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.

 

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.

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. 

:-)

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 :-)

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! :-)

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.

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! :-)

New packaging

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

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.

Avocado Soap

Yesterday I made a new avocado soap :-) It's a hot process soap so will be ready before Christmas time and hopefully will appear in my shop by holidays!
It's in a mold right now :-)

Few pictures

Liquid Soap

Liquid soap is something wonderful! If you've never tried it -- you definitely should!
I love this kind of soap because of its shiny clarity and amazing golden amber hue. Also it's really easy to customize every jar of it -- just need to add different essential oils (and maybe spices, clays, herbs, etc) and in 5 minutes it's something new. No need to create the whole bunch :-)

Here is my Liquid Castile Soap

Hot Process stages :-)
I love to prepare hot process soap after the soap mass stabilized (between few hours and 1 day). It's much easier for me as I don't expect any surprises such as "cottage cheese" frustration :-)

 

Here you can see the second-day soap mass right after I put it in a double boiler.

"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 :-)
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