Soap tribute to Nunavut
30 March 2012 by House made
Filed under With essential oils, The flower, Novelty, Soap factory
If you saw my post yesterday you could see all the beautiful soaps that have been created as part of an exchange between passionate soap. Today I will show you mine…
For this great swap I wanted you to travel to my home country, the Canada. A journey far North, beyond the coniferous forests,… to land ice. I was inspired, you'll understand, of glaciers in northern Canada. More exactly to the Nunavut. Nunavut with its large tracts of land, water and ice inhabited by a multitude of fabulous animals. This beautiful area is north eastern canada… and hits very close to Greenland. I am passionate about the native cultures of these regions since childhood. So I wanted, sort by soap, honor them.
Their culinary traditions and cosmetics is mostly composed of animal products. Here I tried to imagine a product 100 % plant that might suit them. Help them with their daily, the cold climate and lack of light. For indeed the seasons are marked by great period of day and night sides of… up to several months in a row.
Here is the olfactory composition of my soap. It contains grapefruit, for the sun side. Of verbena, for his part in a good mood the blues. Then the oak moss, herbaceous and woody smell this, very natural that resembles what one feels when the snow melts.
So I wanted to give the appearance of my soap glacier; these glaciers tinted turquoise depths, white and black. You might recognize as being the polar bear… emblem of Nunavut ! For the marbling technique will be explained according to the recipe.
Without further ado here is my recipe…
Coconut oil 30 %
Olive oil 21 %
Grape seed oil (macerated verveine) 28,35 %
Hazelnut oil 13 %
Huile macadamia 2 %
Beurre de karité 4 %
Huile de palme 1,65 %
Water and soda to recalculate
Greasing to 7 %
The trace :
Synergy 3 % (Grapefruit essential oil, vervain and oak moss absolute)
Neon blue dye + a hint of neon green
White titanium oxide
Black coal + Shiny charcoal gray pearl cosmetics
INS : 140,63
Difficulty : Conservation : Several months
Traditional method of soap cold
Melt the oils together. Add soda water (not the other) and cool. When both mixtures, water and soda, are room temperature, pour the soda / water in your oil and mix until the appearance of the trace. Add the rest of your ingredients (essential oil, oil, oxide, mica) and pour into your molds. Wait 48 h and unmold your soaps with gloves. Place in a dry place for a minimum of cure 6 weeks.
Why these quantities ?
Just because I worked with what I had at home. I wanted to provide maximum softness and texture soap. Then with these curious quantities I could get a soap that my faith pleases me well. Then it stays in the theme also, because winter is done with what we had when we lived in the far north ! 🙂
Presentation
I sent these little soap about 60g in small pack of craft paper… as if it were a fragile box came directly from Canada. I have not had time to take a picture but you can see here, around here and is. I had also this label to accompany. We find the logo of the Government of Nunavut, I invite you to discover : www.gov.nu.ca
What technique of marbling ?
Here I used the technique to the hanger. Which involves stacking sandwich our different colors into a mold and gently move a hanger for marbling. By cons here I have not done as usual… I twisted my hanger to give it a shape of fingers and I do not go to the length but the width of my mold. As the picture. By movements up and down until the end of my mold. When cutting I added a little polar bear with his star, The logo comme de Nunavut, a small stencil that I made all applied with a little white mica.
Finally, this exchange was a wonderful opportunity for me to express my respect to a little-known people. So I wanted to honor them, they who seek to preserve their languages ??and traditions, while facing the laws of species protection and environmental. This is where some traditions and environment happiness.
Let us know more precisely to protect our natural large water !
A good discussion of bubbles !
28 March 2012 by House made
Filed under Novelty, Soap factory, Area discoveries
There are a few months I received a very nice invitation Lucie through Jessica to participate in an exchange of savonnesques creations. Participants are professional soap and soap Sunday (I is part of course!). I was really pleased ! Small conditions were to make a scented soap with essential oils, with vegetable oils and all of a minimum weight of 50g.
Here… creative the machine is started, what I was going to be able to ?! An idea came from the cold comes… but that I would tell you tomorrow ;).
So I received last week with great joy all participants know ! What can I say other than… WOW !! It was Christmas in the middle of March !!! I was like a kid in a candy store opening this beautiful package ! A medley of odors reached my nose !! Colors, textures, the beautiful packaging… than pleasure !! I put everything in a nice basket that I move from room to room history perfume the atmosphere.
Here are without delay these superb works of art…
I hope you enjoyed discovering these beautiful soaps ! Too bad odors can not be transmitted through the screens !
Thank you very much to Lucy for organizing this swap participants and thank you I am filled ! I hope that my soap will please you as much as yours beguile me.
Make your house incense !
5 March 2012 by House made
Filed under Incense, Home, Novelty
Je suis très sensible aux odeurs et j’adore parfumé ma maison. I used among other things, of incense, but as many know, incense purchased commercially contains many chemical ingredients. As synthetic fragrances, dyes, solvents, etc.. Here I suggest you make yourself your little incense cones. Of course you will need some very specific ingredients, but then be very easy to find. Contrary to what you might think it is very easy to achieve. For this recipe, which is not the only possible to, you will need…
1/2 from powdered incense frankincense *
1 from iris powder
1 from tonka bean into powder
1/4 part of nutmeg
A little water
(accuracy after a few comments on a forum for… must of course be put very little water if it's been a dry cake that not !!!)
Method :
Reduce your incense frankincense powder in a mortar. (This one is very important as it helps to keep your cone, but do not put too much otherwise you will struggle to burn. You can also put other kind of incense or even better gum and / or absolute benzoin). Carefully Rappez your tonka bean. Mix all ingredients together and drip add water to form a stiff dough. Train your small cones and let dry for two to five days.
And here !! Not simple ? Feel free to vary the pleasure, sage, cinnamon, du jasmine, pine resin, absolute benzoin, even a few drops of essential oils in place of a few drops of water. You have to figure !
Use :
Turn the tip of your cone and let burn on a small plate or burner appropriate.
Where to find :
You will find your ingredients easily with a herbalist, even at the grocer for spices and also on some site I have a supplier list here.
For burners you will find several shops and garden decorations.
Interesting site, English, to formulate its scents :
Incensemaking
Video (English) the American company “Mountain Rose Herbs” which shows you how :