Soap Demo at the Market – Video #2

Yes, I am finally posting the video from the second soap demo that I did at the Olathe Farmer’s Market last Saturday! There are more great questions from the audience members, and the technique I used for the soap ended […]

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Soap Demo at the Market – Video #1

Before the season ever started, I had asked the market manager at the Olathe Farmer’s Market if I could do a soapmaking demo sometime this year. He agreed it would be a great idea, so this past Saturday I had […]

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Making Round Soap in Poly Tubing

If you’ve ever been frustrated at trying to get your round soap out of a PVC pipe, you might want to check this out. The idea has been floating around the soap blogs and forums for awhile now. Of course […]

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Kudos to the Soap Challenge Survivors!

As most of you know, I have been hosting 11 weeks of Soap Challenges on this blog, highlighting a different technique to try each week. The last Soap Challenge link-up just closed this morning, so I thought it would be […]

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Soap Challenge – Week 11 Final Link-Up

So are you happy or sad that the challenges are wrapping up? I’m a little of both. Happy to have a little more time to spend with my girls – and company that’s coming to visit! Sad not to have […]

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Soap Challenge – Week 11 (Last One!)

Oh my word. If you have not checked out the landscape soaps from last week’s challenge, please do yourself a favor and go check out the masterpieces in the link-up. There are some seriously amazing works of art! I also […]

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Soap Challenge – Week 10 Link-Up

This week’s challenge was, well, challenging!! I had a lot of fun making the Poppy Fields soap with my girls. Since they finished up school this week, we decided to give a bar to each of their teachers, with instructions […]

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Soap Challenge – Week 10

The suggestion for this week’s challenge came from Pamela Leis of By the Sea Soaps. We are creating a landscape soap! What on earth is that? Well, from what I understand, it is an artistic technique that captures some sort […]

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Soap Challenge – Week 9 Link-Up

I decided at the last minute to make my own soap for the challenge this week, which was to create a soap with a peaked top. Ever since I saw Louise’s post about infusing chard leaves in the lye solution […]

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Salt Bar Lather Testing

For me, a great handmade soap needs just two things: 1. It has to have LOTS of lather – and not just any lather: STABLE lather. 2. It has to leave my skin feeling moisturized. I hold salt bars to […]

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