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.

Thank you for stopping by!

Glynith

January 2018 | Fall In Love | KCK Soapery

These will be ready to complete your Valentine's Day decoration in two more weeks.  Another batch of Goat's milk soap.  This one is scented with a charming blend of blackberry, jasmine, lemon, vanilla, and musk fragrance oil called "Falling in Love".

Ingredients include coconut oil, olive oil, rice bran oil, palm oil, mango butter, shea butter and castor oil.

Poured the main color which is white.

Made a red line in the middle.

Alternating white and red only in the middle.

Covered the top with white and drizzled some red randomly.

Drew lines on every dollop of red.

Added small hearts on one side of the soap loaf.

Out of the mold.

Ready to be enjoyed.

Thank you!

January 2015 | Fall In Love | KCK Soapery

 

Another Valentine soap made with Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, Rice Bran Oil, Castor Oil, Mango Butter and Shea Butter.  I did not use Palm Oil for this batch.

 

 

The heart embeds were from my previous post "Love Collection."

 

 

I decided to drop swirl both red and blue colors into a base but changed my mind at the last minute.   I quickly made an improvised divider using some newsletter paper and taped the paper in the middle of the mold.

 

 

I was quite happy with how the paper divider separated the colors.

 

 

Embedded the hearts which moved the red batter a little bit.

 

 

Sprinkled blue jojoba beads to red batter and red jojoba beads to the blue batter.

 

 

Poured the leftover red and blue batter into my oval mold and swirled it with a chopstick.

 

 

Topped the oval soap with red jojoba beads and a golden melt and pour baby.

 

 

Gave this to a friend who is having a baby soon.

 

 

Waited four days before removing from the mold and it came out nicely, no cracks or any part of the soap sticking on the sides of the mold which sometimes happened.

 

 

Some of the bars got a nice silhouette of the embedded hearts while others are more abstract.

 

 

 Hope you enjoy the making of Fall In Love.

 

Thank you very much for stopping by!

January 2015 | Love Collection | KCK Soapery

 

These soaps were made with some new love molds I recently purchased.  The Kudos Moon Face above will be perfect for wedding giveaways as well as Valentine soap.

 

 

This batch was made with Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, Rice Bran Oil, Palm Oil, Mango Butter and Castor Oil.

 

 

I love using silicone molds.  They are decorative and soaps usually come off with the design intact and clean.

 

Decided to just use the red mica and white titanium dioxide for colors.

 

 

With so many molds to fill, I did the in-the-pot swirl.

 

 

Gave the pot a once over with the spatula to distribute the colors more.

 

 

Poured the batter into the molds.

 

 

The batch was scented with "Falling In Love" fragrance oil described as a charming blend of Blackberry, Jasmine, Lemon, Vanilla and Musk.

 

 

The above soaps are tiny bite size hearts.  I like the carved designs.

 

 

Want to say I Love You with a cute handmade soap?  Don't hesitate to contact me.

 

 

More molds available. 

 

 

Happy Soaping!!!

 

 



December 2014 | Heart Swirl | KCK Soapery

 

My first Valentine's Day soap for 2015, made with Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Palm Oil, Castor Oil, Shea Butter and Mango Butter.  This batch is scented with "Sex in the Shower" fragrance oil which is described as  "a juicy blend of orange, cherry, peach, pineapple and vanilla".  My six year old daughter described it as "Kool-Aid fruit punch".

 

 

 This is the first time I am using both Shea and Mango Butter together in a batch. 

 

 

 A few months ago, I tried this technique trying to draw roses with petals.  It did not turn out as planned.  This is a chained red and blue hearts and I am liking it.

 

 

 A disaster almost happened when I was inserting the divider into the mold.  Had to be more careful next time.

 

If you decide to watch the video, I started out saying that I did not plan to add color to the base soap.  I misspoke titanium dioxide was added to whiten or at least lighten the effect of the Vanillin in the fragrance oil.