Curing Curing ...........

Mmmm some lovely soaps curing on my rack. I have some Peppermint & Rosemary Essential Oil Soap nearly ready. It's proving to be a really popular one so I made 3.5kg batch. I also knocked up a lovely soft scented English Rose Soap that lathers soft and lots of bubbles. One of my most favourite essential oil soap is Lemon Scented Gum Eucalyptus, and I put some calendula petals on for decoration. Another favourite is HOney & Oatmeal, with oatmeal exfoliations, it has the most divine scent and I only have about 24 bars ready at the moment.

As with all my soaps they contain cocoa & shea butters or both, teamed with lovely oils like olive, rice bran coconut and palm oils so they will not dry the skin. Soon I will be offering a lovely Rose Geranium scented goat milk bar (available 17th March) that is fully packed with both cocoa & shea butters and super fatted at 8% so it is a luxury bar. This bar is light and creamy and will benefit anyone with eczema or psoriasis skin conditions. It's costing $4 a bar but is still good value as other bars on the market sell for $7. Goats milk is close to the natural PH of our skin and my soap contains the natural vegetable glycerine that won't dry out your skin. Once you use cold pressed soap (that's the process I use to make it!) you won't want to go back to store bought soap. My bars generally sell for $3, so if you are interested, you can contact me via collections@westnet.com.au anytime.
On another note: I am preparing new items for SIA at the moment and some of the products are being manufactured right now and I have some wonderful new items to show and some very cool ideas on how to use them. In due course I will post a few sneak previews here on my blog, so stay tuned....it's all very exciting!
Thanks for looking and have a great day....Julie xx

"Talk to the Crab"

He's so big he can wear my sunglasses!

It's been really hot here in Perth for the last several weeks, or maybe it's because we live in a really hot shack - no aircon, except in the lounge room. So this afternoon I spent it with my daughter Danielle and Tad on the Swan River in Perth, right with the city in the background. We were after a "BIG" crab, well out prayers were answered with the biggest crab I have ever seen in the river. So we avoided the 40C heat and cooled down on a boat trip near the Narrows Bridge on the Swan, it was so lurverly....

Down South

Just got back from a lovely getaway down south of Western Australia, so I thought I would do a quick post of some of the photographs that I took. Click on the image to see the amazing detail of the "plant matter".

1. Yallingup Caves - Jewel Box
2. Yallingup - Eagle Bay
3. Cape Naturaliste - Lighthouse
4. Margaret River - Voyager Estate
5. Dwellingup - Plant matter
6. Yallingup - Sunset on the beach

Had the most fantastic time, weather perfect, destinations fabulous. Tad & I visited, Dwellingup, Busselton, Yallingup, Augusta, Margaret River, Dunsborough, Cape Leeuwin, and many more smaller towns.

We saw dolphins, stingrays (that you could touch, that swam almost onto the beach) the most adorable Blue Wrens, Wedgetail Eagles. Caught crabs in Mandurah (got bit by one on the foot!) caught tiny prawns, a dog shark (actually I reeled it in only!) Visited wineries, beautiful caves, walked the longest jetty in the southern hemisphere and ate amazing food.

Thanks for looking and will post some more photos when I get some more free time!