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.

 

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.

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.
 

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!

 

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. 

:-)

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 :-)

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! :-)

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 :-)

Shea butter and some soap

Today I received a new 5 lb. bunch of Shea butter :-) I'm so glad I can repeat my "Sweet Rose" recipe plus make something new with this wonderful butter. By the way it's white this time :-)

And here is "Sweet Rose" from previous "collection" :-)

This soap is made with Shea butter, Olive oil, Coconut oil, Grape seed oil, Rose Kaolin clay and essential oils.

Few pictures

"Fresh Spearmint"

My new soap is so bubbly and foamy and is very gentle! It has soft and creamy lather and a lot of oils that make your bath time awesome!

Ingredients: Saponified Olive oil, Coconut oil, Palm oil, Grapeseed oil, Shea butter, Cocoa butter, bee wax, spearmint essential oil. This soap was prepared with nettle decoction. 

You can buy it from Etsy :-)
My Etsy store

Bunch of soap, balms and the whole nine yard :-)

Christmas Cold Process soap

I've made my second cold process soap! It was on Christmas :-)
Here it is:

Saponified Olive oil, Coconut oil, Palm oil, Shea butter; it was made with our home brewed beer, cocoa powder and oatmeal for soft exfoliating effect.