Soapalooza Bath & Body Boot Camp, Day 1
Yesterday, we got the Soapalooza Bath & Body Boot Camp off to a fast paced start… We started off with a Basic Soapmaking lesson, followed by a more Advanced Soapmaking process using goat milk. Our...
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We started Day 2 of Soapalooza Bath & Body Boot Camp with Sugar & Salt Scrubs. Students learned the difference between anhydrous scrubs & products and those that are manufactured with...
View ArticleThe Big Lye (History of Sodium Hydroxide as We Know it Today)
In 2005 there was a discussion in my former Southern Soapers Yahoo forum about the origins of Lye. The Lye we use today, in modern soap making, is a synthetic. I was utterly fascinated by the entire...
View ArticleBirthday Party Ideas for Kids!
Yesterday I was processing files from over 10 years worth of teaching various types of soap and cosmetics classes in my forums and private consulting. Materials spread out over three hard drives and 8...
View ArticleMy Saponified Life – Frozen Dead Soap
Today I made the rounds of the Nederland, Colorado stores. I was accompanying my daughter as she made her wholesale soap stock exchange. We stocked Dandelion Fine Art & Gifts with a limited...
View ArticleGreat Essential Oil Blends!
Years ago, long before I purchased my first ounce of fragrance oil (it just was not available to soap makers back then!), I started using essential oils with my herbal soaps. Originally, ALL my soap...
View ArticleThank You and Many Thanksgiving Blessings
Thank all of you for your continued support at Soapalooza! 2014 has been a year of many blessings and abundance here at the Soapalooza Studio and within my own family. This time last year my grand...
View ArticleRecycling Your Amber Glass Bottles
If you make soap, than chances are you have a stash of fragrant, but empty amber glass bottles. Here is a way to clean and deodorize them so that you can use them for fragrance oils that arrive in HDPE...
View ArticleThe Studio has new paint!
I spent last week painting Soapalooza Studio with fun, inspiring paint! We stained the floor, and added vibrant curtains! The lease is locked in for the next 4 years, hurray! I waited until the lease...
View ArticleUsing Pigments & Dyes in Melt & Pour Soap Bases
Would anyone here like my method of using DRY Pigments (ultramarines and oxides) and Mica’s with M&P soap? Well, I will share anyway… Here is the deal… Dyes bleed in M&P soap bases. This is...
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