March 2015 | Lavender and Tea Tree | KCK Soapery

 

This week's cold process soap is loaded with skin loving oils, butters and contains Lavender essential oil and Tea Tree essential oil.  This was made for a friend's daughter.  I definitely hope her skin will love this soap recipe.

 

 

Ingredients include Coconut Oil, Palm Kernel Flakes, Olive Oil, Hemp Seed Oil, Shea Butter, Mango Butter and Castor Oil.  I also added activated charcoal, colloidal oatmeal, lavender flowers and essential oils of Lavender and Tea Tree for more skin benefits.

 

 

Activated charcoal mixed in with the oils and butters.

 

 

Added some lavender flowers for some exfoliation.

 

 

After pouring the soap batter into the mold.  I was contemplating leaving it

just like this.

 

 

But of course, I had to give it some texture.  So I did a little spoon swirl.

 

 

 Added more of the lavender flowers for some color.

 

 

I allowed the soap to settle for a few days before cutting.  Some of the flowers came off the top of the soap.  I sure hope this recipe would just be perfect for her needs.  Thank you "J" for giving me the opportunity to research and learn more about soap ingredients.

Thank you for stopping by!

Glynith



November 2014 | Solid Body Lotion | KCK Soapery

 

Body lotion bars contain shea butter, colloidal oatmeal, sweet almond oil and beeswax.   The yellow was scented with bergamot and tarragon, the green with energizing fragrance oil and the red with mistletoe and ivy fragrance oil.

 

 

Below included on the far left of the picture are 3 lotion bars which were not colored and contain hemp seed oil instead of sweet almond oil and tea tree essential oil instead of fragrance oil.

 

Hoping for these lotion bars to give some relief to our skin now that winter is here.



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.

 

 

 

September 2014 | Eucalyptus & Spearmint | KCK Soapery

I was informed that a guy who had tried one of my giveaways (grandpa's 90th birthday party) enjoyed the soap and would like to have a full size bar of it.

 

 

This recipe includes Coconut oil, Olive oil, Rice Bran oil, Mango butter, Palm oil and Castor oil.  Scented with Eucalyptus/Spearmint blend.  Additives were Tussah silk, White Kaolin clay, colloidal oatmeal and aloe vera.  I sure hope he would like this new recipe which include more skin loving ingredients than before.

 

 

Ready for cutting.  Colors were woodland green and titanium dioxide for white.

 

 

This was an in the pot swirl and drop swirled into the mold.

 

 



September 2014 | Pink Camo | KCK Soapery

 

It was suggested that since hunting season is here, I should also make some camo soaps for the ladies who loves hunting as well.

 

Ingredients include Coconut oil, Olive oil, Rice Bran oil, Palm oil, Mango butter and Castor oil.  Additives Tussah silk, white kaolin clay, colloidal oatmeal and aloe vera.

 



 

This batch was scented with Falling In Love which described as a charming blend of Blackberry, Jasmine, Lemon, Vanilla and Musk.  I sure hope the female hunters would love this.

 

 

Happy Soaping...

 

A video will soon be posted below.  I am trying my hand at adding a music so you guys don't have to listen to me.  Thank you for your patience.

September 2014 | Bergamot/Tarragon | KCK Soapery

 

I was told that some people really love the scent of Bergamot.  I ordered the fragrance oil and made a small batch with it using my smaller mold since the other mold was busy with a camo batch.

 

 

Ingredients were Coconut oil, Olive oil, Rice Bran oil, Mango butter, Palm oil and Castor oil.  Colors were stained glass lemon yellow, woodland green and titanium dioxide.  The yellow started out looking more like peach color but it turned more yellow after 24 hours.

 

 

I added tussah silk, aloe vera powder, colloidal oatmeal and kaolin clay.

 

 

It was a little on the soft side when I cut the bars this morning.  Although I like how the colors turned out just the way I wanted, I am not so thrilled with the swirling.

 

 

September 2014 | Unscented Camo 2 | KCK Soapery

 

The hubby has been asking for another camo soap for the past couple of weeks.   I was hesitant because I was afraid I might not be able to do an exact duplicate of my previous camo soaps.  With the hunting season already here I had to produce.  So here is my second unscented camo soap.

 

 

Ingredients include Coconut oil, Olive oil, Rice Bran oil, Palm oil, Mango Butter, Castor oil and Avocado oil.  Colored with woodland green, activated charcoal, titanium dioxide and cappuccino mica.  Since even hunters will enjoy good skin loving additives I added Tussah silk, colloidal oatmeal and Kaolin clay.

 

 

I am quite happy with how the colors turned out.  

 



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 | Cranberry Fig Peppermint | KCK Soapery

 

I am not sure about this batch.  It was meant to be a Christmas soap batch but my colors morphed.  I used the same colors I used for my first Christmas batch in the post before this, but used a slab mold this time.  My 6 year old daughter said it looked so simple since the soap is just plain white with decorations only on top.  It shows how creamy the white part really is and I liked that look though. 

 

 

The picture above was taken right after I finished the designs.  It was not as I had planned but the hubby had a peek when he came home and said "I see Holly".

 

 

Picture above is copied from Wikipedia and it was the look I was aiming for.

 

 

This was how it looked like 24 hours after being insulated in the wooden mold.  The green morphed with shades of purple and the red is not as bright as expected.

 

 

Ingredients used were from the new favorite recipe which includes Coconut oil, Olive oil, Rice Bran oil, Palm oil, Mango butter, Castor oil and Avocado oil.  Skin loving additives added were Tussah Silk, colloidal oatmeal and white Kaolin Clay.  I also added peppermint essential oil to the cranberry fig fragrance oil.

 

 Should I still call this my "Christmas Soap" or just "A Fall Soap"?

Thank you very much for visiting!

 

 

September 2014 | Cranberrry Fig | KCK Soapery

 

My first batch of soap for the first week of school.  This was made with Christmas colors.  Colors used were Titanium Dioxide and white sparkle mica for white, americana red oxide and green mica shimmer.  I also sprinkled iridescent glitters on top.  I had hoped and envisioned a deeper penetration of the colors into the soap.  But I think this would still work.  What do you think?

 

 

 The hubby came home, looked at the mold and said "Christmas".  So glad I don't have to explain what the soap was designed for.  When asked how the scent was, he said it smelled like "nature".  I used Brambleberry's Cranberry Fig fragrance oil.

 

 

 For this batch I used my recent favorite recipe which includes Coconut oil, Olive oil, Rice Bran oil, Palm oil, Mango butter, Castor oil and Avocado oil.

 

 

Skin loving additives were tussah silk, white kaolin clay and colloidal oatmeal.
 

 

The iridescent glitters add to the holiday theme but the white sparkle mica is not evident in the soap.

 

 

 

Thank you very much for dropping by!