Vacation!

I am leaving for Costa rica on Wednesday!!! I am so excited. I will attempt to blog while there, but we are going to some very remote places so I may not have access to a computer or internet.

Hopefully, I can get Dylan to take pictures of the many soaps I have curing on the rack before we leave. Last weekend I made a chamomile soap, green tea and cucumber soap, pink sugar soap, sandalwood soap, and some soy mocha cafe candles. So that is at least 10 picture that are due. I really like how all these soaps have come out. The scents are all great too. I think I will be keep them as permanent scents in my line. I will probably start making my Halloween/Thanksgiving soaps when I get back. I am planning right now to make the following scented soaps pumpkin pie, cranberry, caramel apple, apple pie, and brown sugar.

Tomorrow I am going to try to make nag champa soap, neroli soap, white tea and ginger soap, and coconut lime verbena soap.

Sparkling Cranberry Soap

I made this soap last weekend using a sparkling cranberry fragrance. The color in the swirls is due to cranberry fruit fiber. I also added some red sparkles since the cranberry fiber started turning a brownish red. I really like how the white portion of the soap has a cream and an ivory mix to it. This soap will be for sale in my Etsy store in about 2 weeks.

Cranberry and Cucumber Melon Soaps

No not those two scents together..that would probably be horrible. Yesterday I made a cranberry scented soap with a swirl of cranberry fruit fiber and red sparkles for color. The red kinda turned a brown color but it looks like with curing it may turn a little redder. I made some little ladybug shaped soap with the left over soap and those are turning a purple-red color. I poured this soap at a very thick trace so that I could try making some texture on the top of the soap. I think, even with the color not being bright red like I had wanted, it still looks pretty nice.

The second batch I made was scented with a cucumber melon FO. I used spirulina powder to make a green swirl. This soap ended up tracing really fast so it was already pretty thick when i poured it. I did not think that I would be able to get nice swirls, but I am actually really happy with how it turned out.

These soaps will both be available for purchase around April 6th.

I will add pictures later today, hopefully.

New soaps

I have been dying to try out some of my new scents. So tomorrow I am planning to make a Chai tea soap, a Patchouli soap, a Cranberry soap, and a Lavender soap. I also received a shipment of shea butter, coffee butter, macadamia nut butter, and cocoa butter which I may play around with. I just placed an order for ingredients to make lip balms, body butters, and sugar scrubs which I look forward to trying out. I will let you know how the soaps turn out tomorrow!