Inspiration comes with a little green leaf and absolute freedom of a sea gull. It comes with beautiful impressionism paintings and fresh chilly mountain winds. It comes with a cup of coffee and a long walk along Montreal streets...

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Rose Clay & Lemongrass essential oil

And once again French Rose Clay :-) With lemongrass essential oil this time.


First time I tried salted water for the lye solution. Was interesting :-) My feeling is that it made soap harder (even when I used approximately one tea spoon per 2 kilo of oils. But (as Jen @
Jenora Soaps said) the thin trace phase staid foooooorever... :-) 

Shea Butter + French Rose Clay

The same oil blend as in the previous soap (with 40% of Shea butter in the recipe). Love its leather and smoothness :-) And the scent -- mmmmm! Litsea Cubeba is one of my personal favorite essential oils.






 

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Shea Butter Lemongrass soap.

This is amazing Shea Butter Lemongrass soap :-) Made with 40% Shea Butter in the recipe and organic coconut milk instead of water. Hot Process. It's wonderfully smooth and gentle, with great silky lather, and has uplifting citrus aroma (thanks to lemongrass essential oil). Very summer-y :-)





INGREDIENTS:
Saponified Raw Shea Butter, Extra Virgin Olive oil, Safflower oil, Grapeseed oil, organic coconut milk, calendula petals, orange peel powder, lemongrass essential oil.

Treasury on Etsy -- "May Roses" by Gioconda Pieracci

With my soap :-)



(What a pity I haven't posted Treasury lists with my products before! But it's a good time to start doing it :-)

 

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Lavender soap again -- the guest set of 6.

I love lavender soap very much! And love to make guest soaps (as you can see, lol)! So here we are :-) This set contains 6 small soaps (approximate total weight is 9 oz), it's wrapped and packaged in a cute penal box (very Eco-style).




You can find it on Etsy :-)
 

For Babies -- Castile "Milk & Chamomile" Soap :-)

This is a one new experiment! My first milk soap! Hooray! I did it :-) Looks and smells wonderfully -- something like freshly baked cookies. Yummmm :-)

It's made with Organic Whole Milk and Chamomile infuse in Extra Virgin Olive Oil.


Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Orange & White Chocolate Bath Salt

Dear friends, let me introduce to you my new Bath Salt! It smells so good! Mmmm :-) Rich chocolate aroma with a bit of orange hint -- great for relaxation after a tough day. It has cocoa butter in this blend to nourish and soften your skin. And it plays wonderfully with orange peel powder that increase warm and interesting aroma bouquet.




 
 

 
INGREDIENTS:
Pure California Sea Salt, Mediterranean Sea Salt, Cocoa butter, orange peel powder.


Thursday, April 25, 2013

Lavender Artisan soap "Matin Provençale"

This freshly scented Lavender Cold Process artisan soap is made with lavender buds, skin-loving oils&butters and lavender essential oil. It has soft and creamy lather that make your bath time awesome! And this soap smells like a morning in Provence!

INGREDIENTS:
Saponified Oils/Butters; lavender buds, Lavender essential oil.
 

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

New! Soap mix :-)

Just few pictures of my soap (pictures were taken with my phone, so... pardon the quality lack, but I'm too exited to show you these pieces :-)

This one was made with organic carrot juice, poppy seeds and wonderful yummy blend of citrus essential oils.

 
 
This is Lavender Soap. Guest set of 6 :-) I packed them in a very nice labeled penal paper box with tissue paper. Great gift for house-warming or Mother's Day, or whatever you can name!
 


And -- Ta-Da! -- new bottles for Liquid Glycerin Soap. Comes in three sizes: 2.7 oz, 4 oz and 8 oz. The small one is a perfect travel size bottle! Also this size is quite suitable to take to the gym, for instance.
 
 
Ta!
 

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Aloe Vera soap. Natural & handcrafted

Hello, my friends!

Finally I took pictures of my Aloe Vera cold process soap. I was waiting for so long because I wanted to use my new round stickers in the wrapping. And here we go!
The soap is great! Very nice and creamy lather. Suitable for sensitive skin. Unscented. 

:-)





Tuesday, March 19, 2013

One more :-) Citrusssy!

Another guest soap. This time it has citrus essential oils, calendula petals and sea salt.
Hot process soap with creamy foam. I wrapped these small bars and labeled them very simply, well, after all they are just for family and friends :-)



Thursday, February 28, 2013

New soap :-) Salty!

