Sophronia's Secret

I was commissioned by head of the leading ladies group, who owns a nail and beauty salon, to make a soap she found on Pinterest.  Very similar to to the Egyptian bar I make.  Activated charcoal, bentonite clay, olive, castor, and coconut oil.  Distill water, sodium hydroxide.  A simple recipe but active ingredients.  Sophronia's Secret.  A deep cleansing facial bar.  I had all the supplies.  They will be for sale from her shop only In Thunder Bay or you can get from me.  I wrapped them in birch bark and natural jute twine.  Made a label with Avery labels online, love that site.  Easy.  Beautiful recipe for the soap and wonderfully presented.  

Think they would make nice wedding favours

Ultra Violet Fruity Lishous

Wow!  I had a customer ask me for avocado soap and coconut oil blend something yummy.  Here's my concoction.  With added cocoa butter and shea.  Citrus linen fragrance mixed with left over winter sleigh ride.  Smells very fruity.  Blue lab colour, white titanium dioxide.  Olive oil was infused  with beet root powder.  Split the batch Added the blue lab colour it turned algae green.  Added white titanium dioxide to other half and it turned grey.  Whatever I thought.  We'll see.  It set up overnight.  I used two juice cartons for the mould.  These cartons had the turn cap on the spout which are perfect for closing it up to saponify.  When I revealed them I was happily shocked at the result.  Funnel poured.  Gorgeous Design.   

$6.50 each.  I think my client will be pleased with these !! 

New Venture

My goal is to be independent I am now a member of the biggest marketing group that's so global. Get paid to shop check it out www.shop.com/withlori 

Coffee Filters equals Wreath

This has nothing to do with soap.  I have been loving the coffee filter tutorials on YouTube and thought I'd give one a try.  I purchased pink petal Rit dye and with the perfect size bucket that fits coffee filters (I keep all my buckets if they are a good size), (this bucket held shea butter at one time), mixed it and dunked coffee filters in to colour them up.  I did a handful at a time.  By the end I had no dye left the filters just soaked it up.  The last bits were more pale so I stuck them under the stacks of darker ones and poured the rest of the dye to sink in.  There wasn't much left in the bucket.  This is 500 filters I bought cheap no name ones.  Cost 3.99 for dye and 2.50 pk for filters.  I bought a small cheap straw wreath micheals crafts for 4$ and already have glue sticks so far cost 12$ add tax $15.  This is going to be a Valentines Wreath.  Love to hang wreaths on the door. But never wanted to buy them too expensive. It's fun making your own at half the cost.  Fun! 

Pretty in Pink. Loved that movie. :) 

It's a work in progress.  TIP:  it was taking forever to dry the coffee filters so I put them in the dryer.  On low heat,ten minute intervals, didn't want them getting overdone. I used the Air Fluff setting in the last round in the dryer.  When you open the dryer door don't be shocked like me !  Holy there is a mound of filters staring back at you.  Don't worry stuff them into a garbage bag and don't worry about them being scrunched up and wrinkled because that's going to add texture to your finished wreath.  Have lots of glue sticks, and turn on your tv and start gluing.  Here's a basket load.   See how they are Scrunchy, looking like rose petals already.  

Here's how I fold them 

First in half then half again 

Dab just a dab close the flap and press with thumb. Just at the tip base.  Fold and then dab glue on the back at the tip base .

  Then glue onto wreath.  I'm doing a pattern of three 

And really stick them in.  That way they are tight together.  I have been fluffing them up everytime I'm done for the time being.  Go in pull the filters apart at the folds 

They puff up and start taking shape of petals.  Sooo pretty.  I'm halfway done.  When I complete it I'll come back and show the finished wreath.  For now instead of just pinning, start doing! Ttys

The Grey Bar

Exzema, acne, psoriasis, skin repair.  Same as the Egyptian Nite Bar only the charcoal I have keeps turning grey .  I don't know why sadly because people want the black bar.  So in any case I've just named these different but they do the same thing.  Acne Warrior. I do like the way they look however.  And with my new soap cutter my bars show the inside design so much better.  It was so worth the wait.  From Crafts Sake in Minnesota. It's custom made.  

Love it.  So here are the bars 

They look like a cloudy night. Foggy and grey.  No fragrance, avocado, olive, palm, shea and cocoa butter, castor oil, activated charcoal.  No need for fragrance for skin repair we don't need that if we are trying to make our skin healthy.  Just all natural goodness. Use in your hair too, I do.  Leaves no soapy film left over.  Rub on your hair and scalp lather it up, rinse.  then a dab of conditioner. Just a dab.   I had psoriasis so bad on my scalp and in my ears the hair was popping out of my head.  I could literally hear my hair pop!  It was the worse experience of my life.  I bought tar shampoo which helped but made my hair fall out in clumps.  It was like losing your hair when going thru chemo. My mother had cancer and I remember her hair just coming out in clumps.  Same thing.  That's when I started using my own soap remedies.  No more psoriasis here! Gone.  My hair is now more healthy, shiny, thicker, and longer!  My hair has always been thin.  Not anymore.  It's wonderful.  Throw out the chemicals they are cancer causing.  Use the real deal.  You'll be glad you did.  I have suffered every winter all my life too. Dry skin and exzema flare ups on my hands and bad feet.  I was a mess ! This winter nothing!  I am walking proof that homemade soaps like this skin bar has changed my life.  Get some! I'll even send you one.  They are $6.50 each plus shipping.  Email at lorib240@yahoo.ca. Thanks for reading! 

My signature bar. Love them! 

Contest Winner

Last December I had a contest to name my new skin bar.  The contest ran until December 31 st.  Here's the bar

It's is similar to the Eqyptian Nite Skin Repair only difference is the activated charcoal I have keeps turning grey and muted like stone. So I needed to call it something else as it's not turning black ????? At first I wasn't happy but after getting wet from using one for myself it kept looking more like a stone.  That's when I loved it! Here's mine 

Kool! So I ran a contest to name the new bar.  I had a bit of feedback on it from my FB page veiwers and the name that won was "Mosaic Magic" I absolutely loved that name because I embedded cut up pieces of older soaps that I had made.  So each bar has a little bit of goodness from everything that I put into my soaps and with activated charcoal these are skintastic!!! The winner whose name is Janice, gets one of these and also a Valentines soap made to match but just fragrant free and just activated charcoal.  In this contest a name popped up Dark Love I liked the Dark part and came up with Dark Nite, the Acne Warrior.  These are the muted grey charcoal soaps done into new heart shaped silicone mold. 

Janice gets one of these too !! Made with olive, castor, shea butter, cocoa butter, palm oil, distill water, sodium hydroxide.  Activated Charcoal.  They smell like coconut a bit from that ingredient.  Just plain beautiful! 

I had to make more. Great for Valentines.  Stay tuned there's more to come.  I've been busy

Bombs Away

Happy New Year Everyone!  Well holidays are over and new year begins, where does time go ??? So Valentines is next and we need sweetheart stuff.  New Years Eve  I spent making bath bombs

Peppermint with a coral sweet olive oil soap inside.  A nice surprise! 

 Next Canary Yellow Citrus Linen fruity, pretty! 

Next... Gums N Roses ! Bubblegum and Red Rose  petals

Next....Deadly Weapon/Strawberry love this bomb and colour !

Next and so floral Wisteria Lilac with lavender buds it's so fragrant and springy!!! 

 Made for customer and of course extras to sell!  Stay tuned I have more.  The soap kitchen has been busy!