The Long Road to Rebatch
I have been making pumpkin soaps with fresh goat’s milk and real pumpkin puree for many years now. Usually they are plain brown with mica stamped pumpkins on the front. This year I was going to try something new and […]
How I Saved This Soap
I had a near disaster a couple days ago when I was attempting to re-make the butterfly swirl soap I created for the January Soap Challenge Club. I decided it turned out so beautifully that I would need to have […]
How NOT to make a gradient colored soap…
Another soapmaker has requested that I do a tutorial for her blog on how to make gradient colored soaps, so I thought I would put together a video this week on how I do that. Only it didn’t go quite […]
So Disappointing…
All is not sunshine and roses at Great Cakes Soapworks – the batch of Red Rock Canyon soap that I made several weeks ago has bits of undissolved lye throughout. Ugh. It was so beautiful too! I re-created the batch […]
Another Batch of Soap Ruined *sob*
Yep, it happened to me AGAIN. I made a double batch of Bye Bye Bugs Soap on Monday, and left out the olive oil. DOUBLE BATCH. It makes me ill just thinking about it. The worst part is that I […]
Cherry Soap Oops
I had this great idea for a cherry soap using a sample of Black Cherry fragrance from FNWL, and some Cherry Garcia fragrance from Southern Soapers (which is sold out now). I really love the Black Cherry one the best, […]
Antique Lilac Soap Remake, Part 3 – the end.
Antique Lilac Soap Remake, Part 1 Antique Lilac Soap Remake, Part 2 Here are a few bars from the small batch of soap I made yesterday with the embedded soap scraps: Before you go jumping up and down and raving […]
Antique Lilac Soap Remake, Part 2
This is Part 2 in a short series on how I plan to salvage a batch of soft lilac soap. You can get yourself caught up on Part 1 if you need to. Today I made a small batch of […]
Antique Lilac Soap Remake, Part 1
Remember this beautiful Antique Lilac Soap? I made it two months ago, and I’ve been waiting to see if it would harden. It was half of a batch that I split – one half was lye heavy and completely unusable, […]
The Story of Two Soaps
This is the story of two soaps. Both came from the same batch, but one is lye heavy and the other is superfatted. Soapmakers are scratching their heads right now wondering how this could be! I was confused at first, […]