On the Curing Rack: Peppermint Soap!
It’s difficult to think about Christmas soaps when the temperatures are still in the 60’s and 70’s, but I decided I just needed to pull the trigger and pull out the supplies to make peppermint soap! The design is new (again!) this year. As you can see, there’s a lighter pink swirl in with the red, and each bar looks completely different!
What’s really exciting is the curlycue swirl that I made – accidentally, of course – for the first time! Here’s another view:
In case you are wondering, these are made with pure peppermint essential oil and they are quite strong! In fact, I do put a warning on the label not to use this soap on the more *ahem* sensitive areas of your body. Peppermint soaps will be available at Greatcakessoapworks.com on November 8th!
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WOW that is really pretty.
Umm I love peppermint. The swirl is amazing I hope you will make a video too.
Awesome! Love the color and swirl
Beautiful,beautiful,beautiful! Let me know when you get around to having that swirl technique for your club. I want that one!!!
Your soaps are lovely – just like a candy cane! I think you’ll find the peppermint EO will fade a bit, possibly before the bars leave the building – this has been my experience anyway.
Love the swirls and colors! Peppermint is one of my favorite scents. It’s so soothing. 🙂
I have to agree with the warning label 🙂 I was thinking of making mine with a combination of peppermint eo and a sugar scented fragrance oil. I’m going for a candy cane scent but want to limit the peppermint eo to no more than .25oz per pound of oils.
I love the swirls in your bars. I’m wondering if you have any advice for packaging pretty bars like these without covering up the swirl design? I usually use a belly band style wrapper so customers can smell the bars.
@Tracy – For these, I’m putting them in my custom soap box with a little oval window on the front. For other fancy soaps, sometimes I use my smell-through shrink wrap with one sticker on the front and one on the back.