I did not think I would make Christmas soaps this year. I had not signed up for any craft fairs and that is usually what pushes me to do them. Then I got invited to participate in a small post thanksgiving show. It would be at the host's home, so I accepted as it seemed… Continue reading Revisiting the Gingerbread House Soap and a bad review
I made this soap embed just to make sure that the mold I had made worked well, with no leaks, before shipping it out. Most blog posts "require" some little story and a bunch of pictures before giving you the actual recipe. So here is the only cowboy boot related story I could remember: When… Continue reading Testing a Cowboy Boot mold
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
For the first two years of my soap making journey (2017-2018) I did not get any DOS (dreaded orange spots). I had read about them, and I had seen other people’s experiences with it, and I thought myself special that I didn’t have any. Until one day, I started to notice that a soap of mine… Continue reading My soap is yellowing
I participated in two vendors market for the Christmas season. The first one was a Dickens themed event, and the second a smaller church event. The picture above is from the smaller one. See that wall behind me? At some point it fell because my next door neighbor leaned on it with too much force, that was quite a… Continue reading How the Christmas Craft Shows went
Orange is one of my favorite scents, and a difficult one to find for soap. Most citrus scents are notorious for fading in cold process soap, and orange is no exception. They do not like high alkalinity! And it is also difficult to find one that smells like an actual orange and not like an… Continue reading Orange Soaps: looking for the perfect orange fragrance
When I do face painting ( weekends gigs), one of my most requested designs from little girls is a unicorn. I have painted so many that I might be able to paint it with my eyes closed! So I thought it would be good to make a unicorn soap as well. Last time I made… Continue reading Unicorn soap
Ballerina soap front and back This last weekend I participated in a Christmas in July Show. One of the soaps designs I wanted to make sure I brought were these ballerina soaps. I actually made two versions of them, one like the ballerinas from last Christmas, and these, a ballerina that goes all through the… Continue reading Ballerina Soap with Extruder
About once a year I get a craving for a cinnamon roll from Cinnabon. (I do not dare making them myself as I believe me capable of eating an entire batch, like I have proven I can do with Brazilian cheese bread.) Earlier this year, I got a different kind of craving, I wanted to… Continue reading Cinnamon Rolls Soap
These are some soaps I made earlier this Spring, inspired by a pop tart I was eating. Something I try not to do often. It was not until a few years ago that I realized how many calories pop tarts have! Sometimes ignorance is indeed bliss. When I was younger I did not have to… Continue reading Breakfast Soaps
Soaps by Glenda 