Spring Soaps ***SOAP GIVEAWAY***

 

 Spring is in the air and so is love and some beautiful scents. I have been spending most of these nice days in the garden and have been spending my nights making some great soaps. BUT I NEED YOUR HELP! I have whipped up some beautiful batches: a Lavender batch, a peppermint swirl batch and a beautiful batch that has no name. CAN YOU HELP ME NAME IT? This pretty batch Has essentials oils of patchouli, ylang ylang, rosewood and sweet orange and is delicately sprinkled with rose petals and topped with the sweetest rose buds.

Comment your name idea below . . . if I pick your name you will get a bar free.

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***CONTEST CLOSES 4 WEEKS FROM NOW***MAY 20

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Peppermint Swirl

Lavender

Too pretty to not have a name.

Name this soap.

Will you be the winner
of this beautiful soap?

Soap Making Mondays

Choosing the right oils for the soap recipe.

Charlotte getting ready to weigh the perfect amount of lard.

Every Monday we make goat milk soap at our homestead. Some days the process goes smoothly, while other days there is a great deal of messy and bad batches (we'll save those for another post). It all adds to the great excitement of making soap.

Here are a bunch of photos of the process taken by homestead cameraman Kolbe. In these photos Charlotte and I are actually making two separate batches but we combined the photos to give you the basic idea of the process.

Melting all the oils and fats

Adding lye to the frozen goat milk.

Carefully stirring the lye into the thawing goat milk.

Smiling helps the daunting task of stirring go by faster.

Adding essential oils.

Adding oil infused and mixed with herbs.

Looks so beautiful

Blend until you achieve trace (very thick).

Pour into mold. Today we used Pringle cans.
It gives us a lame excuse to eat Pringles but the soaps come out so cute.

Now for the hard part. . . waiting the 24 hours for it to be in the mold before you take it out of the mold.