Thanks for all the responses about the felted soap! After spending a couple days at my parent’s house, I wanted to get back with everyone and let you know:
1. It is NOT scratchy at all. Feels very soft on the skin. Obviously NOT something you should use if you are allergic to [...]
I bought a felting kit from another soaper several months ago when I found out how “easy” it was to make felted soap. The beauty of felted soap is that it not only covers ugly soap, but it works as a washcloth and soap in one. The wool will continue to shrink as [...]
After the wonderful experience I had getting the “Peanut Butter Hamster” soap stamp, I finally ordered a “Great Cakes Soapworks” stamp. Both came from my soaping friend Anhoki of Anhoki’s Place. Her husband John makes all the soap stamps (in his spare time!). You can order pre-made stamps, or get them custom [...]
Rather than try to update yesterday’s post on how to make dishwasher soap, I decided to create another one based on the comments I’ve received so far.
1. My dishes came out clean and sparkly last night – yea!!
2. If you have tried the powder recipe and you had trouble with cloudy residue, there are three [...]
After visiting Sam’s Club and discovering that they no longer carry the Member’s Mark brand of dishwasher detergent, I decided to make my own. I had heard of people doing this – especially other soapmakers. I googled a few recipes, and decided to use this one, since I already had all the ingredients:
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I went ahead and made a third batch of purple soap yesterday – using only ultramarines this time. Mostly violet, with a tad bit of brick red and blue. I think this is much closer to the color I am looking for. It could be darker, and perhaps a bit more red, [...]
I made some purple grape soap again yesterday – this time with the grape pop mica, and just a little bit of the ultramarine slurry from the first batch. It came out surprisingly similar to the first batch – even a little more blue, and maybe not as dark.
For the sake of comparison, here [...]
I know you weren’t overly impressed with my purple soap yesterday. The color I left you with in the mold wasn’t exactly pretty. However, you know if you are a soapmaker that there is a little bit of magic that takes place during saponification:
I had several people on my Facebook fan page, as [...]
There are several fragrances that smell purple to me. And almost all of them are yellow tinted oils. I’m really not sure how many batches of grey soap I’ve made trying to get a yellow tinted fragrance oil to come out purple in cold-processed soap. I’ve always used ultramarines to color soap. [...]
One of my readers, Erica of Bonnie Bath Co., asked if I would let her use my watermelon soap tutorial for her blog. I wrote some general instructions about how I did it when I announced that it was on the curing rack, but I decided to add more details for her post. [...]
