February 2019 | Heart Body Lotion Bars | KCK Soapery

Body lotion bars made for Valentine's day but are perfect to relieve dry skin anytime and anywhere.  This fits exactly in the heart shaped container and is easy to carry around.

This is made with Shea butter, Mango butter, Argan oil, and beeswax, scented with Vanilla fragrance oil.

I hope you like what you saw and will want to try some in this cold, wintery, dry and brutal to the skin kind of season.

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November 2018 | Coconut and Palm Free Luxurious Soap | KCK Soapery

A friend contacted me and suggested that she wants to help in the marketing of my handmade soap.  As my readers,  you guys know that I like formulating recipes as much as designing the soap.  So I came up with another line of soap that I haven't made, but I know has demand.

Here is my version of palm and coconut free handmade soap.

Molds used, lye solution, sugar solution, milk and the melted oils.

This recipe included mostly Olive oil, some Shea butter, Castor oil, and Mango butter. Since most of my products contain Mango butter, I like the properties it contributed to the final product. This batch also contains goat milk to make it more luxurious.  Since Coconut oil is omitted and it is the oil that produces most of the lather in most handmade soap,  I added some sugar to give this soap recipe some lather as well.

The picture above show a few lighter-colored bars. These were added with Titanium Dioxide to give it a whiter look.  Titanium Dioxide is used in most white products including toothpaste and other personal and food products that are white. The soap batter started to thicken for me too that is why they are not as smooth on top. The darker soaps don't have the titanium dioxide and the batter was still thin when I poured them into the mold thus it is smooth.

I have four soaps above that are unscented and the rest is scented with a fragrance oil I will call "Belle"  after the name of my friend.  If she end up liking this batch.  Belle will be her signature line and we will be developing lotions, etc with that fragrance.

Excited to get these babies out of the mold.

Here is to hoping the friend will like everything the final product will be and a start to another line of KCK handmade products.

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February 2018 | Sun and Sand | KCK Soapery

My mom who was visiting really loved this scent! My supplier described it as a tropical beach breeze of sweet orange blossom, bright citrus, french lavender and powdery musk.

This batch contains my new Goat's milk recipe which includes: Coconut oil, olive oil, rice bran oil, palm oil, shea butter, mango butter and castor oil.

Added coffee grounds to give that sandy look and a little exfoliation to the uncolored batter.

Dropped the yellow and blue batters to the base.

Gave it a little swirl with a spatula.

Carefully poured the swirled yellow and blue batter on top of the sandy layer and drizzled the leftover yellow and blue batters.

Swirled the top with my ever handy dandy chopstick.

Out of the mold.

Ready to be enjoyed!

September 2017 | Christmas Gift | KCK Soapery

A friend at work wanted to be ready for Christmas. This was what I came up with. I hope "J" and the recipients will like them as much as I love making soap.

These gifts were made with melt and pour soap.

Oils added were Coconut oil, Olive oil, Rice Bran oil, Palm oil, Shea butter, and Castor oil. Scented with Mistletoe and Ivy fragrance oil and a hint of Peppermint essential oil.

Red mica and titanium dioxide for white.  

Blending the oils, butter and lye solution.

Poured the white base.

Poured the red in the middle at different heights.

Made two more lines on the sides.

Made the swirl using chopstick.

Added the gifts.

I am pleased by the result of this batch.  Everything turned out just as expected.  

Hope you guys like these bars.

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Enjoy!

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.