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Soothing Sugar Scrub

Posted by Belles on Monday, January 11, 2010, In : Craft 
To make a wonderful sugar scrub that exfoliates while it moisturises is easy peasy, see below: 

Ingredients

 
Empty Jar
Sugar
Olive or Almond Oil
Essential Oil (like peppermint, lavender, rose, jasmine)

Method

·         Sterlise your jar by placing it in boiling water and allowing it to dry, alternatively you can place it in the oven on low heat.

·         Fill your jar 3/4 of the way full with sugar and then tip it out into a bowl.

·         Then fill your jar wit...


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Lovely Lemon Curd

Posted by Belles on Sunday, December 27, 2009, In : Recipes 


Ingredients

 
4 lemons (rind and juice)
2 cups of castor sugar
5 eggs

110g butter

Method

·         Grate rind of lemons and squeeze out juice.

·         Put sugar, rind and juice, butter and beaten eggs into a large basin on top of a pan of simmering water.

·         Stir with a wooden spoon until thick and curd coats the back of the spoon.

·         Pour into warm sterile jars, cover, seal and label.

·         Seal the jar so that it is alright a...


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