Sarah James writes: Summertime is the perfect time to revamp your beauty routine. Longer days and hotter nights call for special skin, hair and make-up tricks. Share your tips in the first ever Instructables Beauty Contest! No, there’s no swimsuit challenge or talent round in this Beauty Contest. We want to know your secrets for […]
Instructables user belsey writes: I’ve been making moisturizer for a couple years now. Not only do I save a lot of money, but it’s great fun to come up with recipes tailor-made for my family. My husband suffers from chronic atopic dermatitis — eczema — and I’ve tried many many recipes to keep his outbreaks […]
This weekend I’m at FOO East, a sort of “wiki-conference” where friends of O’Reilly meet and exchange ideas. This morning I made bath bombs with some lovely folks! We combined two parts baking soda to one part powdered citric acid, then spritzed it with witch hazel while stirring and fluffing vigorously. Then we added in […]
Adam @ MAKE points us to this incredibly awesome Han Solo in carbonite soap. With soap this cool you’ll seriously consider the state of your personal hygiene before you resort to using it. Although, what better way to get rid of the grime after a long afternoon of LARPing than with a hand-crafted recreation of […]
Can’t get much better than D20 soap on a rope by The Pink Toque!
Sean @ Make: Online writes: This week’s clever maker-entrepreneur award goes to Etsy sellers Cleaner Science, who make and sell these awesome soaps that look like petri dishes full of growing germs. They’re easy to make (I presume), inexpensive to buy, light enough to ship cheaply, and totally original. Home run! Bonus: some include glow-in-the-dark […]
Dugshop makes this vegan pomegranate heart-shaped soap: anatomazing! [via Street Anatomy]
