New Packaging for my Picture Soap
I’ve repackaged my picture soaps. These new boxes make packaging them so much easier, nicer to handle and you can still get an idea what they look like. I am really pleased with them. I had a lot of help … Continued
Fragrance oil adventures
Having so far only used essential oils in my soap making I am now experimenting with fragrance oils. Two reasons. One is customer demand and the other is curiosity. Main difference between Essential Oils and Fragrance Oils is: – Essential … Continued
St Just Arts & Crafts 2024
I am all set up for the annual Arts & Crafts show in St Just, Cornwall, in aid of Cancer Research. It’s on from Monday, 5th August until Friday, 16th August from 10am until 7pm every day, apart from the … Continued
Soap Scum and how to clean it
If you use soap you will get soap scum. There is no way around it. Soap scum forms when soap combines with minerals in your water, mostly calcium and magnesium. The harder your water the more soap scum. You will … Continued
The Travel Set
When I used to hitch around Europe in those far off days in another century (end of 1970s and early 1980s) we used to travel with a bar of soap in a soap box, a flannel (or two), toothbrush, toothpaste, … Continued
Essential Oils
What are they? Essential oils are concentrated plant extracts that retain the natural smell and flavour, or “essence,” of their source. These oils are obtained through distillation or mechanical methods like cold pressing. The unique aromatic compounds give each essential … Continued
What’s it like to make soap?
There are many ways to make soap … … but there are great teachers on YouTube. My favourite 2 are (I am not sponsored, I just love them.): The Sussex Handmade Soap Company & I Dream In Soap
My Colours
All my colours are plant or clay based. Woad All my blues and greens have woad in them. It’s a traditional plant based blue dye. The Celts loved it so much they painted their whole body in it when they … Continued
Picture Soap
From Photo to final soap, a pictorial explanation:
Shampoo, Shower Gel, Soap, what’s the difference?
Not much, they all clean your hair and body. Do you use a shower gel on top of the shampoo in the shower? Mostly not I suspect. The shampoo cleans the rest of you just as well as your hair. … Continued