Many times you run across recipes that are written in percentages. These are great because you can convert them into workable recipes for any size of mold or production. Sometimes the process of converting percentages to the recipe size that … Continue reading
In January, Marla Bosworth and I are traveling to Haiti! We will be teaching a group of 24 women over two days how to make soap and other beauty products including natural hair care! Their goal is to … Continue reading
Turn any bar of soap into a massage bar! How, you ask? You’ll need this 9 ball mold from Bramble Berry and you’ll need a base mold. I used the bottom part only of the 4 Sphere Mold from Bramble Berry. But you … Continue reading
My sister in law is pregnant! She is due in January so I guess I have babies on the mind. This is a melt & pour tutorial…and I’m sitting here thinking of what other melt & pour tutorials my blog … Continue reading
I love that my stats tell me the search strings that are being used to lead people to my blog. Some questions aren’t completely answered so I want to start a new feature where I go into more details on … Continue reading
Remember the cute little gnome soap tutorial I did for the Soap Queen blog that uses the gnome mold and embed paper? No? Well go check it out here. There is a free download you can get your hands on! … Continue reading
A couple of Saturdays ago I had my first Austin, Texas Soapmaking Bootcamp where I offered both the basic class and an advanced class. It was a ton of fun. I had some repeats for the basic class so we … Continue reading
Its sweater weather in Colorado and that is exactly what inspired Holly Port of Lotion Bar Cafe to make these adorable felted sweater soaps with the help of her neighbor. She started out with soap balls from Bramble Berry’s new silicone … Continue reading
Bramble Berry was sweet to ask if I would be interested in participating in their month of Givember which will include weekly tutorials and free gifts with purchases as a way of saying “thank you” to their customer during the … Continue reading
I received an email recently about soaping without coconut oil. I have some recipes sans coconut oil but most are really high olive/bastille/castille type of recipes that don’t produce many bubbles. I wanted a bar that was nice and bubbly. … Continue reading
Any orders placed from 05/07-05/24 will be shipped out on 05/25. I will be in Haiti and then Raleigh for the conference. More shirts will be listed when I get back as well!