Blueberry Surprise. Krazy Soap

I started a new job that totally had taken me away from soaping and also making me exhausted and stiff and sore to boot. So after three gruelling weeks of hard work I was able to rest finally and get back to some soap making.  This one is in the crock pot hot processed rebatched soap shavings and chunks of left over samples.  Melted down with castor oil, grapeseed oil, Distilled water, wild blueberry fragrance oil and near the end ultramarine blue pigment. It's purple ish  blue.  

In the milk carton.  Love my milk carton creations.  Catch me on the reveal.  Happy Soaping! I feel better now. 

Jungle Love/satsuma orange infused soap

Satsuma Manderine Orange Peels.  I am infusing them in canola and olive oil.  I'm going to let them sit for quite awhile to get that citrus goodness.  The hard part will be the waiting.  This will eventually become an orange citrus soap once I feel infusing is complete.  Natural goodness.  Thanks for reading and following me along.  Bye !!! I'm off for a week of boating to the Thompson Islands on Lake Superior.  Have a great week. See you when I return hopefully rejuvenated and suntanned. Ok back from holidays and have let this sit for a month.  I strained the oil discarded the peels.  Oil was orange and you could smell the orange in the oil.  I decided to use the Pringles can  for the mold.  I also used a paper towel tube that I put in the centre of Pringles can to make a seperate tube to pour the soap in.  I mixed oils and separated in half,  coloured one part with canary yellow lab colour and the other orange pigment and white TD.  Fragranced with Jungle Love from Natures Garden.  Poured the yellow down the cardboard tube orange on outside of tube pulled it out

My contraption! I saw this on soaping 101 Here it's pulled out now skewer was to hold in place.  Here's the result after pulling out tube: 

  

Gave it a skewer swirl 

Here's what I got 

Beautiful ! Even the outside edge looks like the skin of an orange.  This scent from natures garden no ricing no acceleration one of my favs for sure.  

First cut exciting ! Recipe infused olive and canola, coconut, palm, grapeseed, castor, distill water, sodium hydroxide.  Great working recipe thanks for looking! Bye and happy soaping! Squee!!

Wedding favours

I was asked to make some soap for a friends upcoming bridal shower and had to match a travel theme.  I was given a soap dish with the Eiffel Tower on it so I had to come up with something French.  Decided in something borrowed something blue, red for love, white for bride and black for the groom.  Here is the result

I wrapped them in French green tulle and fancied them up with ribbons and bows  

Pretty.  

Glittered the tops.  I mixed bay rum, Aqualina pink sugar Satsuma Manderine and Jasmine fragrance oils to make a sexy unisex soap.  Olive, canola, avocado,coconut, castor. White TD, activated charcoal, ultramarine blue, magenta and coral gel colourant for red.  Peacock swirl. I also jazzed up some jars of bath salts for shower gifts fun project sorry pictures aren't great but I'm busy busy and snap and go.  I think you get the drift.  100$ On budget need ideas for planning your wedding? soap is unique and fun and different. Thanks for reading and following me along. Bye ! 

 

Gardenia

French Green Clay & Red Moroccan ClayGardenia fragrance 

Inspired by my friend Sheila who brought me home one of these

while recovering from ovarian cancer treatment.  For my friend I luv you! Olive coconut palm castor coconut milk lye.  Thanks for looking happy soaping 

Vibrant Soap and Inspiration

I've been watching lots of YouTube soap channels and have four favourite channels I watch.  Soaping 101, Starr Soaps, Royalty Soaps, and Vibrant  Soaps.  I've read and researched books,  internet, Pinterest, library. What I have found is the combination of research and watching are the best learning tools for me.  You get to watch and see how other soapers do things.  My real favourite of them all is Vibrant Soaps from San Diego, I love his soap it's so intriquitly done look...

It's like a landscape! Please check out his YouTube channel and subscribe.  Some day I'll hope to be a soaper like Clyde! For now I'm still learning, and I've been at it 5 years on and off.   I wanted to try and do something with colour and running out of supplies I mixed what I had on hand and boy I couldn't even take pictures as the soap I made was seizing and ricing up real quick.  I just started jamming in the colours as quick as I could into the mold and put it to bed.  Here's what I woke up to 12 hours later 

Holy cow I didn't even firm up the sides mold and it went wonky here lol.  I took it out and sliced off that wonky piece first which I'll use for samples and was kind of surprised to find this result 

Tie dyed! Not bad.  You just never know with soap.  Sometimes a mistake can turn out to be good.  

