Love

This is my first Valentine soap.  I will be making several more because my friend, Betty, visits the nursing home every week and we are going to fix some for the little ladies for Valentines's Day.  That will be so much fun.  I love a project.  

I'm so grateful the Lord has blessed me with a hobby that I can use to bless others.  I don't know who gets the biggest blessing me or the person getting a bar of soap.  I think....me.  :)

Midnight Rose

Boy this soap is primo if I do say so myself.  It is scented with essential oils of rose geranium, spike lavender, 40-42 lavender and lemon grass.

This is my tallow recipe and the essential oils tried to rice so next time I make this eo blend I will use my recipe "All the Things I Love", that I used the first time.  I love the IPS with the activated charcoal and pink.  Very happy with this soap and it is going to Gina's for gifts for her little old ladies.  Happy dance.

Four Thieves Essential Oil Soap

This soap came out so smooth and creamy.  It is a goat milk, oatmeal and honey soap using the Four Thieves blend of essential oils.  This soap is for Jane.  A late Christmas present since I didn't get my oils in time but she will enjoy it when it is ready.  

I used a small amount of the blend because I know that cinnamon bark and clove oil are very strong.  I will test in about 30 days and then if it needs more next time I will change recipe.

The Four Thieves blend includes the essential oils of:

34% clove bud
30% lemon
16% cinnamon
12% eucalyptus
8% rosemary

This will be a soap that I make over and over since it is the only soap Jane uses.

Sassy Lady

I made fancy oatmeal, milk and honey.  I scented it with two different rose scents, Fresh Cut Rose, Cannibas Rose and Lavender fragrance oil instead of essential oil.  It smells very nice.  I was going to do a pink swirl to complement the rose buds and decided to try and darken the pink with a tiny bit of activated charcoal.  Well, activated charcoal goes a long way so I got a nice black but I like it.  It is a deep rich black and so along with the rose buds on top, I sprinkled lavender buds.  I have some very nice organic lavender that I use just for the tops of my soaps that smells wonderful.

This is a full goat milk straight from the farm along with desert honey and colloidal oatmeal.  I think this soap is primo if I do say so myself.  I will be remaking this one.

Candy Cane

I was finally able to get some of those Wilton holly leaves and berries.  The do bleed some on your soap but it isn't a big deal.  I think they look so pretty on the soap.  This is scented with all essential oils and I used Byrdi's Tri-Vecta R1 recipe.  I got the smoothest texture I've ever gotten with any soap.  When I cut it the inside looked like it had been planed.  It is a very dense soap.  I did a hot process batch of this recipe to see how I liked it.  It was a little drying at the beginning but I believe it will mellow out and be fine.  It was a dream to soap.

Indian Pottery

I made another round of Prickly Pear because the first one turned out so nice.  The only thing I did differently with this one is to add candy pearls and glitter to the top.

Made this soap on Wednesday after Linda left because I wanted to stay busy so I wouldn't be sad.  I so enjoyed her visit and hope she will come back in the Spring.

This soap is scented with Herbal Essence from Brambleberry and it smells very nice.  I put milled lavender in the entire batch and you can see the speckles throughout the soap.  I left the main batter natural and did a hanger swirl with two shades of purple and white.  This soap puts me in mind of a painted Indian pot therefore I'm calling it Indian Pottery.  I added lavender buds and glitter on top.  Byrdi told me I should try this hanger swirl with some football colors because this swirl reminded her of a flag flying.  It does kinda.  I really like this technique because it is easy and you're never quite sure of the look you're going to get.

Follow His Star

This is my last Christmas soap.  I used vanilla bean powder for the dirt because I couldn't find my rose hip powder.  The rest is just placing the colored soap.  The stars are cold processed soap made ahead of time.  Very simple soap but I really like it.