My Soap Diary

Sunflower & Calendula Soap

13/09/11

Hiya everyone, sorry I've been kinda busy setting up at St Swithians for a craft fair and getting orders out, so I haven't made any soaps for at least 3 days and believe it or not I've already got withdrawal symptom's lol. Ah well, but I have cut up all the blocks I have made and I must say they are looking good and smell great, hopefully I will get back into the swing of making tomorrow, I will be ordering the rest of my packaging next week so I will be able to start wrapping my first batches which should be ready the last week of the month, so the Lavender & Thyme slices and the Oatmeal & Honey chunks will be on the website by the 1st October I cant wait.

Rose & Ylang Ylang Soap

14/09/11

Well I've been busy busy busy today, after getting rid of the kids to school, feeding the husband and walking the dog, I finally made a start at 10am, I was quite surprised I actually made 3 loaves of soap, which was the Rosehip & Geranium. I know it doesn't sound much, but as I am working around 3 children and a poorly husband having the time to make 3 loaves is a good day lol. I then cut chunks of The Gardeners, the Sunflower & Calendula and The Rosewood Shaving Soap, (which smells amazing, its now gone from a Gingerbread to a liquorice fragrance). At 4 o'clock I thought I would call it a day and leave the rest until tomorrow, mainly because I have had an order for 12 strings of Flower Fairy bunting and the fabric arrived yesterday so I need to crack on with that tonight. Well its now 8pm and I have cut up 2 pieces of fabric and made 24 individual flags which are now ready to be stitched together, I am calling it a night.

15/09/11

Well that’s another hard days work over with, it started pretty much the same but today I have made 4 trays of Gardeners Soap, I did have a close call, just a warning, I doesn't matter if your wearing Rubber Gloves & Goggles, well to say it doesn't matter it does what I'm trying to say is, even though I was wearing the right gear I thought I got lye solution in my eye, I took my goggles off to wash up and a bit of water from the sink splashed up when I put everything in, I felt a sting and then my eye got all blood shot, so I followed instructions by rinsing my eye with cold water, but luckily it wasn't it must have just been a bit of washing up liquid, but to say it didn’t scare me was an understatement, so be careful, like I said it doesn’t matter if your wearing the full gear, you let your guard down and the lye could still get you, I know it sounds a bit mellow dramatic but hey isn't better to be dramatic and stop someone else getting hurt or just brush it off and not mention it. I know what I would prefer.

 Lavender & Thyme Soap

 Citrus Cleanser

Rose & Ylang Ylang

Gardeners Soap

Sunflower & Calendula

Rosehip & Geranium

18/09/11

Well that was another busy week, I de-moulded the Rosehip & Geranium and the Gardeners Soap yesterday, both are looking really nice, I am going to leave them until mid week before I cut them. The reason I'm doing this is mainly because they have hardened up slightly, and they are less likely to squish when you cut them and get all mis-shaped.

I have really enjoyed doing the soaps again, even though I was only going to do a couple and it seems to have taken control and doubled, I now have a further 10 recipes ready to send off, but they wont be launched until after Christmas.