Spin Swirl Soap red, blue, yellow and green This soap is another one that my husband did while infected with the soap bug (sadly, he has since recovered and gone back to his RC wing building hobby). He had watched several videos and wanted to try these two: The spin swirl technique from Brambleberry: and… Continue reading Spin Swirl Soap
Some of you may already be familiar with the Soap Challenge Club and Amy W., who owns it. If you are not, you can check it out at Soapchallengeclub.com. Recently Amy was diagnosed, underwent treatment, surgery and overcame cancer! (Yay!). One of the facebook group admins (there is a group made for the registered members),… Continue reading Bengal Tiger Puzzle Soap
This was my first attempt at a Taiwan swirl and I have my husband to thank for it. After being my collaborator for the Soap Challenge Club, he got the soap bug and wanted to make more. He started watching soap making videos and found Tree Marie SoapWorks Taiwan Swirl one. He wanted to make… Continue reading Making Taiwan Circling Swirl Soap
Soap Longevity When making the recipe for this soap, I noticed recently that the lye calculator I have been using has a graph that shows you where your soap recipe stands as far as recommended values.Ā I prefer this visual representation, by the way, to the table from most other calculators.Ā What I noticed, actually,… Continue reading Unicorn soap and Soap Longevity
What is a hybrid soap? you might ask...Well, for me it is a soap made with two different methods. In this case, melt and pour and cold process soap. Though it can be argued that melt and pour is not really soap but a synthetic detergent bar. However, that is not the purpose of this… Continue reading Wisteria Hybrid Soap
Flower soap on slab mold I was excited to make this soap because it was my first party favors soap and also because the party was for my mom! We usually hold small gatherings for birthdays, but this one we decided would be larger. My sister did most of the organizing, and all of my… Continue reading Flower Celebration Soap
Last Christmas, a sweet lady ordered six of the Van Gogh sunflower soaps. Since I only had two left, I decided to make some more, and instead of doing the painting, I explained I would make them all have sunflowers. Sunflower Soaps You would think using sunflower oil in this recipe would have been ideal,… Continue reading Sunflower Soap
I wanted to revisit doing a soap with lapis lazuli since my previous attempt did not turn out as I envisioned. I also needed to recycle my soap scraps from the Curl Challenge Soap, so here we are! I made some new lapis lazuli embeds, with a similar process to the turquoise soap embeds. However,… Continue reading Gemstone soap with Lapis Lazuli
I wanted to make some soaps for my sister's birthdays (which are only a few weeks apart), and decided to use fragrances they like. One of them likes Juicy Couture, and the other Allure by Chanel. I found fragrance types at Bulk Apothecary (Though you should keep reading before heading that way to buy them).… Continue reading Turquoise Soaps
Ā A while back I was watching some cake baking videos, and I stumbled into this one (I really like his channel)Ā https://youtu.be/Z-z1HYBv4k4 When I saw them making the clear agates, it got me inspired to try the method with soap.Ā Sadly, I failed.Ā I tried using clear melt and pour on top of white… Continue reading Agate soap
Soaps by Glenda 