Gioia Made Soap

Valentine

2012-01-24T16:12:00.000+01:00

Christmas time

2011-11-15T14:02:00.000+01:00

Cranberries on soapcake

2011-10-27T09:52:00.001+02:00

September

2011-09-04T09:30:00.000+02:00

craftshop

2011-07-22T13:14:00.002+02:00

Summertime

2011-07-10T12:15:00.000+02:00

pink sugar soap

2011-06-30T14:14:00.002+02:00

summertime

2011-06-28T14:05:00.001+02:00

Lavender field

2011-02-12T08:41:00.000+01:00

We mixed 6 varieties of Lavender essential oils.Not only the Mont blanc but the longifolia is also present. It is a warm lavender field.

Valentine

2011-01-15T11:22:00.003+01:00

Weeks of hard working in the workshop, has now sort of come to an end. We didn't have any time to keep up with our blog. Facebook we could handle, so there were some nice social contacts during this period. Now preparing Valentine products lik bath candies and ofcourse Valentine soaps. We hope everyone has had a lovely holidays....

Christmas time

2010-11-06T13:41:00.003+01:00

It is never too early to start with christmas customized soaps and product. From August till now we're in cinnaman, sugar and cranberries odours which is no problem, but the neighbours who live near the workshop are fed up with it :(
So now it is peppermint and female scents.

At the country....

2010-06-17T09:35:00.006+02:00

Country Fairs

2010-06-10T16:11:00.003+02:00

This weekend the first Farm Fair will start. We are lucky to have such good friends who invited us to their farm. There will be lots of nice products such as : goat cheese, marmalads ( very special ones, like sweet chili pepper ), biological honey straight from the bees, fresh brewed beer and wines, food from the medieval period. For those who are interested to experience the lovely air and lovely area, do have a look at our shop for the adress.

We are looking forward to it.

Little Tuscany

2010-05-13T08:56:00.003+02:00

The weather is not so good at this time of year. Unfortanetely.... but we have to take everyday as it comes. It is too precious to be ungratefull. With the air crash yesterday, there are so many losses. How must one child as a survivor of an airplane crash, survive again? Our thoughts are with the family friends and beloved ones.

Therefore we made a little Tuscany to see the colours of life in dark times. Wishing you a lovely day....

Lavender blue...

2010-04-24T09:06:00.002+02:00

We love the smell of lavender. It makes you feel it is becoming summer. There are so many different varieties of lavender. Some of them grow in the mountains, others more down the hills, so the smell of lavender has also many varieties. Not disrespecting nature, but I felt to mix some species toghetter. Some Bulgarian lavender, and some Mont Blanc. It made a lovely combination of the soap.

Strawberry vanilla soapcakes

2010-04-09T08:14:00.003+02:00

We love strawberries , and found at LIDL that they are here from Spain. The Dutch strawberries are not that sweet, so to speak. Some neighbours have a small fruitgarden, where every year they grow them. These lovely people allways come and give them to us. Homemade marmelade, zucchini and so on. So then we prepare them for dinner and bring the lady upstairs (82 years old) 2 times a week a lovely meal. That is how we are priviliged to chain. It is allways a chain reaction to give and receive and to pay it forward. It is better than money.. and brings you more happiness!

Enjoy your spring.

Waiting for spring..

2010-03-06T08:18:00.006+01:00

My mother, Gioia and I went on a small holiday. It was nice to restrain in the woods. We had a lovely time and Gioia was enjoying it too. When we got home, our order from the Soap Kitchen came in. So we have lovely new oils and stuff. We love the smell of mango, so I made a small batch of mangosoap with loads of sheabutter, mangobutter and grapeseedoil. One particular oil was also great: the butterscotch perfume oil. ( non dicouloring). Will try that one real soon.

Venice

2010-01-28T08:04:00.007+01:00

When I was in Venice, 21 years ago, I was so touched by the beauty of Murano glass and the masks for carnival.The colours of Venice are so inspiring.

Snow...

2010-01-09T08:52:00.003+01:00

Everyone who thinks he or she has a white dog.....must certainly agree, that when snow falls...??

Sure the doggie could use a warm bath. I made new doggie soap with lovely teatree oil, citronella, lavender. All essential oils and this time had to test it on Gioia herself.

