June 2023 | Camouflage Soap 2023 | KCK Soapery

 

    Thank you to my friend "S" for remembering my handmade soap.  She ordered for a baby shower soap which made me decide to make some artisan soap for my hubby who is running low on his supply.

    The hubby likes my camouflage soap so I made a small batch for him for my first "made from scratch" soap for this year.

    This batch of soap is made with olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, castor oil, cocoa butter, and scented with "shave and a haircut" fragrance oil.  Colors used were white pigment, activated charcoal for black, brown and green mica.

    You will notice that in the video, I did not pour any fragrance oil to the white soap batter, that is because I used some of the white for my friend who wants a sample of another scent.

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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.

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March 2021 | Kentish Rain | KCK Soapery

This batch was made for a friend who now works at a private medical laboratory. She decided to use my handmade soap for laboratory week this coming April.  Their logo colors are teal and black .  I sure hope I got the color motifs right!

I made the soap using a recipe from the book "Milk Soapmaking" by Anne Watson.  It includes coconut oil, cocoa butter, palm kernel oil, olive oil, and rice bran oil.  The process was saponification provided by goat's milk and lye (sodium hydroxide solution).  Colors used were blue mica, activated charcoal for black ,and titianium dioxide for white.

 Fragrance oil used is called "Kentish Rain" which is described as a fresh and earthy mix of basil, green leaf, lily, rose, violet, sandalwood, and tonka bean from Brambleberry.

Here is a video of this batch:

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March 2020 | Gentle Hemp and Shea Soap | KCK Soapery

This batch was inspired by a post recommended by Pinterest.  Here is the link with recipe from Humblebeeandme.  I made mine simple without the white line and tweaked the recipe a little since I don't have tallow on hand.

My recipe include the following:

 Hemp seed oil which is the green colored oil, olive oil, and for my solid oils, I used shea butter, coconut oil, and palm oil.  I also added rosemary and peppermint essential oil for scent!

I just love the natural avocado-like color this soap end up being.

Here is the video of the making of gentle hemp and shea soap.  

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Enjoy and Stay Healthy everyone!

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!!!

March 2020 | Kentish Rain | KCK Soapery

My vision for this batch was a rain drop in the middle but the soap batter got hard fast and did not behave the way I needed it to give me the look I wanted.  It still has a unique look which I like very much though.

Fragrance oil used is described as a fresh and earthy mix of basil, green leaf, ozone, lily, rose, 

jasmine, violet, sandalwood, and tonka bean.

Same usual recipe olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, shea butter, castor oil, and mango butter.

Activated charcoal for black, titanium dioxide for white, and blue mica.

My camera ran out of memory in the middle of my designing. You still get to see most of the pouring though.

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February 2020 | Shave and A Haircut | KCK Soapery

Using my usual recipe for this handmade soap which includes Olive oil, Coconut oil, Palm oil, Shea Butter, Castor oil and Mango Butter.

Fragrance oil is described as a mix of lemon, bergamot, cool mint, lavender, green accord, sandalwood, cedar wood, amber, and musk. It smells just like walking into a barbershop!

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February 2020 | Aromatherapy Energizing | KCK Soapery

    I made this batch of handmade soaps a few weeks ago using a mold I bought for myself for Christmas and Valentine's!

    I always love the look of the soaps made with the dividers.  The different colors are more evenly distributed and not intermingling over each other.

    This batch is made using my usual recipe olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, shea butter, mango butter and castor oil. Colors used were purple, teal and pink mica and titanium dioxide for white.

    Fragrance used is called Aromatherapy Energizing which is described as an uplifting blend of fragrance and essential oil blend of fresh and airy notes of lemon, garden peppermint, spearmint, wintergreen and floral notes of gardenia, jasmine, and rose.

I also bought a cutter for this batch.  

As of the writing of this blog, my cutter and mold are both unavailable.  I will keep an eye for when it will be available and add the link in the next post.

Wet soap after swirling. 

I always love the look of wet soap.

The two different cut made by the new mold and the new cutter.

Here is the video of the making and cutting of this mold.

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January 2020 | Love Spell | KCK Soapery

I made a second batch of Valentine's Soap for a friend "S".  Plus, I want to make a successful batch using the new heart embed.  This time, I used my usual favorite recipe which includes Olive oil, Coconut oil, Palm oil, Mango butter, Shea butter, and Castor oil.

Scented with a combination of essential oil and fragrance oil described as a lavishly lush blend of orange, peach, cherry blossom, and white jasmine.

This time, I swirled the top using a skewer.

Only five bars out of eleven ended up being what I want them to look like.  Six bars have their bottom layer stuck on the mold.

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Glynith

January 2020 | Amber Soap | KCK Soapery

I made this batch right after the cut of the 50 Shades Valentine's soap.  This time, I used my usual recipe that never failed me and is chuck full of skin loving ingredients including Olive oil, Palm oil, Coconut oil, Shea butter, Castor oil, and Mango butter.  I also waited for it to harden more by letting the batter sit in the mold for two days before cutting.

Fragrance oil used is described as a rich amber with hints of sandalwood and cedar wood.  Colors were titanium dioxide for white and yellow, pink, and purple mica.

I used biodegradable holographic glitter for some shimmer.

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January 2020 | Valentine's Icing | KCK Soapery

Since this soap batch is an order from a friend "T", I did not play with the recipe and just used my usual tried and tested favorite recipe, which include: olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, shea butter, mango butter and castor oil. 

I still played with the scent by using one I have never tried before called "Angel". This is an essential and fragrance oil blend described as an enchanting jasmine touched with the deep sexy notes of musk, patchouli and brown sugar. This blend changed the color of the soap batter into yellow. But a little dose of titanium dioxide lightened it up. Since there is no vanilla content, I suppose the icings are totally safe from morphing. Then, it turned out to be creamy white and the red stayed very nice red.

Now, we are just waiting for the cure and these little icings are going to their new homes!

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January 2020 | 50 Shades Valentine's Soap | KCK Soapery

Happy New Year 2020!!!

This is my first batch of soap for the new year.  It's made for Valentine's Day and I used a new heart shaped embed I found online.  As you can see in the picture above, the design was good but the texture of the soap was disappointing.  It's what I get for playing with recipes and fragrance oils or maybe I was a little too excited for my first batch that I may have poured the batter too early or removed it from the mold a little early.

Hopefully, I get to post most of this year's soap projects more than last year and that I make a better soap next time.

Ingredients used were olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, rice bran oil, shea butter, castor oil, mango butter and lye.

Colors were titanium dioxide for white and red mica.

Fragrance oil used is called 50 Shades it is described as: a seductive marriage of tained rose and wild geranium with addictive "can't live without it" notes of bergamot and gold amber.

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