I love to browse through http://pinterest.com/ and came across this great recipe for hand made liquid soap or body wash. Well yesterday with hubby and kids help (I'm only allowed out of bed for short amounts of time), we made the recipe. Then all I had to do today was give it a quick blend up with a hand blender and pour into empty dispensers that we already had!
Here is the recipe I based ours on -
http://familyoffarmers.blogspot.com/2011/11/liquid-hand-soap-diy.html
Here is the way I did it
2 bars of dettol soap (grated using a hand grater)
2 tablespoons of glycerine
1 US gallon (3.78 Litres) of water
Add the soap and glycerine to a big pot on the stove and heat up until melted. You don't need to boil.
I then left it for a day (although you only need to leave it for 10-12 hours).
Then used a hand mixer to blend it all up and poured it into containers.
There seems to be a little bit of controversy online over the "shelf life" of this type of soap - however I think if you store it correctly and use it within a few weeks there should not be any problem!
BIGGEST BONUS - is this is soo easy to make and it only cost a couple of dollars - great when you have two small boys who think there is an endless supply of liquid soap in the bottles! Next time I think I will only make half a batch as it does make up a huge amount!
You can use any type of soap - although you may need to experiment with consistency and amount of water added!
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Monday, January 9, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
DIY Ikea Hacked Trofast Kids Lego/Train Table - Part 1
Idea from http://www.ikeahackers.net/2011/04/trofast-play-table.html
For sometime now my husband and I have eyed off those great kids train / play tables. Well our 3 year old and 6 year old are completely into Lego at the moment and this is a great way of storing and playing with their Lego at eyesight level for them (if they sit on a chair).
So after finding the ikeahackers website by chance, inspiration was found to create our own table and that exact night (DAY 1) at about 8:30pm my husband went in search of the shelves from Ikea!! In Singapore there are 2 Ikea stores and 1 happens to be 5 mins away from our house! (That might be a bad thing). Even though the website said they had them in stock unfortunately there were NONE! So back home to wait until next shipment (or so we thought). However next day (DAY 2) on checking with the other store (which happens to be all the way over the other side of Singapore) we found they were in stock - so off he went for shelves and paint!
BUT as usual the adventure did not end there. LESSON LEARNT - Even if 4 staff in a store say that a type of paint is suitable for a certain job doesn't mean that IT IS! My husband and kids were almost finished painting the shelves when I ventured out of bed for a few mins to take some photos! Only to discover that as the paint was drying it did NOT stay on the shelves! So an hour of painting meant 4 hours plus of removing paint and sanding! AND not to forget that it meant 2 new tins of paint and not able to return the unopened paint tins either (but they can be used for MDF anyway and another project I will update on later).
DAY 3 (today) began with a hunt for MDF. My husband and 3 year old set off for a street (area) that apparently has MDF and will cut to size for you! First quote $180 - NO WAY! Keep looking please! Finally hubby found little shop willing to do it for $1.50 per cut and approx $21 for MDF!! WOW - So top and bottom of table and 4 edges for less than $40 all cut to size and ready to paint!!
So afternoon will be spent repainting the storage shelves and painting the MDF.
COST =
Ikea
Trofast wall storage shelves pine x2 = $120
Rill Braked Castor x2 = $24
Paint = $24 a tin (primer & 2 colours) = $72 (we will have leftover to use on another project)
MDF = $35 approx
Extras = Nails, Screws, Sandpaper, Paintbrushes
For sometime now my husband and I have eyed off those great kids train / play tables. Well our 3 year old and 6 year old are completely into Lego at the moment and this is a great way of storing and playing with their Lego at eyesight level for them (if they sit on a chair).
This is the one from Ikeahackers.
BUT as usual the adventure did not end there. LESSON LEARNT - Even if 4 staff in a store say that a type of paint is suitable for a certain job doesn't mean that IT IS! My husband and kids were almost finished painting the shelves when I ventured out of bed for a few mins to take some photos! Only to discover that as the paint was drying it did NOT stay on the shelves! So an hour of painting meant 4 hours plus of removing paint and sanding! AND not to forget that it meant 2 new tins of paint and not able to return the unopened paint tins either (but they can be used for MDF anyway and another project I will update on later).
Yes I am covered in paint! But I'm having fun! Actually they were both really careful about wiping their brushes and not spilling the paint everywhere. They did a great job!
DAY 3 (today) began with a hunt for MDF. My husband and 3 year old set off for a street (area) that apparently has MDF and will cut to size for you! First quote $180 - NO WAY! Keep looking please! Finally hubby found little shop willing to do it for $1.50 per cut and approx $21 for MDF!! WOW - So top and bottom of table and 4 edges for less than $40 all cut to size and ready to paint!!
So afternoon will be spent repainting the storage shelves and painting the MDF.
COST =
Ikea
Trofast wall storage shelves pine x2 = $120
Rill Braked Castor x2 = $24
Paint = $24 a tin (primer & 2 colours) = $72 (we will have leftover to use on another project)
MDF = $35 approx
Extras = Nails, Screws, Sandpaper, Paintbrushes
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