"Holmes smiled. He was always warmed by genuine admiration—the characteristic of the real artist." The Valley of Fear Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I have always enjoyed reading the Sherlock Holmes stories, and I have watched several movies and TV shows inspired in him as well, it was then, quite elementary that I would attempt… Continue reading Sherlock Holmes Soap
I wanted to make this soap since the start of the summer, yet I had not gotten around to it until now, when summer is almost gone. I have been in the search for a piña colada fragrance since I began to make soaps about a year ago. Most of the coconut fragrances I have… Continue reading Beach Paradise soap
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
No one should learn to run before they learn to walk. I get that. But now that you know how to walk, how about daring to jog? When I started making soap, I joined a couple of groups in facebook. I remember seeing pictures of Sorcery soaps and thinking to my self, in amazement: "How… Continue reading Daring to Blend
I have been looking for a video of the Wizard of Oz movie in which Dorothy arrives at Emerald city, and she goes through an array of items that are green and and most of them are like gemstones or emeralds. I did not have much luck finding a snippet in youtube, so I may… Continue reading Emerald City Soap and copyright issues
Soap Longevity I noticed recently that the lye calculator I have been using has a graph that shows you where your soap recipe stands as far as recommended values. I prefer this visual representation, by the way, to the table from most other calculators. What I noticed, actually, was a column called "Longevity" and most… Continue reading Unicorn soap and Soap Longevity
I wanted to do a soap inspired in Monet water lilies for a while, but I could not figure out how to do the lilies in a way that I liked. Then one day, after trying several times, I came up with but this: The tricky part was to do a Lilly that did not… Continue reading Water Lilies
I have wanted to make a Titanic inspired soap for a while, but at the same time, I hesitated because of the great loss of life this ship represents. I have attended a couple of Titanic exhibits and in one of them, there was a dark room with a huge screen, and the names of… Continue reading Titanic – Heart of the Ocean inspired soap
Soaps by Glenda 