For this month soap challenge we get to choose one of three designs for our soaps.

Friday, December 16, 2016. 3 Your soap has at least 2 different colors. 4 Your soap has been cut normally, in vertical slices. To see how it wo.

Having fun, then cleaning up! Cosmic Wave Soap Challenge. Tutorial this month thanks to Amy Warden of Great Cakes Soapworks. And her guest instructor, Tatsiana Serko of Creative Soap by Steso. When the perfect thin trace meets the perfect slow pour at the perfect low height in the mold, voila! Soap colors prepped and ready to do in-the-pot swirling before making cosmic waves! Then came the fun! I poured the soap into my 9-bar Birch.

Making handmade soap in the city by the bay. My first entry in a Great Cakes Soap Challenge! I decided to enter the natural category with a yellowish-green color theme using spirulina, moringa and activated charcoal as the colorants. I used spirulina and moringa infusions for the solid yellowish-green circle fill and added some of the spirulina sludge and a touch of activated charcoal for a slightly speckled dark outline.

When is the best time to make the first Christmas soap other than for the November Challenge? The Soap Challenge Club. November Challenge is the Cosmic Wave by Tatsiana Serko was again quite a challenge. Scented with Peppermint Essential Oil, this soap is ready to welcome the Christmas season and a frenzy of Christmas soaps.

Radnor Lake Trail, Nashville. Anticipating the need to assimilate thoughts after Hutchmoot, I planned in a couple of extra days here.

Simple luxuries for a complex life. Back for another experiment in shampoo made with BTMS. In my last post, I mentioned that the dilution or whipping stages were giving me a little trouble. After whipping the paste from the last batch, I put that whip directly into a container and let it sit a couple weeks. No matter how softly I stirred, more foam! This time, I thought, why not try sapo.