Making Cold Process Soap--a new video by us!

New soaps available, and a new soap has been put to bed

Two new soaps are available today:

White Tea and Ginger, one of my favorite scents.  It's a pretty, mild soap that will bring you peace of mind.  

And the second new soap is Organic Spearmint and Eucalyptus.  It smells divine!  It will most assuredly wake you up in the shower, even when you are at your most exhausted.  Made with spearmint and eucalyptus essential oils, this soap has many wonderful benefits.  I can't wait to try this soap!

And a sneak peek of the soap I just made tonight:  Love Spell.

I'm sure the colors will fade a bit but I hope it is as pretty as I think it will be.  I'm in the process of making a video detailing how this soap was made.  Stay tuned for that!  

Have a great week!  

Trying something new--English Tea Rose soap

In the last couple of months, I have tried many new soap fragrances.  Most have been fabulous and wonderful to work with.  Unfortunately, two fragrances produced soap that seized on me.  It is always humbling and frustrating when this happens.  I like to think I am very careful when I make my soaps.  However, some fragrance oils don't like to be mixed at temperatures around 115 degrees Fahrenheit and they don't like to be too agitated.  Lesson learned.  This new soap, English Tea Rose, looked horrendous at first after plopping the mixture into the molds.  I was scared it wouldn't turn out at all.  However, just one day later, it looks almost charming.  Once this soap cures, there may be a few bars that aren't perfect, but that will just mean we will get to keep it and use it ourselves.

Here is our English Tea Rose soap, put to bed.

These soaps smell like rosewater and the pink parts contain rose clay.  Rose clay is a mild kaolin clay that can be used on normal to dry skin to gently cleanse and exfoliate while improving the skin's circulation.

Look for it around June 2, 2014.