Soap Challenge Week 9

Quick Soap Swap Update: It would appear that using google documents may not have been the best choice for creating the sign-up. I have heard from 3 people who had signed up for the swap, but I never received their […]

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Soap Challenge – Week 8 Link-Up

Before I talk about salt bars, I want to be sure that everyone who signed up for the soap swap received their swap partner info last week. There were over 50 people involved, so the chances of me making a […]

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Soap Challenge Week 8

Did you check out all the beautiful gradient soaps from last week? I am so happy to hear that this was a favorite technique for several participants! So many beautiful soaps! This week’s challenge is to formulate a salt bar […]

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Soap Challenge Week 7 Link-Up

Our challenge this week was to create gradient colored soaps! It was a bit of a challenge for some – or so I’ve heard. The soap batter really has to be at that perfect stage where it’s not too thick […]

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Soap Challenge – Week 7

I’ll tell you up front: this week’s challenge isn’t one of the easier techniques. We are doing gradient colored soaps! There are a couple different ways to do a gradient colored soap. I think the easiest way is to start […]

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Soap Challenge Week 6 Link-Up

It was nice to get back to a design challenge this week, wasn’t it? I finally decided to make one myself, although it isn’t technically a faux funnel pour soap. I wasn’t feeling inspired to do another regular faux funnel […]

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Sign Up for a Soap Swap!

Soap Challenge Participants: Here is your chance to try out someone else’s soap from the Soap Challenge! I am organizing a 1:1 swap, which means you will be swapping soaps with one other Soap Challenge participant. Official guidelines: You must […]

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Soap Challenge – Week 6

This week’s Soap Challenge is making a faux funnel pour soap! I believe this technique was first introduced on Brambleberry’s Soap Queen blog last July, and has since become quite popular in the soapmaking world. Some of the newer soapmakers […]

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Soap Challenge – Week 5 Link-Up

Oh, how I wish we could smell through our monitors into all the wonderful soap photos of this week’s challenge! I hope everyone was able to come up with at least one scent blend that they are over-the-moon excited about! […]

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Soap Challenge Survey Results and New Schedule!

My apologies to those who aren’t involved in the Soap Challenge – I promise to post about new soaps tomorrow!! I had 54 people take the survey – thank you very much for your input!! The overwhelming majority are ready […]

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