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 stepped it up a bit by making a milk soap. The advanced color and swirling […]
Here are the first five palm free recipes that I soaped today! Some of them are recipes that I’ve soaped before and love…some are new formulations. Recipe 1 Olive oil – 12 oz Coconut oil – 8 oz Castor oil – 2 oz Cocoa butter – 4 oz Rice Bran oil – 6 oz Lye […]
Head on over to the Soap Queen blog to check out my new guest blog post. This tutorial shows you how to easily create rock shaped soap using cold process soap. I also share one of my favorite palm free soap recipes that is great for those that want to go palm free. See the […]
Inspiration here. I saw this paper on Paper Mojo and thought it would make a wonderful swirl in soap! So here’s how I did it. You’ll need a slow tracing/moving recipe. Something high in olive oil, low in castor and low in hard oils/butters will work. The Slow Moving Recipe: Olive oil – 12 oz […]
I made a column swirl soap in a silicone slab mold yesterday and today I wanted to show you how I cut slabs. If you’re lucky enough to have a slab mold with lines or dividers then that makes it easier. But if you don’t…it can be a bit of a challenge. Here’s how I do […]
This is an advanced soap design using natural colorants. It includes calendula and paprika for color and texture and swirling and layering techniques. I’ll also show you how to do the thin cocoa line you can see between layers. Bring your soap to a stable emulsion. You don’t want to see trace or you won’t […]
Okay, so making a solid colored soap with an infusion is easy. But what if you wanted to color a soap four different colors using different infused olive oils? You wouldn’t want to make your standard recipe, divide the traced soap in individual containers and add a tablespoon of infused olive oil to each container. Why not? You […]
Now that you have your infusions ready to go…let’s make some soap! Using your infused oils for coloring soap is easy to do. In this tutorial we’ll make a solid colored soap using alkanet infused olive oil. To use an infused oil to color a solid soap you will simply use the infusion for all […]
There are a couple ways to get purple in soap using natural colorants. My favorite herb to use is alkanet infused in olive oil. But I wanted to try something different. For this soap I used indigo and madder added to the lye water. Here’s what I did… The recipe – 2 oz castor, 8 […]
It’s no secret. I love my Bramble Berry 9 Bar Slab Mold! Take a look at most of my recent tutorials and you’ll see the mold in action. They do have to be lined. So to make that task a bit simpler I decided to make some reusable plastic liners. I went to my local […]
