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Easter treats MP soap

These cute little Easter treats are quick and easy to make and you can add them to your Easter baskets or create little gifts with them! […]

Cold process soap

Natural orange spice soap

Orange spice is the classic Christmas fragrance with sweet orange and spicy notes of cinnamon and clove. Using only natural ingredients – essential oils for fragrance, and calendula petals and cinnamon spice for colour – this soap is palm-free, vegan and 100% natural! […]

Cold process soap

Creamy avocado soap

Avocado oil, like the fruit itself, contains many healthy vitamins and minerals for your skin. Incorporating it into your soap will add creaminess and increase the conditioning properties of the soap, and the combination of avocado oil with fresh avocado will make for a silky, creamy bar that is great for your skin. […]

Melt and pour soap

Creamy shaving soap

A shaving soap needs to have a creamy lather, and have ‘slip’ so that the razor glides smoothly over the skin. This tutorial will show you how to make a shaving soap with a rich, creamy lather and extra ‘slip’. It is the perfect Father’s Day gift for children to make for their dad! […]

Cold process soap

Cleansing clay soap

Clays are a wonderful additive in soaps. They will gently smooth and exfoliate your skin without irritating. This tutorial uses pink clay, an extra gentle clay blended with essential oils. […]

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How to use clays in soap

There are many benefits of adding clays to soaps, and not only as natural colourants. In this post I explain what clays are, how they work and the properties and uses in soaps. […]

Cold process soap

Lavender castile soap

Castile soaps are named after the Castile region in Spain, where the olive oil based soap originated. Historically, the soaps were made from olive and laurel oils, but nowadays, castile stands for soaps made with 100% olive oil. […]