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
Back in 2020 I shared a divider pine tree soap video that became one of the most watched videos in my channel during Christmas time. (The blog version is linked here.) This soap is a version of that technique, but done in a cavity mold instead. Also, with a 3d printed divider instead of the… Continue reading Pine tree soaps
Growing up, the neighbors across our house had an almond tree, when we wanted to eat an almond (the actual fruit, not the seed), we would either pick it up from the ground after making sure it didnāt have bat bite marks (another neighbor had a capulin tree/Mexican cherry that bats particularly liked) or throw… Continue reading Soap inspired by Van Goghās Almond blossoms
When I first tried the Pour/pull through soap technique during the Soap challenge club of 2019, I learned that it was a technique that came from the painting world (acrylic pour painting), and have always seen it done as a vertical upward pull. During the soap challenge, we were encouraged to do repetitive patterns in… Continue reading A pull screen for soap but moved from side to side
The inspiration for this soap comes from the real chocolate cake that I bake for my husbandās birthday every year. It is his favorite chocolate cake and at some point he even forbade me from making it for anyone else (it wouldnāt be special other wise, he claimed). He likes it so much that some… Continue reading Devilās 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).āI had read about them, and I had seen other peopleās experiences with it, and I thought myself special that I didnāt 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.āThe first one was a Dickens themed event, and the second a smaller church event.āThe picture above is from the smaller one.āSee that wall behind me?āAt 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
Ever since I made my first pull through screen soap, I have tried my hand at making different screens and testing the results, like the honeycomb one, the heart shaped, and snowflake among others, with mixed results. I know, in theory, what works best for this technique: a recipe that stays fluid (at trace) for… Continue reading Floral Kaleidoscope Soap in loaf mold
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
Soaps by Glenda 