Peeps Easter Soap

HelloCrafty Easter Soap on Etsy.

Colorful Beautiful Soaps By Platypus Dreams

Sharon of Platypus Dreams has done it again!! They are a dream. You must give this woman a badge! Check out her blog too, to see what she is up to.

Botched For Sure

Yes, my bad boys will have to go now. They are not hardening. See? Maybe a batch this weekend will make it all better.

Bad Soap! Bad!

What happened? Why must you misbehave??




I have stuck you in the freezer because you were so evil. We'll see what you say then!


Batch recipe:

32 oz. H2O
11.2 lye
6 .5 oz Crisco
16 oz. Coconut oil 76 degrees
38 oz Almond Oil
4 oz. Avocado butter
29.5 oz. Meadowfoam Seed oil....any insight?

Crimson And Clover...Joan Jett Beauties!

Stella Marie Soap is by far the most wonderfully unique "alternative" (did I just say that??) soap company I have had the pleasure of trying. I am not even sure why I say that... hmm... maybe because I totally "get" her direction and focus, but assume not too many people even know who Joan Jett is....

On Kim's blog, she plans the soap. She writes ,"I am developing my saponified tribute to punk pioneer, Joan Jett."



Then, attempts her plan successfully....


And, voila!!


I gotta get my hands on these beauties! OK. How many of you actually plan soaps like this? True art.

Oh, here is a current picture of Joanie:



Much cuter now, I think, but I loved her then.

My New Soap Box Mold

Guess what my hubby did while I was away for the day on Sunday? I was looking all around the web for the perfect mold and explaining to him the difference between cardboard boxes, plastic, and silicone, not really believing he was actually listening to my box woes. Well, lookie here...

The wax paper and electrical tape are holding my soap inside

Wasn't that so nice of him??

Thanks, baby!

Ginger Lime Sesame Soap - Urban Forest

I had the pleasure to try a few soaps from Urban Forest and all of them were wonderful. The one that stands out the most was the Ginger Lime with sesame seeds and cucumber extract. Karen, the soap goddess of Urban Forest, explained to me why my bar looked so different from the one pictured here (this is her picture). Karen emailed me telling me she switched to BLACK sesame seeds instead of the white shown here. The photo really doesn't show how prominent the seeds were in the bar I tested. Can I just tell you how great of an exfoliator it was? I have a thing for highly exfoliating bars of soap, both light and strong exfoliating bars. But this wasn't a light exfoliant at all. These seeds didn't feel "sandy" ... It was more of a seriously "get your scrub on" bar. When I am in the shower, I often just stand there waiting to come to life sometimes remembering to rub my bod with a scrub I make or a scrubby type bar of soap that I have just to feel the nerve endings in my skin wake up. So when I grab a good exfoliating soap and rub rub rub away the tiredness, it helps my coffee shift into first gear. (Generally coffee doesn't even start taking any effect until the second cup.) The soap was not sprinkled with the seeds, but the seeds were abundant and well incorporated.

The smell was something out of a fairy tale....hard to describe, but light, nice, sweet- a natural sweet, not sugar sweet. It had the right mount of ginger, lime with a blend of botanicals thrown in there. Mellow.

The soaps Karen sent to me were on the slightly smaller side of the average sized soap. They cost $5.00 each and if you want to order some, you must email her. Check out her website. You can find her email address there.

Don't you love this photo of the bar stack? The back light is gorgeous.



Thank you Karen for sending me your creations and my apologies for not getting to this sooner!

Green Soap For St. Patrick

We are celebrating St. Patrick's Day with green soap today.

Green Jello Soap by Body & Spirit

Ogre Soap (made for kids by kids) Olive Branch Soap

Cote Bastide Fig Wrapped available at Vintage Weave

BE Soaps - Green

Paradise Valley - Peppermint Soap

Sappo Hill Aloe Vera Soap

Mold Choices For CP Soap

Mold: m-w.com definition 2: the frame on or around which an object is constructed 3 a: a cavity in which a substance is shaped: as (1): a matrix for casting metal (2): a form in which food is given a decorative shape b: a molded object

A mold can be made of anything with sides and a bottom...and slightly flexible or with movable sides. My first batch of soap was in a silicone pan, the second batch I used a sturdy Batmobile box that housed a very fancy collectible Batmobile (collectible for a seven year old? Nope. Just a very heavy metal car that has tons of cool detail and fun to smash into my new baseboards-ouch!)

Anything really can be used: tupperware, shoe boxes, Pringles cans, lucite (more on this later...), silicone muffin pans, REAL wooden break-away soap molds, stainless steel, plastic...anything, really, except for aluminum.

There are so many interesting choices, but if one wants to make a consistantly uniform soap bar, for selling, than an actual soap mold may be in order...

What do you use?

Discontinued Graham Cracker Fragrance

I am pretty sad. I bought this great smelling fragrance oil, called Graham Cracker fragrance oil from Majestic Mountain Sage sometime in November and didn't try it until batch #2, so I went back to MMS to buy a bunch of it, because I had a whole plan about doing a Graham Cracker themed gift set for the Summer (graham crackers are in Key Lime pie and in S'mores), but I couldn't find it on their website. This morning I called them. Well, apparently, it has been discontinued and it is their very own blend so the only way to get it back would be to purchase 25 or more lbs. of it. 25 pounds?!?! The closest I have come to the scent is Brambleberry's Carrot Cake, but it lacks the nutty butter smell.

Oh no! I just looked at their site and it is a Limited Edition too. I better try it in my next batch of soap to see if it compares and grab some before it goes to 10 pounds.

On the topic of discontinuing fragrances, Brambleberry discontinued a fragrance I was ready to get, too! It was Mango Lassi (I love lassi's at Indian restaurants on 6th St.) The nice thing is that they will make a 10 lb. jug for you. Better than MMS. I can not justify ordering 10-25 lbs. of one scent, though. What if people don't like it?

If anyone has a bunch of this Graham Cracker fragrance oil from MMS, I'd be happy to buy it from you!