s experimental batch of soap. Nothing like doing it wrong to drive home the lesson! 😀 (for those worried, that soap batch won’t see the light of…
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Mommy's lil Soap helper
If she’s 5 now and remains of the same excitement about soapmaking, this could get really interesting! If you are wondering what she is doing…we have traced the soap and added most of the botanicals and essential oils here at the end of hot process. My lil helper felt like additional rosemary would make this rosemary rich batch that much richer. 😀 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IESVAuVjhLY&w=425&h=350]
