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Pumpkin Seed Pumice Soap
Pumpkin Seeds saved from the Jack O Lantern
Coffee grinder
One bar of Glycerin Soap from the grocery store in color of your
preference
Good sharp knife
Saucepan
Empty soda can
Craft shears
Plastic soap molds from the Craft Store or Cupcake pan
Dry the pumpkin seeds for about a week or until they snap when you
break them apart. (Let them set on the pilot part of your stove or
slowly dry on low in the oven if you can't wait a week.) Clean our
your coffee grinder and grind the dry seeds. A nut grinder may work too.
Use your craft shears to cut the top off the soda can. Pinch the can
at the top to make a pour spout. Fill the sauce pan half way with
water and put on high on the stove. Chop the bar of soap with knife
into about 1" cubes and put into the soda can.
Set the can into the boiling water. Turn the heat down to medium as
the soap will melt very quickly.
Once the soap is melted, use a pot holder to pick the can out of the
water. Add one Tablespoon of the ground seeds and stir with something you can throw away like a plastic knife or shisk-a-bob stick.
Pour the soap into the molds and let them set for twenty to forty
minutes. When the soap is cool to touch, pop it out of the mold.
This makes a wonderful soap for washing hands after gardening. I made Autumn hostess gifts with these soaps, starting with green and orange soap, then molding in leaf and sunflower soap molds.
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The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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