Gardenia

French Green Clay & Red Moroccan ClayGardenia fragrance 

Inspired by my friend Sheila who brought me home one of these

while recovering from ovarian cancer treatment.  For my friend I luv you! Olive coconut palm castor coconut milk lye.  Thanks for looking happy soaping 

Vibrant Soap and Inspiration

I've been watching lots of YouTube soap channels and have four favourite channels I watch.  Soaping 101, Starr Soaps, Royalty Soaps, and Vibrant  Soaps.  I've read and researched books,  internet, Pinterest, library. What I have found is the combination of research and watching are the best learning tools for me.  You get to watch and see how other soapers do things.  My real favourite of them all is Vibrant Soaps from San Diego, I love his soap it's so intriquitly done look...

It's like a landscape! Please check out his YouTube channel and subscribe.  Some day I'll hope to be a soaper like Clyde! For now I'm still learning, and I've been at it 5 years on and off.   I wanted to try and do something with colour and running out of supplies I mixed what I had on hand and boy I couldn't even take pictures as the soap I made was seizing and ricing up real quick.  I just started jamming in the colours as quick as I could into the mold and put it to bed.  Here's what I woke up to 12 hours later 

Holy cow I didn't even firm up the sides mold and it went wonky here lol.  I took it out and sliced off that wonky piece first which I'll use for samples and was kind of surprised to find this result 

Tie dyed! Not bad.  You just never know with soap.  Sometimes a mistake can turn out to be good.  

These are big bars which I'm going to cut in half still so I'll get 27 of them out of this batch.  Scented with Tuscan Olive from Crafters Choice and Tahitian Mint from Saffire Blue.  I like the mixed scent it's kind of spicy and spa like.   

Cut the wonky pieces up for little giveaway samples at my next show in June.  That works for me.  They won't go to waste. 

 I used avocado oil, olive, coconut, soybean, crisco with palm, pure orange extract, shea and cocoa butters.  Distill water and 18% cream. Sodium hydroxide.  Irredecent glitter.  Fun mistake.  Thanks for reading and following me along! Have a bubbly day.  Bye! 

A Green Theme!

I have been infusing this huge jar of olive oil since harvest time last year.  So October till May...8 months.  I grow my own herbs in the garden.  And specifically grow them to use in soaps, I throw some into salads and soups too.  But I planted these mostly for the purpose of soap.  Anyway.... Rosemary, chocolate mint, spearmint, lemon thyme, pineapple weed.  Threw them all in oil and today opened it and said yup soap time. 

I have four of these jars a free find on a junk pickin day. They are huge !!! I sanitized them and scrubbed those rusty lids too, so they're clean clean clean! Another rant ok lol back to subject of soap.   Opened the jar and oh my how minty and sweet smelling, the key note is the mint and the earthy base tone rosemary.  Just natural scents in here love it.  I didn't know exactly what I was going to do here so I pulled out a basic recipe and started adding my oils everything was green.  I strained the oil infusion so it would be clear of any intrusions. 

I love steeped tea and got a bag of "Matcha" green tea from my favorite tea lady Julie 

I put about a teaspoon into the soap oils and whisked it in. Nice dark green then I added a teaspoon of bentonite clay for drawing toxins from your skin.  That's it.  Let it all get to room temperature (I like soaping this way, no need for testing the temperature.).  At trace I poured half into another container and added white titanium dioxide then stick blended it added white TD again to lighten it up just a bit so not too white and then added it back into the other half "in the pot swirl" pouring at noon 3 o'clock 6 o'clock 9 o'clock and centre.  Gave it a turn or two with a spoon to mix it 

And poured it into the mold I had prepared 

This ones gonna have massage points.  I set in oven with the light on to kept it warm and here it is 24 hours later 

Love the result.  This is pure vegan friendly soap.  Amazing green olive colour.  Natural. I'll sell these $6.50 cdn  Thanks for following me.  Bye! 

New Silicone Molds and BugBGone

I haven't fallen by the wayside I've not been feeling well this week.  Never the less I had to make more bug repellent soap as I had a woman come randomly to my door and bought me out for the daughter going tree planting for the summer.  :)) while shopping at the Superstore I came across these silicone molds and I had to buy them. 

$7.00 each.  Thank you! Good price too! And perfect for a bug soap I thought.  I decided to use neons again.  Butterflies are neon pink mica and ultramarine blue mica both from Saffire Blue. White titanium oxide  Bug B Gone, the good stuff for repelling insects.  

