I love masterbatching the oils. Well, not the process it self but the results it gives me: the ability to make soap quickly at any time, just by melting and measuring all of the oils at once, instead of individually. Initially, I was concerned about masterbatching oils. I wondered, how do I know that each… Continue reading Master batching / Multi batching oils
The Story of my Lavender Mud Soap (Sigh) It happened. Again. The last time I was afraid of having a lye heavy soap, a fragrance was the culprit (though I was to blame too) I have since learned to be careful with floral fragrances and acceleration. This time is on me! I decided to experiment… Continue reading Lavender Mud Soap and Is my soap lye heavy?
Last year I made a peppermint soap that looked like this: Which, in a rose mold, is not that bad. However, picture it as a bar of soap, and you may be asking next, "how much for that piece of meat? It has good marbling, can I grill it?" However, the fragrance was soooo goood… Continue reading Peppermint Soap
This was supposed to be a soap where I got to try my alkanet oil infusion as a colorant. However, my fragrance oil had different plans. I used Merlot Wine from Bulk Apothecary and I got the darkest brown discoloration to date, which tells me it must have a vanilla content of at least 9%,… Continue reading Wine Fragrance Soap
One of my earliest memories (as in earliest in life) is the one of waking up, in the same room as my mom and my youngest brother (he was baby#5 and I was #4) and seeing two baby bottles on the cabinet top with warm milk. One was brown because it had chocolate, and the… Continue reading Salvadoran Cocoa and Coffee Soap
If there is one thing I hate to do, like hate it with all my heart, it is to waste time. And money. Which some people think are equivalents, but they are not, not always. However, that is a subject for another day. This hate or intensive dislike is what drives me to find more… Continue reading An alternative to Freezer Paper Liners
7 Tips to Get Creative If you feel like it you are in a rut lately, and do not feel inspired to make soap but want to or need to. Here are some of my ideas to help you get your groove back! 1. First, consider whether you need to take a break or not.… Continue reading Lost inspiration? Ideas to get it back
I have wanted to make a soap inspired by Starry Night for a while! But I considered it a big project, and was not sure how to go about it, so I kept it in my idea list for a while. Initially, I thought of putting the soap batter into condiment containers, and use it… Continue reading Starry Night Soap and a cheap slab soap mold
A while back I decided I would do some oil infusions because I had read about them in a book. Since I was not in a rush to use them, I went for the cold infusion method. I poured some olive oil on top of annatto seeds in a container. Then another bottle I filled… Continue reading Peach Soap: using natural colorants
I made my unicorns soap and the emerald city inspired soap out of the same oils, so that I could masterbatch them. (Meaning measuring all the oils once for both batches, and then dividing them among each batch.) There are plenty of videos and blogs that teach you to do this. Here is one (not… Continue reading What I learned while masterbatching oils
