My New Soap Range: Organic Olive Oil and Honey Soaps

Hello Everyone! I’m very excited to introduce my new soap range.  I’ve created two ranges; Organic Olive Oil & Honey soaps and Organic Sea Salt soaps.  I’ll talk a bit more about the latter in another post in the future. So the OOH soaps (or OOOH soaps if you want to include the organic :-)) …

Fun and Fragranced Soaps: Mish Mash and Pixie Pieces

I made my first seriously large batch of soap a few months ago. It was to use up my spare soap – the end cuts or soaps that didn’t come out the way I wanted them to. I either cut them up into little squares, roll them while soft into little balls or grate them …

Fun and Fragranced Soaps: Chocolate Orange Heart Soap

Begin playing around with soap and it can become quite addictive. Suddenly the most mundane everyday item can start inspiring ideas. Or even a colour. Just thinking of a colour can trigger off the inspiration to create a soap concept based around it. My favourite colour is a dark deep mysterious midnight teal navy blue. …

Fun and Fragranced Soaps: Fijay Bubble Soap

Although I love essential oils and the properties they impart to a product, I have to say I have been curious about fragrance oils for a while now. So many soap makers use them and they have the most amazing sounding names like Black Raspberry & Vanilla, Wasabi, Love Spell and so on. I made …

Formulating A Base Recipe

I have still to perfect my base recipe and know that I want to formulate a hard bar since the feedback which I have received from friends and family have requested this. I used to add sunflower oil to almost all my soaps for its skin protecting properties but quickly noticed that it contributed to …