Bath Bombs!

Cranberry fragrance bomb. Fragrance from Voyaguer Soap and Candle.  Very festive scent for the upcoming holidays! These are easy to do a bit messy and fun! 

Juicy Orange from Nuture's Soap.  Love love this citrus scent! For the mold a plastic wine glass. These popped out of that glass perfectly and they look like bells! Never mind the Christmas ball molds these are way easier and bigger! Simple basic recipe:  2 cups baking soda, 1 cup citric acid, teaspoon fragrance oil or essential oil, teaspoon gel colour or you could use food colours. 1 tsp oil I used sweet almond oil. You could use melted shea butter, cocoa butter or your choice. I also added irredescent glitter to the mix (optional) Witch hazel or water in a spray bottle. (Be careful with spritzing so you don't create the reaction) I used water. Mix all ingredients except the water and blend thouroughly. Spritz lightly so mixture clumps well in your hand and sticks together. What I did was double this recipe so when I spritzed I did a bit at a time just to moisten the bit I was getting into the wine glass. I scooped it in and pushed it with my fingers then added more to fill the goblet. When full I twisted the bottom with the palm of my hand to smooth out.  Then knock on the top of the glass with a spoon and turn it round tapping until you hear it pop and it let it fall into your hand. Have a cookie sheet ready lined with parchment paper and set your bombs there to dry. I topped them off with more glitter for extra glam. These turned hard quickly too! Love this recipe was so simple. Today I made 34 bombs these will be going to market for a Christmas show in a couple weeks. These are going for 7.50 each cdn. And I think a bomb would make such a good stocking stuffer don't you?! Thanks for stopping by the soap kitchen once again till next time. Bye for now  

I added some red and green mica to the cranberry bomb I wish I would have maybe not done that. Too late now.  I thougt it maybe festive, I'll leave that up to you to decide. 

Off to market

There's been no time to blog.  As I have been busy getting ready for the Christmas markets.  Wrapping soap, making labels, getting my booth items packed. Crazy time but this is what we Work for all year. Christmas is key time for crafters. My first show Kaministiqua Community Ctr. 

What a great hall! Huge.  We had a super turn out and lots of great people. Good food. Hot dogs sold out, chilli and a bun soooo good. I went to get a dog but waited too long when I got the chance they were gone.  I opted for the chilli and it was so warming and filling. I will be back to this hall in the future. 

Me the Soaplady, aka Bathwoman.  My table half sold out today I'm very pleased. One more craft show coming up on Saturday, November 20 in Upsala my next favourite place! Thanks for staying with me in my soaping adventures I love you all and thank you for your support. Bye for now. 

Avalanche

Busy season awaits with Christmas around the corner.  This year I won't be going to make too many holiday soaps as I was stuck with left overs last year.

This is the first Christmas soap I have made so far.  It's overflowing with a ton of soapy goodness. Avalanche fragrance from Nuture's Soap, a lovely fresh fragrance that reminds me of snow and crisp air with a note of pine (to me anyway) it really pops in the cp. I wanted to create a soap  to match the name of the fragrance, mountains, snow peaks, trees tumbling ice and brrrr cold. With my new piping kit from Royalty Soaps I ended up with way more soap then I was prepared for and ended up using the rest of the soap batter to make embeds.  I used blue vibrance mica from Nuture's, midnight blue mica from TKB, white titanium dioxide ( water soluable type) poured them random in the mold and spoon swirled it. Took the rest of the soap colours and piped the top, then piped on the peaks. I added irredecnt glitter to the soap before pouring and using a pippete drizzled blue vibrance on the top. And more glitter. This soap was oozing off the sides and I had to refasten some of it as it kept sliding down the sides. I thought oh boy I should have made two molds this is not going to turn out. But after sitting and setting up here's the loaf. It looks like an exploding avalanche. To me anyways lolol 

A huge bar too, it wouldn't fit into my soap cutter so I had to carefully cut the bars with a knife and here's the result 

An 8 oz bar and beautiful colours! 

Love the peaks it really is an Avalanche of soap! Somehow the micas muted together at the top and turned green like trees tumbling  down. 

Two great end pieces. 

And thirteen bars! Recipe: olive, coconut, palm, castor, canola, sweet almond oil, rainwater (collected) sodium hydroxide and above mentioned micas and fragrance. This was sort of planned but the magic of soap making did the rest! I'm selling these for $13 cdn thanks for stopping by, till next time happy soaping. Bye for now