Happy New Year's Eve

2009-12-31T09:40:00.003+01:00

We wish you a wonderful 2010, in good health, among people you love and in your personal goals. Remember : it is not important what you do , as long as you do it with your heart!

Please click on the bottle and glasses, to see our New Year's wishes card we send to you all and knock on the door to come in!

Lots of love from Georgette and Gioia

Warm Christmas Wishes

2009-12-19T09:07:00.003+01:00

We wish all our friends from blogspot, and followers a lovely and beautiful Christmas time.

Enjoy the snow, enjoy people you love and don't forget people who live alone, or are hospitalised.

Children who are in pain, or do not have a warm home to go to. They will love it to spent Christmas with your families.

If you have something to give.. it divides your happiness! A smile , a present, time to give or just listen to a lonely person.Every person has something to offer, small or big... rich or poor, we all have something beautiful.

So enjoy this time of year and we wish you a healthy and lovely 2010.

Candy Time

2009-12-12T07:58:00.003+01:00

Christmas allways is a time of eating more than you are used to. We eat candies, turkey or just nice things you like. To me, personally I allow myself chocolate truffles with champaign or just truffles on a milk chocolate base. So , because I really must loose some weight, I made some Candies and chocolate truffle soap with raspberries. Not feeling guilty ........ now....

Have an wonderfull happy and blessed holidays. This little poem is for you all!

"Keep whispering your heart dreams, because you never know when,

Your angel is listening "

Snickerdoodle Buttercream

2009-11-22T12:26:00.003+01:00

Reading this name for a fragrance oil, was a great gift.Ofcourse there are tremendous good scentmakers in this world. But surprisingly, this one is real like you want to eat it. Eatible, adorable and sellable.You can describe it as : nuts, cream caramel, butter, and hints of honey en slightly roasted peanuts. Real Cold Process made this time.

Christmas Eve

2009-11-14T07:52:00.003+01:00

We love this time of year. Today we have Saint Nicolas who will be staying here for a while to give the children presents. ( similar to Santa Clause). A nice tradition a family matter.

We allready made some christmas soaps, with lovely scents as : cranberries, vanilla, honey and nice woody scents with cinnamon and apple. We wish you a lovely Saint Nicolas and we continue with the christmas products.

Autum Leaves

2009-09-15T07:34:00.005+02:00

This is the time of the falling leaves... and nature changing into such refined colours.

Time to put on some candles in the homes and thinking about warm apple pie with custard. Thinking about new things, going with the flow...

Summer soap cakes

2009-08-16T14:17:00.003+02:00

Proud was I to make some summer soap cakes, for a special couple. Hope they will enjoy it.

Love this smell of strawberry smoothies with lots of other ripe fruit perfume oils. Love this smell of summer time ! Have a lovely summer time yall.

Whipped Coconut Body cream lavender/bergamot

2009-07-25T15:52:00.002+02:00

This brandnew whipped coconut cream is lovely made with almond oil, coconut oil, cocoabutter, emulsifying wax , and stearic acid. Also I put some lovely flavours in it, a combination of lavender and bergamot. Not only a silky feeling on the skin, but great smell for this summer!

Secondly I made some garden bouquets for fun and customers to giveaway.

Romantic summer

2009-06-06T11:32:00.007+02:00

During the last weeks I have been preparing some diverse things: smelling bags with lavender and rose petals. It brings summer so near to you :) Next week we will be having a fair on the farm so, then we will need them to smell and sell. But also ofcourse the traditional soaps who allways are favourite items for our clients.

Strawberry Vanilla Drizzle

2009-04-26T08:56:00.003+02:00

The Stéphanie soaps are selling nicely! But it could be better.. so I started to make some summer soap like strawberry. Really love the smell of it. The vanilla cream drizzle on top is also smelling nicely.

this makes it a real summer feeling soap.

Donorsoap: Stéphanie ( Olympic Games)

2009-04-14T14:08:00.004+02:00

There was a customer who ordered in my shop.She gave her website adress so I had a look at it. It appeared she had been given a new lung thrue transplantation. Again I felt so lucky , I only have astma and COPD lung problems, but I am much older. So I decided to send her this order freely and we both invented a sponsor soap to realize her plans to go to Australia as a topsport woman! The soap is nicely perfumed with fresh linnen and fragrant cream!Coloured by natural rose clay.

