The Egyptian Bar and L'il Country Pure

With my daughter and boyfriend in town from Calgary I had ten busy days with them but managed to sneak in a few soaps.  I ran out of the Black Bar as everyone calls it.  So I made up a batch of that. It's still one of my best selling bars of soap.  With activated charcoal, bentonite clay added to it this one deep cleanses your skin.  Skin detoxing.  This one rids your skin deep inside your pores removing dirt and oils leaving your skin soft and nourished.  Great for acne, psoriasis, skin rash, $8.50 a bar.

Added black iron oxide to really make it black! Unscented pure soap. My friend and client from L'il Country Hairstyling in Kaministiqua, has one busy shop.  Situated in the rural area of Thunder Bay, she does very well.  She has soap customers now too who request plain unscented soaps and so she and I came up with this beautiful pure white soap. 

I call it L'il Country Pure.  Made with coconut milk, olive, palm, castor, shea butter, it's a luxurious silky bar.  She buys them all.

 

 Autumn Leaves.  With fall fast upon us I came up with this fall Camoflauge themed soap.  Fragranced with sweet taffy.  Aroma of caramel, vanilla, maple sugar it's a sweet tangy warm scented soap.  I love the colours! So there we have it.  There's always time to make soap.  There's more coming too! Today I'm making Tea Tree Soap again.  I sold the last bars to a customer.  She bought the whole batch.  I love this bar and will continue to keep this one in stock.   Please come back to visit soon.  With soapy love, we shall see you soon! Bye now 

Tea Tree Antiseptic Bars

I had a client ask me if I made tea tree soap.  I said yes I do.  She placed an order for 6 of them.  She also asked if I made soap with sweet almond oil. I said, yes I can.  Then I researched and found a perfect conditioning, antiseptic recipe that contained both ingredients.  Both requests in one bar, how perfect!  This is a fantastic recipe too!  I researched tea tree oils and found it comes native to Australia and New Zealand in a shrub called Melaleuca Alternifolia.  The oils are extracted from the leaves of the plant.  Turns out that tea tree oil is antibacterial, anti fungal, antiseptic and has been used over 100 years for it's medicinal properties. Great for acne, skin itch, psoriasis, insect bites and stings.  Its also known to help in the head lice department.  Common problem this time of year with the start of school. It's very strong in scent and smells medicinal.  Either you love it or you you don't.  I love it. 

Recipe: olive, avocado, coconut, palm, tea tree oil, distill water, sodium hydroxide. I added just a dollop of lime green gel colour and it mixed perfectly.  Use soap calc if your going to attempt making it.  I ended up with another order after making these.  Looks like this one will be a regular stock item from now on. 

Love the lime yellow colour 

Beautiful result. Thanks for reading see you soon!!! 

Coconut Soap

I had a request from a client to make 100 percent coconut soaps.  I have been hesitant as coconut can be drying to your skin. So I've read. But watching YouTube and other soapers I learned that if you superfat it by 20% it turns out to be a silky shampoo body bar.  They say lotion bar but after making them they are hard like a rock. I had such a response I got tons of orders.  So thank you Cheryl! My first batch I only made a small one as I wanted to trial run it. Here's the results 

I used a silicone mold "butterflies" (I found this at the superstore, great find!) these bars set so fast I'm glad I did it this way so there's no cutting involved. And.,,,,gorgeous 

I used 10 ounces coconut oil to make these four, distill water, sodium hydroxide, 1/2 tsp coconut milk powder. Use soapcalc to get your measurements.  It's the only calc I use. Thanks for stopping in and happy soaping! I'm selling these at $4.50 cdn. 

Black Eyed Susan

Black

Eye Susan's grow wild in the Thunder Bay Area.  When I was born I apparently had dark black eyes and my father nicknamed me Black Eyed Susan.  My eyes are just dark brown now.  After seeing these flowers over the last few weeks in full bloom it was my inspiration for soap. I thought about how I was going to make it and here are my results. 

