Sweet Scarlett Soap Co.

These bars were done a few weeks ago, but just gettin around to posting and taking advantage of a couple hours of quiet time.  I've been storing the cut bars under a fan in hopes of speeding up the cure; it seems to be helping.  It's very hot here right now (92 today!) so they are in the coolest room of the house as well.  It's been about 3-4 weeks since these were all cut, and one more week should do it. "Mystify" Into the Wild from MMS and midnight blue mica "Watercolors" Elements of Bamboo from MMS, pre-mixed mica/glycerin from TKB Trading Co. "Riptide" (Oceania from MMS and oxides) "Raspberry Lemonade" from WSP is really strong and snappy I took a vacation day on my birthday and did 4 more big batches (see below).  Hubby took me to dinner, then ice cream with a walk in the park at dusk.  Amazingly, we ended the evening by stumbling upon a tribal style drum circle in the park - what an experience!  I swe...

I've been putting in some time gearing up for my daughter's wedding in August. It's coming up so quickly!  For her bridal shower a few weeks ago, we decided to do soapy favor bags for our guests.  I did 50 - 2oz sugar scrubs with guest soaps. I had great success with some new bases from Bulk Apothecary that I wanted to share. They have an outstanding  unscented scrub base  that was a dream to work with and super affordable - I highly recommend.  I also tried their  SFIC mp soap base  for my tray mold.  I used the shea butter base, which was easy to unmold and cut with a pretty glossy sheen - just perfect.    Oh, and in my spare time, I threw together this little wedding dress made of cupcakes!  I was secretly worried about the cupcake outcome, but it was a Pinterest slam dunk - she loved it! Yummy Cupcakes