One of the things I am very happy to have learned, is to make my own conditioner. I have practiced the Deva Curl Curly Girl Method since 2015 and like most salon products, they are high quality but they can be a bit expensive. To learn more about this method, here are some links: This… Continue reading Making my Own Conditioner
Sugar plum Fairy and nutcracker soap I remember seeing the Nutcracker Ballet at El Salvador’s national theater for the first time. Though a “Theater”, different kind of performances were done there. It was a bit strange. Right outside the theater were street vendors, heavy foot and car traffic, noise and movements, as it was in… Continue reading The Nutcracker Soaps
Soaps from my first year of making soap - 2017 Below is what I would tell you if we were talking in person and you asked me how to make soap. (yes, I would talk your ear off before giving you a recipe and instructions). When I started making soap, I learned primarily from videos… Continue reading How to make Soap
This is my second attempt at a snow globe soap. My first ones were made primarily with clear melt and pour and a cold process snowman. These ones are entirely cold process. However, I did experiment adding clear melt and pour to a couple of them. I really like how they came out, despite the… Continue reading Snow Globe Soap
Last year I made a miniature gingerbread house as a soap decoration to go on top of a soap, it looked like this. It was scented with a fragrance called Hansel and Gretel’s House, which was the inspiration behind it. So this year I wanted to use the same fragrance but make a larger gingerbread house. I… Continue reading Gingerbread house
This was my soap for the Winter Collaboration called Wonderland. The requisites were to use white, glitter and milk! I decided to use coconut milk and add it at trace. Usually I add milk (if I am using it) to the water phase, in frozen form to avoid the lye burning the sugars of the… Continue reading Christmas Scene soap
There are so many ways of making pine trees as there are probably varieties of them. I made most of these by hand, but I will include a list below with tools you could use. My first attempt at a pine tree was for a Christmas Village soap, and it was a plain cone shape… Continue reading Shaping Pine Trees
This soap was my entry for this month Soap Challenge club, which was about using soap curls in your soap. “Sometimes the things we do second time around are better and hold more value because we take the time to reflect and review, and revive them through a higher love. Don't be afraid to try… Continue reading Starry Night with Soap Curls
I share a special connection with some of my nephews and niece, primarily because we lived in the same house when they were little. They are big supporters of my soap making and any other endeavor I pursue, so I may some soaps with them in mind. I should mention that also other nephews I… Continue reading Bubble Gum Soap
If you like chocolate, you will love this soap. It smells like pure chocolate. It was meant to smell like peppermint/chocolate (a scent I like, though I personally do not like the taste of chocolate mints that much). However, the peppermint candy fragrance has lightened up a lot and I cannot detect it much anymore.… Continue reading Hot Cocoa Mint Soap
Soaps by Glenda 