Body and Beauty and Living-Naturally

Sorry this is late- in typical NiÉriu style!Well, the festival of world cultures has come and gone. The started with a few grey skies and we packed our gear in the car hoping that it would clear by afternoon.

We arrived at the venue early. First had to attend a child protection workshop- I wasn’t working with children so I had itchy feet thoughout this!I suppose I did have the kids helpign me-but they went off to attend another kiddies workshop. They even got themselves into the irish times gallery!

Eventually went up to my room to set up and barely had enough time before participants started to arrive.

There was no sink or running water in the room as I had requested but no biggie as the FWC-volunteers were extremely helpful and we were given buckets with water. We did have to run off to get an extension lead as the power source was not too accessible.The class started at 10.30 as planned…I KNOW…on time and all, but we had to be as we had loads to do. There were 12 people in all. I was expectedly nervous starting off, but once I got in my stride, it was all good.

There were loads of questions which I hope I was able to answer, all in all I had a good feeling at the end of the class…it had been an interactive session, the participants were brilliant and very interested-what more could I have asked for!And as promised, here is the link for melt and pour soap supplies.We made cold process soap with sheabutter, cocoabutter, coconut oil, palmoil, and superfatted with avocado oil. For scent, we used lavender and lemon. All participants went away with a few bars of soap-same recipe but one I made earlier. Infact I had made 2 batches using cold process and hot process to demonstrate the results from these two different methods.And special thanks to the organizers of the festival who did a brilliant job…especially Olga and Fiona.

**Ingredients such as sheabutter and cocoabutter for making soaps can be got from www.nieriu.com  and others can be got from most asian stores or your local supermarket.

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