There is a unique take on street art happening in Seattle. The artist Peregrine Church has developed an art technique using stencils and superhydrophobic spray that allow him to create art that only appears when it rains. The spray’s compound allows the artwork to remain clear until water hits it, making it undetectable on sunny days. For a full article on Church and a video about his water-based works, click here:: This Invisible Art is Activated by Rain
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Perk Up as You Wash Up with Café Latte Soap
You can make a great soap infused with coffee and milk that can eradicate unwanted scents from hands, exfoliate your skin, and perk you up during the morning shower. This Café Latte soap can be easily made at home using coffee grounds, goat’s milk, coconut oil, and sodium hydroxide. It makes a great soap for the bathroom sink or for the homes of your soap shop customers. Get the full recipe here:: Cafe Latte Goat’s Milk Soap Recipe
Organize Your Thread in a Spool Hoop
Sewers and embroiderers can help keep their thread organized and within reach by building an embroidery hoop. With an embroidery hoop, dowels, wood glue, and a clear space on the wall, you’ll have a great place to store your thread spools. For a full tutorial with pictures, click here:: DIY Embroidery Hoop Thread Rack
Exfoliate and Smooth Skin with Salt & Coconut Oil
You can make an effective scrub at home using Epsom salts and nourishing coconut oil. The Epsom salts exfoliate your skin while the coconut oil helps it retain moisture. Add your favorite fragrance and you’ll have a great scrub that can also be used a product for your online soap shop. Get the full recipe here:: How to Make a Coconut Oil Salt Scrub
Want Extra Soap Sales? Try a Flea Market!
While selling soap online and in craft fairs will likely get you the best profit, you can also sell your handcrafted soaps in local flea markets. Despite the name, there are many flea markets that don’t sell junk or overstocked merchandise, but also some that have booths available to sell crafts and soaps to customers. For a full article on flea markets and crafts, click here:: The Insiders’ Guide to the World’s Best Flea Markets
Make a Great Soap Scaled Like a Mermaid’s Tail
You can make a lovely aqua soap that has the shimmer scales of a mermaid’s tail! Using coconut oil, jojoba oil, crisp cotton fragrance oil, and a soap base you’ll make a great soap that kids and adults alike will love. Get the full recipe for this colorful, fresh soap here:: Mermaid Tail Cold Process Soap
Detox Your Body with an Algae Scrub
You can make a fantastic body scrub at home using coconut oil and blue-green algae. Both ingredients are praised for their antioxidant properties and the scrub is rich with vitamins, minerals, and enzymes to keep skin healthy and moisturized. Make some for yourself or your soap customers by following the recipe here:: Blue-Green Algae Body Scrub Recipe
Treat Your Lips with a Vanilla Scented Balm
As spring approaches and hiking season returns, many will want to have a quality lip balm to protect their lips from the dry air. Make some at home and sell it online by merely using Shea butter, vanilla bean jojoba oil, beeswax, and vitamin E. Get the full recipe for this lip balm here:: Vanilla Neroli Lip Balm Recipe
Make Those Glass Bottles Into Colorful Vases
If you have a collection of old glass soda bottles, you can put them to better use by making them into colorful vases for flowers. Just take some white spray paint, Mod Podge Matte, confetti, and a paintbrush to make a vase that’ll brighten up any room in the house. Get a full tutorial here:: DIY Confetti Vases Made From Bottles
Invigorate Your Body with Coffee and Lavender
With some brown sugar, ground coffee, lavender buds, and grapeseed oil, you can make a wonderfully scented body scrub. The caffeine in the coffee boosts your energy while the lavender scent calms as you shower. It makes a fine product to sell on your online soap shop or to just have at home. Get the full recipe here:: Lavender Coffee Scrub Recipe