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.

Christmas Berry Version 2

I like this version better.  The berries are more realistic and I like the grated soap inside.  I discovered that if I grate the soap I am able to make the soap balls as small as I want.  In the other version I hot processed the soap and then tried to make berries by pinching off pieces and I wasn't able to make very small balls because the soap would crumble.

The green part that represents the leaf was a shaving from planing the bar of soap.  It automatic rolls itself into this shape so very little work is involved.  

I added a little over an oz of red grated soap and a little over an oz of green grated soap to a 32 oz batch of oils.  I piped plain white soap on top in order to have a bed to put the soap balls.  

I scented it with Frankinscense and Lily of the Valley fragrance oils.  I'm very pleased with this one.

Christmas Berry

I'm not really happy with the way this one turned out and it was a lot of trouble because I had to make a batch of hot processed soap to make the soap balls and then it took forever to roll all of those little balls and I really didn't get them small enough.  However, I learned a lot and when I make another Christmas soap.....next year.....I will do better.  These bars may look a tad better when they are cleaned up.  It is still too soft since I just cut it this morning.  Next time I will make my leaves ahead of time because I'm not very good at piping and they looked more like green blobs than leaves.  But, it is good soap.

70th Birthday Rose Petal Soap

I tried to match the pink in the soap to the rose petals but I couldn't be father off if I tried.  I will be making this one again since I have plenty of petals left.  Melissa, my youngest daughter, send me roses on my 70th birthday and when they wilted I saved all the petals.  How did I get to be 70?  The last time I checked I was still young.  Not really, but the years do go by faster than you can imagine.

This soap has all the normal good stuff inside that I always use plus hemp milk.  I'm on a hemp milk kick and I'm loving how it makes the soap feel on my skin.  The only place I've found it for sale is Whole Foods.  We have only one of those markets that I know of so I froze a lot of the hemp milk because I knew I couldn't use it all before it would go bad.  I'm supposing that it will freeze fine to use in soap but I don't know until I try.

I did a spoon swirl on this batch because I wanted thicker lines.  I've got to get my husband to make me a hanger to fit my silicone mold so I can do hanger swirls in them.....that's my favorite technique.

Cool Water

Byrdi Jean sent me a bottle of Cool Water fo and it smells so good.  This is the soap that I chose to make for the men and it turned out great.  I poured the blue into the white, swirled once and then poured that mixture into the plain batter and swirled once.  When I poured it into the mold I poured from one end of the mold instead of in the middle like I normally do.  I really don't think it makes much difference in how the swirls look but I wanted to see.

There is hemp milk, clay, silk, oatmeal and goat milk powder in this soap.  So I think the men will feel as pampered as we gals do when we use handmade soap.  I wish everyone could really feel the difference it makes in how their skin feels when they use something that isn't processed to death with chemicals and all the good stuff removed to use in something else.  I'm totally in love with handmade soap.  

Rosemary, Mint and Hemp Milk

I can hardly wait for this one to cure.  It is an all essential oil soap with no colorants added.  I used rosemary, peppermint, vetiver, patchouli, eucalyptus citriodora and spike lavender.  It smells wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!  I added 1/2 t. ground mint inside the soap.  This recipe looks so creamy I know it is going to feel good.  Oh, and I added hemp milk.  Dying to see what this brings to the soap.

Carrot & Chamomile

I made a carrot soap last year and I really liked it so I thought I would do another.  However, this is a different recipe and I also added chamomile powder to this one for extra benefits.  

It has buttermilk powder and heavy cream and, of course, pureed carrots. I put poppy seeds on top for a little contrast.  I scented the soap with frankincense fragrance oil.  It smells herbal which was what I was after.  

Pumpkin Patch

I made some soap for the kids, be you big or be you small.  I know a lot of people who love Halloween so for all of you here is a great Halloween goody.  

This soap is my avocado oil soap with lots of shea butter.  It is scented with Chocolate Nut Brownie and Vanilla Select.  It has a tiny bit of exfoliating properties from some vanilla bean powder. There is silk and buttermilk powder and oatmeal to give the skin lots of pampering.  I have tarragon and cosmetic glitter on top. This was a fun soap to make.