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  • Is it Hard to Make Soap?

    by Sarah R
    Quick answer: It depends. This is a loaded question… I you ask me right now after all my years of experience, I’d say no it’s not hard at all.. But...

  • Green Clay Facial Soap

    by Sarah R
    This recipe makes a gentle moisturizing soap perfect for cleansing the face. Ingredients: Olive Oil 240 gm Coconut Oil 190 gm Mango Butter 70 gm Yl...

  • 3 Reasons You Had a Soap Fail

    by Sarah R
    I know how disappointing it can be to work hard on making your soap only to have it not turn out as you expected. It is both disappointing and frus...

  • Adding Clay To Your Soap

    by Sarah R
    I love adding clay to my soap for many reasons.   I love the beautiful, muted, neutral, earthy colors. I find them very calming and grounding. Cl...

  • Adding Beeswax to Soap

    by Sarah R
    Beeswax is a wonderful ingredient to add in your cold process soap.  It is incredibly moisturizing and soothing, and can give you a harder bar of s...

  • How to Use a Lye Calculator

    by Sarah R
    Learning to use a soap calculator might seem confusing, but in today’s blog post I’m going to take out all the mystery by sharing how to use the So...

  • How to Convert Your Recipe from Weights to Percentages

    by Sarah R
    When making soap, measuring the weights of all your ingredients is very important to ensure that the process goes well and you can use your soap sa...

  • How to Calculate the Amount of Soap to Fill A Soap Mold

    by Sarah R
    Picture This: Your new mold arrives in the mail and you are super excited to try it out with a new batch of soap. But then you wonder, will your fa...

  • The Essential Tools You Really Need When You are First Starting Out

    by Sarah R
    Well Hello There Once Again! This week I wanted to share the most important tools you will need if you are justing starting out to make soap. I kno...

  • 5 Tips for Starting a Business

    by Sarah R
      You’ve been making soap for sometime and your friends and family have been asking you to make more and encouraging you to start selling. So now y...

  • 3 Ways to Make Your Soap Stand Out

    by Sarah R
    It’s no secret, there are many soap makers out there with beautiful unique soaps and watching all their beautiful creations might leave you feeling...

  • Do I Have to Use Distilled Water?

    by Sarah R
    We know that water is a key ingredient in making soap. Not only that, it needs to be measured very precisely to make sure we have enough water to m...