March 2020 | Pure Goat's Milk Soap | KCK Soapery

My First Pure Goat's Milk Soap - No water used

Jackie's First Handmade Soap

My brave friend Jackie really wanted to learn how to make handmade soap for a while now.  She finally decided to do it when her goat "Snoopy" started producing milk! We already have this date scheduled before the coronavirus self quarantine was imposed.  So we continued with the session but did it online through facetime instead of being in our houses where kids abound and with both of us being medical laboratory scientists.  Just for precaution!

Congratulations, Jackie, for making your first handmade soap using only goat's milk for liquid. 

Meet "Snoopy"! She absolutely likes snooping. Jackie said "it is because she is always checking my sleeves for mysteries.  May have treats, maybe not.  She doesn't know but she checks them".

Thank you very much, Jackie, for Snoopy's milk.  I get to try doing all goat's milk soap without investing too much on it.

This is our set-up. This is an ice water bath to prevent the sugars in the milk from scorching.  It is always better to use cold almost slushy or even frozen milk with this recipe so the milk don't get too hot when you add the lye.  Usually I only do half milk or cream and let the lye dissolved in water first and then allow it to cool down before adding the milk/cream.  This is my first full goat's milk and no water is being added to this batch.

Jackie decided to incorporate oatmeal and poppy seed to her batch.

I kept mine plain.

We did not use any fragrance or essential oils for this batch.  This batch only included olive oil, coconut oil, goat's milk, and lye.  As you can see in the above pictures, I kept my soap plain and Jackie decided to add oatmeal and poppy seed to hers to give that pretty texture.

While the moms were making cold process goat's milk soap.  Jackie's kids also made melt and pour soap.  Look at how cute they turned out.  They used orange/lemon zest and food coloring to add color and texture to the final product.

Here is the video of our goat's milk soap making using facetime session.  Hopefully we can do this side by side next time!

Enjoy!!!

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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January 2020 | Gingered Bergamot | KCK Soapery

This batch is made for a sweet baby girl who just turned one!

Thank you "L"

It is made with melt and pour or also called glycerin soap.  Perfect for when you don't have 4 to 6 weeks of curing time for the cold process soap making. I hope everybody who's going to receive these giveaways will love them.

These are the number 1's just out of the mold.

Made a batch with pink base and white number and vice versa.

Out of the mold.

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.

Thank you for visiting my soapmaking blog!

Glynith

January 2018 | Mermaids Lair | KCK Soapery

Happy 2018 to everyone!

Starting my 2018 soaping adventure with some enchanting creatures.  I made these mermaids tail, unicorn heads, and seashells from melt and pour soap.

I started the seashells as brown but my son said they don't look realistic.  So I randomly painted white soap over them and he is quite happy with the result.  Some of the mermaid's tails are painted on strategic areas to give that special magic touch.

Only using white and blue for this batch.  Recipe is the usual, coconut oil, olive oil, rice bran oil, palm oil, mango butter and castor oil and scented with Abalone and Sea fragrance oil.

Tilted the mold and poured blue on one side.

Added white to the remaining blue to give it a different tone of blue and poured that on the other side and topped with white.

Alternately adding blue and remaining white by the spoonfuls.

Swirled them around to create a body of water.

Saw this technique on a baking show.  Placing the two different colored batter side by side on a plastic wrap.

Rolled it up and seal one end and squeeze it into the piping bag.

I like the look of this piping.  The color distribution is more uniform.

Added the tails and the shells on one side.

Added more shells on the sides of each bar after cutting using a clear melt and pour soap to glue them to the sides.

Thank you for reading!

Hoping for an enchanting year ahead for all of us!

November 2017 | Christmas and Baby Girl Giveaways | KCK Soapery

I made a couple of giveaways/favors for baby girl favors, birthday girl, and for Christmas giveaways. I was not able to write each as I finished them.  But here's some of them:

Birthday Girl Favors

Christmas Giveaways

Baby Girl Favors

Below are some of the cupcake soap toppers I made from melt and pour.

Used my usual ingredients: Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, Rice Bran Oil, Palm Oil, Mango Butter and Castor Oil, mica for colors, fragrance oils and lye to make the oils and butter into soap. 

The making of the cupcakes.

Here they are with the toppers and just waiting to get hard enough to get out of the mold.

Here are some of them off the mold:

Hope you like what you see.

Give me a poke, a shout out or just contact me and  let's work on a design for your party or just to pretty up your sinks with customize soap design.

Thank you for stopping by!