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Soap Making – Melt and Pour Procedure.

 

Materials:

Waterbath

Melt-and-pour soap base

essental oils /scent

additives: cinnamon, papaya extract , moisturizers.

Procedure:

1. Cut the melt-and-pour soap base to small pieces.

2.  Melt it in a water bath.

3. Stir your soap.

4. You could add coloring, scent and additives.. Example of scent is Ylang ylang, cinnamon,laurel etc.

Additive could be aloe vera for dry and burned skin, glycerin, moisturizes skin,  otamel exfoliate skins.

5 Afterwards pour your. melted soap to the molder. You could spray a releasing agent  like vegetable oil so that the soap can be easily removed from the molder.

6 You could spray lightly alcohol on the soap to eliminate bubbles that form on the surface of the soap.

7 If the soap solidify remove it and let it harden for another 3 hours.

source: Making candle and soaps

picture from: creationherbal.com

Silkscreen Printing Business / T-shirt Printing Business

T-shirt printing is a good hobby and a rewarding one. I remember when i was in college, i sell t-shirt that my brother made. The price is around 250 per shirt and the cost to produce is around 110-150 pesos. Not bad isn’t it. So, below is a simple tutorial about this. For sure, this would be a trial and error type of business but once you master it, money will surely come.

Silkscreen printing

Things needed:

Silkscreen with frame.

Acetate

Pentel pen

Photo emulsion

Paintbrush

Mixing bowl / cup

Squeegee applicator / rubber applicator

Textile Paint

T-shirt

Plywood / hard flat plastic/Formica

Creative hands

Glass as big as the frame (optional)

Pressurized water source

Steps:

  1. Think of a design. For starters, start with one color design. You could try the “worst president logo”. It is difficult to copy it by hand so better use a computer. Print it in an acetate. Because of the advent of computers using stencils is now a bit outdated.
  2. Clean the surface of the silkscreen. Be sure there is no dust, particles etc.
  3. Then get the photo emulsion. Usually it has two components. The pink liquid part and a white crystalline part or a clear liquid. Just mixed a minimal amount in the mixing bowl or cup. Enough to cover the whole silkscreen.(see instruction of manufacturer before using it, just to be sure.)
  4. Place the silkscreen vertically, slightly inclined, and the flat surface facing you.
  5. Now, use the paintbrush to apply thin layer of the photo emulsion to the screen. Apply it from the top going down. Be sure that all areas are covered and there is no bubbles or excess photo emulsion that is dripping. Do this also in the inner portion of the silkscreen.
  6. Upon doing so, place the silkscreen on a dark room or dark closet for at least 2-3 hours.
  7. Afterwards, place the acetate on the flat surface of the silkscreen and cover it will the glass. The acetate will be sandwich between the glass and the silkscreen. Then put it under the sun. Some uses a halogen lamp. They place it under the halogen lamp to dry. Exposure time would be from around 10-15 seconds using a halogen lamp. If under the sun it would depend on the intensity of the sun. In short, it would be a trial and error process.
  8. After sun drying / bulb drying, you need to remove the excess photo emulsion from the silkscreen. Use a pressurized water source to remove it. Spray into the silkscreen. You will see the image of the acetate is now in your silkscreen.
  9. Clean it thoroughly and let it dry.

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Skinless longganisa / how to make skinless longganisa


Skinless longganisa.

We Filipino are pork lovers. Most of our process meat products are from pork like tocino, longganisa, ham etc. I would say that among the other meat products our favorite is the longganisa. This is a recipe i found from the site of BAI.

SKINLESS LONGGANISA

INGREDIENTS

Meat materials: Household measure Wt. in grams
(1.0 kg)		 Wt. in grams
(5.0 kg)
Pork lean, ground 0.7 kg 0.7 kg 3.5 kg
Pork backfat, ground 0.3 kg 0.3 kg 1.5 kg
       
Curing mix:      
Salt,refined 1 Tbsp 12.0 g 60.0 g
Curing salt,
(94% salt,6% sodium nitrite)		 ½ tsp 2.0 g 10.0 g
Phosphate 1 tsp 3.0 g 15.0 g
Water(to dissolve phosphate) ¼ cup 62.5 g 312.5 g
       
Seasonings/spices:      
Sugar, refined 9-12 Tbsp 90.0-120.0 g 450.0-600.0 g
Ground black pepper ½-1 Tbsp 2.5-5.0 g 12.5-25.0 g
Garlic, chopped 2 Tbsp 22.0 g 110.0 g
Pineapple juice 2 Tbsp 34.0 g 170.0 g
Anisado wine 2 Tbsp 24.0 g 120.0 g
Food color as desired as desired as desired
Monosodiumglutamate (MSG) ½ tsp 2.0 g 10.0 g

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Paper making / How to make paper

The word “paper” is derived from the word papyrus. Papyrus is a plant on which the Egyptian used to as a “paper”. To be specific they used the leaf as a paper.

Before the advent of paper, people tend to write on walls, and because you cannot carry a wall with you to deliver a message it was then improved in the form of tablets / stone. Then generation past and people need to lessen the burden of carrying a tablet so they tried to used different materials to make paper. So, the story goes on until they discovered different plats to make paper and in the end process they settled o using pulp of different plant to make paper.

In the last thousand of years of man’s existence it is difficult to imagine our lives without paper. So, to appreciate more the importance of paper, why not make one.

Here is an article about Paper making:

RECYCLE RICE STRAW INTO HANDMADE PAPER

Materials needed:

— rice straw

— sodium hydroxide

— sodium hypochloride

— rosin size

— alum

— cheese cloth

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