More Ladybug Soapworks Spotting

From Nature with Love is a great local supplier for me. They carry many hard to find items. They also have a great blog where they regularly describe uses for their ingredients. You should take some time to check it out. They also post lots of great recipes that I love to try out from time to time. Recently, they posted a bunch of soap pictures and included my Chai Tea soap. Check out the blog here.

Vanilla Chai Tea Soap

I just realized that I never posted photos of my Chai Tea soap. I made this batch with a wonderful blend of olive and palm oils, beeswax, silk fibers, vanilla FO, chai tea FO, poppy mica, water, and NaOH. I am writing NaOH instead of sodium hydroxide, because it is the scientific short form term. For some reason, I dislike the word lye...so I would love if other soapers started referring to sodium hydroxide as NaOH. This would really help with my laziness since I hate having to type out sodium hydroxide. Anyways, enough ranting, here is the long awaited soap. Enjoy!



Again, I must thank my wonderful partner, Dylan, for these amazing photos!

Vanilla Chai tea, Patchouli, and Lavender soap

I made 3 new soaps yesterday: Vanilla Chai tea, Patchouli, and Lavender soap. They are looking so nice. I will be taking them out of their molds tonight. I changed the shape of the lavender soap to a large circle tub and plan to cut the soap in pie type slices. The other two were molded in my wooden rectangle molds. The patchouli and lavender soap have shea butter in them. Oh and I also put a pinch of silk fibers in all three. I have read that they help to make soap super smooth and silky. I don't want to wait 3 weeks to try them out :(

I can't wait to get my supplies this week so that I can try out making lip balm, lotion, scrubs, and deodorant. I have made lip balm in the past but I am excited to give it a try again.

New soaps

I have been dying to try out some of my new scents. So tomorrow I am planning to make a Chai tea soap, a Patchouli soap, a Cranberry soap, and a Lavender soap. I also received a shipment of shea butter, coffee butter, macadamia nut butter, and cocoa butter which I may play around with. I just placed an order for ingredients to make lip balms, body butters, and sugar scrubs which I look forward to trying out. I will let you know how the soaps turn out tomorrow!