Sweet Scarlett Soap Co.

Last year my soap with embeds were a huge hit for the holidays.  These are mp figures that are embedded into a cp soap loaf.  This technique makes for a unique and fun bar of soap.  The poured loafs must be refrigerated to avoid the gel phase, so the mp embeds don't melt. I'm planning to cut these tomorrow and will post pics and ingredient notes.  Stay tuned!                                                                                                                                

Here's a fun poll for today (no politics!) What's your favorite type of dessert? Cake Pie Cookies Ice Cream Donuts (yes, they count) Chocolate in any form or  My favorite - "All of the above" Happy National Dessert Day!

Yesterday I had a rare weekday out of the office - it was awesome!  The weather was gorgeous here in KC and I was able to get out and enjoy it. But of course, I couldn't let any free time go by without making some soap.  I had to get home and get it cut before the baseball game got started - GO ROYALS!!    So, here is Good Juju and Smoke & Mirrors. S&M (haha) is a very woodsy, masculine scent from BeScented.  It's a mysterious sexy fragrance that I hope gets richer as it cures.  Crafter's Choice  Americana Red  oxide is the base color.  I was going for the brick red with smoky blue swirl, but it's a bit pink right now.  I hope it darkens a little. Good JuJu is a fragrance mash up that was created accidentally.  I usually like to try my fo's out in lotion to get an idea about the aroma before soaping.  So I had some  "It's Karma, Baby"  from BeScented and, although I liked it, it was too much patchou...

"I love packaging my soap bars almost as much as I love making them"....said NO soap maker - ever!  As we all know, it pretty much sucks up a lot of time and energy we'd much rather spend on making more soap.   But reality stinks sometimes - good presentation is as important as the soap itself.   So today I thought I'd share the basics of my method. In the beginning I was super opposed to using shrink wrap, because I felt it went against the true appeal of natural soap.  Don't you hate it when you fret and worry over something only to realize it doesn't matter to anyone else in the least?  What I've found is that people really like the tidy, shiny look of the shrink wrapped bars, and not a single person has admonished me for using plastic as opposed to all natural packaging like I had feared. I print my labels myself, which took a lot of tweaking to get to this point, but I really like them now.  With the holidays drawing closer, I'm trying to ma...

 Hi there - time is really flying by for us these days.  My son is getting married in October (!) so we are in wedding prep mode again.  That means I'm not taking enough pics for everyone to see, so here are a few quickies.  I had an event this past weekend, so these are already packaged. L) Cranberry Woods, made with CW fragrance from Be Scented...it smells fantastic!  Fruity and rich - love it! LL)  The Twilight Zone, made with The Comforter from Be Scented...I will have to unwrap one because this is my A-game.  It turned out awesome.  The fragrance is not what I was expecting.  The first thing i got out of the bottle was root beer.  I didn't like it.  I tried a few drops in my bathwater anyway, and wow - what a difference!  You truly feel enveloped by this fragrance, like a favorite comforter ?  I don't know, but I love this stuff. LR)  Apple Harvest, this was a mash up of some left over Apple Spice from WS...

I've been busy making some custom soap batches the last few weeks, so I used the opportunity to try out a swirling technique that's new for me.  If you haven't seen any videos by  Clyde at Vibrant Soap , you are missing out on something really special!  He has a superb eye for color, and gives lots of great advice about developing your own "vibrant" color choices for your soap.  Clearly I need a little schooling on obtaining truly vibrant colors, but it's his unique take on swirling that I'm infatuated with. And I'm not the only one -   Amy Warden's soap challenge  is featuring the "Clyde Slide"  for September.  I'm not a participant - not yet! - but  I took a stab at the technique and these are my results. On top we have a batch of lavender (all essential oil) soap using some new micas from Mad Oils.  Here I used Guava Lava and Tempest micas.  The pink is very soft and feminine, but wish I'd used more of this incred...

In keeping my word about blending fragrance oils I already have on hand, here is a batch of soap I made last night.   It is a literal "mash up" of four scents:   A tiny smidge of Honey & Shea from WSP A bigger smidge of Tom Ford Black Orchid by Sweet Cakes Tahitian Vanilla by MMS   2 parts to Cashmere Woods by WSP 1 part I have had this bottle of Cashmere Woods for two years, and absolutely hated it from the first sniff.   But, with a more open mind, I felt a vanilla background might make it much more pleasant. So far so good!  I added quite a bit of titanium dioxide to the entire batter bowl, then mixed the green and midnight blue micas after. These fos all have a lot of vanilla, so I hope the td will keep it lighter as it cures.   As for the scent - it's very pretty!  The smokey wood component is definitively softened by the rich, fruity TVanilla, and the orchid adds an ever so slight floral note in the background.  Now w...