Royalty Soaps Piping Set

I watch a lot of you tube and this had been one way to learn how to make soaps.  I have a few favourites I watch and one of them is Katie from Royalty Soaps.  The Duchess of Soap. She's funny and fun to watch.  Just recently she teamed up with Nuture's Soap Supply and together they created a soap piping kit which I had to have.  You see all of Katie's soaps that I've seen are piped and I love her technique. So with further ado I created my first piped topped soap. In the kit you get a link to Katie's tutorials and recipes and a whole bunch of good soapy stuff.  I just did her recipe it sounded like huge amounts of oils so I cut the recipe in half.  Here's the kit. 

Plus a few extra things I ordered. 

These are just two of the colour micas I received in the kit. Purple Vibrance and Gold Shimmer. From Nuture's.   I had someone ask me about lavender soap and came up with using these two to create Royal Lavender bars today. The bottom layer of this soap is the purple vibrance  then I put a second layer on top of that with the gold shimmer. Then I used the rest of the soap leaving it white and piped the top. Sprinkling it with both purple and gold mica using a pipettes then sprinkled glitter on top.  For my first try it looks pretty good. Next time tho I will make the extra batch of Katie's piping recipe so I can make a few layers.  This one only has one. 

It's pretty and the lavender eo smells sooo good. If you want to learn how to pipe I suggest you go to YouTube and subscribe to Katie's Channel.  You'll be inspired! For now happy soaping. Royalty Soaps and go to Nuture's Soap Supply Carrie will set you up to get going on this new adventure. Look for the Royalty Soap Piping Kit and add it to your cart, seriously! When I cut them I'll post the reveal here. Can't wait! So after the 24 hour wait here are the bars. Gorgeous!

The purple vibrance mica is beautiful! 

Heres the top of the bar..pretty.  I'm really happy with the results. 

The gold shimmer just makes the lavender pop. Thanks for stopping in. Until next time feel free to leave me a comment or two. 

 

Harvest Spice Steeped Tea Soap

Third in this series of Steeped Tea soaps.  I am in aww of steeped tea.  Introduced to me through local networking.  My Steeped Tea consultant Julie McGowan has brought me into the realm of drinking exotic teas and introduced me in the thought of making soaps with it.  Love love love. This soap is made with the steeped tea Harvest Spice and it tastes and smells so Delish.

The photo is sideways but here's the labtl of ingredients in this tea.  Using my new fav soap recipe olive, coconut, palm, avocado, sweet almond oils, rainwater, (fresh collected), sodium hydroxide. It's a beautiful conditioning soap.  With brewed tea it's exfoliating as well. 

I used little ceasar dog food containers,  sterilzed of course, for the soap mold. These make a nice size bar of soap have a pretty design from the ripples on the sides and the soap pops out nicely.  In the above photo you can see the beautiful caramel colour the soap turned to from subbing the water with the tea.  Beautiful!!!  Before pouring the soap I sprinkled finely ground tea into each container so the tops would be covered with tea leaves. 

I designed with a skewer, a leaf pattern and then sprinkled finely ground harvest spice tea on top. 

 After 24 hours I got these! 

A beautiful Harvest Moon formed on each one! That was not even planned! But how perfect for this soap. The tea on the top side is dark and black it stained the sides of the bar too and looks fabulous.  I added a caramel cider fragrance to this batch and it's fitting.  Warm and yet awakening! With a pumpkin pie soap together would make a beautiful hostess gift!!! Fitting for Thanksgiving!!! 

Here are the two sides.  The back is beautiful too with the tea leaf design on the back! Retail $5.50 cdn.  Love them.  Thanks for once again stopping in and your interest. Until next time. Your fav Soap Lady! Bye bye

Soapy Sunday

I've been up since 6 am this morning and it's now 20 to 6 in the evening.  I've been soaping all day, 12 hours! But what a work day. I had mixed up a batch for this morning of tea tree oil soap as I have a customer waiting for it.  Then I brewed up some ginger chai tea from my favourite steeped tea lady Julie.  She had sent me a link to a girl who makes tea soaps and so got me on the journey to make some.  

Brewed the tea and went through my fragrances and found a honeydew ginger that I thought would go nicely with the theme.  I just received an order of micas from TKB Trading and one of the colours I got was China Jade. Beautiful mica with gold shimmer and true Jade green! 

Love the colour.  I've heard so many soapers rant about their micas and pigments and now I know why! 

I did this soap in three layers here's the first.  When I mixed the brewed tea with the lye it turned this beautiful caramel colour.  After I poured it I sprinkled freshly ground chai tea leaves on the top.  Second layer: 

Poured the China Jade coloured soap onto the first tea layer. Third layer:

I am anxiously waiting for my piping set from Nuture's Soap and Royalty Soaps as I've been so vamped up about piping.  Today I took the rest of the China Jade and put it in a ziplock and should have waited because soap was still soft but whatever piped it on.  Fun I can't wait to get the set ! After piping I sprinkled on more full tea leaves and iridescent glitter am  happy with the result.

I can't wait  to cut it tomorrow ! 

 My next soap in the Steeped Tea Series today was Tonia's Pumpkin Matcha.  I mixed my oils and added two teaspoons of matcha to them. I'm using a new recipe that I just love olive, coconut, palm, sweet almond oil, avocado. I've been collecting rain water too this summer and it makes a softer soap then distilled.  I've got more outside and will freeze it over the winter. But now back to soap. 

I had enough Pumkin fragrance for this batch. 

You can see how green the matcha is in the bowl. 

I used the left over ginger chai tea and rainwater and when I added it to the matcha oils it turned the perfect pumpkin colour! I was worried up to this point because I didn't want the soap to be green.  Perfect ! I had two old pumpkin soaps left over from last year and thought I'm going to cut them up and throw them in like confetti. They were still good soaps but now are rejuvenated.  Soap never goes bad really and these still had the pumpkin scent in them.  

FUN! 

Poured it into the mold and sprinkled on top some  pumpkin spice and a tad of allspice to finish it up! I can't wait to cut this one tomorrow.  It really smells like pumpkin pie! 

Lastly.  I just sold a full batch of tea tree soap and had an order for two bars so I made that again too.  This was done in 14 hours and was perfect when I took it out of the mold.  The batch makes 6 soaps. Two are gone already leaving me four but that's good for now. I love this bar it's so fresh and pure. Same recipe as above. If you are interested in getting the formulas from me I'd be happy to indulge that info but really if you are wanting to make soap there's secrets that we like to keep.  It experimental for each of us.  Research, watch YouTube, have fun with it. Thanks for continuing to stop by my soap kitchen come back  soon!!! 

 

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 !!!