This year I wanted to do a something different to the gingerbread man soap I have done in the past. So I went with a gingerbread girl instead. When making the gingerbread man in the past, I have found that adding all the details with soap dough is very time consuming. So this time I… Continue reading Gingerbread girls soap
The place was a palace in England. The year? anywhere between 1543 and 1603. The request? "You shall make biscuits that look like my guests, so that they shall eat their own likeness at the party". At least this is what I imagine Queen Elizabeth I told her head chef. I can also picture the… Continue reading Gingerbread man 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 Gretelās 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
You may think that it is too late to make a Christmas soap, but perhaps it is not.Ā When I started making soap about a year ago, I read multiple times about curing times.Ā I read that it was not about just water evaporation, but about certain crystallization that needs to happen in the soap.Ā … Continue reading Soap curing time and Hansel and Gretel Soap
Soaps by Glenda 