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Where to Find Carrot & Tomato Powder?

post #1 of 7
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I am looking for carrot and tomato powder. Online I can find one or the other at a store, but not both, or if i find both it's rediculously expensive. I can't find either at any of the stores in town. I found some cheap tomato powder at www.americanspice.com for $7.05 a pound, but they are out of stock :( and there is no carrot powder on the site :(

 

Anybody know any places to order it cost effective from? I'm not terribly worried about it being organic or not right now, I'm testing something out with it right now with my homemade soap so the cheaper the better until I've got it figured out.

 

Thanks in advance

post #2 of 7

I would try an ethnic market in your area, indian and chinese cultures have use for a lot of vegetable powders and you may find them in specialty stores.  Hope that helps?

post #3 of 7

Nevermind you can find them both here http://www.ediblenature.com/

 

Don't know if this is in your price range but, at least they have both carrot and tomato! 

post #4 of 7

Here's one more place for tomato but it's twice as expensive as americanspice.com.  I'll keep looking around!

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thanks you both. since I can't find a cost effective powder I did a couple tests with using organic tomato paste (the kind where the ingredients say only tomatos) and that has actually worked pretty well.

 

The first one was not the best face soap, it left my skin a feeling that dry feeling after you use a soap that leaves you too skeaky clean, and after your skin dries and you smile it makes you skin feel a little stretched. lol, i don't know if you know what I mean- but that's how it feels to me. and it also left it feeling slightly oily, which was an odd combo. however that soap lathers really really well, and I've loved using it everything but my face, lol

 

The second one turned out much better for my face, still lathers well and it didn't leave my skin feeling dry or oily, but just great and no stretched dry feeling afterwards. I've really been digging it for facial use.

 

I will post some pics of the soaps tomorrow :)

post #6 of 7

That's too cool you make your own soap!  I still can't get over it.  :-)  I'm definitely going to have to give it a try soon.

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Originally Posted by stins:

That's too cool you make your own soap!  I still can't get over it.  :-)  I'm definitely going to have to give it a try soon.


 

you should, it's so much easier then people think!

 

I still haven't taken pics, things have just been super busy, I keep waiting for a loll to get caught up and it's just not happening lol

 

but here's a pic that another mom on cafemom who was wanting to try some homemade soap took of some of what I sent her for free so she could try some

 

 

 

these particular bars were a mix of olive oil, coconut oil and goats milk for the soap with the tan having some lemon, peppermint and eucalyptus eos. the both red bars are tomato complexion bars, made from the same soap, with tomatos added and some rosemary and tea tree eos in them also. the main difference between these is when I added the tomato, at what tempature and for how long prior to cooling, and the fact that the darker ones are marbled with larger pieces and the lighter with smaller pieces of pure soap. all are hot process soaps.

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