The Donorsoap is in the shop at this moment. So, Stéphanie, I hope we will sell them in a large scale. Stéphanie: YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!!

Strawberry Mango cupcakes

2009-04-08T09:23:00.002+02:00

Cupcakes are very popular, so yesterday spring made me long for strawberries and mango. The smell is heavenly they fizz in the bathtub, not so overwhelmingly, but nicely and gentle.

Bath cupcakes

2009-03-30T18:33:00.006+02:00

Today our order arrived , so I was able to make some trial cupcakes. In a way I succeeded; they have a nice colour, lovely flavours and nice constistency.

Unfortanetely, the topping did not succeed nicely. Next time I will make the icing thicker, so that the toppings are looking more "ICED". They have the fragrances : Pear combined with blackberries.

Raspearry Fizzies!

2009-03-22T09:04:00.003+01:00

Dear followers, and other dear people, Yesterday there was some kind of spring in the air. Not so overwhelming, but anyway nice and we must be gratefull every day brings us.So I longed for flavours as raspberry and pears, melons. This is what turned out : Raspearry Fizzies. You put them in your tube, or if you don't have one, can use it as footbath as well. They fizz all over and you smell the lovely fruits!They are coloured with natural green and rose clay. The topping is the raspberry.

Hyacinth

2009-03-17T13:10:00.005+01:00

My mother , she is 75, loves this woman. She is amazing, in her role as "Hyacinth". This soap was inspired by her and smells lovely with hyacinths notes and some lovely Stephanotis ( which is a bridal flower).

It became a classical soap with some grace i think. Lots of sheabutter and coconut oil.Coloured with natural annato powder and ci 7007 ( ultramarin Violet)

Buttermilk soap in the mall

2009-03-11T17:03:00.004+01:00

Today it felt like spring in a way. There was some sunshine but still some cold.

Liked to make a buttermilk soap. It is made with biological fresh buttermilk which was pasteurized :)

The soap is uncoulored, and I made a blend of essential oils like: grapefruit, lime, litsea, patchouli, lemon, lemongrass,bergamot, chamomille,clove and ravensara.

In addition I put perfume oil cranberries in it. The smell is like a garden of citrus/orange like a little fruit basket. Tomorrow it will be seen , when it is cut.

Rosemary

2009-03-10T08:11:00.003+01:00

The lovely customer this time wanted a rosemary soap. It had to be made hot processed, because she wants to sell them and not wait 6 weeks to cure. The blend suceeded gratefully with rosemary, litsea, peppermint, lavender and elemi ( essential oils).

The colour was not so good, mixing green natural clay with chlorofyll, but it was cheerfull enough.

The customer made this lovely picture and cutted the soap ( which came as a loaf) herself! We think she did a great job!

Cheese and soap from Switzerland

2009-03-05T15:43:00.003+01:00

Today was again a lovely day: Sonja 's Seifenkiste and I had a trade again. Soaps and Swiss mountain cheese for soaps :)

Well these lovely soaps are made by Sonja and they look and smell heavenly. I feel so lucky with these beautiful presents. If you want to know why the cheese is not on the photo... you can try to guess.... and it is not the fridge !Thank you so much, dearest Sonja, for our trade and the melt in the middle is incredible.

Drivers..

2009-03-03T19:24:00.004+01:00

Today I came along the word : "drivers". These are a main component of a computer. Without the drivers, the computer hasn't got any clue how to think and how to be active at all. While I was making this soap today, ( Framboisy)

I felt so gratefull to have so many drivers ( customers)and especially fellow soapmakers, who appreciate the handmade art we try to create. How lucky a person can be, when other soapmakers react or simply send you a nice mail. And also customers who apparently are satisfied enough to give their words of thankfullness.
How lucky am I to have these drivers:
to create and to share is an awsome thing!

Soap for a customer.

2009-02-28T16:16:00.006+01:00

Today I unmoulded the soap for my customer.It allways is great fun. Normally my dear customer wants to cut the soap herself, but today we had contact and I had the honor. Well that was really nice of her..I expected worse from the inside because of the quick working with the heaps of cocoabutter.

Buttermilk soaps

2009-02-25T16:11:00.005+01:00

Gioia loves Buttermilk... she licks it from a plate, so I decided to make some.. buttermilk soaps with natural biological honey from a beehive here in the neighbourhood.

