At any event or fair I do, I'm asked at least once "Do you make a liquid soap?" The truth is I have, but I don't want to. I'm a bar soap girl. I like holding a bar of soap in my hands. Wetting a washcloth and soaping it up. Pressing the sliver of the last bar into a new one. Being able to smell the bars sitting on my shower shelf and …
Soap Making
Soap Cutting and Curing
It's been 24 hours and it's time to do some soap cutting. Getting the soap out of the box for cutting is easy. I take off the tape... ...turn the box upside down.... ...and out drops the block of soap. Check it out! Brian calls this an bar of soap for an elephant lol. Now it's time to trim the soap. I …
Making Soap
It's soap making time! Time to make that Lavender Lemongrass soap! Time to pour the lye into the base oils. I try to pour slowly so there are no splashes. Here's a close up. Once the lye is poured in, it's time to mix the soap batter. The soap looks so creamy! (Don't you love these close ups?) Time to …
Prepping to Make Soap
There's a lot of prepping that goes into each batch of soap I make. Watch me as I take you step by step into a batch of soap. One of the first things I do is to line my mold. My dad made these for me. It would be much easier to use silicon molds, but I won't. I love that I still use wood molds he made for me. It's easy to do once …
Fermented Rice Water Shampoo Bar
Way back in 2021 on a Facebook Live, I made a fermented rice water shampoo bar. I make a lot of soaps on Facebook, but this one seemed to hit a nerve with people. A good nerve. I received so many comments and messages asking me about it. Truth is, I made it for potential white label customer. He was trying to recreate a "green" …