RobsCreations

The teardrop technique allows you to create a sort of multi-stratified drop inside your soap bar. Like the one below (please be fair folks! That's my first teardrop soap ever) Chevron swirl on top! 💖 Looks complicated, uhm? At the end of this post I've shared a video from Kapia Mera Soap Company  showing how to properly do it. I initially thought to use the same recipe as for the Fire Vibe Soap (high olive oil content, slow moving trace). I've then considered that this design is even  more complicated and that I am not fast and experienced enough to leave things to chance...  I therefore formulated a recipe with a Saturated:Unsaturated fat ratio of 28:72...this trace is moving soooooo slowly that you have the feeling you can work with it forever 🤣🤣 Recipe (super slow moving trace): Olive oil (pomace) 39.25% Canola oil 31.25% Coconut oil 12.50% Palm oil (organic) 17% Note that the palm oil I buy from  The Soap Kitche...

I have mixed two techniques in order to obtain different patterns , one on the inside of the soap bar and one on the top. Here you have the links to the original videos showing the techniques: 1)  Tilted tiger stripe swirl 2) Multi-mica Taiwan swirl Since  I run out of castor oil,  I had to modify the recipe shown in video 1) as follows  😅 Recipe (slow moving trace): Olive oil (pomace)  70% Coconut oil  22.25% Palm oil (organic)  7.75% Note that the palm oil I buy from  The Soap Kitchen   'carries Organic Certification and comes from Columbia. It is not produced on land that has been taken from the Rain Forests, nor are there any Orangutangs made homeless. Our suppliers do use 'ethical' methods in their production (we have actually visited the site). Our Columbian suppliers are members of the RSPO (Round Table for Sustainable Production of   PalmOil).' Scent:   O range  EO ...

To cut a long story short, last August I've participated to a design competition for soap moulds organized by the fantastic  The Soap Kitchen  on-line store and I won  (see Facebook  and  Twitter )! My designs have been transformed into real moulds after a process including 3D printing of the models, silicon mould creation, resin forma production and final creation of the plastic moulds (production and manufacturing have been done at The Soap Kitchen, THANK YOU Colin and the whole team). Moulds are made from food grade PETG and each cavity of the set measures approximately  75 mm x 50 mm x 25 mm . If you need more details on the moulds, including how to use them, you can find them  HERE When I was preparing the sketches for the competition I gave each single mould a name (see picture ⇩), but they are sold as a set under the name of Four Seasons   I have been looking forward to testing this set and here...

This is rosemary soap   I had a request from a friend for a very simple soap, with no colourants of any kind and scented with only rosemary essential oil (EO). I didn't know what to expect from rosemary EO... but I have to admit that after 2 weeks of curing, I'm amazed by the balsamic and warm scent that this soap has! <3 Recipe: Olive oil (pomace)  25% Coconut oil  30% Palm oil (organic)  20% Canola oil  20 % Castor oil  5% Note that the palm oil I buy from  The Soap Kitchen   'carries Organic Certification and comes from Columbia. It is not produced on land that has been taken from the Rain Forests, nor are there any Orangutangs made homeless. Our suppliers do use 'ethical' methods in their production (we have actually visited the site). Our Columbian suppliers are members of the RSPO (Round Table for Sustainable Production of   PalmOil).' Scent:   rosemary essential oil from the Soap K...

This is DOUBLE ELLE   Recipe: Olive oil (pomace)  26.50% Coconut oil  29.75% Palm oil (organic) 19.50% Canola oil  20 % Castor oil  4.25% Note that the palm oil I buy from  The Soap Kitchen   'carries Organic Certification and comes from Columbia. It is not produced on land that has been taken from the Rain Forests, nor are there any Orangutangs made homeless. Our suppliers do use 'ethical' methods in their production (we have actually visited the site). Our Columbian suppliers are members of the RSPO (Round Table for Sustainable Production of   PalmOil).' Scent:  Lemongrass + Lavender essential oils from CEVEN'Arome Colours : 1)  Chromium oxide green (hydrated) powder  2)  Ultramarine violet powder   Note: I've only used a pinch of ultramarine violet powder just to 'buffer' the yellowish colour that palm oil can sometime give to soaps Mineral pigments are from  The Soa...

This is  SA VA GE LA UR EL   Recipe: Olive oil (pomace)  40% Coconut oil  25% Palm oil (organic)  20% Bay laurel berry oil 11 % Castor oil  4% Note that the palm oil I buy from  The Soap Kitchen   'carries Organic Certification and comes from Columbia. It is not produced on land that has been taken from the Rain Forests, nor are there any Orangutangs made homeless. Our suppliers do use 'ethical' methods in their production (we have actually visited the site). Our Columbian suppliers are members of the RSPO (Round Table for Sustainable Production of   PalmOil).' Bay laurel berry oil is from  A roma Z one Scent:  naturally coming from the bay laurel berry oil Colours : 1) arctic pearl metallic mica 2) silver grey metallic mica  All micas are from  The Soap Kitchen 2 days in the mould + 1 day as whole bar outside the mould before cutting!

