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Whipped zeep wordt volgens een relatief nieuwe methode gemaakt. Deze methode heet geklopte zeep. Het verschil met de traditioneel gemaakte zeep is dat

Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is a celebration leading up to the season of Lent at the end of winter. Mardi Gras is generally a lively time of indulgent parties, parades, costumes, music, food and drinks. While the city of New Orleans puts on the biggest and best Mardi Gras celebrations, that doesn’t

2020 Update: I have completely changed the way that I make transparent soap! I now use a method that can be done in 20 minutes! Check out the blog post here and check out my eClass here. **Original Blog Post Below** I've tried making transparent soap a few different

I've been wanting to make Aleppo-inspired soap for some time now. My beautiful friend Shonna surprised me with some laurel berry oil so I made some! From Wikipedia - "Aleppo soap (also known as savon d'Alep, laurel soap, Syrian soap, or ghar soap, the Syrian word for 'laurel') is a handmade, hard bar soap

I first saw the peacock or bouquet swirl as a paper design at Paper Mojo and decided to try making a soap in this design. See original post here. The Peacock (also called Bouquet) swirl was created around the end of the

This fun soap uses a funnel pour technique in the pot with a wiggle when you pour. I love giving credit where credit is due, so Clyde Yoshida gets credit for his Clyde Slide technique you can see here. Subscribe to his channel! He posts brilliant soap tutorials and talks a lot about

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Welcome to Our Soapy Family! Lovin’ Soap Studio is the home of husband + wife soaping duo, Amanda and Benjamin Aaron. With a combined 20+ years of building successful for-profit and non-profit soap making businesses, Amanda and Benjamin have built one of the

Whether you are brand new to soapmaking, or a soapmaking master, in the newly expanded eBook, Goat Milk Soapmaking, Amanda walks you through two different processes for making goat milk soap, producing trouble-free results. Addressing common challenges in the soapmaking process, readers will learn quality-tested methods to making decadent goat milk soap with a creamy rich lather. Grab this eClass as part of our Maker Membership! Join here! Get the individual eBook by clicking Add to cart below.

Overheating Soap Every soapmaker will come across overheating issues at one time or another. Maybe you get in a hurry and mix your soap when the oils and lye are too hot. Or perhaps you purchase a new mold and over insulate it. It happens to

There are a couple ways to get purple in soap using natural colorants. My favorite herb to use is alkanet infused in olive oil. But I wanted to try something different. For this soap I used indigo and madder added to the lye water. Here's what I did...

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I finally got my hands on a gear tie and wanted to put it to use! You can find gear ties at the local hardware store. They're used to hang stuff and organize things (especially in the garage). They are perfect for creating swirling tools for soap because you can bend them to fit your

I don't post a lot of melt and pour tutorials here as I much prefer cold process soap. But melt and pour can allow you to be so creative and to create stuff that you simply can't with cold process soap. I had the itch to make some gemstone soaps. They turned out great!

Goats milk soap is a very popular soap to make. You can make it with either fresh goat's milk or you can use goat's milk powder. The milk adds a creaminess to the soap and the sugars in the milk add to bubbly lather. Here is how to make soap using fresh goat's milk. You

Did you catch the original column swirl that I did? If not, check it out here. For this one I used brick red oxide and black oxide from Bramble Berry. I scented it with a combo of peppermint and anise EOs.

Have you been to Holly's blog, Sparklebrook? If not... head on over there and check out her beautiful soap. The other day she posted a Carrots and Cream soap. Drool. I make a soap with carrot baby food and half and half cream. I haven't made it in awhile but was

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Infusing oil is probably my favorite method of using natural colorants for coloring handmade soap. It works for most natural colorants but we’ll talk about the ones that do better using a different method as we go along. When you infuse oil you don’t get the grainy speckled look you get when you add spice

Here are some common soapmaking additives that you can use when soapmaking. The usage rates are provided as a suggested starting point. You can use more or less depending on your desired result.

This is day 11 of my 30 day blogging challenge. My goal this month is to post one recipe every day. These recipes feature natural colorants and additives and are scented using natural essential oil blends. They will all fit into

It is no secret that the drop swirl in one of my favorite soapmaking design techniques! It is just soooo simple and the results are always stunning. Here are some of my favorite drop swirls from the blog. Pink and Purple Drop Swirl

I haven't made soap in awhile. I got the bug the other day and here's what I made. I did a few things with this soap. It is made using two different batches to create the layers. New to making soap? Check out our free cold process soap making guide or basic

Holly Port of Lotion Bar Cafe came down to visit a couple of weekends ago and help out with a class. Unfortunately she wasn't feeling well so we decided to juice some fresh ginger to hopefully knock out whatever was getting her. As we got done juicing and started to clean up the juicer...we