Hi there! It's been such a long time -- hello, my crafty journal! The first posting in this year :-)

Just for start here is a picture of new guest soap that was created from Aloe Vera cold process soap left-overs. I re-batched it, added Sea Salt and lavender essential oil. Love the result -- it looks like a sea stone during usage (like coquina, or something similar). It has such an interesting texture!


Have a pleasant soap-making! :-)

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Merry Christmas!

C Рождеством! :-)

Ровно 2 года назад я замесила свое самое первое мыло! Да, вот такой у меня маленький юбилей сегодня :-)

Friday, December 7, 2012

новенькое

Ура! Сегодня (вернее уже вчера) приехали новенькие баночки на 8 унций для гелевого мыла, скрабов и солей :-)

И не могу не поделиться еще одним приятным моментом -- теперь у меня новенькие открыточки и еще одна колода визиток с реквизитами магазина на Etsy и этого блога. И небольшой примилый баннер. Решила, что новая партия "вкладышей" будет с моим розовым мылом. Обязательно покажу, как сфотографирую. Старые открытки-вкладыши уже окончательно морально устарели: там еще упоминается мыльная основа и rebatch soap. Да и с визитками я все находилась в творческом поиске (который, пожалуй, до сих пор не закончен), то используя свои основные визитки, но с мыльным стикером, то заказав партию с готовым уже фоном. Теперь же и на открытках, и на визитках (и на facebook'е в шапке) одна картинка -- Sweet Rose Soap :-)

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Экспериментирую. Мда...

Сегодня первое декабря! Первый день зимы и меня потянуло на эксперименты. Решила замесить мыло на лярде (хотела моно, но добавила 10% касторового). Первый раз. Well, запах, конечно... я аж прибалдела, не ожидала подобного вероломства со стороны жира. Очень надеюсь, что что-то с ним произойдет, и мыло начнет пахнуть чисто и весело, а не как сейчас -- старыми грехами :-)

Предполагалось, что я его сделаю лавандовым (мне приехал восхитительный Alkanet Root в порошке для придания мылу фиолетового оттенка), но лавандовое эфирное масло не справлялось никак, пришлось привлечь цитронеллу, которая, по моему глубокому убеждению, может забить любой запах... Well, посмотрим, пока мы с эфирными маслами проигрываем 1:0. 

P.S. Еще сегодня привезли полную коробку ингредиентов и штучек для мыла :-) Я так рада! И в том числе новую круглую форму, в которую я и залила сегодняшнее мыло.


UPD:
17 декабря 2012
А получилось-то очень даже неплохо! Запах неприятный ушел, цитронелла осталась :-)
Это мыло у меня будет кухонного назначения -- твердое, ароматное, не притендующее на уникальность, но крайне приятное в использовании. Оно получилось очень пенным и скользким, мне нравится :-)

Sunday, November 25, 2012

A new one :-)

At last I've cut and made pictures of my avocado HP soap :-)
It will appear on Etsy very soon! I'm almost ready for the Holidays.



This soap is made with avocado puree, skin-loving oils and spearmint essential oil. 
I highlighted bar textured tops with golden mica -- looks terrific and really "Christmassy"



(Hot Process soap)
Ingredients: Saponified Corn oil, Palm oil, Palm Kernel Flakes, Olive oil, Grapeseed oil; avocado puree, Spearmint essential oil.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Guest Soap

Some time ago I made a batch of guest soap just for family usage (with sweet and spicy "Marrakesh" fragrance oil). I have lots of these fragrance testers from Bramble Berry so I wanted to try them out (not in soap for sale of course, only for my small hand/guest soaps). And it turned out very nice -- wasn't tricky to use in my cold process and has great smell in soap (strong enough as I added lot of this fragrance)  :-)

And just can't choose a picture :-) So uploaded all of them:


Oh, yes! A Winter Holiday Theme! :-)


Tuesday, November 20, 2012

New packaging


Now I have new wonderful Damask pattern bags for my soap and scrubs! Love them a lot :-)

Friday, November 16, 2012

Carrot & Citrus

Вот какое мыло замесилось :-)



Делаю его холодным, потому как боюсь потерять тот шикарный фруктово-цитрусовый аромат эфирных масел, которые я так щедро добавила. Мыло замешано на морковном соке (organic) и с маковыми семенами (масла: оливковое, виноградных косточек, кукурузное, пальмовое и пальмоядровое). Состав масел такой же, как у авокадного :-)