January 2020 | Valentine's Giveaways | KCK Soapery

Thank you "S" for deciding to make my soap as your Valentine's giveaways this year.  As I was searching for an inspiration for this Valentine's giveaways, I came into an article that described this technique as "hybrid" soap.  It is absolutely nice to know that we now have a name to this kind of soap making style.  It is made using both the melt and pour (glycerin) soap and the cold process soap.  

This batch is scented with Gingered Bergamot described as an exotic fragrance with citrus top notes of bergamot surrounded with nuances of freshly ground ginger combined with notes of sandalwood, cedar, Indian patchouli, and sweet basil.  The cold process base is made using my favorite recipe which includes Olive oil, Coconut oil, Palm oil, Shea butter, Castor oil, and Mango oil.

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April 2019 | Purple Bamboo Lotus | KCK Soapery

This batch of handmade soaps is going to be giveaways in a bridal shower this coming May.  The color motifs include two shades of purple, gray, and white.  When I look into my supplier's site to order for purple mica,  I realized that there are so many more varieties of purple.  I ordered a few to see which would come close to the shades I needed.  The trick is that most of these purple shades are not stable in cold process soap.  So here is to hoping the colors I picked will stay true to what we see in the package.

I sprinkled some glitters on top!

It has been a few days now, and so far I am happy with the colors.  They haven't morphed to different colors or shades so far.  Now, I am just waiting for the curing period to be good to the colors as well.

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February 2019 | Captain Annie's Winter Mardi Gras | KCK Soapery

These mini cupcake soaps are going to be giveaways for a fundraiser " Captain Annie's Survivor Chest" on March 2.  Check out their facebook page for more details.

Thank you very much, Margaret, for allowing me to do this!

Scented with gingered bergamot fragrance oil.

These mini cupcakes are made with coconut oil, olive oil, palm oil and castor oil.  Colored with purple, white and yellow mica.

Updated picture for packaging and tags in a few weeks when the soaps are cured enough.

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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.

November 2014 | Hemp Seed Oil Soap | KCK Soapery

 

 

Cold processed soap made last week.  These soap batch was made using Hemp Seed oil.  To make it as natural as possible, I did not add any fragrance oil or any soap colorants.  The soap actually has more greenish tint than yellow.

 

This soap contains Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Palm Oil, Hemp Seed Oil and Castor Oil.  Tea Tree essential oil and colloidal oatmeal were added for more skin loving benefits.

 

 

 

November 2014 | Cold Process Giveaways | KCK Soapery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cold processed soap giveaways.  We will need 3-6 weeks for the soaps to cure.  Allowing soaps to cure for a few weeks before using makes them milder and harder.  Here is the post for the making of these hearts.

 

 

Hope recipients of these giveaways enjoy the soaps.  Thank you very much.