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The Best Lemon Curd Recipe
This recipe for Lemon curd is so versatile and can be used in hundreds of desserts. I love to just eat it by itself even. But add just a hint of lavender and you’ve got yourself a rare delicacy. What is Curd Lemon curd is a pudding like dessert that is made with butter, eggs, sugar and fresh lemon. Cooked over the stove to thicken into a curd texture and then used as a filling for many different desserts. What Can I Use it In You can use this curd to fill any dessert that pairs well with lemon. Some of my favorites are Lemon Lavender filled Crepes, Lemon Tarts,…
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Lavender Lemon Curd
The Best Lavender Lemon Curd recipe! Sweet and tart with the added elegance of lavender. This lavender lemon curd will have you doing the good food dance. Mmmm, mmm I put it in everything from frosting for fruit pizza to blueberry crepe filling. I lived in England for a short time where I first had this amazing condiment. With British Scones and clotted cream this beautiful sauce will change your world (I say that a lot, it must be true). Anyway, every time I travel I have to try the best most authentic foods of the area. And then, I have to recreate them using the best home grown fruits…
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Most Requested Whipped Body Butter Recipe
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The Best Make it Yourself Lavender Body Lotion Recipe
This creamy, smooth lotion recipe is light and soothing to your skin. This lotion is super moisturizing and a top requested product that you can now make in your own home. You can make it any scent you prefer but the addition of essential oils like Lavender make this an even more amazing lotion. Have you ever put on lotion and a minute later your hands felt sticky and maybe even drier than before? Sometimes lotion recipes include alcohol and additives which make the lotion gummy and drying. This recipe is so creamy and moisturizing Essential Oils Essential oils are derived from plants and they smell so good. You can…
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How to make a 3 Ingredient Clay Mask
I didn’t realize how very easy it was to make a clay mask or I would have done it sooner in my life! I have been paying up to $40 dollars for a tub of clay mask. Then I started making my homemade bath and body products and realized that I can make a clay mask mixture for pennies! The huge plus is that I know exactly what is in the mask and you don’t need a preservative because you can keep it in dry form and just mix as needed. This is such a simple clay mask recipe. I mean 3 ingredients simple. Clay, in powder form; good oil…
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Discover these Simple Lavender Bath Bombs for Lucious Relaxation
Soothing physically and mentally are these lavender bath bombs. Made with home grown lavender buds and essential oil. We love them and they’re fun to make. Ingredients The recipe for bath bombs is super simple. All you need is two parts baking soda to one part citric acid, a little bit of good oil such as jojoba or sweet almond oil, fragrance (I like to use essential oils) and a little bit of water in a spray bottle. I let my 3 year old help out with the part of mixing the ingredients because she thinks it’s fun to mix things and make messes. Perfect combination. Process Mix the dry…
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Whipped Sugar Scrub Recipe
In the winter months I like to test out different recipes for bath and body products. One of our most popular products this time of year is our whipped sugar scrub. It makes your skin silky smooth and helps get rid of winter callouses. Over the years we’ve tested so many different sugar scrubs and this one is our favorites. You will thank me for it once you’ve discovered the miracle that is avocado butter!! Ingredients I personally do not like the smell of Shea butter. In fact it’s kind of gaggy. So I looked into different options and stumbled upon avocado butter. This stud is amazing! I could use…
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The Best How To Guide To Propagate Lavender From Cuttings
The most amazing this about plants is that you can take a cutting of them and propagate it to a new little plant with the same DNA as the plant you cut it from. To propagate lavender you only need 3 things, soil, rooting hormone, and a cutting of lavender. True to Variety The only way that you can know what type of lavender you are planting is by taking a cutting from a known variety of the plant. You can plant lavender from seed but then you get all different unknown varieties. This doesn’t work if you are selling your lavender and need to know its properties either for…
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How to Make a Lavender Wreath
Everyone should grow lavender somewhere in their garden. It is naturally deer resistant, pests don’t bother it, it’s drought tolerant and it is such a versatile plant. Today we will be showing you how to make your own lavender wreath from your own homegrown lavender. If you don’t have wheat or would like to substitute it with another plant like eucalyptus then that is great. Just make sure the plant you use is properly dried. This lavender & Fall wheat wreath is so easy to make you only need four things to recreate this beautiful wreath. It turned out beautiful and was made just in time for my pre-fall home…
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The Best Guide to Choosing the Right Lavender Varieties
There are so many lavender varieties that it can be a little bit overwhelming to navigate. We are here to help you understand which lavenders to choose for your own garden. Lavender Varieties Let’s start with a really quick basic biology lesson. Lavender is part of the lamiaceae (Lay-mi-a-see-aye) family it’s genus is lavandula and there are 47 know species of the lavandula genus. Okey dokey, so what does that mean? It means that all lavenders are part of the mint family and that there are 47 types of lavender to choose from. And they are all different. Lavindin There are also hybrids of each lavender called lavindins or lavender…
