Soap Making Extravaganza!

I've spent most of the past few days in a frenzy of soapmaking - 8 different batches to be exact! To my pleasant surprise, the Christmas season depleted nearly every bar of soap in my inventory. This is good, but now it's back to the workshop for me. I took some well deserved time off this weekend and spent several days in my own little world of soap!

Back Row L-R: Coastline, Oatmeal Milk and Honey, Raspberry Vanilla, Honey Patchouli
Front Row L-R: Lavender Sunset, Polynesian Dream, and Test Batch - Mineral Mud Facial Bar

Here's a sample of what I've done so far - I'm really excited - they all seem to have turned out beautifully and should be available in early March. Anyone interested in pre-ordering, please email me or message me on my Facebook page. (I must admit I'm slightly challenged in the social networking world at the moment. But will improve every day, right?!)

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Balancing the Possibilities

Many soapers like myself aren't living the dream of operating a full time soap business. We have other types of work and careers that must remain top priority to pay the bills and keep our families going. Those of us who are taking a shot at soaping as a side business have to squeeze out the extra time for it in rather creative ways. We can't be profitable if we aren't working at it several hours a week. I'd venture to say many of us are in that same boat. I've done alot of thinking this weekend about moving forward in a new marketplace this season, and had another wonderful opportunity offered out of the blue. Lots of exciting things are happening, but this also brings with it a degree of fear and anxiety for me. I have a wonderfully supportive husband, but why do I immediately worry about failing? I swear I have a dozen batches of soap curing right now and lots more already packaged and waiting, but still I fear I "won't have enough"! When I

Lots of experiments

Today I got the chance to indulge in soaping for most of the day. I did four batches today, using a technique I've never tried before, courtesy of a great Youtube tutorial from SophiasNaturals . She demonstrates an interesting form of thermal transfer that I haven't seen, immediately mixing the lye water into the hard oils until melted. The liquid oils are added after. I used this method for all my soaping today and it seemed to work well. I didn't need to use the stick blender very much at all, which helped me tremendously as I often tend to overmix. I wanted to attempt the "Holly Swirl", which is basically an in the pot swirl done twice. Sorta.. I had a lot of half bottles of fragrances, so I did some custom scent blending, too. It was a day of experimenting. Top: Small batch trying Sweet Cakes "Aria" . I used a some ruby mica for a cute little swirl. It smells so good right now. Middle: This was my attempt at Holly Swirl. I have

Still Learning

Guess what I learned to do today? Yes, I made myself a light box for photo taking! I've been pretty slow in studying up on picture taking, but now am making up for lost time. These are my very first attempts and I'm pretty pleased. And it was easy - even for me. YouTube is amazing and I so appreciate all you smarties who are willing to take time to show some of us slower models how to do things! This is a custom order of Honey Soap that's now curing. I love my logo stamp, but I tend to try it too soon after cutting. These were cut about four days ago, and I stamped them yesterday. I should have stopped at one or two...sigh. I'm pretty sure my customer will be ok with it, though. On a technical note, this batch was put in the fridge after pouring. I wanted to prevent gel, due to the honey I was afraid it would get too hot and crack or creep up in the mold. I kept it refrigerated for 24 hours, but as you can see, it looks like it still gelled partial

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