The soap took forever to harden so I sped it up and popped them in the freezer and I'm so happy with the result. 

Ladybugs. Fun. My recipe:  olive oil, coconut oil, crisco all vegetable oil contains soybean and palm, castor oil, distill water, sodium hydroxide. Neon micas as listed above and Bug B Gone oils of citronella and litsea cubeba (Japanese Lemon)  

With the left over soap I used my trustworthy milk cartons.  Not only do they make perfect soap molds they make a good sized bar of soap.  

These turned out beautiful.  There was more blue and pink left over then orange.  

I poured it into the milk carton and swirled it with a skewer.  This soap was very soft it was taking forever it seemed to harden up so I stuck it in the freezer for roughly 30 mins so I could get it out.  Maybe the weather had something to do with it because normally it would be hard after 22 hours with this recipe.

The orange, well how pretty!  I ran out of white soap to really mix this.  I didn't want all orange so I poured some orange into the white and it turned this beautiful peach colour.  

Swirled it with a skewer once again and love this result.  Everything here butterflies, ladybugs, milk carton creations have sold out already! I'm out of bug juice now.  Bug B Gone!  It works and you might as well have pretty soap too! 

 

Thanks for following me along!  

Upsala Mothers Day Craft Fair

Long day today 266 k round trip was up late last nite 2 am up at 6:30 coffee finished up last minute soaps I wanted to bring that I just made even tho they were fresh outta the making.  I told people that too.  The black bar my Egyptian Bar sold out .  Best seller.  Upsala is in northern Ontario land of hunting and fishing. So the bug repellents also sold out. Lots of people good sales fun time great rec ctr. Donated to the Special Olympics an Earth bar, and a Gone Fishing bar.  I won a hat and mitt prize which I'll be saving for next winter! I never win anything so lucky me today.  It was a great turn out. 

Pretty loaded table, 

Me!!! 

Best seller, picture is  upside down but I'm tired not fixing it lol this is an end piece I have left over. That's it for black bar gotta make more. And I got a shelf to put my soaps at the Black Spruce Motel and Old Country Kitchen at Lac Des Mille Lac a destination fishing spot for us and many travellers who come by our way.  Thanks to Billy Kay and Jake the owners.  I'm in a trading post! 

Hard work is paying off! Thanks for coming by 

My friend Sue Albert,  Light Sense Soy Candles. Love her candles

Fifty Shades of Grey

Another Krazy soap.  If you have been following me I took left over soap shavings and into the crick pot they go. I had some soap pieces left over from my Ying and Yang Dead Sea and Activated Charcoal bar that I crushed into this. ( the white and grey spots) then I cut up some old bubblegum soap I had that I just didn't like and thrw them in (the reddish brown spots) there's bits and bobs of some coffee soap in here and then added distill water, some coconut milk, olive oil.  Cooked it down at least an hour and spooned it into a milk carton.  And here's the results!  Love it.  Looks like a piece of granite. Again short and sweet craft show coming up two days from now but can't let my networking fall by the wayside ! I added a bit of lavender to this lol bubblegum and lavender oddball but... It smells good.  Wish me luck at my show thanks for following me.  

Fun! 

Ying and Yang

Mold. Turned ying and yang and put into milk carton.  Found this Tupperware pie rolling silicone mat at the thrift store.  I love my thrift store treasures!  

Activated charcoal 

Dead Sea Mud. Recipe: olive, coconut, palm, shea butter, castor oil added lavender e.o. Coconut milk , lye. 

Into the milk carton black one side brown other side, pull out the mat. Finished product awesome!!

I am making next batch tonight only unscented. Fun detoxing, exfoliating, this bar is full of lather, great bubbles, and exotic.  Thanks for reading. Short post I'm scrambling getting ready for Mother's Day craft fair two days away.  But don't want to forget about you folks! 

Mothers Day craft show This Old Barn

11-3 

Was a beautiful day 

Great place! Good food 

Nobody showed up.  I left early.  Disappointing day after you work so hard.  I ended up spending money :( will not go back here if they ever do anything like this again.  You know us crafters we spend money to make and do things for you!  we love to share our creations with others.  For this to happen breaks our hearts.  And so now, I think I take a break from it all and rethink if I'm going to continue this path or not.  Let down.  And exhausted