Last year when I participated in the Pour/Pull screen soap challenge, I was intrigued by the results of one of the participants , it looked like a peacock tail to me (picture below) so I decided to make a pull screen similar to it, but for an oval mold. The plan was to do an… Continue reading Ghost Peacock Soap in oval mold
I bought a fragrance that I thought (and I was not the only one) that it smelled like Play doh. The fragrance has since been discontinued, and I have actually found people who do like it and it smells sweet and almond like for them, but each nose is different! I thought that it would… Continue reading Geometric Soap – Color Blocking
A while back, I had made a soap slab cutter with a fixed-height wire that I just tightened whenever needed. The problem with it, was that to change the height of the cut, I needed to use books, magazines, you name it, to adjust the height of the soap slab, since the wire could not… Continue reading Making a Slab Soap Cutter
Back in March of this year, I participated in the Soap Challenge Club which was about the Clamshell Technique taught by Teri from Tree Marie Soapworks. My husband and I did three attempts at it, and then it occurred to me that a similar pouring technique could produce something similar to the pattern of peacock… Continue reading Peacock Feather / Scales soap
The first time I attempted to make a lamb embed, was for a Christmas soap that has not come to be yet. I was not very happy with how the lamb turned out, so I put it to the side and did not remember it until I was watching a show a few months back.… Continue reading The making of Little Lambs Soap – Cold process
A few years ago I wanted to buy a pair of long shorts (sounds like an oxymoron, right?). After going to the mall and some stores, it appeared such item did not exist. There were short shorts though, but I wanted something that at least reached my knees or below. (I did not want to… Continue reading Pour Pull Screen Technique Soap
I used to think that āpeaches and creamā was just a flavor of oatmeal packets. It turns out it is an actual dessert consisting of peach slices and whipped cream. When I saw its namesake fragrance at Lone Star Candle Supply, I had to buy it. I love everything peach. It was here in the… Continue reading Peaches and Cream Cold Process Soap
Last year I made a dreamsicle soap that I liked very much for its fragrance, however, it got very dark brown due to the vanillin content of the fragrance. I wanted to use the fragrance again and experiment using a vanilla stabilizer from scratch, one I had read about here. When I say "from scratch"… Continue reading How to make Ice Cream soap and a cheap Vanilla stabilizer
When my husband told me that a coworker of his had a pet hedgehog, I was intrigued. How does one handle a thorny-spikey animal? Can you even handle them? And off I went into an internet search that brought me to this cute video of a hedgehog getting a bath. That was only one of… Continue reading The making of a Hedgehog Soap
Abalone shells have always been a favorite material of mine for jewelry making. Though because they are too expensive, I did not buy them often. And having learned how endangered they are now, I may not buy them again anytime soon. I do find their colors fascinating, so when I saw this fragrance called Abalone… Continue reading Making Abalone Soap
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