Tuesday, November 8, 2016

November 2016 | Camouflage 2016 | KCK Soapery

It has been over a year since I started working at the hospital again. Now my schedule makes it possible for me to get back in to designing soaps.  I missed and realized that soaping is something I needed to do.  So here goes the first soap I made for this year.




I decided to do camouflage soap for my first design since I made quite a lot of them when I was doing a lot of soap making.

This batch contains Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, Rice Bran Oil, Palm Oil, Mango Butter and Castor Oil.
It is unscented.

  


 I used the spoon technique and just alternately spoon the different colors into the mold.  Colors used were matte green, black, white and brown.

I am quite pleased with the result. 

Thank you for stopping by!

November 2016 | Pink Rosette Bars 2016 | KCK Soapery


This batch is scented with Bergamot and Tarragon. 
It contains Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, Rice Bran Oil, Palm Oil, Mango Butter and Castor Oil.



Colors used were white, middle layer of neon pink and white on top.


Tried to get the top layer as flat as possible using spatula.


Neon pink soap batter into a ziplock bag.


Piping little rosettes. 


The original plan was only one rosette a bar with some leaves but I end up having too much pink soap batter.


Made some green soap batter for leaves.



Hope you enjoyed these post.  Please come back again for more.

November 2016 | Christmas Tree With A Twist 2016 | KCK Soapery


This batch was originally envisioned to look like Christmas Tree cupcakes with little snowmen, stars, elves and gifts as toppers.  But like most handmade things, sometimes they don't turn out as we imagined.   

The supposed toppers were as big as the trees and since I don't have any other available toppers on hand, they end up leaning on the side of the trees.


These toppers were made with melt and pour soaps.


Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, Rice Bran Oil, Palm Oil, Mango Butter and Castor Oil mix for the Christmas Tree cupcake cold process soap.


Made the base red and the tree part green.



After piping a few trees I realized these were not the look that I wanted so I changed the piping tip and removed all the above greens.  The top piping tip was #33 what I needed was a #22.


The soap batter hardened fast but I was able to piped the green batter with the right tip before it completely solidified on me.  As you can see in the above picture I made quite a mess when I removed the wrong green and quickly changed the tip.  Almost thought the batch was going to be a complete failure.


I fortunately finished what I had envisioned.


Sprinkled some sugar pearls.  Most of the pearls end up not sticking into the trees.  The soap hardened too fast, they were not tacky enough for the pearls to stay put.


Hope you guys still like the look.






Tuesday, May 26, 2015

May 2015 | May Party Giveaways | KCK Soapery

I apologize for not writing as much as I had been doing.  The month of May came and all of a sudden - Life happens.  Everybody is hibernating in the winter months are now very awake and out partying.  The following projects kept me busy for the month of May. 
 
Thank you very much for all the orders. Greatly appreciated and I hope you guys love them.

 
These musical soaps were giveaways from a music therapist to her students.

 
Pink cupcakes with butterflies were a little girls birthday giveaways for her classmates.


 These full size cupcakes in yellow and black are graduation party giveaways.
They travelled all the way to Missouri.
 
 
 
 
Butterflies for a 90 year old birthday party giveaways.
 

Graduation open house giveaways.

 
A nephew and a friend graduated college this year. 
 



 
These are mini cupcakes.


 
.Hope everybody who received these giveaways enjoy the soaps.  Again, thank you very much. 

Congratulations to all the graduates!
 

Monday, May 4, 2015

May 2015 | Yellow/Black Graduation Favor Soaps | KCK Soapery


This batch was ordered by a friend for her daughter's graduation party favor.  These are full sized cupcakes.
 
 
Melt and pour diplomas made a few days ahead.
 
 
Ingredients used were  Olive Oil, Palm Oil, Coconut Oil, Rice Bran Oil, Castor Oil and Mango Butter.  Colors used were titanium dioxide for white, activated charcoal for black and yellow micas.
 
 
 
Cupcakes done.
 
 
Attached the diplomas.
 
 
I made four batches to complete the number of cupcakes ordered.
 

These were the colors I was aiming for the whole project.
 

 
But like all handmade soaps, even if you used the same recipe and tried to fill the piping bag the same way,  they just don't come out of the bag the same way.  Here you see some of the cupcakes having more black, others have more yellow and some turned gray and light yellow.
 
 
Congratulations to my college friend,  a colleague on our very first job after we got our licenses.  She now have a graduate and I hope she and her friends will like these soaps.


Monday, April 27, 2015

April 2015 | Woodland Elves | KCK Soapery

 
A craft group friend hosted an event for me to do a demonstration of my soap making.  She also hosted the event at her house and a group of my crafty friends were there to watch how I make my soaps.  Thank you very much "S" for hosting and to all my crafty friends who were there.
 
 
This was a small batch using Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, Rice Bran oil, Palm Oil, Castor Oil and Mango Butter.  I melted the oils and butter the night before and water bath the container for a few minutes before leaving my house on the day.  The sodium hydroxide and water mixture were mixed the night before as well.
 
 
Fragrance Oil used was "Woodland Elves"  I received from Bramble Berry as a sample described as  the perfect combination of Christmas trees and Christmas spices including Siberian Fir, White Pine, Clove Buds and Mistletoe Berries. The pine and spice is tamed down by Pink Grapefruit, Frosted Lily and ripe Pineapple.  It was my first time to use this fragrance oil and it stayed fluid.  In fact, I think this fragrance would be perfect for those design technique I was attempting but was not able to achieved because of the batter thickening too fast on me. 
 
 
Ready to be cut.
 
 
As usual, every bar is unique and different. 
 
Thank you very much to all.


Thursday, April 2, 2015

April 2015 | Energizing Tilted Zebra | KCK Soapery

 

Second attempt for the tilted zebra swirl. Scented with "Aromatherapy Energizing" fragrance oil which is described as a spearmint, peppermint, wintergreen, aroma with a faint base note of citrus.
 
 
Skin-loving oils used were Olive oil, Coconut oil, Palm oil, Rice Bran oil, Castor oil, Shea Butter, and Mango Butter.
 
 
Wet soap.
 
 
The soap batter thickened quicker than I had anticipated.  Some of the bars ended up not having the zebra stripes.
 
 
The yellow side is a little uneven as well.  I tried to pound the mold down hard as you will see in the video below.  But evidently, the batter was too thick to even out.
 
 
Fortunately, I did get some stripes.
 
 
Some not striped.  Third attempt in the near future....
 
Happy Soaping!