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Post by desertsage on Nov 12, 2015 8:21:59 GMT -5
Two questions.
How do you feel about Pomegranate?
If you were to choose between cinnamon/ginger and peppermint, what would you choose?
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Post by TammyA on Nov 12, 2015 10:25:13 GMT -5
This Secret Santa wonders how people feel about chocolate. Milk or Dark? Or white (which isn't technically chocolate, but we'll include it for completeness)? Nuts or not? Caramel, fruit, mint, spices, or booze in the chocolate? Definitely dark! Fruit, mint, nuts, spices, booze all good. Salt...eewww. Hahaha. Dark chocolate covered sea-salted nuts are my one sugary addiction. Trader Joe's has a roasted almond version that includes turbinado sugar crystals on the outside of the chocolate. I can't buy them anymore. I eat myself into a sugar coma.
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Post by leedlz on Nov 12, 2015 11:22:25 GMT -5
Nice to know I am not the only one to hold their breath past those smelly stores in the mall. Do you guys live next to your computers to be posting at 4:00 AM. MINT is the best with dark chocolate. Margaret
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Post by Deb Flaherty on Nov 12, 2015 14:35:15 GMT -5
So... I found some nice looking body lotions, scrubs, etc ... wondering if my secret recipient (so all of you) are into these things. I know there are a few people with sensitive skin, etc I love citrus, mint, and lavender scents. Not allergic, but something in a lot of scented products makes me sneeze uncontrollably and a lot of different scents in the air gives me a migrane right quick. It's sad really. No soap shops for me. Are the scented products made with real essential oils or do they say "fragrance"? Fragrance = man made chemically based concoctions of who knows what to get a "scent". Also, "fragrance" doesn't have to be explained, just listed. Have you tried naturally lye based soaps that are unscented? Like Oatmeal or maybe just Cocoa Butter or Castile or Olive Oil soaps?
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Post by Deb Flaherty on Nov 12, 2015 14:38:41 GMT -5
Do you have the Vanilla beans? I don't...yet, but I do have some really nice glass containers to hold it in. Might just have to make it for locals. Guess I'd better figure it out soon or my containers will go another year without being used. I bought them to make ginger beer last year and then read horror stories of exploding containers and chickened out. I recommend Beanilla (www.Beanilla.com) Their Madagascar Vanilla beans are the BOMB !!! They even sell Vanilla Extract DIY Kits, and have info on how to make one yourself.
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Post by Deb Flaherty on Nov 12, 2015 14:42:36 GMT -5
Two questions. How do you feel about Pomegranate? If you were to choose between cinnamon/ginger and peppermint, what would you choose? I love Pomegranate oil on my face but don't eat them Oh, such a hard choice about the cinnamon/ginger and peppermint. I guess for the fall it would be cinnamon & ginger and for the spring and summer peppermint. And for anytime a combination of all three
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Post by Deb Flaherty on Nov 12, 2015 14:47:38 GMT -5
Nice to know I am not the only one to hold their breath past those smelly stores in the mall. Do you guys live next to your computers to be posting at 4:00 AM. MINT is the best with dark chocolate. Margaret LOL about the smelly stores It's getting close to candle making time and my family all says "essential oils only please". For me the 4:00 AM "on the computer" was because I couldn't get to sleep and needed to get caught up on the forum as I had been a bad girl and away from all you lovelies for waaaaay to long. I have been forbidden from putting a sleeping cot in the office (where my computer is) which is a good thing as I find that walking out of the office several times a hour to mess with something else, somewhere else in the house or garage is a "mind send"
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Post by TammyA on Nov 12, 2015 15:18:21 GMT -5
Two questions. How do you feel about Pomegranate? If you were to choose between cinnamon/ginger and peppermint, what would you choose? I like pomegranate juice. I don't fuss with eating the fruit. Too much effort. I would probably almost always choose cinnamon and ginger over peppermint. I tend to like the "warm" spices and herbs more than the "cool" ones.
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Post by Lisa Prus on Nov 12, 2015 15:42:42 GMT -5
Two questions. How do you feel about Pomegranate? If you were to choose between cinnamon/ginger and peppermint, what would you choose? Pomegranate is yummy. As much as I like mint ( which is a lot), I put cinnamon and ginger in as many food items as possible. I may be addicted. It's actually quite ridiculous.
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Post by Lisa Prus on Nov 12, 2015 15:50:13 GMT -5
I love citrus, mint, and lavender scents. Not allergic, but something in a lot of scented products makes me sneeze uncontrollably and a lot of different scents in the air gives me a migrane right quick. It's sad really. No soap shops for me. Are the scented products made with real essential oils or do they say "fragrance"? Fragrance = man made chemically based concoctions of who knows what to get a "scent". Also, "fragrance" doesn't have to be explained, just listed. Have you tried naturally lye based soaps that are unscented? Like Oatmeal or maybe just Cocoa Butter or Castile or Olive Oil soaps? I generally can't get close enough to even check the label, because then I have to stand in the smell. :/ I'm not a big bar soap person. I like them, but they don't get used. I go for liquid 100% of the time. Not a particular fan of cocoa butter smell. My current favorite is Eucalyptus Tangerine and I also love Thieves. Both of the places I get them discontinued. Boo hoo. I guess I like the ones noone else does???
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