My Top 5 Takeaways from the HSCG Conference
The Handcrafted Soap & Cosmetic Guild held their 20th annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia last week. I’ve been making soap since 2002, been a member of Handcrafted Soap & Cosmetic Guild for nearly six years, and this was my first […]
Round Soap Mold Using Poly Tubing
Here’s an efficient way to make large batches of round soaps. I posted several years ago about how I use poly tubing to create my shampoo bars. Denise Casperson in British Columbia, Canada took my idea a step further and […]
How to Use Indigo to Color Cold Process Soap
If you’ve ever tried to use indigo to color your cold process soap and ended up with a nasty gray – or worse yet, no color at all – this post is for you! I’ve been there too, which is […]
Scam Alert!
Last night I received an email from a guy named Tom Clarkson that said, “Have the ingredients changed in your Soap? I have used your brand for quite sometime now and have never had a issue. The bar is kept […]
Central Soaper’s Workshop 2015
I can’t believe this was the LAST ONE. Central Soaper’s Workshop was founded by Kenna Cote of Modern Soapmaking three years ago, and last weekend was the third and final Workshop. (Insert sad face here!) We had an amazing line-up […]
Master-batching Soap Oils
If you aren’t a soapmaker, please feel free to scroll to the bottom of the post to see the pretty soaps I made this week! For those who care, I finally got my act together and master-batched some oils! I […]
DOS caused by…glitter?
I’ll say it up front: this post is more for soapmakers. Everyone else is welcome to read and learn more about the elusive phenomenon that can show up in handmade soap that we refer to as DOS. DOS (dreaded orange […]
Natural Vanilla – Does it hold up in CP soap?
I have to ask because I don’t know the answer yet. I got my Vanille EO blend from Essential Oil University on Monday (which is no longer in business), and the only thing I’ve been confident enough to use it […]
Best Handmade Soap Blog Winners Announced
I want to start by saying that for being a relatively small industry of handmade soap makers, we have some highly talented bloggers! There were some really, and I mean, REALLY tight races in a couple of the categories. I […]
Just a Few More Voting Hours
Voting for the Best Handmade Soap Blog Awards will be closing this evening at 10pm CST. Please visit this post to place your votes. I hope you have found some great new blogs in this process, because I know I […]