Eumora Facial Bar with Hma (Hydration microalgae factor)

  Have you heard of the Eumora facial bar?
Many people have claimed that it works wonders and you will see a smoother younger complexion by morning if you use it. I have always loved good soaps for cleansing and shower and so when I heard about this facial bar, I couldn’t wait to lay my hands on. It certainly did my skin good – had restored my dull tired skin. 🙂
You can get the free trial sample bar (for a limited time) via Nourish Kallos Wellness. Fill up the form at the website link and just pay shipping & handling fee of USD4.95 and the bar will be shipped to you worldwide.
Eumora is suitable for both men and women, children and adults! I always believe and love a good soap bar for travelling, camping or business trips. It is so convenient and you don’t have to worry about spills or leakage in your luggage. No need to pack bottles of liquid wash. Find out more about Eumora and why not give it a try if you have not.
Or sign up a free sample to give a friend or loved one as a gift.  🙂
I am certainly loving it. The  Sensational Moor miracle bar !

Giveaway!

Hi everyone,

It’s that season again where some of you may be shopping around, having fun and holidaying with loved ones, making gifts or giving gifts or maybe spring cleaning and decluttering your home . As for the ladies at Rainbow Home, they are still having fun making soaps. We thank you for the support you have given towards the soaps they had made. If their hands are not on soaps, they may be baking cookies or making snacks  for sale at church for this coming festive season. As for me personally, I am feeling ‘SEW FAR SEW GOOD’ and I think I have become a little obsessive recently for fabrics ( call me a fabric fanatic, if you wish). I hope this won’t result in a big hoard stacking up in my workroom that I’d find ‘too much fabric, too little time!’ . Talk about leather, yes, I’m crazy about this too – we have some nice leather scraps given to us by a good friend I met in camp some years ago. I have recently turn them into some pouches, purses and clutch and  also made some cowboy jackets for my church Vacation Bible School two years ago.

On a different note, I am also enjoying facilitating a small group in a series of discipleship bible studies at church. Three key words I gleaned recently from the studies, –  To get into the Word is to cultivate a  DELIGHT into His Word, a DEVOTION to His word and a DISCIPLINE  into His word. 🙂

Ok, here’s the giveaway (one) I have been planning some weeks ago and am excited to give it to one lucky winner residing in Malaysia (sorry, we can’t include international friends for this giveaway as postage will be very high for us to bear if you should win!). It’s a clutch (with tassel) I made using the tutorial from here.
Here’s how you can win this giveaway .

a dark chocolate leather clutch with tassel ( *detachable brooch not included in giveaway- for display only).

Tell us your favorite handmade whether you had made it or bought it (it can be anything from clothes, bags to shoes or food, etc. Anything!)  Leave your comments here at this blog post by midnight 8^th December (Sunday) 2013 . ( Make sure you have a valid email at your profile name so that we can contact you if you win. If it is a spam, this would be detected and deleted permanently and not counted as an entry) .

You can also hop over to our Facebook page to comment and don’t forget to “Like” Projek Dorcas page for another entry. If you are already a facebook fan, just leave us a comment below the image post as your second entry.

We’ll choose a winner randomly and announce it here. Thanks for being with us today!

So have fun and keep safe if you are travelling.
Happy holidays and a Blessed Christmas.! 🙂

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9 Dec, 2013 update:  [ ‘Giveaway’ Closed ]

It looks like this time around, our ‘Giveaway’ did not draw a good response from readers – there were only 2 or 3 participants…..so sad  😦
Was it because it was difficult to enter? or was our ‘Giveaway’ not attractive at all? well, we would appreciate some honest feedback from our readers. Tell us where was not right or how we can improve. Anyway, we still have to pick a winner and the winner is  🙂 ……Mary V.

Congratulations, Mary V. ! You have won our handmade leather clutch. Thank you for your participation and dropping  by.

Activated charcoal soaps

As usual I made my regular trip to Rainbow Women’s Home today to check on the soaps that were made yesterday. We were so pleased to see the results of each bar cut and we call them ‘zebra’ soaps. They are actually activated charcoal  body bar soaps which were made using the funnel pour method and just swirled simply by a chopstick. The patterns turn out to be so amazingly beautiful.

There’ll be more of these coming up the pipeline at Rainbow Home. Meanwhile this small batch will be placed in the curing rack for 30 days before they can be ready for wrap.

After having done with the ladies and soaps, I head on to the Kamdar fabric store and got these lovely English cotton fabrics at a special offer of RM4.80 per meter. (It’s always a nice feeling to browse round the fabric store but each time I’m there I have to tell myself – ‘not for long’, else I’ll be lugging home bags and bulks of fabrics that will find no place in my fabric shelves… * feeling guilty*  😛 )

Well, stay tuned and watch what I’ll be up to next. … am so bursting with inspiration and  I can’t wait to try my hands on the next project.

Thanksgiving Giveaway

Holidays are obviously a favorite time for many of us whether you are a teacher, student, or housewife etc. I’m especially alive with much excitement and enthusiasm at this time of year simply because there  are seasons for celebration and giving thanks. For some of us, it means to gather with family and friends to give thanks for the many blessings enjoyed.  The act of thanksgiving celebration is just not a holiday, neither should it be limited to these times of the year, however, it should be done every other day or occasion. In whatever we do, wherever we are, in whatever we have (whether in plenty or in want) or in whatever situations. I have been constantly reminded to always give thanks. And giving thanks or showing gratitude should come naturally in our everyday lives.

