Today, I am so happy. I received my new set of neon soap colorants, glitters and micas that I ordered from Nurture Soap USA a couple of weeks ago.
I am so excited to try it but my time is already packed with my pre-planned schedule. I can only try this colorants after 2 weeks. Next week, I won't be posting any new soap making video in observance of the Holy week.
What excites me more is that the vendor gave a small bottle of fragrance oil. Based on my guesstimate that small bottle contains 10ml to 15ml of fairy garden fragrance oil. I can't resist the temptation so I immediately opened the bottle and I tell you, the aroma is mild and gentle. So heavenly!
Today I made cupcake soaps using a basic 3-oils recipe that I had formulated. Normally, my recipe is composed of 7-8 oils but today I reduced it into 3 because I will give it to my friends who requested for a recipe. I made it as simple as possible so they can follow it (this will be their first time to try cold process soap making).
For the design I used the Rose Russian frosting tip that I bought online. See how easy and how simple it is to produce a nice rose bud design in soaps. I first found this frosting tip used in baking. When I saw the lady demonstrated on how to use it in her cake decoration, I immediately told myself that I can also do that in soaps too. I just need to increase my hard oils and make sure that I reach heavy trace so that the consistency would be very thick and just nice for frosting.
I am fine if you would try this recipe on your own. Even if you want to try this to sell your soaps it is also okay with me. Just remember to give credits to me for formulating this soap recipe and sharing it for free. Avoid copying this formula in your blogs and claiming it as your own. Thanks.
This post is not complete without the DIY tutorial video:
Easter Sunday is coming so I've decided to share my bath bomb recipe. I know that I am still 2 weeks early but I want to give some time to others who may want to try my recipe.
What is so different about this bathbomb is that I used an egg shaped mold that I bought from Daiso. I embedded a toy inside because I was inspired by the chocolate Kinder Joy. I cannot find any small toy at home so I ended up using a cake topper (Santa Claus) from last christmas and a keychain ( I love SG).
I love the round bath bomb too. I can't believe it. It looks like mother earth to me. :-)
If you wanna learn how to make a bath bomb and save some money instead of buying outside. Then just watch the video below. I have dictated the recipe and gave a simple recipe summary inside the clip. Have fun and enjoy.
Here is the recipe:
Dry Ingredients:
256g Sodium Bicarbonate
106g Citric Acid
56g Cornstarch
56g Dead sea salt
50g Epsom salt
Wet Ingredients:
65g Cocoa Butter (melted)
5ml Essential oil or fragrance oil
Food coloring (quantity sufficient depending on your preference)
I kept on having pimples. I never had problems with pimple during my adolescent days. So why now? I had this pimple problem for almost a year now and trust me I've done everything I can. I even followed strict dermatologist instructions. Well, no use because I have hormonal imbalance.
Since I love making soaps, I've decided to formulate a soap for myself. Atleast, it can help to detox my skin and hopefully fight the other pimple causing factors out there.
Meet Persistence Soap.
I added activated charcoal for detox and kaolin clay. I've used tea tree oil which is also good in fighting pimples. I had blended it with lavender because that is soothing to the skin. Lemongrass, because of its citrusy scent and its refreshing too.
For the design, I really love how this soap looked like. Using the Zebra swirl technique, I produced something that looked like a butterfly, letter s and other cutie and nice swirls in my soaps.
Of course, this post will not be complete without the official photo and video link. Below is my favorite shot taken by Peter.
My friends Peter and Heli requested for a cold process soap for men. They mentioned to me that I kept on crafting soaps for women and give it around to my friends including them but the scent is for ladies. They said that I better make a soap especially crafted for men.
What else can I do? As you know Peter and Heli are like my official soapcrafting partners. When I need a hand to cut PVC pipes for molds, they are on the rescue. When I need an immediate feedback on my videos before I publish them, no matter how busy they are.. They will find time. So the soap I crafted today is just a simple way to thank them for all the unmeasurable help, guidance and assistance to me.
Here is the photo of the loaf just after crafting the soap.
As usual, I slept at ~11+pm but I cannot sleep. I am very excited to see and cut my soap. So at around 2am, I went to check the soap. Here is the photo at 2am. It is now on gel phase. Whoot! whoot! Now I can sleep, everything looks going smoothly.
The next morning after breakfast. I immediately cut the soaps.I am happy to see the swirl betwen blue, green and yellow. It looks translucent. Just like water!!
Here is the youtube thumbnail.. Now a days, I am so crazy about thumbnails. I don't know why! lol.
I named this soap Resilience.
The soap was scented with Cool Water for Men. For the design I tried the in the pot swirl. The soap looks good but I find that it will look better had the colors were more vibrant. I think, I will start from sourcing out new colorants somewhere. Let's see how. Before I forget, here is the video:
Today, I made Breast Cancer Awareness soaps. I just cut small strips of soaps while it is still soft and manageable and twisted it just like the pink ribbons for breast cancer month. Then i embedded it into a heart shaped soap. I need a big heart shape mold to put the pink soap inside so I improvised using a bread baking heart ring. Then, to contain the soap I covered one side of the baking ring with wax paper and plastic that were secured with rubber bands and tapes.
I dedicate this soap to my friend who has breast cancer. Please offer a prayer for my friend Julierose Santiago Sol so she can win her fight againts Breast cancer. BTW, this is also my first time to show myself on camera since I started posting my crafting videos last year.
Addional Note (added on 08 March 2016). Julierose passed away on 06 Mar 2016. Thank you for all your prayers for her. Let's continue to pray for the other women out who had breast cancer.
I want to name this according to my usual "Goddess Attributes" naming conventions for MP soap but in the end I decided to keep it as simple as possible.
After the soap traced, I want to immediately color and add fragrance to the soap but I got distracted with the movie that my 568 housemates were watching. I watched the movie for I can't remember how long.. Then, I realized my soap is still in the bucket and I am not done yet.
I added the color and the fragrance. To my surprise the mixture siezed after the addition of lovespell fragrance, luckily it was still manageable.
I did not cover the soap to insulate.. after 1 hr.. cracked top. So much mess in just one night. To solve the issue, i sprayed isopropyl alcohol and fixed the top. Then insulated with cling wrap and towel.
The next morning, (~7hrs) the soap was ready to unmold. In the end, I am still happy on how did this soap came out. I like the texture and the red color. (so bias because anything that is color red looks very nice to me. hahaahha.)
