Desert Flower

I love the smell of this one, Desert Flower is fragranced with sweet orange, grapefruit, jasmine and geranium essential oils, it's a very soft and feminine aroma.  I don't normally use sparkles on my soaps, but I thought I'd try something new, I wanted the yellow a bit brighter, but sadly it faded a bit during the curing, I think I'll have another go at this one, but add a bit more yellow next time, but I'm liking the sparkles, what do you think?  sparkles or no sparkles?

French Lavender

Hi everyone, it's been quite a while since I last posted, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas:)  We had a lovely Christmas spent with family and a brand new puppy addition to our household.

This is French Lavender and it's fragranced with french lavender and rich, sensual patchouli essential oils to help calm and relax.  Made from Olive, Coconut and Rice Bran oils and Shea Butter.
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Moroccan Sunset

I think I must have had romance on my mind when I made this one!  Wishful thinking maybe lol.

Soap Swap all the way from France!

As a lot of you lovely ladies would know, Amy from Great Cakes Soapworks organised a soap swap from soap makers all around the world.   I was very lucky to be paired with
Séverine from Les Folies Du Savon. who lives in France, how cool is that?

Well my parcel has just arrived so I've quickly taken a pic to show you my goodies.  I've very excited to try them, because both are made from Donkey Milk, wow! that is certainly a first for me, the cake shaped one has organic banana and chocolate and vanilla essential oil and sounds just lovely and the lovely big block has Macadamia Nut oil, Shea Butter and Honey added, so sounds great for my little hands:)

Thank you so much Amy for your fantastic job in organising everything and a big thanks to Séverine for swapping with me and for my goodies.  OK, I'm off to wash my hands with french soap Oh là là!

Tribal Dance

Well I promised something a bit more colourful this time, this is it!  I'm reading a series of Australian books by Peter Watt at the moment about outback Australia.   He talks about how badly our native people were treated and how the Mounted Police almost wiped out their entire race, they certainly tried their best to do so; it's just terrible how badly they were treated! 

Anyhow these books and the spirit of our Aboriginal people, gave me the inspiration for this soap.  I wanted the colours of the outback so I've used Australian clays and I've fragranced it with essential oils of Lemon Tea Tree and Lemon Eucalyptus to continue the Australian theme and added a touch of spice, not Australian but just because.  I thought Tribal Dance suited, I hope you like it:)

White Rose

Thought I'd go with something a bit plainer this time because I've got something pretty colourful coming next post..... White Rose is made with lots of Mango and Shea Butters and yes, essential oils of rose geranium.  I've changed the colour on top from pink to this apricot colour, it looks really pretty.

Nature's Garden

 A new batch of Nature's Garden's ready, I've added Mango and Shea Butters to enrich it, coloured it with oxides and micas and fragranced it with essential oils of course:)    Another faux funnel pour, I'm really loving this method, no two soaps look the same, but they all look so pretty. 

Colours, colours, what colours will I use next? so many to choose from and I sometimes get confused as to what colours go with what, but so far I've been happy with how they've turned out and colours in soaps seem to be very forgiving, most blend together nicely.   I seem to get more excited about using colours today than I did back 7 years ago when I first started.  But that's got to be a good thing, right?   well that's what I tell myself anyhow, I'm just not too sure if my hubby agrees with me lol.