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Sara Ivy

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Don’t let today be another manic Monday!

Here to help is today’s feature blogger, Sara Ivy.

I’m Sara from Sara Ivy and I’m excited to be today’s featured blogger. My blog is filled with the most random of things from my head. Whether I am giving my opinion on my favorite (or not so favorite) make up items in my Make Up Monday posts, lusting over something from my Wednesday Want List posts or just gabbing about what I am doing, places I’ve been, tales of being a part time nanny to a little Princess or my latest adventures in soap making it is all contained there on the blog.

Sara Ivy wants you to read these 3 favorite posts:

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    • Sara Ivy says

      I’m wondering if you are the same person that asked this question on my post. If so, I answered it there as well but I will answer it here too just in case. In short, sometimes, yes, and yes.

      I try to use organic and nontoxic ingredients but sometimes it is not possible. There are so many ways to make soap and I’ll try to break it down into simple terms. For example, using any type of melt and pour soap base means I don’t get to select the ingredients used. They’ll use whatever ingredients they want (including preservatives that I DO NOT use in my cold process soap) and I have to roll with it. Some people think Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) is good to use, others HATE it. You can get detergent free base but it will still use some preservatives in it. Melt & Pour will never be organic and whether you think it is nontoxic depends on your opinion of the ingredients used. Then there are colorants and fragrances to consider.

      Cold Process or Hot process soap making is different. Those are the ingredients that I can control. I pick what oils go into it as well as what I color the soap with if I choose too and if I want to add herbs or fragrances, ect. I moved from strictly working with melt and pour to cold process for this very reason. In order for the bar to be considered organic everything used has to be certified organic. Typically I try to use organic ingredients but all soap is made with Lye, which in it’s initial form is toxic and to my knowledge cannot be considered organic. There is no way to get around that. By the time it comes to you, the consumer it is no longer caustic or irritating to the skin as it has been combined with oils during the saponification process (see post for graphic).

      I can make any type of soap that you’d like using the cold process. I can make something specifically for you geared towards sensitive skin or even for babies. If you are allergic to perfumes I can make an unscented bar or if you are allergic to cosmetic or food dyes I can make one with no coloration or color it using natural ingredients like Annato seed or Rosemary. It depends on what you want or in this case don’t want and that’s the beauty of soap!

      I hope this answers your questions and if it doesn’t or you have more feel free to e-mail me.

  29. Kristin says

    Your picture on here is just PERFECT – these are the faces I make when the camera turns to me…my grandchildren will never know whether I was just goofy, or always looked like that 😉

  31. Dee says

    Hi Sara! Excited to check out your post on fake eyelashes…still never been able to figure them out! Hoping you have some good tips 😀

    Enjoy your day!

    • Sara Ivy says

      I have had SEVERAL blunders with fake eye lashes that I didn’t write about in my tutorial. Including having them end up glued to my finger rather than my eye (bobby pins or tweezers – use the end to apply pressure to your eye lid) but thankfully they come off easy. It’s just frustrating.

      Oh and let’s not forget a rather scary hissy fit I threw just before a concert. I was adamant that these fake lashes be on because other wise my dream boat of a performer wouldn’t fall in love with me. LOL Oh to be 14 again.

  36. Brandie says

    Happy SITS day to you! Do you all have a special aunt? Today I blogged some super cute artwork just designed for aunts! Come see me and happy Monday:)!

  37. Kristiina says

    Crap, I actually can’t comment because I don’t have any of those accounts, you should open your commenting up, pretty please 🙂

    • Sara Ivy says

      Those are the google standards for blogger and I can’t change them unfortunately. There should be an option to use just your name and e-mail. I’m signed into my Google account at the moment so I can reply to blog comments but I’ll look into it and see what I can do. Thanks for the heads up!

    • Sara Ivy says

      I actually just can’t take a serious picture. Whenever I do I always say to myself that I look dredful. So now I just kind of do it on purpose. If its meant to be funny/silly/awful what have you then when someone comes along and says “that’s really an awful picture” I can just go, “duh.” LOL

      P.S: I think my sense of humor is good, but then again I’m biased. 😉

  45. Nicky Johnson says

    Happy SITS DAY! I love being a nanny as well. I started about three weeks ago and I love it. I have two of the most adorable sweetest kids. I will start posting The Nanny Tales on my blog in a couple of weeks! Have a wonderful Day!!!

    • Sara Ivy says

      Beware of the attachment that goes with it. I left my little one a month ago and when I was Facetiming with her I bawled my eyes out. It’s awful. They are going to be coming out to California where I now am in the summer so I’m excited to see her again. She’s gotten so big since I left. 🙁 But it truly is the best experience I have ever had. Can’t wait to read your posts!

  48. KG says

    I love the name of the blog…
    I love makeup as well and I talk about beauty on my personal blog…. so I def would like to check yours out.

    • Sara Ivy says

      LOL Thank you. Looking back it may not have been the best picture to use but it really does explain me pretty well. 🙂