The base is the plain white soap with green lab colour swirled in to represent the stems and petals. 

On top of the base I poured a layer of canary yellow gel coloured soap and added brown oxide coloured soap on top and swirled it in to represent the brown eye. 

A full layer of yellow with a bit of green swirled in to represent the petals again and leaves.  The brown eye in the centre. 

I had left over green so I poured that on top of the eye and spooned the rest of the brown on top.  I swirled it into the green and to me it represents the forest background. This soap is fragranced with Mystic Orange Moinshine fragrance from Natures Garden supply,  it worked well in this soap leaving lots of time to work. V

This fragrance is a dark citrus blend,  it's not strong or overpowering.  It is mystic and I can't wait to cut this one up. 

Thanks for reading and come back for the results! 

Happy long labour day weekend! Savour all Gods creations, stop and smell the flowers, take time in your life to enjoy the beauty of life and the all things that God has given us to enjoy.  Till next time bless you all for following me. Bye !!! 

Tiger Paw

Love these! 

Going through my goodies of ingredients I came up with an odd combination I thought at the time.  Licorice and Strawberry.  I mixed equal parts of the fragrance  together and it came out delightful.  I just wanted to make soap.  So I put my oils and lye together and thought of calling this one a licorice twist.  After thinking I was going to swirl it with a red and black I chose coral lab colour instead and activated charcoal because the smell was reminding me of something else.  Tiger Paw ice cream!!! I spooned it into a Pringles can and here's a photo of that. 

It turned out pretty good and smells amazing. I used my basic recipe of olive, coconut, palm, castor, shea butter.  Sodium hydroxide, distill water and coconut milk powder.  After 12 hours here's the result 

They look like tiger paws and they smell like the ice cream.  Another great day in the soap kitchen.  I'll sell these for $6.50 each.  Cdn thanks for stopping in.  Bye till next time have a bubbly day!! 

Updates

It's been a few weeks since I've sat down to blog.  With summer weddings and soap favours to be made, time has been limited.  Plus work and out of town guests.  My step son Saire married his sweetheart Jasmine on August 8th.  The first in our family to wed.  Very exciting! I made the soap favours.  Girls and guys camo soaps.  

Beautiful couple.  I have made some soap over the last few weeks.  

Anjou Pear smells divine.  Looks very French.  This recipe is my standard olive coconut palm castor shea butter distill water sodium hydroxide.  Anjour pear fragrance green oxide red clay hanger swirl. Deadly Weapon. Same recipe as above coral and yellow lab colour 

Sweetgrass same recipe green oxide just a tad white titanium oxide hot processed this one.  

It's got to be my favourite summer scent.  Well that's it condensed with what I've been up to thanks for stopping by !  I promise I won't wait too long as summer winds down to keep you updated on my latest projects!  Bye for now

Camoflauge Wedding Favours

Here's the results and the favour wrapping by the bridesmaids and the moms. 

For my son Saire and his new wife Jasmine.  Such outdoors people.  I was asked to make Camoflauge soaps with Bug B Gone to hand out to their wedding guests.  Girls and guys so I made the green and brown and black with red and pink.  

Maid of honor Ashley Denver

Brides mother my bestest friend Lori Jarvis from Light Sense Soy Candles. 

Mandy tying up a favour box one soap one tea light candle 

Me and my father in law Ed Wilson. 

We had fifty boxes to put together 

Here's the box of fifty camo soaps I turned one around so you could see the hot pink camo.  I added pink and purple metallic curl ribbon and yellow satin ribbon to each soap favour and glued on glitter accents to each yellow ribbon.  Took forever to wrap all fifty.  Well worth the effort. 

Blinky!!! 

Here's the soap after bring poured, so cool. 

My son and bride jasmine!!! 08/08/2015!!!! Love them both and wish them all the happiness in the world.  I have taken almost a month off from soaping between working and wedding prep.  I have been anxiously waiting to get back to normal.  It's work but marriage comes first and this was an honour. Thanks for reading.  Bye for now