RobsCreations

I recently went to a soap making workshop  organized by the French company Aroma-Zone ( AZ ) and this blog post is a review of the workshop.  Here you have the full description (in French) of this 1 hour and a half class:  Cet atelier a pour objectif de vous enseigner la technique de la saponification à froid en réalisant une recette de savon surgras. Vous pourrez ainsi repartir avec votre réalisation et tout le savoir-faire Aroma-Zone !  Vous apprendrez à maîtriser les points importants de la réalisation d'un savon saponifié à froid, les diverses astuces de fabrication, la maîtrise des ingrédients, leur mise en oeuvre, leurs bienfaits sur la peau. BRIEFLY , the class should teach you the basics of cold process soaping (soaping tips, management of the critical steps of soap making, control of ingredients and their features), you should make a soap  and bring it home . Everything in 1 hour and a half 😮 !!! I'll review  the workshop by assigni...

I recently bought the fantastic Lawn Fawn Plan-On-It-Calendar stamp set and some Memento Dew Drop ink pads  with the intention of making my first scrapbooking agenda/planner ever! Considering the amount of money I spent to buy these goods, I didn't have the heart to buy also a new planner to decorate.... I therefore decided to create the agenda from scratch with what I had at home !!! Front cover :  Canson brown 150 g/m² paper + scrapbooking paper. Back cover : recycled cardboard + brown Kraft paper. I've recycled the loops of a wire-bound mini notebook ...and used them to bind the planner! I've decorated the front cover with a water-colored Swiss Pixie Tiny Heart stamp from CC Design Stamps and some die cuts from the Sizzix Scribbles and Splat die set and from the Florilège Design nesting tag die set . While for the back cover, I've used the die cuts obtained with the  Xcut  Circle nesting dies ,  the Si...

I've unconventionally used two techniques for the swirl in the inside of the bar: tilted tiger stripe swirl and +  hanger swirl or, as I call it, TANGER SWIRL !  To create the colorful swirl I tilted the mould of about 35-40°C (see this post for details on the technique). Then, I moved it back in a flat position, and used bass strings to do the hanger swirl ;-) Recipe (slow moving trace): Olive oil (extra virgin)  56.25% Unrefined virgin Coconut oil  20.38% * Palm oil (organic)  17.13% Canola oil  6.25% * Palm oil I use comes from a sustainable source. When I made my last soap ( HERE ) I've used all my stocks of pomace olive oil and coconut oil. Honestly I didn't want to place an order for two items only and I decided to take a look at the supermarket's shelves... I bought extra virgin olive oil from Puget , which gave a nice yellow color to the soap bar and unrefined virgin coconut oil from La Tourangel (very ...

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...