This pretty pressed flower soap from Teach Soap is a great gift or shower favor. As the flowers will eventually turn brown, make these soaps just before giving as a gift.
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Homemade brush cleaner tutorial
Store bought brush cleaners cost $10 and up. Save yourself some money and follow the easy video tutorial by Enkore to make this cleaner at home.
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Let’s Get Soapy magazine
A brand new soapmaking magazine, Let’s Get Soapy, is here! Created by Debbie Chialtas of Soapylove, Let’s Get Soapy is a quarterly magazine dedicated to melt and pour soap crafts. The inaugural issue features projects inspired by some of the the toys of the 1980s – Care Bears and My Little Pony! Seeing the pictures … Read More ...
Valentine’s Day soap supplies
As always, Brambleberry has some excellent holiday soap supplies for Valentine’s Day crafting. Supplies include 14 different molds, several fragrance oils, and a convenient kit that includes a mold, fragrance, melt and pour base, mica and more!
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Soap wings tutorial
The Natural Beauty Workshop has a tutorial for soap wings, a really fun way to add some flair when packaging soaps! The soap wings would be a great addition to any hostess gifts, party favors or other gifts.
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Snowdrift Farm sale
Snowdrift Farm, a soapmaking supplier, is having a Friends and Family Sale through January 3rd. Click here to get 10% your entire purchase.… Read More ...
Bug soap tutorial
Here is a tutorial for a great embedded bug soap for an easy melt and pour project. There’s still a week left before Halloween to make these!
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Solid shampoo recipe
The Soap Kitchen has a very detailed recipe for a solid shampoo for cold process soap makers.
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Halloween melt and pour soap tutorial
David Fisher has got a great tutorial for making making melt and pour soaps with Jello molds and muffin tins. It’s a great family project or for the weekend crafter wanting to learn basic soapmaking!
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Shaving soap recipe
Teach Soap has yet another wonderful recipe to share. This shaving soap recipe is for cold process soap makers and is a nice standard recipe to explore making shaving soap.
Ingredients:
12 oz. Coconut oil
12 oz. Palm oil
12 oz. Olive or Canola oil
14 oz. distilled water
1 heaping tablespoon of clay ( … Read More ...
Southern Soapers sale
Southern Soapers Fragrances is having a sale to celebrate its second anniversary. All prices are as marked and no coupon codes are needed. All exfoliants, emulsifiers & thickeners, botanical extracts, preservatives, packaging items and more are discounted 10% or more through September 28th. They also have a wide range of fragrances on sale this week … Read More ...
Nova Studio classes
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Nova Studio in Point Richmond has fantastic soap making classes, including cold process and multiple day boot camp classes. They also have candlemaking and other craft classes. Highlights for September and October include a 4 day business boot camp intensive, a natural perfumes class and … Read More ...
Soap and lotion making classes
Have you ever wanted to learn how to make cold process soaps or lotions but don’t want to learn out of a book? OTION in Bellingham, Washington has a lotion making class in September and a cold process soap making class in October. Both are only $25 each, one of the most affordable soap classes … Read More ...
Strawberry Heaven
Mmm Strawberries and cream or better still strawberries and Chocolate… This post is dedicated to my little red friend the “Strawberry”
You can literally eat, live and bath with strawberries. Here is a quick Strawberry Bubble Bath recipe to tempt the kids into the bath with or how about some strawberry bath dust recipe.… Read More ...
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