Gaia Vintage and the Florentine Curiosity Store

Gaia Vintage Items now for sale on line through the Florentine Curiosity Store

My youngest son Max has recently graduated from two years of studying in Florence Italy!

His subjects, restoration of paintings and furniture as well as fresco making and restoration. Through his studies he has become very interested in Curiosities, Vintage Items and Antiques. He has been finding them, restoring them and in conjunction with our shop in Palma, Gaia Bathtime, many of these items are now for sale…. in our shop in Palma, BUT for your convenience, also on line at Etsy.com

His online shop is called  Florentine Curiosities and is also supported by a Facebook Group of the same name. Florentine Curiosities Facebook

Some of the items are quirky and rare other just plain simply wonderful and nostalgic. There is everything from an old Bug and Beetle collection to an English Afternoon Tea Set to old Cameras, Typewriters even an old Hairdryer.

All curiosties beautifully restored. His photographs of the items and their descriptions alone are worth a visit! Each item bought comes with a history which will be printed on old paper, then stamped and sealed to make each item a unique and a truly valuable and collectable piece. When passing your treasure on to someone else as a present don t forget to add your own piece of history…..

Magnifying Display Case

https://www.etsy.com/listing/191866504/magnifying-display-case-for-photographs?ref=shop_home_active_10

Original 1960 Polaroid Camera
https://www.etsy.com/listing/191874118/vintage-polaroid-camera-ee100-mint?ref=shop_home_active_9

Some of these items have been seen in Gaia Bathtime Palma de Mallorca but are now for sale across the world in Max s Etsy Shop.

Etsy.com

Make your own Soap

How to make your own soap with a Melt & Pour Soap kit from Gaia

Homemade Soap easy as a piece of cake
with your Soap making Kit from Gaia

The Gaia Soap Making Kit includes everything you need to make your own soap. 

1 kg of scent free melt and pour soap, a selection of exfoliants, essential oils and even a small selection of moulds. All you will need it a Bain Marie which is basically a pot within a pot where the bottom pot is filled with water.

In 3 easy steps we will show you here how to make it. 

Step 1 

Firstly grate your soap pieces and in a Bain Marie melt it down. To help the melting process add just a very small amount of water.  To melt 1 kg you should use about 180 ml of water so if you are making less soap you need to do you math! Don t over stir your melted soap as it will get took frothy.

Grate your scent free soap 

Melt in a Bain Marie…. you won t need the lid !

This is what the melted soap looks like
and remember not to
over stir it

Step 2 

Now add the exfoliants and your essential oil and gently stir it in well. Make sure that the essential oils are very well incorporated. Again stir gently to avoid frothiness.

Exfoliants and essential oils and moulds at the ready 

add your exfoliants and essential oils and stir
thoroughly but gently!

Step 3 

Use a little sunflower oil to oil your moulds before pouring the liquid soap into your prepared moulds. This helps with getting the soaps out next day.

Leave them over night, turn them out and leave them to dry for a couple of weeks.

 Your soaps are now ready to use and you should let your imagination find wonderful ways to wrap and package them to make wonderful present for friends and family. Soap making is also a nice activity for you and your kids ….

The results looks like soap delicatessen
& there are many ways to display
& package to make  lovely presents

The soap kits are available at our shop GAIA bath time
 and cost just 62.00 Euro

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GAIA PERFUME MAKING, report in the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung

Gaia Finca in Spring. A tour of our production areas and the surrounding land!

A peep into the Gaia finishing area reserved for
filling and labeling

The dry area reserved for filling

Labels ready for cutting

Packing details & leaflets for
Body Polish Range

As much time goes into finishing
 our products as goes into the
developing and making

Bags of packaging and closures

Friends and Fans bring us soaps
and soap related curiosities
from all over the world. We now have a small
museum of them.

Our wet area…. reserved for the production of soaps and our handmade cosmetics and once in a while for distillation of hydrolate.

Soap making /storage area

Our wet/production area

Products under development

Samples kept for quality control

Distillation apparatus set up on specially
designated days for the production
of flower water like Rockrose,
Lavender, Rosemary & Jasmine  

  

In the wet area pouring soap mix into the moulds

Herbs for the kitchen and for
our production

Approaching the Gaia Finca the first thing you will
see is the abundance of Aloe Vera & Lavender
 plants & blossoms

Some of our wrapping and labelling is done outside
underneath the Jasmine blossoms

Sometimes, in early spring and in the autumn, we find ourselves
above the clouds.


I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c. – Thomas Jefferson