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Natural Candy Cane Soap Recipe -A Great Gift Idea

Natural Candy Cane Soap Recipe -A Great Gift Idea

I’ve put together a candy cane soap recipe with rose clay and peppermint essential oil. There are a wide variety of clays to choose from to use in soap recipes: kaolin clay, bentonite clay, Moroccan clay, French clay, Rhassoul clay, rose clay. There’s such variety! Even those clays mentioned have a number of variants, and...

5 Beautiful Fall Soap Recipes- Natural Coloring and Scent

5 Beautiful Fall Soap Recipes- Natural Coloring and Scent

Soap making is just fun. It’s even more fun when you can share it with others! I recently shared 5 Fall Soap Recipes with you and they are still a hit. Since it’s that time of year again, I thought it would be fun to share 5 MORE Fall soap recipes with you. This time...

Easy Pumpkin Spice Soap for Fall Soap Making

Easy Pumpkin Spice Soap for Fall Soap Making

It’s time to give this beloved Pumpkin Spice Soap recipe a special highlight. This recipe has been a family fovorite for years now. If you want to get started making a Fall soap, then this recipe is a great place to start. It’s a favorite in my shop as well. I made this Pumpkin Spice...

Amazing Charcoal Tea Tree Soap Recipe – cold process

Amazing Charcoal Tea Tree Soap Recipe – cold process

A lot of people have shown interest in these Acne Detox Soap Bars that I sell in my shop. After all, a good activated charcoal soap recipe is amazing in and of itself. The added good ingredients, including bacteria killing tea tree essential oils, makes it an important recipe for any soap maker to have....

How to Make Soap – Natural Handmade

How to Make Soap – Natural Handmade

I’m excited to share with you a new and updated tutorial on how to make soap from scratch. My first step by step guide is 7 easy Steps to Homemade Soap for Beginners. It’s a great guide and I encourage you to head over there and read that article as well. The reason that I...

How to Layer Melt and Pour Soap

How to Layer Melt and Pour Soap

Melt and pour soap is a fun project for almost all ages. Plus, it can be ready to use as soon as it hardens. Adding designs and layering melt and pour soap adds that creative touch. Though my favorite type of soap making process is cold process, I think each soap making process and crafting...

How to Make Soap with Kids (with Recipes)

How to Make Soap with Kids (with Recipes)

Soap making is a creative craft that allows you to express your artistic abilities, learn a new skill and improve upon it over the year, make something healthier than store bough versions, and it means you are learning an age old skill that can be very valuable for you in the future. Surprisingly, you can...

How to Fix Botched Soap – Hand Mill Soap Video

How to Fix Botched Soap – Hand Mill Soap Video

There are a number of reasons to hand mill soap. The biggest reason people hand mill soap is to fix botched soap and other soaping problems. Sometimes you forget to add enough water, enough oil, or add too much lye. If you know what you did (and sometimes if you’re not quite sure) you can...

How to Hand Mill Soap and Why

How to Hand Mill Soap and Why

Some of you may have heard of the term French-milling or hand-milled soap before, but are unsure of what it is, how it’s different from other soap processes, or why anyone would want to hand mill soap. Hand-milling is a valuable skill to know, whether you are a soap maker, someone who wants to be...

How to Make Poison Ivy Soap with Jewelweed

How to Make Poison Ivy Soap with Jewelweed

I was so excited to make this Anti-Itch Soap that as soon as my husband walked in the door I declared, “I made Poison Ivy Soap!” He looked at me oddly and said, “I hope you didn’t put poison ivy in soap, Kelly.” That made me laugh. I guess he doesn’t know what I’m going...

Learn How to Swirl Melt and Pour Soap

Learn How to Swirl Melt and Pour Soap

I’m a cold process girl. Probably because I’m a control freak and can’t stand the idea of not having ingredients that I’ve purposely chosen for my skin care routine. That being said, if you can find a good melt and pour source then it’s such a fun project to tackle. If you have children and...

Goat Milk Blackberry Soap Recipe

Goat Milk Blackberry Soap Recipe

Berries are growing and summer is coming. Combine the beauty of blackberries with a nourishing goat milk soap and you have gold! I’ve put together a fun soap recipe for you. Don’t worry. If you’re vegan then I’ve given you an alternative to make a goat milk blackberry soap recipe that works for you. Making...

How to Design Your Own Soap Recipe

How to Design Your Own Soap Recipe

Being able to design your own soap recipe is fantastic! You are no longer inhibited by someone’s else’s ideas, favorite oils to use, or even batch size amounts. Instead, you make all the decisions. Want a large 36 bar, 9 pound batch? Great, start designing. Want to use the oils you have in the house...

Champagne New Year’s Eve Soap Recipe

Champagne New Year’s Eve Soap Recipe

This is a beautiful New Year’s Eve soap recipe. I gave it a pink and white swirl for an elegant look throughout the bar, for continued beauty throughout the use of the soap. And just for fun, add champagne! Really, the only reason I would add champagne is as a fun gift idea. The small...

3 Fall Soap Recipes – Easy with herbal coloring

3 Fall Soap Recipes – Easy with herbal coloring

September is a great month to start making these Fall Soap Recipes. After three to four weeks, they’ll be ready in time to use during October and November. They’re also great as holiday gifts for teachers, Fall get togethers, and Thanksgiving. The past few years, I’ve shared a number of fun soap recipes for Autumn....

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