October 2023 | Unicorn Poop Body Butter | KCK Soapery

A coworker friend loves my "Unicorn Poop Fragranced Body Butter". Thank you so much "J".

It took me a while to start making this as I have to wait for the fragrance oil to be delivered.  The purple and pink swirled body butter comprise the unicorn poop.  The plain white is for my daughter and is unscented.  This batch includes Argan oil, Avocado oil, Shea butter, Mango butter, and Cocoa butter.

Unicorn poop is described as a rainbow of delicious treats such as sugared strawberry, sweet peach, ripe raspberry and cotton candy!

Above picture is Shea butter.

Shea butter is ivory in color. It is widely used in cosmetics and is known to benefit dry skin.  Since it is getting colder, our skin is starting to get dryer.  A body butter with Shea butter is just perfect.

Added in some Mango butter in the picture above. 

Mango butter have excellent moisturizing property. It softens and plumps the skin which also reduces the presence of wrinkles. Consequently, it is gentle enough to be used as a lip balm or face moisturizer.

Mixed in the Cocoa butter wafers.

Cocoa butter are known to reduce skin dryness and improve elasticity. It also slows skin aging. Moreover, it improves blood flow to the skin which tends to smooth scars and wrinkles fast.

When the butters are melted, I added the Avocado oil and Argan oil so they don't get subjected to the microwave.

Avocado oil adds moisturizing attributes and wonderful glide to the final product.

Argan oil is rich in vitamin E and essential fatty acids.

Added some Arrowroot powder so the final body butter will not be too greasy.

I let the batch harden naturally.  Some tutorials would place the batch in the fridge to harden it faster.  

Added some more Argan oil just because I have a whole bottle of it and I am making this batch for a friend who likes Argan oil.

Mix until fluffy.

Separate the batch into three.  Colored one with pink mica and the other with lavender mica.  I always envision unicorn poop to be fairytale-like.  

Then into the piping bag it went. 

I hope everybody enjoys this product as much as I enjoy making them!

Thank you!

Glynith

 

January 2022 | Lemon Whipped Body Butter | KCK Soapery

Here is the first for 2022 and hopefully will continue!

Thank you so much "M" for the order.

It has been a while since I made any body products. Covid cancelled the craft shows I usually joined which are mostly hosted by friends locally.

This batch is made of shea butter, avocado oil, mango butter, coconut oil, and olive oil. Skin-loving additives used were arrowroot powder and goat's milk.  Scented with lemon essential oil.  Then, I added some yellow mica for color.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

January 2020 | First Unicorn Poop Body Butter for the year 2020 | KCK Soapery

Thank you "J" and "S"!

I tweaked my previous recipe a little. Hopefully, they like this one better than the previous ones.  These skin loving body butter is made with shea butter, mango butter, avocado oil and coconut oil.  I added a dash of vitamin E oil and some arrow root powder to minimize the greasiness of the butter.

Fragrance oil used is "Unicorn Poop" described as a rainbow of delicious treats, such as sugared strawberry, sweet peach, ripe raspberry, and cotton candy.  This time, I left most of the butter the natural white and colored some with pink, yellow and purple mica.

Hopefully you guys will like this recipe better!

March 2018 | Lavender Whipped Body Butter | KCK Soapery

This whipped body butter is made with Coconut oil,  Avocado butter, Mango butter, avocado oil, and scented with Lavender essential oil.  A dash of lavender mica is added to give it some color.  I made quite a few batches of these! I just don't have good enough pictures to post.  

Melted all the butters and coconut oil and let them harden a little bit.

Added Vitamin E for extra moisturizing.

Mixed until you get a peak.

Alternate lavender and white on a sheet of cling wrap and then piped the body butter into containers.

I love the texture and feel of these recipe.

Thank you for stopping by!

May 2017 | Gardener's Soap | KCK Soapery

I mentioned to a friend at work that I will make a Gardener's soap for her since she is starting her garden and herb farm again.

As I search for the perfect gardener's soap recipe, I noticed two recipes that caught my fancy.  I used the recipe from soap-making-resource  since I have all the ingredients on hand and try to make the soap look like the one from Brambleberry's soap queen's super gardener's soap.  I also combine additives like rose clay, lavender buds, activated charcoal and titanium dioxide from both sources.

Oils used were coconut oil, palm kernel oil, olive oil, avocado oil and castor oil.  This soap is chuck full of essential oils of Lavender, Rosemary and Tea Tree essential oils.

This is the largest amount of oils, essential oils and additives I have ever used.

I decided to add the lavender buds to the white soap batter and poured it first to be the base of the soap.

In went the rose clay layer.

Last layer was the soap batter mixed with coffee grounds.

Topped with white I set aside and lined with some leftover rose clay soap batter.  As you can see, some of the batter start hardening as I was spooning the batter.

Managed to swirl it before the top completely harden.

Off the mold.

This is the biggest soap bar I have ever made.

Thank you for stopping by.  

September 2014 | Avobath In The Pot | KCK Soapery

 

Always up for a new challenge so when I received a request for an Avocado base soap I quickly studied what might work and this is what my friend who likes playing with food recipes and I came up with.

 

 

Love pictures of a newly molded soaps and I got the lighting just right for this one.  Ingredients suggested was of course Avocado oil and Sweet Almond oil.  I found a recipe online with Palm oil, Palm Kernel oil and I added my favorite ingredients Mango Butter and Coconut oil.

 

 

Colors used were woodland green, stained glass yellow and titanium dioxide.    Additives added were my newly found favorite Tussah silk, colloidal oatmeal and kaolin clay.

 

 

Fragranced with Avobath and we used the "in the pot" swirl for this batch.

 

 

The hubby described the scent as "lemony clean".  I liked the creaminess of the look and the glide of the soap loaf.  It is so shiny and smooth.  But with tiny specks of white which we realized (after watching the video) was due to the fact that we did not do enough blending after we transferred the titanium dioxide to the main soap batter.  Since I add titanium dioxide only for making the soap white, let's just pretend the specks were intentional.

 

 

Over all we are happy with what we produced.  Can't wait for this batch to completely cure so we can check out how it will perform in the shower or bath.

 

Thank you for visiting!

 

 

September 2014 | Whipped Avocado Body Butter | KCK Soapery

I have been trying to make body butters and finally got the courage to try it today.  This was inspired by a friend who wanted me to make an avocado base handmade soap.  I decided to also make her avocado base body butter.
                                                                                                              

 

Ingredients include both avocado butter and mango butter.

 

 After blending the butters until they are nice and fluffy, I added Meadowfoam oil and Avocado oil.

 

 

Then I added green tea extract and Avobath fragrance oil.

 

Finished blending and transferred the butters into the containers.   Which one of the three is your favorite container? 

 

The butter is a little greasy to start with but eventually get absorbed into the skin and gives that silky feeling after.  I certainly hope the friend will like this recipe.  We shall know tomorrow when I deliver one to her.  So far everybody in our house love it.

 

Crossing my fingers.   Tweaking the recipe to come up with a better product is a challenge I will always welcome though. 

Thank you very much for dropping by!