Black Raspberry Creme Soap Now Available

This soap has been making a comeback at Great Cakes Soapworks since 2005! That yummy blend of sweet berries and cream with just a hint of musk just never gets old! Click any photo to purchase! As always, our soaps […]

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Soap Challenge – Week 7

I’ll tell you up front: this week’s challenge isn’t one of the easier techniques. We are doing gradient colored soaps! There are a couple different ways to do a gradient colored soap. I think the easiest way is to start […]

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Soap Challenge Week 6 Link-Up

It was nice to get back to a design challenge this week, wasn’t it? I finally decided to make one myself, although it isn’t technically a faux funnel pour soap. I wasn’t feeling inspired to do another regular faux funnel […]

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New! Chai Tea & Honey Lemon Lip Butters

I am continuing to change up the lip butter flavors, and I believe I have two more winners for you! It took several test batches to get them perfected, but I believe you will love the results! Chai Tea is […]

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Sign Up for a Soap Swap!

Soap Challenge Participants: Here is your chance to try out someone else’s soap from the Soap Challenge! I am organizing a 1:1 swap, which means you will be swapping soaps with one other Soap Challenge participant. Official guidelines: You must […]

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Soap Challenge – Week 6

This week’s Soap Challenge is making a faux funnel pour soap! I believe this technique was first introduced on Brambleberry’s Soap Queen blog last July, and has since become quite popular in the soapmaking world. Some of the newer soapmakers […]

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Soap Challenge – Week 5 Link-Up

Oh, how I wish we could smell through our monitors into all the wonderful soap photos of this week’s challenge! I hope everyone was able to come up with at least one scent blend that they are over-the-moon excited about! […]

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On the Curing Rack: Nag Champa and China Rain

I quietly made these two soaps in the background during a couple of the Soap Challenges. The Nag Champa soap is actually made with a little bit of buttermilk that I had left from the milk soap challenge. It is […]

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Soap Challenge Survey Results and New Schedule!

My apologies to those who aren’t involved in the Soap Challenge – I promise to post about new soaps tomorrow!! I had 54 people take the survey – thank you very much for your input!! The overwhelming majority are ready […]

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Soap Challenge – Week 5

You know I always encourage you to go check out the link-up from the week before at this point! Some fabulous soaps as usual, and LOTS of learning experiences this week from the alcohol soaps. Here we are on the […]

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