Speechless......

2009-02-21T13:46:00.004+01:00

Speechless was I to open the package this morning. I found there 5 lovely gourmet soaps , made by Sharon from http://www.platypusdreams.com.au/

I think these soaps are one of the most beautiful there are on this planet! There are 4 goatmilk soaps and one without.They are beautifully packed and smell like you're in heaven. Well, I hope heaven will have them, otherwise I am in trouble.

These are my experiences with the soaps: Vovacia, the purple one ( on the right) has many bubbles and creamy leather. It feels like you're walking in the clouds

The Berrylicious smells like many fruits, but the apple plays the main part :) Many bubbles and feels great on the skin.

The Lemon soap smells like little lemon with a fine fresh top of lime i guess.

The Yummer smells like butterscotch, but not overwhelming and has great creamy swirls in it.The Floral Essence soap ( with the roses) has patchouli in it, and some hints of flowers.But it is a robuste soap ( could also be for men)!

Well I am enjoying every minute in the shower. So take a look at Platypus dreams!

Blueberry Hill

2009-02-17T09:20:00.002+01:00

Sometimes colours and perfume oil blends come surprisingly. Knowing that yellow and blue becomes green, we don't have all the answers. This has to become a blueberries soap. Lovely fragrances of blueberries, blackberries, mango, vanilla bean and strawberries. On top i put some moonseed just for fun on the hills...

herbs

2009-02-15T14:26:00.002+01:00

In the kitchen, there is allways room for herbs. For instance basil, rosemary and lovely thyme. They give not only taste to your food, but can help you when you are having flue. Nature gives us so many exclusive plants and why not make a rosemary/thyme soap, full of fresh ( saponified) herbs , and lovely essential oils in it.

Lavender Rose

2009-02-13T12:01:00.006+01:00

Blending essential oils with perfume oils normally turns out to be somewhat tricky.

Lately , however, it seems to go quite well.

Perfume oil of garden roses mixed with essential oils of lavender, lavandin, and a hint of teatree with lime, made a very welcome soap.

Especially nice to have on Valentine's Day to give away to that special person.

Customers wishes

2009-02-10T13:11:00.004+01:00

2 weeks ago a nice client of mine wanted to have some natural soaps with diverse blends of essential oils. One of the soaps also nicely with fresh biological goat milk ( which I buy here at the Farm nearby).So she made these lovely pictures from the products I delivered. She is really a great photographer! ( photographs: Jolanda M.)Lots of luck with your lovely Shop Jolanda!

Love cake

2009-02-06T09:45:00.003+01:00

Made a love cake for Valentine. I used rose clay ( natural) and a lovely blend of roses (perfume oil) , lavender essential oil, a little hint of teatree essential oil and geranium essential oil.

Apricot kernoil is a nice superfatter!

Starry Night..

2009-02-01T09:56:00.003+01:00

Yesterday the sky was full with stars. Today it is snowing! So Gioia and I will have a nice walk enjoying the snow.

I got inspired by all this beauty so here is a new soap. She smells like lilac with lavender and a creamy hint of limes.

Enjoy this time of year!

Candles, cosy fires and a glass of wine with our loved ones.

Why not enjoying it every day?

Venezia out of the mall

2009-01-29T14:39:00.002+01:00

After 24 hours she finally can get out of the mall: Venezia.

Nicely coloured with natural red clay.

She smells like a citrus vanilla tart on "Piazza San Marco".

Peppermint, May Chang, chamomille, Melisse , essential oils combined with

vanilla cream perfume oil.

2009-01-27T09:04:00.010+01:00

Recently I have been asked by a very nice shop named Applepiepussy , to develop an applepie soap. So I ordered my favourite scents at my favourite places and made this cake for them.Mariko, from Applepie Pussy, she made this nice photo which was used on their shop.
For handcrafted goodies and lovely surprises for Valentine, you can pay a visit to their shop.

Lavender

2009-01-24T09:17:00.005+01:00

The smell of lavenderbuds is very calming and relaxing. The magic of these little flowers, is allways present.

Unfortunately, they will turn into brown colour when putting it in the mould. Only some on the topping will have their lovely colour.Cornflowers I did not try in the soap yet. These have a lovely bright blue colour, as a topping. I use them in my goat milk soaps, with some nice lilac odour.