New Post - Hawaiian Ginger

New Post - Hawaiian Ginger!


Check out my new site:
 Pink Sudz Soap

New Blog! new Website

Check out my new home!!!

I have opened up my new Website and Blog Home.  Please stop by and visit.  I will be slowly moving my posts to this new home and hope that you are able to still follow my Soapy Stories!

find me at:

www.pinksudzsoap.com

Call Me Flirty

I usually don't plan ahead with the possibilities of color discoloration on my soaps.  There are soapers that use it to their advantage and usually plan on the fragrance discoloration to work with their design.  I just go with it.  I find it interesting to see how a fragrance can play with your pre-selected colors.  Having said that, I do tend to stay away from most of the sweet and sugary fragrances.  I think I have only soaped with Vanilla Fragrance oil once, and I purposely made my soap bars brown.

I did once have a soap batch that turned out very nice out of the mold and as soon as it started to cure it turn a dirty looking beige.  It was pretty weird and kind of fascinating at the same time.

So I was wondering if I should do any type of planning when I decided to soap with my next fragrance: Dreamcatcher (from Rustic Escentuals).  Its a nice light, feminine fragrance.  The vendor does warn about slight discoloration so I thought to add a little more Titanium Dioxide to see if it will lighten it up, and decided to add some yellow, and red mica.

I was surprised to see that it discolored, but not dark, instead yellow.  At one point my yellow and white were just about the same color but eventually the yellow started to pop a little more.

I like how the swirl turn out.  Nice and flowing, and sort of flirty!  

For this batch I decided to soap with full Goats Milk.  Freezing the milk and slowly adding the lye to the frozen cubes.  What I find surprising is how thin my soap batter was.  It took me a good couple of minutes to reach thin trace.  I did not do anything different with my recipe and I wonder if the real cool lye/milk mixture had a lot to do with it.  It may be hopeful with trying the Peacock Swirl once again! :)

I am still working on finishing up my template for my new blog.  I am stalling a bit since I am really pretty nervous about transferring all my post to the new site.  Just thinking about it makes me all jittery!  

Thanks for checking out my blog!

Happy Soaping!

Roxana

Soap Peeps

I recently came across a very cute post of Melt and Pour Soap Peeps from Soap Deli News Blog.  I thought it was the cutest soaps and I read that she found the mold at a local Target Store.  Well I just could not wait for my lunch hour so that I can escape and go purchase it.   Unfortunately work got  a little crazy and I was not able to go out for lunch.

I was desperate!  so I called in a "life line"...my husband!  I texted him a picture of the mold and sent him off to look for it during his lunch hour.  

Isn't it the cutest mold!  

He bought me two.  One to use for soap and the other one to attempt to bake something in it...yeah right :)

Here are my little peeps!

Once again I got a little carried away with my pink and blue.  They turned out a little darker than I wanted  but my yellow is perfect!!!

I also have some exciting news to share.  I will be moving my blog to a new home very soon.  I decided to obtain my domain name (website name) and I am in the process of building my blog template.

Why did I decided to do this?...well, I guess I just felt that I needed more punishment and a little frustration in my life may not be so bad!  LOL

I tell you,  I am learning so much!!!  I am trying to build it in Wordpress and it's not easy!  I have been pretty consumed and I would think a little bit obsessed in trying to figure out how to set it up.  Cee Gee will confirm that I have gone a little nutty and would send desperate emails in the middle of the night asking over and over again "WHAT WAS I THINKING?!!!", and like a good friend she has calmed me down and very gently pushed me back to my madness :)

She has encouraged me to write a blog about it, and I am really considering it.  It sure has been interesting for sure!!!

But never fear, I continue to sneak in some soaps here and there and I recently made a new batch that I hope to display before I unveil my new page.  In the mean time...

Thanks for checking out my blog!!!

HAPPY SOAPING!

Roxana