Handcrafted Confetti Soap
I have been having fun with soap bases. What are soap bases? Ready made soap. The crafter cuts and melts the soap, adds their own touches, and pours the soap into a mold(s). Shortly thereafter bars of soap are ready to use.
Honestly, I am having a difficult time wrapping my mind around the idea that I am experimenting with “melt and pour” soap. I treasure the idea of making goat milk soap from scratch, watching it transition from a harsh formula, to one that is so mild and beautiful on the curing rack. Crafting soap the old-fashioned way. I will not be giving that up.
So, why am I working with a pre-made base? First, to create affordable soaps, focused on the holidays. Secondly, for the fun creativity.
The confetti bar is an excellent quality shea butter soap (unscented) embedded with goat milk soap chips (cherries and berries, lemongrass poppyseed, and a touch of peppermint and juniper grass). The soap lathers well and smells terrific. The scent does not pop out at the first sniff. Start lathering, the terrific scent is released! And it is pretty!
I have been testing the confetti bars. My main concern was that the chips would loosen from the bar of soap. Test results: the goat milk soap chips remain embedded in the soap as the bar is being used. Yes!
Additional photos of handcrafted soaps (soaps to be added to my online store by the end of this week):
Handcrafted Soap (Confetti, Tangerine Grapefruit, Tutti Fruity)
It has been busy on our farm. I am happily stirring up goat milk soap in the shop. And, my husband and I continue building the base for a small business that will utilize his hard-earned skills. For very brief moments I have felt weary, but…I take a deep breath, appreciate life, relax the shoulders, ease the facial muscles…and…find that life is beautiful, such a gift! I love it. We are blessed.
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
Ah, a verse I should read every single day. I get tangled up in all the busy-ness of my life, and thinking about striving to get ahead. Thanks for the reminder.
I’m sending up a prayer ‘specially for you and your husband about growing your business and making a living to provide for yourselves. You guys work hard and stay focused on that verse. He knows what you need.
That soap is just downright pretty. I’ve got my eye on that tangerine! I bet it smells wonderful.
You just keep outdoing yourself Mary. What’s going to happen if Larry loses his job and I run out of GMS?
Guess I’ll have to start auctioning off my belongings because the soap is a must have.
PS: LOVE the look of the new confetti soap. Pretty!
Neat looking new soap. You never cease to amaze me!
And I love that verse you have printed at the bottom. Words to live by!!!
Those soaps are so pretty!!
What fun!
Love your confetti soaps, and especially the verse to live by at the end! 🙂
The confetti soap was fun. Got my goat milk soap in there, and made for something colorful.