I love these custom made Cupcake soaps! They’re HUGE at 14 oz, but the top and the bottom separate into two soaps. The really neat thing about this soap is that Shannon from The Bath Project will customize the colors of the soaps, the color of the cupcake paper and the scent. (Cake and frosting [...]

It’s beginning to smell a lot like…CHOCOLATE! OMG - I want to take a bite out of this soap. Aunt Nancy makes this yummy Chocolate & Peppermint soap with Olive oil, Coconut oil, Sweet almond oil, Cocoa butter and Avocado Oil. Scented with peppermint essential oil and cocoa powder, it smells like a Peppermint Patty! [...]

I found this link to Zen Soaps Single Oil Swap Results on the Dish last year and was reminded of it again recently. A group of soapers swapped soaps made from a single oil in order to test the results of what each oil brought to the table. I find the results very useful when [...]

The Little Black Box is a great way to get samples of your products into the hands of many potential customers interested in handmade items. It works like this: you send your samples to The Little Black Box and they put them together with samples from other vendors and sell the boxes on their website [...]

MMMmmm…coconut…I so wish I could smell this! I’ve never used a hair conditioning bar and it has me very intrigued. The Courmet Bath Shoppe makes them in several scents to go along with their shampoo bars. This bar is thick and smooth and the rounded edges look wonderful. The ingredients look great too: cocoa butter, [...]

As the debate over the issues surrounding Palm Oil heats up, many soapmakers are looking to replace Palm in some or all of their recipes. Gracefruit.com has posted lovely recipes that are both all vegetable and Palm free.
I’m not advocating that people leave Palm behind right now because of it’s current controversy. We each have [...]

Today’s soap porn post is very special to me. I met Jen from Star of the North Primitives at the Bitter Creek Forum where I first learned to make candles and then found my love for CP Soap. In fact, the first soap recipe I tried was one that Jen (aka Flicker) shared with everyone [...]

Great soap CAN be fun! Sometimes we take ourselves way too seriously which is why I love this playful soap made by Wendy from Wendy by the Bay. (That would be Galveston Bay, Texas) This soap bar is a full 28 oz. and measures 6″ in length and 6″ in width. There’s no added color [...]

Soapers tend to use way more coconut oil than we could make ourselves, but I thought you’d find this tutorial interesting anyway. The Chezlin blog gives step by step instructions on how to make your own coconut oil. It’s amazing how little oil you get from each coconut. It really gives you the sense of [...]

Late yesterday afternoon I purchased a crochet pattern set from Sandy at CapecodConsignments. The pattern is for washcloths and soap savers for gift sets I am working on. As with most e-patterns bought on Etsy, it would be emailed  to me within 24 hours of purchase. But Sandy sent the pattern to me within an [...]