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Wisteria Lilac

I made this soap last year pretty much the same time as now.  With spring upon us and snow melting, one of the first things we think of (in the north anyways) are flowers in bloom.  My grandmother had Lilac trees in her yard and the smell of them reminds me of her.  A reminder to me of my childhood.  My grandma Dagmar, always had these in a vase on her dining room table.  So delicate and perfumey. As a soaper, and all of us soapers do this, dedicate soaps to things that inspire, remind, and vision. This one is for Dagmar, my grandmother. Sweet and delicate and strong! Made with olive, coconut, sustainable organic palm, shea butter, purple vibrance mica and snowflake mica from Nuture's Soap Supply, white titanium dioxide, body safe glitter, distill water, sodium hydroxide. Enjoy 

 

Beautiful! And smells so delish! Wisteria Lilac.  It looks like a piece of amethyst! A gem of a soap. Just like my grandma. Xxxooo Thank you for stopping by the soap kitchen once again. Happy Spring!

Olive Oil infused soap Down Under

Last fall I had herbs growing in my garden, that I planted just for this..... Soap. In a large jar I placed lemon thyme, rosemary, lavender, spearmint leaves.  I then poured olive oil over all the cuttings, and let it sit all winter I kept it in a cool dark place gave time shake now and then and today, 5 months later, I strained it.  It smells wonderful, like sweet spearmint.  I also love the fact that it's natural. And it was super dark green! After straining it I added my other oils from a recipe I found online for an olive oil soap.  This recipe was simple. Olive, coconut, palm, distill water, sodium hydroxide. I added Shea butter to it also.

Yesterday I visited one of my favourite thrift shops and squeeled with delight when I found two, silicone bread molds. 3$ each! Yahoo! Lucky lucky find.  And look in that photo there, they have ripples, now how soaperiffic is that! Squee! As I was looking at these molds I thought ok the bottom would be the top so I'm going to have to build a soap upside down so to speak. Lol! Then it dawned on me to make a soap "down under".  So what is Australian or New Zeland ish? Eucalyptus for one and I thought a perfect match with the spearmint scent of my infused olive oil. I went through my micas and picked out what I thought would be perfect for a down under tropical soap and looking at them above I am pretty happy with those colours. China jade, green vibrance, gold shimmer, white TD. Blending them in sweet almond oil, I brushed the bottom of the soap mold. Then sprinkled iridescent body safe glitter.  Mixed my oils of infused olive, coconut, palm, shea butter, with distilled water, sodium hydroxide. Adding eucalyptus essential oil only to the white TD portion of the soap batter. Left the other colours naturally scented.  I poured the soap on one side of the mold alternating them.

           Love that gold,shimmer mica in there, 

Then I took a plastic fork and ran that through.  On the top I took the handle of the fork and fanned the soap to look like leaves. I love how that's looking too!

It smells amazing.  I can't wait to cut it up and reveal the inside. The green on here is so beautiful.  Great way to break the monotony of recouping from hand surgery.  I am getting back to normal and to make soap, yah I'm getting better. Come back and check out the results! Thanks for always stopping by my soap kitchen

 Update on this soap it's amazing! Smells beautiful, Looks beautiful! Check it out

Love.  Thanks for coming back 

Surgery and Carpal Tunnel

I have been suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome for quite a few months now.  Every night like clockwork, I've been woken up to ecruitiating pain and numbness in my right hand.  It took a coup,e of hours for that pain to subside and leave me deprived of sleep.  I'd be up at 2 am and just up.  Awful.  There were times at the end of this ordeal that my fingers were blue. I've never felt such pain ever in my life. The decision was made after getting tested for carpal tunnel to have the release surgery on my right hand, leaving me off work and not able able to lift or do much.  It's amazing the difference I've felt since my surgery.  I can sleep! The other thing has been not being able to make soap.  I did three batches before my surgery and am itching to get at it. I have been infusing olive oil all winter with rosemary, lavender, lemon thyme, from my garden last summer, so I am going to use that today and make an organic soap.  I've been so bored I ended up going to the local thrift shop and lucky me found two silicone bread loaf molds with a wavy bottom and 3$ each! Lucky lucky find.  I've washed them and I can't wait to use them.  I want an organic, all natural bar with this soap and want it to be green.  With summer fly and tick season I am also thinking of eucalyptus essential oil as I have heard that repels ticks.  I want to say thank you to my followers, and passers by of my blog, for stopping and reading and hopefully enjoying my soaping adventures.  Come back for more! When I do the photos I'll add them to this post, so come back and check often to see what new in our little soap kitchen. 

All bandaged up.  This was the same day of my carpal tunnel release surgery.  I can't believe that I was in and out of the operating room in ten minutes.  The worst part was waiting in the reception room, that was an hour. Then the waiting in the bed and getting prepped for surgery.  That was an hour.  The nurses gave me one of those hot blankets that come out of the dryers, or whatever they use, I love those hot blankets, and falling asleep.  I was at the hospital at 8 am in the prep at 10, surgery was 11 am out of surgery by 11:15 am dressed at 11:30 and a good cup of coffee and biscuits.  My husband was there to pick me at at 11:45 and was home by noon. The nurses and staff at the regional hospital here in Thunder Bay were very accommodating, friendly and funny.  The most painful was the tourniquet they wrapped around my arm to stop the blood flow and the needles to locally freeze my hand.  It felt like a million needles getting stuck into me.  The doc says "do you feel anything sharp?" I says "no" as soon as I said that he just started cutting, pushing shoving something into my hand then I felt him sewing it. Done.  So fast.  My fingers are still kind of numb when I do things.  I walked the dog this morning and my fingers were numb.  This kind of surgery is not guaranteed but so far it's been an improvement.  Ok, off to soap. As promised here arête soap photos I did make another blog about the making of it so go check tat out too, Thanks once again for checking in. 

Beautiful hey!