Pineapple Soaps

We have been busy In our soap kitchen these past few weeks. There been no time to really sit and blog.  So it's time to catch up.  We wanted to use up a fragrance that our shop just loves.  So pondering what to do with the rest of our Jungle Love fragrance from Natures Garden we decided on a Pineapple soap. Nodding some research on pineapple it has a lot of great skin and health benefits.  It's a natural anti inflammatory fruit and can act similar to ibuprofen.  Wow, who knew! It removes dead skin cells and brightens your skin. Great for the winter.  It's aids with bruises and sprains.  So drink it up and use it on your skin. 

Fresh purée pineapple 

after emulsion we added the pineapple to the soap. It's sparkling in here. Beautiful. 

we used a white TD for half the batch of soap. Green and yellow for the other half. 

Love the colours 

We poured the white first then poured high to get a deep pour into the mold with the yellow and green. 

Used the rest of the colours to decorate the top and used a skewer to swirl design.  We dropped the left over micas to add extra detail. 

Beautiful!

After we cut it open here is the result.  Gorgeous I think! Our standard recipe of olive, coconut, palm, castor,distill water, sodium hydroxide. Micas from TKB trading.  Their colours stay true in cp soap.  

Valentines Soaps

We are calling these Chocolate Explosion! A soap seize that we had to quickly work on to get it into the mole.  Chocolate and Strawberry Fragranced.  They smell delish! What we originally wanted to do was to pour the brown soap into the molds and then pour red and black melt and pour into the cp.  that didn't happen.  So after the seize, we poured it over the tops of each of the two molds we had ready. Hoping that the mp would fill any gaps inside.  To our surprise they turned out pretty Kool.  Although we couldn't get our brown oxide to thoughly mix, it still looks OK! We think it kind of looks like a fudge with almonds or walnuts in it.  I've had some say it looks like meatloaf.  Either way it's still soap! 

These ones look like granite a bit.  I'm liking them more and more as I keep looking and smelling them.  For Valentine's Day a neat little gift for a guy perhaps.  

These ones have both red and black melt and pour and look like a Big Turk chocolate bar.  Our recipe is olive, coconut, palm, castor, sweet almond oil.  After cleaning them up and packaging they turned a soaping disaster into a good thing! Thanks for always stopping in. 

Midnight Blue

Well Christmas is over and time to think about the next holiday, Valentines Day.  Listening to some classic music I became inspired by Melissa Manchesters Midnight Blue.  I used to play this song long ago on the piano and still love it today. 

TKB trading midnight blue mica. Nuture's Soap supply, blue vibrance. Saffire Blue neon pink mica. Oils of olive, coconut, shea butter. Black cherry bomb fragrance from Natures Garden. Pink hearts embedded made from melt and pour. Thanks for stopping by the Soap Kitchen. http://youtu.be/WweQJCqOFyI enjoy

Unicorn Poo Challenge Starr Soaps

 I have been an avid follower of Crystal StarrAnderson, she's one of my favourite YouTube soap makers.    From New Zealand. Just before Christmas she gave us a challenge to make unicorn poo  soap.   I am pretty new to piping soap,  and I have yet to master the technique. After a few failed attempts I finally created a recipe that worked. Here are my submissions to the challenge.

Melt and pour loofah with unicorn poo piped on top. With a flower embed because unicorns can just do that! These were made with shea butter, coconut, olive oil, cinnamon bun fragrance, micas blue, raspberry vibrance, neon pink. My piping is getting better. Practice practice practice. The loofahs are coated with remelted mp soaps that didn't sell. Good way to repurpose that. I'm so looking forward to more challenges it keeps us soapers in the loop!  

Last market 2015

Well Merry Christmas to you all thank you for your support and following my love of soap making.  Christmas time is so busy and the hustle and bustle keeps us running to get the last minute things done.  At Natures Touch we have been busy in the markets selling our fine soaps and bath products. Thanks to everyone who came out to support us. Our Christmas soaps are gone and more then half our inventory is depleted. 

Oliver Road Rec Ctr, Thunder Bay. In support of the Canadian Cancer Society. 

We had lots of product here and it's more then half gone. 

Last minute gift item we made Whoville WhoPoo soap.  For that grinch on your list. A big wonky mound of multicoloured soap and glitter with an embedded flower on the top.  We sold these for $3.50. All gone. Super stocking stuffer. Scented with cranberry and bubblegum. Who Knew! Lol.                                                                   With 2016 just 4 days away we are taking a much needed break and want to wish everyone a safe, joyful, peaceful, thankful, loving Christmas Season.  Thanks to our Lord Jesus Christ for this special occasion. Without Him there would be no celebration. See you in the New Year and remember take a cab, call a friend, don't drink and drive. Arrive home safe. 

100% coconut soap

Cupcake 4.75 ounces. Butterflies 4.25 ounces. Organic coconut oil soap. With added coconut milk powder, rainwater,  sodium hydroxide. Super hard cleansing bar super bubbly, silky soft great for shampoo, shaving, all over body bar. No razor burn, no skin irritation, beautiful shave. Butterflies $4.50 cupcakes $5.00 have a man customer who only used this to shave. 

2015

With Christmas fast approaching we thank you all for following us throughout the year. The Christmas markets have been busy and it's one time of year we work around the clock.  Nature's Touch has been travelling to out of town communitues in our regional area and have been warmly welcomed by the local people.  We are striving to provide you and our loyal customers the best in soap and skin care products and look forward to growing bigger in the new year.  

Lavender bath salts: one new product in our line. Kosher Dead Sea salts, Pink Himalayan salts, Epsom salts, lavender fragrance. $15.00. In a 16.5 ounce organza pack. 

Juicy Orange Tangerine.  DoTerra wild orange essential oil, Nuture's juicy orange fragrance. A beautiful big 6.0 ounce specialty soap. New! $7.50 naturally coloured with red palm. 

Juicy orange bath bombs. Big 8.38 oz of bath goodness matches our juicy orange soap! 

We are bringing in organic products to bring you more skin rejuvenating options in our little soap shop. Tree Hut, organic shea butters and tropical mango. Body butter and sugar scrub. This is so mango lishious! Set 35$

Studio 35 liguid hand soap. Green tea and basil make a nice combination of scent and apple blossom body butter $20.00 set. Makes a nice combination for gifts or yourself. New! At Natures Touch!  Available hand soap in lavender and mint. We have more coming your way in 2016. Have a safe and joyous holiday. Be safe, God Bless you all.