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Devil’s Food Cake Inspired Soap Recipe and Tutorial

The inspiration for this soap comes from the real chocolate cake that I bake for my husband’s birthday every year.  It is his favorite chocolate cake and at some point he even forbade me from making it for anyone else (it wouldn’t be special other wise, he claimed).  He likes it so much that some… Continue reading Devil’s Food Cake Inspired Soap Recipe and Tutorial

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How to avoid brown soap discoloration and making a Chocolate Factory Soap

I recently watched the movie “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (from 2005); and it reminded me that I had made a soap inspired by its predecessor, “Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory” last year. It turns out that the video of the making of that soap was almost completely edited in my iPad. So I… Continue reading How to avoid brown soap discoloration and making a Chocolate Factory Soap

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Forrest Gump Soap

One of the cultural shocks I had when I came to the States was when I realized that most Americans have the ability to watch the same movie over and over. My cousin was really young at the time and her oldest sister offered to put a movie for him to watch. She opened this… Continue reading Forrest Gump Soap

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Working with a discoloring soap fragrance

Gingerbread house soap Seashells on the beach Soap bars with sea shell decorations Golden rose Golden rose embed soap Creamsickle soap Creamsickle soap A discoloring soap fragrance is one that will cause the soap to darken or discolor. Commonly this is due to the vanilla (or vanillin, or ethyl vanillin) in it. Sometimes though, the… Continue reading Working with a discoloring soap fragrance

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Hot Cocoa Mint 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