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Handmade Soap

Posted on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 03:19 PM in Soapmaking

 I was asked to post a few pictures of my soaps.  Soaping is my passion.  These first 2 photos have absolutely NO color added.  The color in the dark one comes from the fragrance.  The speckled one has NO color but some ground herbs in it.  As you can see, I like to play with color, too.  The bottom one with green and orange is really hard because it is a 2-color swirl.

I made a 2-color swirl soap for our son & his wife when they got married.  The 2 colors were their wedding colors of sage and country blue.  The wedding soap will probably be a one-time soap, just for the kids.

I confess, I love to sit and whittle the sharp edges off the bar.  My family says they make bevel boxes to do that, but it's not nearly as theapeutic.  I like to handle every bar of soap I make, which gets pretty hard during farmers' market season and the Oct-Nov-Dec mail order rush.

Like I said last night...I think I'm starting to like January.  =)

TKB

   

 

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Posted on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 05:34 PM by shelley43022
your soaps are beautiful. I need to learn how to make soap because I would like to give it as christmas gifts next year.

joyful homemaker

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Posted on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 06:18 PM by homesteadinthemaking
I agree they are so beautiful.
Blessings,
Trixi

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Posted on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 09:28 PM by a1health
Wow! That's so awesome!
Blessings to you and yours,
~Farrah
Happy New Year!

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Posted on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 08:15 AM by haflinger
Nice looking soap! What kind is it? Goat? glycerin?
Got a recipe you could share? I make soap as well..haflinger
If you post recipe please send private message I sometimes forget where I read things..thanks.

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