So for this moment, I would like to first of all thank those of you who have taken an interest in Projekdorcas and been a great friend and supporter since it started.  I think it’s been almost a year and half now for ProjekDorcas.  Along the challenging journey that has been, it was also a great pleasure serving you. I know the number of page views for my blog here right now is not that great – but I don’t have to wait till that ‘big’ to thank you, right?

Being grateful and in a celebrative mood at this time , I have decided a Giveaway for this month to let you know how thankful I am for you here at Projek Dorcas. You have helped me reached a new milestone in terms of your encouragement and support.

I started learning how to make soaps in last November and since then I have often been engaging in amazing soaping adventures. If you visit the blog or my facebook, you can see some natural handmade soaps created which have proven to be very kind and gentle for skin.So my giveaway for you will be some soaps worth about RM60, packed and wrapped in a lovely box.

But before you can win this giveaway, you’ll have to first of all, head over to Projek Dorcas fan page. Click the ‘Share’ button below the photo (thanksgiving) posted and comment below this photo “what you are thankful for this year and why”. You may share and comment once a day or everyday, for a better chance of winning. This giveaway contest ends on November 24^th, 2012, Saturday at 12.00 noon (Malaysian time).

A winner will be chosen by random.org and announced on the Facebook page. For the Giveaway which has to be shipped (awarded) to the winner residing in Peninsular Malaysia, postage will be free ( I will gladly bear your cost 🙂 ). However if you are a winner residing outside Malaysia, postal charges for your giveaway may have to be borne by you. That’s fair, ok?

So have fun  and give your thanks.
Happy Thanksgiving !  🙂
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
~ Melody Beattie ~

Charcoal and Clays

Here’s the soap, a better version of the charcoal and clay batch I made last week. This will be my 5th type of soap.  Instead of adding two types of French clays, I decided to just add French pink clay and activated charcoal powder. Besides using those usual skin-loving oils, I have also superfatted with jojoba and macadamia nut oil to reinforce its moisturizing effect.  French clays (a wonderful gift from the earth) are known to have many benefits for skin. French clays and other natural clays have been used both in cosmetics and as a valuable aid in skin-care. They work as a powerful exfoliator, cleanser and invigorate the skin to make it looking young and fresh.
It is said to do a marvelous job of removing impurities from the skin.
Activated bamboo charcoal powder is used. This is commonly used in Korea, Taiwan and Japan for their skin-care products. It is also known to unclog pores and remove impurities from the skin.

So for those reasons, there goes my pink clay and charcoal for this soap with a young growing adolescent friend in mind. Essential oils of rose geranium and patchouli are added to give it a light rosey scent. I am inspired to name this soap….as ‘East meets West’. How about that? It’s a wonderful fusion of the east (bamboo charcoal) and the west (french clays).

Melody, this soap is for you. Hope you’ll like it when it’s ready 🙂

these are smaller bars cut as samplers.

I love the two contrast colors swirls, black and pink  done by the funnel pour method. Can’t wait to try these soaps myself.

Failed, Rebatched and Usable

Did you ever experimented something you hope or knew would be perfect … only, it wasn’t?

I started soaping ventures six months ago and there are still lots to learn. Soap making can be very addictive for me (a newbie) as you can see (there have been many exciting discoveries each time I’m in the soaping affair!) In my attempt on the first batch of goat’s milk soap, I would say it wasn’t quite a successful one. Sometimes, batches curdle,  separate layers happen when I think I’ve accounted for all of the things in my cold process soap batch. In my first attempt, the temperatures of both oils and lye/milk mixtures were far too high (Silly me! I didn’t know how to read the thermometer ) and when I mixed them together the mixture curdled or traced rather too quickly in the pot before I could pour them into the mould. And in another second attempt, my cold processed soap (after 24 hours) appeared to have two separate layers and there was an oily film floating on the top. I was too distraught to take any pics 😦

Well, I did not give up or *sob* – I tried to reclaim and save those two ruined batches by picking up some tips from the internet. I did not throw or washed them down the drain as it would be such a big waste of my efforts and money (oils and milk can be very costly).  Anyway I had used some rebatched soaps and would like to say they had turned out great! Here’s one I love to use for washing hands often. Though it does not look smooth on the surface ( or you’d call it ‘rusty-lookin’), it is ok! It’s actually as good as my other ‘well done’ soaps – hard, creamy and lathers well. Each time, I washed with this soap, my skin feels soft and nice. So there’s a lesson learnt personally from my failed batch. I am thankful for this…

a nice creamy little bar (rebatched) of goat’smilk and honey resting in my washroom with my favorite patchouli scent still lingers on…. this gives a new song !

Here’s another batch made a couple of days ago – this is supposedly to be for adolescent skin with ingredients good for acne-prone skin . I made this with a young adolescent lady friend in mind. It did not turn out as I expected – it was powdery and not so smooth when sliced ! (probably I had added too much French clays and bamboo charcoal powder).

Notice the corners with cracks? They could not gel properly.  But I love the wonderful color swirls done by using the funnel pour technique. These soaps are now being set to cure and we’ll see what become of them after some weeks. I am keeping my fingers crossed….

This recipe is reformulated and another batch was done today. I will post more pictures later on….so keep watch for my next post.

**A personal meditation for today:
“It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees.”
~ Psalm 119:77 ~