The morning was spent cleaning the kitchen – moving everything off the counter tops and cleaning them, scrubbing the floors, halfway scrubbing the cabinets. Have I told you lately how much I dislike painted cabinets? Worse . . painted cabinets with little groves in them . . where gunk and Texas dust accumulates!
Then, this afternoon I decided to make two batches of hand cream so when Vince gets home, the kitchen will look like it did when he left this morning . . but it’s a whole different mess and it was clean .. really!
Clean Kitchen
It’s a good thing I took a picture before I messed it up again.
Hand Cream
The cream I’m keeping, I just put it back in the Vaseline containers. Plain and simple works for me but I wouldn’t give it to someone else in an empty Vaseline container.
Two Recipes
The container on the right has the recipe I shared the other day – Vaseline, baby lotion and Vitamin E cream. The container on the left has shea butter, cocoa butter, sweet olive oil, and beeswax.
Labels
Cute little labels I made! They say “Hand Cream from Judy Laquidara”
Ready!
Only the larger containers get the labels. I’ll probably end up making another batch of both of these before Christmas . . it’s something everyone seems to love.
merryl shapiro says
Hi, Can you please share the shea butter hand soap recipe? Thank you
Sherrill Pecere says
Always a great, welcomed gift!!
Dar in MO says
Those are such great gifts for any knitter and quilter because it seems both hobbies result in dry hands. You are such a thoughtful friend.
Joyce says
I think I’m going to try making that. I always have horrible dry skin in winter, and I have tons of lotion around, but I think that looks like a good heavy duty cream!