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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Exotica handmade soap... and a cupcake soap too

Exotica

Choco Pink Cupcake Soaps

Hi again, it's a wet cold rainy day again today so i thought i'd take a few photos of some of my latest soaps...

The bar soap is called exotica and it smells divine....
(Exotic,sensual and alluring exotica is a delicious blend of patchouli,amber, vetivert, citrus, plum, jasmine,white smokey musk, saffron, sandalwood and cedar with a little dark chocolate and a hint of vanilla... )

I don't usually go for strong fragrances but since i have been using my patchouli hemp shampoo bar i am now hooked .... this mesmerizing body bar is made with hemp oil and silk so it feels wonderful on my skin and my bathroom smells fantastic whenever i use it...

The cupcake also smells delicious it is a mini cupcake and smells like a dark rich chocolate bar, yummy...

Bye for now...


Thursday, July 19, 2012

Beautiful Shabby Chic Cake Slice Soaps....





Hi everyone, I thought you might like to see some more of my yummy cake slice soaps...
These are my latest editions and they smell amazing..

This soap is creamy and wonderfully delicious.....
Rich buttery sponge cake, layered with mouthwatering orange butter cream frosting with a hint of sweet vanilla, yummy!!!.....
Topped with pink frosting,a dainty rose and finished with a sprinkling of glitter...

I love these cakes they actually smell edible and look amazing on pretty cake plates....

I have more yummy cupcakes and bar soaps still to take photos of so hopefully i will find the time to add them tomorrow.
Bye for now...





Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Yummy Cupcake Soaps & a few more bar soaps










Glamorous Parade


Pink Passions


Cashmere kisses& Silk

Dead Sea Mud & Seaweed

Black Raspberry Swirl

Sweetie Pie

It's been so cold and windy lately but perfect weather for staying indoors and making soap, not that i have made much soap recently as we have been so busy looking for as new house, we have viewed several lovely homes in our area but nothing that i like, maybe i am just being too fussy...

These are a few of the latest cupcakes and bar soaps that are cured and ready, i have many more cake slices, sponge cakes, cakes and cupcakes that are a few days off from being ready so i will take some more photos then.

I love my new Glamorous Parade soap, i forgot to include one of my oils when i ran it through the lye calculator, i was so sure i'd have to bin the lot..after 2 days i removed it from the mould but it was so soft that i wasn't able to cut it for ages, but after a very, very, long cure this soap is perfect.
This soap is just so lovely, the fragrance matches so perfectly and the jojoba beads give it a lovely light exfoliation, it has the most amazing creamy lather and foams up really well plus it feels like silk   and hydrates my dry winter skin beautifully, i have to say that this is one of my best soaps yet so i am now rethinking the amount of oils i am adding in, i probably wont add in as much as this bar but i am certainly rethinking my recipes...

I made a black raspberry swirl soap this time, i haven't made one before and i admit i got a little carried away with the colors and the swirling, it's far from perfect but ok for a first try but it smells fab....

The coconut and papaya smells wonderful as usual...this is a soap i make time after time as it is also a best seller for me, the swirly pattern didn't quite turn out the way that it usually does as the soap set faster than it usually does, i think it has something to do with the colder weather making the soap set a lot quicker..., so that was a little disappointing but it still looks ok 

I remade my cashmere kisses and silk soap as i wanted a change, i was sick of making batch after batch of the same color soap, why i didn't just stick to the original i don't know.
I cant say i was impressed with anything about this soap except for the fragrance which is always a best seller for me, the brown i used just didn't do anything for this soap and the colors i chose didn't seem to go well together, but i learned my lesson and will go back to the original..

My marshmallow soap smells yummy, i was disappointed with the way the colors i used on the base mixed together but apart from that it's ok, it smells nice and lathers well though.

The caramel soap also didn't turn out quite like i had hoped that it would, the colors looked so lovely when i first made it but once it cured the caramel was more brown than a golden caramel color, it still smells fantastic and lathers well but not what i was after...

The sweetie pie smells divine, this fragrance is also a best seller,deliciously sweet & creamy caramelized brown sugar swirled with sweet ripe fig, i added a little pink clay and silk to this batch and i am sorta happy with it,but i do wish it had a little more of a swirly pattern to it(again i am blaming the colder weather)plus the titanium dioxide i added gave it a crackle pattern, it's not ugly just unwanted as i had planed on smooth looking color...

The dead sea  mud and seaweed also didn't turn out quite as i had hoped, the last batches i made looked lovely and have been best sellers for me, this time however i changed suppliers for one of the clay's i used and instead of a lovely grey it went a not so nice brown color, very disappointing, it just doesn't have the same appeal to me as the last batches did...

So all in all a disappointing few batches of soap this time,i have no idea why...the cupcakes are the only soaps that i was really happy with this time, especially the orange ones they look and smell amazing..., but like i said i do have more delicious soaps curing that i AM happy with , these i will show you soon, Bye for now..



Thursday, July 5, 2012

All New Pretty Pink Cakes,Cupcake and Dessert Soaps











I seem to have a pink theme running through my all my latest soaps, it wasn't intentional but they all seem to match...
After the recent success of my fairy princess cupcakes i decided to make all new batches of them, this was how they turned out...

I have finished curing my delicious cake, it's a new edition to my bakery treats, i think this has to be my best cake yet, it's so elegant and chic and smells amazing, slices of creamy caramel cake filled with whipped cream scented with sweet, sun ripened raspberries and dainty English rose, finished with white and pink frosting and an exquisite chic rose...

I loved the way the rose and raspberry smelled when i mixed them so i made creamy berry desserts in the same yummy fragrance they look and smell absolutely divine...

Well that's all for now, Bye...