We've been having fun with our new series of Facebook Live classes! Many of you wanted replays, so we've got the first one available. It will be on sale (half off!) until 7/16/2017! REGISTER HERE Learn to make adorable and fun-fizzing bath bombs! This eClass includes a 1

Here are some results using cosmetic clay to color your soap naturally. From Nature with Love has an awesome clay sample pack (affliliate link). Sea Clay - 1/2 tsp per pound of oils added at trace Rose Clay - 1/2 tsp per pound of

One of my favorite soap recipes of all time is my Buttermilk Bastile Baby Bar that you can find on a guest blog post over on SoapQueen.com. I love the way this soap feels on my skin. For more details on making

This is day nine of my 30 day blogging challenge. My goal this month is to post one recipe every day. These recipes feature natural colorants and additives and are scented using natural essential oil blends. They will all fit

Is your soap stuck in PVC pipe? Give this a try. PVC makes a great mold for cold process soap! It is cheap and you don't have to line it. I know many soapmakers who have a hard time getting their soap OUT of the PVC pipe. This is what I do.

Niña posted beautiful pictures in our Facebook Group, Saponfication Nation of her river rock soaps. I just thought they were adorable and asked her if she would be willing to share her process and write out a quick tutorial. :) She kindly said yes! So here is her tutorial for making river

Overheating Soap Every soapmaker will come across overheating issues at one time or another. Maybe you get in a hurry and mix your soap when the oils and lye are too hot. Or perhaps you purchase a new mold and over insulate it. It happens to

I haven't made soap in awhile. I got the bug the other day and here's what I made. I did a few things with this soap. It is made using two different batches to create the layers. New to making soap? Check out our free cold process soap making guide or basic

You don't have to be a photo manipulation wizard to make your photos look good. By tweaking only the brightness and contrast of an image you can make them look great! And the best part is...you can do this using a free image editing software called GIMP. I usually use Photoshop but GIMP is free

I've been playing around with side by side color and swirling with a coat hanger in a log mold. Here's my latest (not the greatest) but I'm getting there. Recipe: Olive Oil – 7 oz Palm Oil – 10 oz Coconut Oil – 7 oz Castor Oil – 2 oz Avocado Oil

I recently sent out a poll asking what you wanted to see me blog about here at LovinSoap.com. The response I received most was actually a question. How do I create the perfect soap recipe? It seems that formulating recipes is something that many

You either hate it or you love it. Castile. I used to be on the "hate it" team. But I never tried an aged...well cured bar of castile. Now I'm on the "love it" team! To me castile means a soap made out of olive oil only

I've decided to go palm free so need to figure out a good swirling recipe to use that doesn't contain palm oil. Tonite I tried out a recipe and worked really well. It gave me plenty of time to color each individual color and get the swirling done. The recipe I used was: Palm Free Swirling Recipe: Olive oil - 18

Here are some results using cosmetic clay to color your soap naturally. From Nature with Love has an awesome clay sample pack (affliliate link). Sea Clay - 1/2 tsp per pound of oils added at trace Rose Clay - 1/2 tsp per pound of

This is a soap Benjamin and I made for Prairie Soap Company's holiday lineup. He makes a soap called Sweet Earth which uses juniper berries in the lye water. He grinds the juniper berries up using a coffee grinder. Added to the lye water they soften, produce a bit of color and impart a bit

I first saw the peacock or bouquet swirl as a paper design at Paper Mojo and decided to try making a soap in this design. See original post here. The Peacock (also called Bouquet) swirl was created around the end of the

What is soap and how is it made? Soap is the result of combining an acid with a base. In cold process soap making your oils and butters are the acid and sodium hydroxide (lye) is the base. When combined, a chemical reaction called saponification occurs resulting in soap (salts of fatty acids plus glycerin).

In this video I'm going to show you how to choose oil substitutions for your cold process soap recipes! You can find the oil chart here. Lye Calcs - SoapCalc.net | TheSage.com Enjoy the video! -Amanda Aaron

We’re going to start by learning how to formulate a liquid soap recipe. Let’s start with the ingredients. These are the 5 oils I use most of the time that create a wonderfully thick liquid soap. Let’s talk about each oil and discuss why

Neutralizing your soap If you want to be truly successful making and formulating liquid soap you really need to consider purchasing a digital PH meter. I bought one from a fish supply store and it cost $80.00. You might find one cheaper on Ebay or Craig’s List but I highly recommend getting one. You really can’t

Neutralizing your soap If you want to be truly successful making and formulating liquid soap you really need to consider purchasing a digital PH meter. I bought one from a fish supply store and it cost $80.00. You might find one cheaper on Ebay or Craig’s List but I highly recommend getting one. You really can’t

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