Felt Me Up | Needle Felting Soap
Last week you learned how to wet felt soap to create a lovely soap covered in its own wash cloth/body scrub and a few weeks before, how to make your own castile soap. This week we will take it the next...
View ArticleCustom Wooden Drop-Side Soap Mould
After you make a few batches of soap, you’ll probably want to move on from shoebox and yogurt container moulds. This weekend, Frugal Man crafted a lovely wooden drop-side mould for me. It easily holds...
View ArticleNZ Olive Oil Source for Soap Making
Kiwis, have you been looking for some low grade olive oil for castile or other olive oil rich soap making? Try Matapiro Olive Oil in Hastings. John Arthur of Matapiro contacted me to let me know that...
View ArticlePVC Pipe Soap Mould
I’ve got a whole new line of felted soaps in my head, but my DIY wooden soap mould doesn’t give me the shape I need. What I need is round, so I’ve made a mould out of some PVC pipe about 2 1/2 inches...
View ArticleSheep Tallow Soap
Our friends Ginger Beer Mike and Vanessa slaughtered some sheep, in a spirit of waste not, want not, they asked me to help make the excess fat into soap. They’d never made soap and wanted an...
View ArticleSoap Making Sneak Peek: Peppermint Rosemary Shampoo Bars
I’ve been beavering away at adapting a palm oil-free peppermint rosemary shampoo bar recipe. Yesterday I cooked a batch up; today I cut it up. Here is a sneak peek at what the bars look like before I...
View ArticleSoap Making: How to Hand-Mill aka Rebatch Soap
How to Hand-Mill aka rebatch soap from handmade or bought soap and add scents, exfoliants, flowers and botanicals from your kitchen and garden.
View ArticleSoap Making: Palm Oil-Free Shampoo Bars
As I’ve learned about parabens, SLS and other standard bath and body ingredient nasties, I’ve experimented with non-traditional ways to clean myself. I’ve tried the “No ‘Poo” baking soda route for...
View ArticleSoap Cupcakes
Looking at these soap cupcakes, you wouldn’t think that they were Plan B. Or more properly Plan H. Vanessa and I THOUGHT we were just going to use some of our “Melt and Whip” soap to pipe some icing on...
View ArticleHow to Design a Soap Recipe
Knowing how to make soap from scratch is a great skill. There are lots of tried and true soap recipes out there for free, so you’ll never lack for them. But what if you want to develop your own...
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