These are big bars which I'm going to cut in half still so I'll get 27 of them out of this batch.  Scented with Tuscan Olive from Crafters Choice and Tahitian Mint from Saffire Blue.  I like the mixed scent it's kind of spicy and spa like.   

Cut the wonky pieces up for little giveaway samples at my next show in June.  That works for me.  They won't go to waste. 

 I used avocado oil, olive, coconut, soybean, crisco with palm, pure orange extract, shea and cocoa butters.  Distill water and 18% cream. Sodium hydroxide.  Irredecent glitter.  Fun mistake.  Thanks for reading and following me along! Have a bubbly day.  Bye! 

A Green Theme!

I have been infusing this huge jar of olive oil since harvest time last year.  So October till May...8 months.  I grow my own herbs in the garden.  And specifically grow them to use in soaps, I throw some into salads and soups too.  But I planted these mostly for the purpose of soap.  Anyway.... Rosemary, chocolate mint, spearmint, lemon thyme, pineapple weed.  Threw them all in oil and today opened it and said yup soap time. 

I have four of these jars a free find on a junk pickin day. They are huge !!! I sanitized them and scrubbed those rusty lids too, so they're clean clean clean! Another rant ok lol back to subject of soap.   Opened the jar and oh my how minty and sweet smelling, the key note is the mint and the earthy base tone rosemary.  Just natural scents in here love it.  I didn't know exactly what I was going to do here so I pulled out a basic recipe and started adding my oils everything was green.  I strained the oil infusion so it would be clear of any intrusions. 

I love steeped tea and got a bag of "Matcha" green tea from my favorite tea lady Julie 

I put about a teaspoon into the soap oils and whisked it in. Nice dark green then I added a teaspoon of bentonite clay for drawing toxins from your skin.  That's it.  Let it all get to room temperature (I like soaping this way, no need for testing the temperature.).  At trace I poured half into another container and added white titanium dioxide then stick blended it added white TD again to lighten it up just a bit so not too white and then added it back into the other half "in the pot swirl" pouring at noon 3 o'clock 6 o'clock 9 o'clock and centre.  Gave it a turn or two with a spoon to mix it 

And poured it into the mold I had prepared 

This ones gonna have massage points.  I set in oven with the light on to kept it warm and here it is 24 hours later 

Love the result.  This is pure vegan friendly soap.  Amazing green olive colour.  Natural. I'll sell these $6.50 cdn  Thanks for following me.  Bye! 

New Silicone Molds and BugBGone

I haven't fallen by the wayside I've not been feeling well this week.  Never the less I had to make more bug repellent soap as I had a woman come randomly to my door and bought me out for the daughter going tree planting for the summer.  :)) while shopping at the Superstore I came across these silicone molds and I had to buy them. 

$7.00 each.  Thank you! Good price too! And perfect for a bug soap I thought.  I decided to use neons again.  Butterflies are neon pink mica and ultramarine blue mica both from Saffire Blue. White titanium oxide  Bug B Gone, the good stuff for repelling insects.  

The soap took forever to harden so I sped it up and popped them in the freezer and I'm so happy with the result. 

Ladybugs. Fun. My recipe:  olive oil, coconut oil, crisco all vegetable oil contains soybean and palm, castor oil, distill water, sodium hydroxide. Neon micas as listed above and Bug B Gone oils of citronella and litsea cubeba (Japanese Lemon)  

With the left over soap I used my trustworthy milk cartons.  Not only do they make perfect soap molds they make a good sized bar of soap.  

These turned out beautiful.  There was more blue and pink left over then orange.  

I poured it into the milk carton and swirled it with a skewer.  This soap was very soft it was taking forever it seemed to harden up so I stuck it in the freezer for roughly 30 mins so I could get it out.  Maybe the weather had something to do with it because normally it would be hard after 22 hours with this recipe.

The orange, well how pretty!  I ran out of white soap to really mix this.  I didn't want all orange so I poured some orange into the white and it turned this beautiful peach colour.  

Swirled it with a skewer once again and love this result.  Everything here butterflies, ladybugs, milk carton creations have sold out already! I'm out of bug juice now.  Bug B Gone!  It works and you might as well have pretty soap too! 

 

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