Art Fire soap shop open!

Yay! My soaps are officially up for sale somewhere online! They’re something I do very well, I’ve no plans to create new recipes and this ArtFire forum should be a good way for me to get my feet wet in the online crafter/seller community pool… being free to list and all…

Step up to my soapbox [...]

on the soap box

Three best friends… Heal Thyself, Knitbone and Olive You:Heal Thyself is 100% saponified olive oil with a bit of Goldenseal root powder added:Knitbone is 100% saponified olive oil with a bit of Comfrey added:and Olive You is nothing but saponified olive oil:I’ve noticed that people (myself included) habitually smell soap as soon as they pick [...]

the first round:

That’s the unmolded Goldenseal/castile, hangin’ out to dry.

It’s Milling Time.

(Just in case you missed it, that was a really obtuse beer joke).

This is what the Chublet and I were up to early this morning, before the Corn Puppy came downstairs… and even before I’d had my coffee:I sliced the giant soap bar into manageable chunks and weighed it out to mill smaller batches with [...]

Got Soap?

Woohoo! It’s been almost two years since I had need to make soap. I’ve been cutting well-cured chunks of castile off the same big bar for that long… even having used it to make about five full batches of laundry detergent.

Well, today I’m gonna be a cacklin’ fool over the soap pot, let me tell [...]