See my ice dyeing article in the Aug/Sept issue of Quilting Arts.
Category Archives: soap making
Coconut Lime Soap
We’ve been making quite a bit of soap lately. Since we loved our 100% goats milk soap, we thought we’d substitute coconut milk and see what happens. We are really happy how they turned out. It’s still too soon to … Continue reading
Posted in body care products, Recipes, soap making
Tagged coconut lime soap, Coconut milk soap, homemade gifts, homemade soap, soapmaking
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Felting Soap
As I mentioned earlier, my interview with Karen really inspired me to felt. And what better project than to felt our homemade soap! However, if you want to do this, you can use any soap bar you have around the … Continue reading
Banana-licious Olive Oil Soap
As mentioned earlier, we tried our hand a couple weeks ago at making a 100% olive oil soap. I was really kind of scared to try this. We had made 90% olive oil soap this past year and it was … Continue reading
More Soaping Here
Well, we are back to making some soap. Our supply from last year has been given away or we’ve used most of it so we’re on to another couple batches. Hubby blogged about it here. We made our first 100% … Continue reading
Posted in body care products, Lavender, soap making
Tagged lavender, lavender goats milk soap, soapmaking
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Rebatching Soap
Dave and I will be making some new soap in the next week or so, but I thought it might be fun to make some rebatched soap of all of the scraps I have around the house. You know – … Continue reading
Reviewing Our 2010 Soaps
This year Dave and I decided to bake all of our bread this year. I started with the HB in Five group attempting to bake through the book. Dave made a variety of wonderful breads from other resources. It was … Continue reading
Three More Soaps
We made three more soaps over a month ago. I’ve been wanting to post about them, but just haven’t had the time. The first is Lily of the Valley Olive Oil Soap. This recipe is the same of the Calendula … Continue reading
Cocoa Mango Soap
This is the second soap we made Thursday. I really can’t wait to try this one. It smells divine! Here is our recipe. If you are not familiar with cold process soapmaking, please read and print out the instructions Here. … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes, soap making
Tagged cocoa butter, cocoa mango soap, mango butter, soap making, soapmaking
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Old Tyme Vanilla Soap
Well, Dave and I are at it again! We made two soaps yesterday. This first one is made from lard. We wanted to try lard since that’s what soap used to be made with. We used lard from the store … Continue reading