This is the first of three short posts about the last soaps I made! This is GO LD EN CI TR US Recipe: Olive oil (pomace) 50% Coconut oil 25% Palm oil (organic) 20% Castor oil 5% Note that the palm oil I buy from The Soap Kitchen   'carries Organic Certification and comes from Columbia. It is not produced on land that has been taken from the Rain Forests, nor are there any Orangutangs made homeless. Our suppliers do use 'ethical' methods in their production (we have actually visited the site). Our Columbian suppliers are members of the RSPO (Round Table for Sustainable Production of   PalmOil).' Scent: grapefruit + tangerine EO from CEVEN'Aromes   Colours : 1) gold sparkle metallic mica + buttercup yellow mica 2) copper metallic mica + c lementine orange mica  and 3) deep bronze metallic mica  All micas are from  The Soap Kitchen 2 days in the mould + 2 days as whole bar outside the mould before cutt...

I had some oil left overs and I wanted to try my first swirled soap! This recipe contains Olive Oil (44%), Palm Oil (28%), Coconut Oil (8%), sweet Almond Oil (13%), Castor Oil (5%) and Avocado Oil (2%). Because of the low content in coconut oil and high content of liquid oils this soap bar should be quite soft and not too aggressive in terms of cleaning properties. The fragrance  ' limeflower & fig '  is from The Soap Kitchen (ref: 13730pmd). I've used 1.5 gr of fragrance for 1.127 Kg of total material (oils + water + NaOH). The amount of fragrance is fairly small but it still provides a  pleasant scent . Mica: blueberry from The Soap Kitchen (see  HERE  for a complete overview of my pigments' list) Dried flowers: cornflower petals and white rose buds warning: cornflower petals discolour in CP soap (see 'before and after' pictures below) while they retain their vibrant blue in M&P soap (see  HERE  and...

I received a fairly big  request   (at least from my point of view) of M&P soap from friends, lately! The SLS- and SLES-free Stephensons Clear soap base had a great success among my friends! It's highly rich in glycerine and it is made from vegetable-derived ingredients (no animal-derived oils/fats). The problem with this material, is that each time I have to order it from the UK I pay a lot of money for the shipping...after some research (and with the help of people from The Soap Kitchen ) I found a distributor in France ( soapbox-shop ) that accepts both bulk and small orders. For the moment, I cannot tell you if I really like this company, because on one side they've been very proactive and useful when I was about to place the order and I had a problem with the TVA and the delivery address, but on the other side one of the product I've ordered, and paid for, was not in the package I received... In addition, it's some days that I'm trying to contact them ...

This is a melt and pour soap I've prepared more than a year ago just before Xmas time. Before this, I have been using a wooden loaf mould and I have been slicing the the soap to make nice 1-cm-deep chunks. Anyway, I wanted to try different shapes, and bought a silicon cookie mould for my Xmas spice cakes . You can also recycle old cookie moulds you have in your kitchen, but don't use them for cooking ever again ! As always, I used  the  SLS and SLES-Free Stephensons 'Crystal' soap base I bought from The Soap Kitchen. This is a vegetable based M&P base that is glycerin rich and that is made from 100% natural ingredients. To make the soap cake more sparkling I've added plenty of Cristallina glitters and grated on top some pink soap I've prepared in advance. You'll find more on my  FB page

Speaking of skin-friendly M&P bases, for this and all the following projects I have chosen an SLS and SLES-free Stephensons 'Crystal' soap base. It doesn't contain surfactants or mono propylene glycol, parabens , phenoxyethanol, sulfates, PEG and Propylene glycol. Made from 100% natural ingredients. Vegetable based. It has a good moisturising power because of glycerine. Products are from The Soap Kitchen. I have 'personalized' the soap base with a superb lemon fragrance , yellow liquid colour, titanium dioxide for the white layer, and   poppy seeds for a gentle and natural scrub !  The top layer is sprinkled with dried marigold petals .

Colours You have liquid dyes , solid pre-colored pellets  and blocks , as well as p owders.  You can also use crayons or go for the natural shade of the wax. For example, beeswax is yellow and soy wax has an opaque white color that I adore! Be careful: crayons are not professional products!  Smell You can use essential oils or fragrance oils . Let's see the main differences ... Essential oils Natural Therapeutic/healing properties More expensive than fragrance oils More volatile (they last less) Fragrances are limited Fragrance oil Synthetic (that doesn't mean they are bad) No healing properties Affordable prices for good quantities The smell lasts longer because they are not volatile Virtually unlimited fragrances They MIGHT contain added chemicals and be environmental hazardous Suppliers I fell in love with this online supplier the first time I visited the website. They are specialized in candle-making products (they have plent...