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Homegrown Collective August Box Review and Giveaway!!

I remember my first foray into crafts – it went something like “here is $50.00 and go get a hobby”. These fateful words were said by my father during one of my many groundings as a teen. I was being particularly annoying, hoping that would release me from my punishment, and I think I was pushing all my worn out fathers buttons. I was only 16 and honestly overwhelmed by the different sections at the craft store and all the unknowns that lie ahead of me. I decided on materials to redo my childhood dresser.

Even then I was a fan of a good DIY project and love the opportunity undertake something new. I was given an opportunity this month to review the Homegrown Collective box. The theme for August was “Let Us Make Soap” – all the materials needed to make your own soap. Soap making has always been something that I have wanted to try (Jason was surprised this was a first time thing for me), but have been apprehensive due to the lye and the caustic nature of the ingredients.

Homegrown Collective took this common soap making fear into account when they curated this box. The recipes include were charcoal soap, cacao chocolate soap and rosemary peppermint soap. The included soap was a simple base of three soaps that only needed microwave melting, still allowing the addition of my choice of ingredients. The three soaps included were goats milk soap, a simple clear soap and a simple white soap. Each of these 3 melted easy in the microwave (in about 40 seconds) and hardened just as simply, making adding ingredients easy.

The idea of the box is it is a do it yourself Eco friendly subscription box that promotes self sufficiency. The Homegrown Collective is a collection of members that enables them to use a ‘group buying’ strategy that results in seasonally curated boxes with savings that are passed on to the subscriber. The best part is that you can use ingredients from past boxes that could have included olive oil, coconut oil and rose petals.

The thing that struck me about this box was the sheer volume of supplies included. In this one box was everything needed to create soap and included a ball jar, a grater, cocoa and Shea butter, 2 stir sticks, 1 dropper for essential oils, 1 loofah (approx. 5 inches long), organic cacao powder with raw cane sugar, 3 molds with lids, 3 cinnamon sticks, 1 oz rosemary, 1 oz spearmint, 1 oz activated charcoal. If that was not enough also included was 3 essential oils including lemon grass, peppermint and cedar wood. Finally there were the 3 soap bases of goats milk, clear soap and white soap. The instructions included were comprehensive yet not overwhelming and easy to understand.

I like to think of this box as “Soap Making 101” with supplies and instructions included. I had so much fun with this box that Jason bought me more white soap base so that I can make more soaps. I plan to make these for stocking stuffer’s for the holidays! I can honestly say this was one of more inventive and unique boxes I have seen and would recommend it to everyone!!!

As for the dresser – I got un-grounded before I completed it.

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GIVEAWAY: Homegrown Collective is offering a box to my readers! (1) reader will receive one GREENBOX! Open to residents in the US only. I will be randomly choosing 1 person on October 6 (10/6/2015) to receive one GREENBOX from Homegrown Collective!! To enter complete the entries below! Winner will be notified by me by email and prize will be fulfilled by Homegrown Collective! Remember you have 48 hours to claim prize, or I will chose another winner. GOOD LUCK!!!

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