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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April 2019 | Purple Bamboo Lotus | KCK Soapery

This batch of handmade soaps is going to be giveaways in a bridal shower this coming May.  The color motifs include two shades of purple, gray, and white.  When I look into my supplier's site to order for purple mica,  I realized that there are so many more varieties of purple.  I ordered a few to see which would come close to the shades I needed.  The trick is that most of these purple shades are not stable in cold process soap.  So here is to hoping the colors I picked will stay true to what we see in the package.

I sprinkled some glitters on top!

It has been a few days now, and so far I am happy with the colors.  They haven't morphed to different colors or shades so far.  Now, I am just waiting for the curing period to be good to the colors as well.

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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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February 2019 | Captain Annie's Winter Mardi Gras | KCK Soapery

These mini cupcake soaps are going to be giveaways for a fundraiser " Captain Annie's Survivor Chest" on March 2.  Check out their facebook page for more details.

Thank you very much, Margaret, for allowing me to do this!

Scented with gingered bergamot fragrance oil.

These mini cupcakes are made with coconut oil, olive oil, palm oil and castor oil.  Colored with purple, white and yellow mica.

Updated picture for packaging and tags in a few weeks when the soaps are cured enough.

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January 2019 | Lego | KCK Soapery

I hope you enjoy this video. 

My kids suggested I continue with my Youtube soaping videos. Moreover, they helped me with the video editing!

These are little lego figures in green and pink as my topping for this soap batch scented with unicorn poop fragance oil.

Ingredients used were Coconut oil, Olive oil, Palm oil and Castor oil.







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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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