soap boxes!

ive made some new ones! so almost all the soaps listed online have a box, except the lava rock and the pear and orris. that box/mold is cardboard so im not sure if i should make it again.

these are on etsy ! pics are links to listings should be edited later tonight with new pics

New Soaps

hey i realize now i cut the soaps too early.
this is a 250 gram total custom bar,

scented with the basic fougere, essential oils and veramoss and coumarin wow it smells Amazing!!!

 This is the oranger crystal fisco, turned into a bunch of tom thompsons. go figure. scented with the stationary scent (gotta call it something else now) my first synthetics only fragrance smells quite edible and cosmetic
(its now slowly turning darker beige / tan)

the stash awaits its paper boxes

some glycerin soaps i made with no recipe - the purple one is sooooo great mild and bubbly great for my hands while working on the projects i always have to wash and my terrible habit of cutting and usng the soap too early sometimes causes my hands to get extremely dried up so these glycerin soaps i make are now my fave for right away use. these and the liquid soap. oh yeah ive made two different liquid soaps!

*new update with details! *

here are the soaps on the shelf

 

this is the lava soap made of african black soap and coconut oil soap and activated charcoal (its the one that i tried to make look like lava) (actually it was an accident and i went with it) there are 3 but this was the most artistic one

strawberry pinq soap !


this was a shea butter addition soap with a lavender alcohol bottom (that line on the bottom of darker soap is the most clear and lovely soap) but i didnt temper the batch or something so the shea butter was grainy and it didnt lather that much and it smelled weird i didnt scent it or scented it strange (which happens frequently i use a weird perfume as a soap fragrance because most times the weirdness disappears and its a nice smell but this was not one of those times)

 some table scraps... my poor dog

 this is rose swirl im not sure if they look grotesque or not. im just gonna say they dont, to save my feelings.

 these are fresh lilac bars they smell great, heady, lilac, floral, not for those who dislike flower scents, this is that classic lilac scent

these are my *favorite* but i hacked the loaf very badly and all the bars are unevenly cut (so sad) these soaps were measured perfectly and theyve cured to perfection,,,,,the scent of blackberries and violet leaf this soap is divine

these are lack lye fiasco bars that finally cured into the mildest full of glycerin bars, and they are quite large, much larger than all the rest at 750 divided by 3 (250 grams per bar)

these are little tiny soaps made into a bigger tiny soap. they are shards of mainly glycerin soap trials and colouring experiments and they are super adorable i love the colours. they are made using ice cube molds.

 

these are the strawberry soaps so cute i made them spur of the moment in a burst of creative energy (but according to camh thats called mania and needs to medicated with sedation drugs? )

 these are glycerin bars that took forever to cure - too long to cure actually
they smell ok, not my fave but i love the colour, i havent tried them, i think they are super mild though i wonder about how bubbly they are!

 

this is a new process i came up with that makes the cold process soap more translucent, i called this soap happy soap and i created a lemon verbena like scent for it.

this is another glycerin soap same time i made the aqua one. its SUPER bubbly !!!! but not very clear at all. you can tell its got a different texture and it smells nice. it should smell like grapes but it smells like something sweet.

 there are also loads of soap blocks which i havent taken pictures of. im trying to batch some lye but its taken me 4 days i havent done it yet i am very distracted with trauma stress right now (no weed) and no food (hungry and cant think clearly)

I Love You Soap - red rose swirl handmade soap

For Valentines day!
https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/665987874/i-love-you-soap-red-rose-clay-swirl

I made this one a wrapper but no pic of it

originally published on Jan 19

PINQ STRAWBERRY

new soap

pink clay and a touch of shea with 

a fruity floral rose reminiscent of 

strawberries, ylang ylang and wine

messed up closing photoshop before shut down last night and lost the layers so got to do the cover again
but ahhhh how satisfying
also need to get paper
this paper is no good for the ink
 not sure how it smelled so strongly of strawberries but now a few days later the open bars are just starting to smell like rose again....this one packaged last night has brought the stawberry scent back.
i didnt measure the oils when making the scent so i lost the recipe...this soap loaf is the only one!

 originally published on Jan. 18

Sweet Man Blend Soap

Yeah! Now on etsy: https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/654423879/sweet-man-blend-soap

Sweet Man Blend Soap

Leather & Pear

Bosche Pear In A Leather Bag

School Boy

Bring Your Pear To Work Day

Bird Watcher

ALL AGES fragrance for male. Pour Homme.

100% Coconut Oil Soap with Kaolin Clay from Germany.

Cleansing and fragrant.

 Essential oils and botanical extracts of Tobacco, Orris, Vanilla, Guaiacwood, Cedar Atlas, Rose, Lemon...

Fine fragrances include Castoreum (not for Vegans)

Bring your animal aura with you.


Impeccable hygiene and keen intuition
The classic man breaks hearts.
He smells good and lives well.

10 bars available. If you would like to purchase wholesale, send me an email or comment on this post.

Free pick up in Toronto $25 minimum purchase.

Have a look at my other products and services.

Handmade item.
Aromatherapy Toronto
by Nicole Tirona

Almond Oil and Shea Butter MIlk Soap!

Yay

packaging is done

then i got obsessed and made a mini one

and an even smaller one.

hehe will post those pics in the day.

Milk Soap!

 so this is the Shea Butter Milk soap.. hm. was not expecting this packaging.  it turned out better than i expected.
still too ornate, was going for a more flat look
does anyone see the hemp plant under mickey.

 these are the best paper milk caps i found as free clip art
and made them into a pattern
whew
really cute
would make nice quilting fabric
(like the monchichi fabric)

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Shea Butter and Milk soap with Almond Oil as the main feature oil plus Hemp seed and Castor in a mainly Coconut oil soap recipe.
Wanted a good shampoo bar but I think it will be too oily due to the high amount of excessively superfatted coconut oil. Its the bare minimum lye water amount so will take a while to cure. This soap features 10% Almond Oil and 8% Shea Butter (a blend of two Shea butters, a mild nutty yellow crumbly one, and a smokey heavy smelling fatty oily one)

 I waited for it to gel before my very eyes for the picture! Then I got kind of bored and worked on something else by the time I looked up the whole thing was already gelled.Which is unfortunate because I had left the light on one side for too long and there is miniature alien brain on one side when the surface evaporates faster than the inside and forms a skin and shrinks is what I conclude alien brain to be.

I tried copying my shampoo bar recipe ingredients... its not the same. No sunflower oil! I didn't have any. But this soap I made a milk accord specific for the Shea butter that smells like bacon! Omg! It smells like milk to me, much stronger and more realistic milk accord than I ever dreamed! I don't want to share my essential oil blend for this milk accord yet, *just* made it last night. Only pure plant oils and extracts in this soap!

Its ... needs to cure. and I need confidence cutting the bars. the large end is for me to sample and play with, the two thin bars are the samples i cut in half for mini packages. the rest... needs to be cut assuredly. if you can see the sample cuts have a bit of hesitation and since the soap isn't fully formed yet its so soft and you can see the back and forth of the wire. drat. so Ive stopped at that block pictured and will cut the rest later when i fangle the angle.

this soap is inspired by L'Occitane Shea Butter Milk soap.

 when I was looking up packages I found their simple nice package and copied how to write the grams and Net Wt. for my soap boxes lol so I kept seeing "Shea Butter and Milk". Ive never tried their Shea Butter and Milk soap but I am so allured by their brand. Also this package they have reminds me of table top majong pad paper also used as seamstress pattern making pad.

Will make some labels, something milky and flat graphic (not ornate botanical style) will do my best

and post them when they're ready
xo

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ta-dah! Editing the label... packaged soaps coming up!

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p.s.. could not help but share my joy on creating this accord.. see my post on basenotes
http://www.basenotes.net/threads/460644-Cheesey-Atlas-Cedar-to-Milk-Accord 

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well i made a lotion with the lemon milk... im allergic to it just like real milk, drat. thought less than .4% as per the recommended amount for Peru Balsam according to Tisserand would be ok, but it sensitized my skin right away! got a couple small red spots that stung, and one small welt. They went away and tried the moisturizer again...and again.. it smells so good~! Gee whiz! will reformulate with less aloe vera, no peru balsam (will try the valerian root and carrot seed oil for its geranyl acetate which i read here... seems like a good idea- added a drop of carrot seed into the newest fougere on someones suggestion and remembered adding it to the calming blend before, and it really does make a delicate difference https://monq.com/eo/terpenes/geranyl-acetate/
the lotion has a fantastic consistency.. best one yet..but still not oily enough for me. it absorbs too quickly. the aloe vera gives it a really nice slip and wet texture, but i think i put too much (.24 grams too much) the smell is amazing though, i really like it, creamy sweet slightly lemony, it really smells like lemon cake to me with some cream cheese frosting... its sweet smelling and i think its so great because its got a cake smell but its just essential oils from my collction!  sometimes i catch a whiff of milk and lemon poppyseed cake, its very nice to me! I never liked vanilla before.
i would like to get a new preservative because was i getting contact dermatitis from the rice lotion with .20. this preservative plus the milk blend with peru balsam and its repeated application, my skin went insane (then my entire torso starts itching and other random parts like my forehead and thigh...sigh) these milk lotions (made 3 sample bottles, 60 ml, 25 ml, and 15 ml) have only .10 preservative as proven by the rice lotion in september (still smells fresh, tried it yesterday again in disbelief. only wish i didnt use so much of my sample because the 25ml is 3/4ths gone) and i wonder again if .05 will be too little...