Bath cupcakes

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!

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

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

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

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

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..

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.

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

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......

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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.

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

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.