Soap on a rope is made by embedding a looped cord into a bar so it can hang and dry between uses. You tie the rope into a knotted loop, suspend it in the
The first time I made a bar for my sister’s terrier, I reached for tea tree oil on autopilot, the same oil I put in my own cleansing bars, and caught
Soap cupcakes are made in two parts: a soap cake base poured into cupcake liners, and a stiff soap frosting whipped up and piped on top with a star tip.
I fell for a jar of jewel-purple mica years ago, stirred it into a cold process batch expecting that same glittering color, and unmolded a flat, grayish
Infused oil for soap is a carrier oil steeped with a dried botanical, either warmed in a slow cooker for a few hours or left in a sunny jar for weeks
A friend once told me the bar I gave her melted away in a week, and when I saw her bathroom I understood why: it was sitting in a shallow puddle in a flat dish.
Confetti soap is made by chopping or grating colorful soap into small pieces, chilling them, spraying them with rubbing alcohol, and setting them into
My first batch of soap papers tore into wet shreds because I kept brushing back over the same spot. I have been making soap for about eleven years, and
Titanium dioxide is the white mineral pigment soapers use to whiten a bar, opacify it, and build a clean base for pastels. You disperse about a teaspoon
Trace was the one word that confused me for my entire first year of soapmaking, and the batch that finally taught it to me was a swirl I ruined by over-blending.