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
This soap has been in the making since July! Well, that was when I made the embeds, the village. So I was happy to finally get to make the whole soap a couple of weeks ago. Every Christmas movie that I can remember watching has snow in it. Have you ever watched a Christmas movie… Continue reading Christmas Village Soap
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
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
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 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
