Monday, August 15, 2016

This Soaper’s Life

Husband scrounging through cupboards looking for something to eat: Oh!  Coconut milk!  What kind of deliciousness are you going to make with that?!

Wife: I found this great recipe for soap I want to try!

Husband: Soap?!  Seriously?  *dejected sigh*


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Monday, July 18, 2016

MP Soap Decorations

I am having way too much fun playing with melt and pour soap!  I had some mica pigments I got as samples, so I thought I’d get some clear MP soap to use them in.  These will be little decorations for the tops of my CP soaps. 

They look like little shimmery gummy candies.  My daughter thought they looked delicious, lol. 

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Sunday, May 29, 2016

Soap a l‘Orange

I think this will be the final batch I’m going to make for our friend to take downstate to the farmer’s market, unless I decided to do an unscented/uncolored batch.  There are other soaps I want to put together, for family, friends, and me.  There are so many recipes I want to try!  And I got some new colors, too!  But for now, I have 2 dozen soaps for him to try to sell, and I think that’s a good start.  If they sell, you can believe I will be a busy soaping bee, lol. 

For this batch I decided to use the all natural essential oil, instead of using fragrance oils like I used in the other batches.  Options, you know.  I used a bright orange matte color, and some white French clay to make a slurry. 

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Yeah, that’s bright!

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Fortunately, the color that resulted reminded me of a creamy orange Creamsicle

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Yum!  They smelled so good!

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Maybe I should have called them Dreamsicle bars, but I think that name is copyrighted.  Not sure. 

Anyway, which do you think is better – the top shot without flash …

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Or the bottom shot with flash?

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I can’t decide.

cross posted on my daily blog


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