Soap Dough creations, soap making

Soap turquoise gems

A while back, I made some soap dough* colored with turquoise mica (The mica in question I do not remember, but it was either Synergy mica or Sea green mica from Nurture Soap).  For the longest time, I did not know what to make with it.  So I ended up using most of it for… Continue reading Soap turquoise gems

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Drunken Hippos Soap

This was my first time making a beer soap.  The beer in question we had bought to tempt slugs to go to it instead of eating the basil plant in the garden a couple years ago.  In the end, we opted for broken eggshells around the stems instead.  I had then two options for the… Continue reading Drunken Hippos Soap

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Soap curing time and Hansel and Gretel Soap

You may think that it is too late to make a Christmas soap, but perhaps it is not.  When I started making soap about a year ago, I read multiple times about curing times.  I read that it was not about just water evaporation, but about certain crystallization that needs to happen in the soap. … Continue reading Soap curing time and Hansel and Gretel Soap