Best Handmade Soap Blogs – Taking Nominations
With the 83rd Annual Academy Awards just announced recently, I would like to create a similar extravaganza honoring handmade soap bloggers! There are lots of great handmade soap blogs out there, and I would like to gather them up here […]
Handcrafted Soapmakers Guild
After making soap for nearly nine years, I finally joined the Handcrafted Soapmakers Guild. The Handcrafted Soapmakers Guild is the only registered non-profit trade association giving a voice to the handcrafted soapmaker. The mission of the Handcrafted Soapmakers Guild is […]
Goat’s Milk Soap: To Gel or Not to Gel
That is the question! Whether tis nobler to insulate such soap and allow it to gel, or to take arms against the heat of saponification and use fans to prevent gelling – that is what I am trying to discover. […]
Pumpkin Pie Fragrance Oil – Up for Grabs!
Ok, soapmaking friends. I know you’ve never done something stupid like I did and order the same fragrance twice. Oh yeah, I did. A couple months ago I ordered some Pumpkin Pie fragrance along with several others I was running […]
Productive Weekend
I didn’t write a post for Memorial Day, but I wanted to share my favorite quote from the many I saw floating around through the social media channels over the weekend: “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men […]
My New Curing Rack and Other Goodies
A couple years ago I had someone contact me about teaching her to make cold-processed soap. She lives in a smaller town south of here, and so she was able to come on over to my house and see how […]
My Brain is Spinning
Just to let you know what’s going on in my world! My brain is usually spinning about this time of year as I think about gearing up for the farmer’s market and another busy season selling soap. I’m going to […]
Salt Bar Revisited
See this beautiful salt bar? I didn’t make it – Anhoki did. And after using it just once, I am determined to experiment some more with this type of soap. It is absolutely wonderful!!! You know how there are different […]
Smell Through Shrink Wrap
I was reminded again today why I love my smell through shrink wrap. It is so easy to use and makes my soaps look so professional! I have another use for it now too: wrapping soaps in gift crates, like […]
Best of the Best Supplier Awards
This is for my soapmaking friends. Saponifier Magazine is doing their survey for the Best of the Best Supplier Awards. First of all, if you haven’t subscribed to this fabulous online magazine, you need to! They have loads of great […]