soap making

How to avoid brown soap discoloration and making a Chocolate Factory Soap

I recently watched the movie “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (from 2005); and it reminded me that I had made a soap inspired by its predecessor, “Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory” last year. It turns out that the video of the making of that soap was almost completely edited in my iPad. So I… Continue reading How to avoid brown soap discoloration and making a Chocolate Factory Soap

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Donut Soap and DIY vanilla stabilizer

I was reading a book by Zig Ziglar, where he shared a story from his childhood about donuts. He said that growing up he lived in a very small town, and joked that the town was so small that they had put a mirror at the end of Main street to make it look bigger.… Continue reading Donut Soap and DIY vanilla stabilizer

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Gingerbread house

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 Gretel’s 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