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Soap making is a fun and exciting hobby, full of trial and tribulations! When you create soap you are creating art, each one is different, never the same. An addicting hobby.... once you get started all you think about is what kind of soap to make next. This blog is about my soaping experience please enjoy!



Sunday, June 28, 2015

Blueberry Surprise. Krazy Soap

I started a new job that totally had taken me away from soaping and also making me exhausted and stiff and sore to boot. So after three gruelling weeks of hard work I was able to rest finally and get back to some soap making.  This one is in the crock pot hot processed rebatched soap shavings and chunks of left over samples.  Melted down with castor oil, grapeseed oil, Distilled water, wild blueberry fragrance oil and near the end ultramarine blue pigment. It's purple ish  blue.  
In the milk carton.  Love my milk carton creations.  Catch me on the reveal.  Happy Soaping! I feel better now. 

Monday, June 8, 2015

Jungle Love/satsuma orange infused soap

Satsuma Manderine Orange Peels.  I am infusing them in canola and olive oil.  I'm going to let them sit for quite awhile to get that citrus goodness.  The hard part will be the waiting.  This will eventually become an orange citrus soap once I feel infusing is complete.  Natural goodness.  Thanks for reading and following me along.  Bye !!! I'm off for a week of boating to the Thompson Islands on Lake Superior.  Have a great week. See you when I return hopefully rejuvenated and suntanned. Ok back from holidays and have let this sit for a month.  I strained the oil discarded the peels.  Oil was orange and you could smell the orange in the oil.  I decided to use the Pringles can  for the mold.  I also used a paper towel tube that I put in the centre of Pringles can to make a seperate tube to pour the soap in.  I mixed oils and separated in half,  coloured one part with canary yellow lab colour and the other orange pigment and white TD.  Fragranced with Jungle Love from Natures Garden.  Poured the yellow down the cardboard tube orange on outside of tube pulled it out
My contraption! I saw this on soaping 101 Here it's pulled out now skewer was to hold in place.  Here's the result after pulling out tube: 
  
Gave it a skewer swirl 
Here's what I got 
Beautiful ! Even the outside edge looks like the skin of an orange.  This scent from natures garden no ricing no acceleration one of my favs for sure.  
First cut exciting ! Recipe infused olive and canola, coconut, palm, grapeseed, castor, distill water, sodium hydroxide.  Great working recipe thanks for looking! Bye and happy soaping! Squee!!

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Wedding favours

I was asked to make some soap for a friends upcoming bridal shower and had to match a travel theme.  I was given a soap dish with the Eiffel Tower on it so I had to come up with something French.  Decided in something borrowed something blue, red for love, white for bride and black for the groom.  Here is the result
I wrapped them in French green tulle and fancied them up with ribbons and bows  
Pretty.  
Glittered the tops.  I mixed bay rum, Aqualina pink sugar Satsuma Manderine and Jasmine fragrance oils to make a sexy unisex soap.  Olive, canola, avocado,coconut, castor. White TD, activated charcoal, ultramarine blue, magenta and coral gel colourant for red.  Peacock swirl. I also jazzed up some jars of bath salts for shower gifts fun project sorry pictures aren't great but I'm busy busy and snap and go.  I think you get the drift.  100$ On budget need ideas for planning your wedding? soap is unique and fun and different. Thanks for reading and following me along. Bye !