What wonder a good pruning do to our Patchouli herb! Its rapid growth enable us to make some Patchouli powder this time 
We harvested only the bigger leaves. Rinsed and air dried them. That took about 3 weeks to make sure the leaves are crunchy.
Next, we blended the leaves into powder and kept it in an air-tight container in the fridge.
When the ambience was right, Christine would soak herself in a frenzy of joy and passion converting her cooking oil and herb powder into slabs of Patchouli swirled soaps
Jane came back home from work asking “Hey, how did you make the batik soap?” That question was encouraging!
Christine used beeswax, cocoa butter and oil of coconut, palm, sunflower to make her Kalleo Yes! Patchouli. They were scented with Patchouli essential oil.
Cheers,
Christine
Patchouli ( Pogostemon cablin) Soap
We are so encouraged to receive overwhelming response from customers and friends about our newly added herbal soap – Mugwort soaps. It is a boost of spirit to formulate more other herbal soaps! Thank You!
The second herbal soap on our curing rack right now is our Patchouli soap.
We used our home-grown patchouli herbs, infused some based oil to make the soap. The scent of the patchouli leaves was our aiming emphasis, we wanted the natural scent of the herb itself to infiltrate the bar soap and so we ensure the infused oil was concentrated enough to meet our sniffing expectation.
Needless to say, we used lots of patchouli leaves for such purpose; it was good for the trees we thought – as they had long deserved a good pruning
Would you like to find out the benefits of patchouli herb? Do type Pogostemon cablin , ‘google’ it and write to us about your findings!
Cheers,
Christine
Mugwort (Artemisia argyi) Soap
Mugwort herb is another wonder herb since ancient time. Traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine has high regard on the medicinal benefit of Mugwort. It is used to arrest menstrual bleeding, skin condition and treat respiratory complication; the herb industry claimed it is beneficial as antivirus and antibiotic as in acupuncturists’ practice treating some medical condition.
The Mugwort herb at our backyard has been propagating pretty well; enough for us to process infusion oil for our new soap. Ensuring the leaves were adequately dried, we infused the whole stockpile in palm oil, which also acts as the fixed oil. It was rather elating to see how the yellowish palm oil turned dark greenish, judging from the aroma of the infused oil, we were sure the fixed oil had been saturated with the essence of Mugwort herb
The ingredient used in this Mugwort herbal soap are:- water, lye, coconut oil, Mugwort infused palm oil, cocoa butter, sunflower oil, green tea, essential oil of Patchouli and Citronella.
The blend of cocoa butter, Patchouli and Citronella creates astonishing good aroma for the soap! In a quick sniff, it smells cocoa butter; take a short breath it smells Citronella; inhale it long enough the aroma of all the herbs is impressively great! It leaves you uplifted, refreshed and irresistible for a tranquil bath
Cheers,
Christine
Absence
Blimey! Have been falling off the blogosphere for quite a long while..!
Idling in between the old and new year? Nay.
Had been busy with so much domestic chores; shooting loads of pictures for a local health magazine publisher, writing on steps of handmade soap-making guide..delivering soap orders….Yea. Pretty tight.
Glad that we can take a wee break now
