New Soaps

My awesome hiking buddy/cousin Fiona has a broken foot and she’s been out of commission for ages.
I finally went up to have a decent catch up and took the soap making gear so I could entertain her a bit haha

We had a great afternoon and made a couple of batches of soap

This one turned out great – we used the ‘Wasabi’ fragrance along with the colours, saffron and chocolate.

The second batch was ‘Kaffir lime and sandalwood’
Its hard to see the colour but we mixed a beautiful natural green clay.

One of my readers, Linda (not Linda from Georgia – Hi Linda from Georgia 🙂 ) has been asking about sharing some of the websites where I’ve learned some new techniques!!
Very happy to do so 🙂 Its quite amazing to watch how some people create their soaps! (I fast forward the mixing bits a lot!)

Linda – I’ve tried to email you with no luck, so throw me a line – lisadyke1@bigpond.com – Love to chat soap stuff with you!
(If anyone else randomly messages me, I’ll probably answer too hahaha)

Ooooo – this is called a ‘shimmy’
Didn’t work the way I thought it would, but I think I know what to adjust.
It would also work better in a taller loaf mould. (Hmmm some soap stuff shopping coming up??)

I watched this very clever lady do a shimmy along with some soap bee’s embedded and I was fascinated with what an amazing job she did!

Check it out here if curious!

Looking forward to trying this again with some different colours and maybe fatter layers!!
Bring on a few rainy days!

Cheers!