When creating your own homemade lip balm, you’ll often find that waxes like beeswax, soy wax, carnauba wax, and candelilla wax are commonly used as a base ingredient, also referred to as the foundation. This is because they provide several benefits to your lip balm. Firstly, they act as a binding agent for all other

I love to make homemade shower gel for friends and family. I usually add it to a bath gift basket with the easy recipe attached so they can make their own when what I gifted them runs out. Have fun and experiment with different fragrances and decorative bottles you can put the the gel in.

A wood dowel, often referred to a dowel pin, is a cylindrical piece of wood used to join two pieces of wood together. A wood dowel acts just like a floating tenon except that dowels have less gluing area and use multiple holes (mortises) that must maintain alignmein mating pieces. Which can be tricky without

One of the first questions you may have when you begin using dowel joinery is: What dowel size should I use? When woodworkers talk about dowel size most often they are referring to the diameter of the dowel. There is a general rule for diameter size (loosely based on mortise and tennon joinery) that will

Pumpkin cake recipe that is as easy to make as it is yummy. Just 5 minutes of prep time with this 8 ingredient recipe. It will be a family favorite. Ingredients: 15 ounce can of pumpkin 12 ounce can of evaporated milk Just over a tablespoon of pumpkin pie spice 1 cup of sugar 4

I recently purchased a rain poncho and rain pants for my get home bag/go bag. I thought it would be helpful to make a list of alternative uses for a rain poncho or rain pants if someone finds themselves in a emergency survival situation.

I was getting ready to come up with a new recipe for homemade lip balm and a question popped into my head: