Merry-Go-Around!

I wasn't happy with the swirling result I got for past couple time where my friend taught me to add in color at the right timing in different spot while it's still in the mixing bowl, draw a line between color spots, then pour the soap solution into the mold and let the flow create the natural line.  I tried it again this time and I think I finally got it!!!! I am so excited!!!!  This is also my first time trying out making soap without the olive oil, but use a lot of macadamia oil and sweet almond oil instead for extra moisturizing effect.

This is what it looks like after I drew a line between the color spot
It didn't look like much on top, it's the bottom that's doing the trick :)

I was so excited to see the result!!!! 
The new reindeer stamp looks cute too

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Macadamia Sweet Almond Rosemary Milk Soap

澳洲堅果甜杏仁迷迭香鮮奶手工皂

Ingredients:

Macadamia oil

Palms oil

Coconut oil

Sweet Almond oil

Apricot Kernal oil
Organic Whole Milk
NaOH

Essential Oil and Additive:

100% Rosemary Essential oil
Red Mineral Clay

In Time for Halloween

It's a pleasant surprise that by adding dark green tea(green color) with red palm oil and the color came out in time just for Halloween, I added some bees pollen for extra nutrient and touch to it.  Happy Halloween everyone :)

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Red Palm Lavender Vanilla Green Tea Soap

紅棕櫚綠茶蜂粉薰衣香草手工皂

Ingredients:

Extra Virgin Olive oil

Red Palms oil

Coconut oil

Apricot Kernal oil

Castor oil

NaOH

Dark Green Tea

Essential Oil and Additive:

100% Lavender Vanilla Essential Oil
Bee Pollen

Red Wine Soap

Red wine has benefit of increasing blood circulation, so I decided to try that on the soap.  It's a bit hectic during the preparation, because I need to make sure no trace of alcohol left before making the soap by simmering the red wine at the right temperature, then I left it at the fridge for couple more day to ensure no trace of alcohol left.  It gave very interesting scent after I'm done and I can see a bit of red color in it from the wine.

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Red Wine Shea Butter Eucalyptus Soap

紅酒乳油木果尤加利手工皂

Ingredients:

Extra Virgin Olive oil

Palms oil

Coconut oil

Organic Shea Butter

Grapeseed oil

NaOH

Red Wine

H2O

Essential Oil:

100% Eucalyptus Essential Oil

Benefit of Green Tea

Interesting enough, added green tea in it but no trace of green tea color :)  Green tea is well known for it's antioxidant property that shield our skin from environmental damage.  Some research saying if you add some green tea inside the water and wash the face with it everyday, it will help reducing the pore, help shielding the radiation emitted from environment or computer, and help with the dry skin.

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Gromwell Organic Shea Butter Lemongrass Green Tea Soap

紫草根有機乳油木果香茅綠茶手工皂

Ingredients:

Gromwell root soaked in Extra Virgin Olive oil

Palms oil

Coconut oil

Organic Refined Shea Butter

Apricot Kernal oil

NaOH

Dark Green Tea

Essential Oil:

100% Lemongrass Essential Oil

Organic Shea Butter Time!!!

I'm back on making soap after a long time, life got a bit busy but I'm really glad I gave myself a break to make soap finally, it really helps a lot.  I asked my friend in Taiwan to purchase a block of organic shea butter for me early this year, since it's organic, I feel it's very valuable, too valuable to use it....but then I think, what will do me good if I don't use it? it will just go to waste if I don't, so I decided to try those organic shea butter in my soap this time.  I love the texture a lot, it feels so soft and creamy, and has nice natural smell to it, shea butter is a great natural emollient from Gana, contains great source of vitamins, great for moisturizing and help protect skin from harmful UV ray.

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Gromwell Organic Shea Butter Lemongrass Goat Milk Soap

紫草根有機乳油木果香茅羊奶手工皂

Ingredients:

Gromwell root soaked in Extra Virgin Olive oil

Palms oil

Coconut oil

Organic Refined Shea Butter

Castor oil

NaOH

Goat Milk

Essential Oil:

100% Lemongrass Essential Oil

Fruity Soap

I've always been skeptical of adding fruit or juice inside the soap like my friend suggested me a while back, so this time, I decided to overcome my mental obstacle and gave it a try. I blended some raspberry and mixed the juice and mushed raspberry inside the soap, after the soap done, you can even see tiny seed from the raspberry. I also get to use new oil this time - Apricot Kernel Oil, this oil is well know for its various mineral and vitamin property, such as vitamin A, B1, B2, B6, and C, great for softening/hydrating skin, perfect for mature and dry skin.

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Raspberry Apricot Kernel Rosemary Soap

小紅梅杏桃仁迷迭香手工皂

Ingredients:

Extra Virgin Olive oil

Palms oil

Coconut oil

Apricot Kernel oil

Castor oil

NaOH

H2O

Essential Oil:

100% Rosemary Essential Oil

New Goodies for my Soap!

Thanks to my friend, my mom and my brother's help, my soap goodies finally arrived here safely all the way from Taiwan. My friend also kindly gave me her old bevel tool, a new silicon soap mold, soap wrap, and 4 bricks of fresh bees wax from the bee farm.

I've always wanted to try making soap in the silicon mold, but it's hard to find the shape I want here in US, also it's very very expensive. Not only it's easy to remove the soap from the silicon mold, it will ensure the soap comes out smooth on all side where as before, my soap comes out wrinkly because of the additional wax paper I had to put inside my wooden mold. Here's what the soap look like now after taking out from the mold.

After cutting my soap, I started putting new stamps on my soap, it was so much fun, I can even combine two stamp designs into one.

Thanks to my friend's bevel tool, my soap look so much better now, so no more sharp edges on the soap now.

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Red Palm Olive Rosemary Goat Milk Soap

紅棕櫚橄欖迷迭香羊奶皂

Ingredients:

Gromwell root soak in Extra Virgin Olive oil

Red Palms oil

Coconut oil

Grapeseed oil

Castor oil

NaOH

Goat Milk

Essential Oil:

100% Rosemary essential oil

Macadamia Gromwell Milk Soap

One thing good about gromwell root is I can soak it by refilling olive oil till the natural color runs out. After two weeks of soaking the oil, I got beautiful purple olive oil again, and this time, I'm going to try it with milk to see what color it came out. I also tried Australian Macadamia oil this time, this oil is known for anti-aging property.

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Gromwell Macadamia Grapeseed Peppermint Milk Soap

葡萄紫草根胡桃薄荷清香鮮奶皂

Ingredients:

Gromwell root soak in Extra Virgin Olive oil

Palms oil

Coconut oil

Grapeseed oil

Macadamia oil

NaOH

Organic Milk

Essential Oil:

100% Peppermint essential oil