Soap tribute to Nunavut

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 !

Soap tribute to a Winter Rose

Some time ago my neighbor gave me a rose from her garden… a gorgeous pink to captivating perfume. I could not believe that such a delicate flower withstand cold temperatures if. She even told me to keep my vase better left outside. So it gave me an environment to make soap ! Yeah because anything can become an excuse to make soap ^ ^.

This rose also made me think of a person who has ever crossed my path. In a contest that launched the theme of the rose I was able to learn a bit, that person so strong and fragile at the same time. A person who despite difficult circumstances like this all pink, it is beaten. Today it is a place that we simply do not know mortal. I like to think of where it is… roses are eternal. I think some will know who I mean. I dedicate this recipe to him…

HV rape 30%
HV coconut 25 %
HV olive 20 %
HV cocoa 6,5 %
HP Palme 18,5 %

Greasing to 8%
Water and soda to recalculate

The trace :
Fragrance rose 2%

Mica brillant
Mica rose
Emerald Green Mica *
Rosebuds

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. Then add the rest of your ingredients (essential oil, fragrance, 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 4 weeks.

*Here my emerald green mica became actually a little verdigris… So I think it must contain a mineral oxide oxide with soda. So if you ever want a soap dyed a nice green… stay away from this one.

The fragrance slightly accelerated my track so I had to pay promptly and I could not do what I wanted marbling. The look is not very professional but it also soap… although it is expected that things not always work the way you want. Always it is that this soap smells good…. very english rose !

If you want to see the recipe that I made for the competition around the rose click here

I did not know very well Laurence, but I, during this period which for many is family, to offer a sweet thought to his family.

Soap parties in little sparkling !

The last few weeks I really carbureted in soap making. Well yes… the holidays approach and I think that handmade soap makes a wonderful gift. Especially when we did oneself. So I wanted to make very festive know.

When we speak we often think of celebrations with champagne or sparkling I thought it would be nice to give them this key, but hey put champagne in my soap is not yet in my ways !! So I continued my research on the internet and when the fragrance champagne and I we crossed… given that much to this…

HV grape seeds 32 % (well yes a must… champagne… raisin…)
HV coconut 30 %
HV olive 25 %
Palme HV bio 13 %

Water and soda to recalculate
Surgras 7%

Additions to the trace :
Mica noisette + Mica doré
Shiny silver mica food on top
Fragrance champagne

Difficulty : Conservation : Several months

Method of cold saponification :
Always the same for soaps. Melt the oils together. Add soda water (not the other) and cool. When both mixtures, soda + water and oil temperature are 40 ° C, pour the soda water mixture in your oil and mix with a hand blender until the appearance of the trace. Then add the rest of your ingredients (fragrances, oxides and mica) , pour into your molds. Wait 48 h and unmold your soaps with gloves, they cut it if necessary. Place in a dry place for a cure 4 weeks.

Here to create a worse I first put a little mica in my dough. Pay first, add mica, mixed, donate and so on. This is a slight deterioration golden… we do not really see the pictures… it's a shame. I then did the same technique of drawing on my savon Weeds… cutting with a star.

I made it there about four weeks… I will not say how much I look forward to using it ^ ^ !

En voici deux photos à la lumière du jour et l’autre fut prise au lever du jour 🙂

Savon milk & berries

I made this soap there is now 1 month and dust. I wanted to try my new wooden mold made especially for me. I was not disappointed, it is fantastic… a big thank you to my dear uncle ! So this soap… I wanted a little more tasty and fruity smell. So I opted for two fragrances, one of milk and the other of mature & litchi. The latter is a real discovery for me… a complete delight ! I would say lower or you get. Here is the recipe of my beloved soap…

Hv coconut 30 %
Olive Hv 28 %
Hv Grape seed 22 %
Hv palme bio ** 20 %

Water and soda to recalculate
Greasing to 8 %

Additions to the trace :

White part
Brillant Mica * + hv rice bran
Fragrance milk

Violet portion
Oxide violet * + hv rice bran
Fragrance mature & litchi

Difficulty : Conservation : Several months

Method :
Always the same for soaps. Melt the oils together. Add soda water and allow to cool. When both mixtures, water and soda, are temperature of 40 ° C, pour the soda / water mixture into your oil and mix with a hand blender until the appearance of the trace. Then add the rest of your ingredients (fragrances, oxides and mica) , pour into your molds. Wait 48 h and unmold your soaps with gloves, they cut it if necessary. Place in a dry for a cure 4 weeks.

Marbling :
Here I put my purple portion at the bottom of my first mold. I installed long spoon inside the dough, sleeves up. I then cast my whiteware. I pulled one by one spoon forming a gesture “vague”. It gave me a bit strange marbling but I like it anyway. 🙂 J’ai aussi fait une étiquette… I've listed the ingredients… not in Latin but in French which I find easier to understand when the offers as a gift.

*For your dye does not ugly lumps, mix it with a little oil. This will give a soap with a more uniform color.

** I chose this oil as a test because I had never used, However this oil is highly contested because of the deforestation caused by culture. This is a very sensitive issue… I will sell my stock… On verra well.

The famous fragrance Mure Litchi
I find it in Soap Session, a small shop where you can buy everything you need to know your. Karine is a real gem… it also offers courses in soap making, where she shares his tips and some of his secrets !!

Soap tribute to Weeds…

There was a few months Kafee home Soapsession we threw a challenge “Americain soap“, make a soap under the theme of our favorite TV series. I must say that I had a hard time choosing because there are many that I like. But a special inspiration came to me with the series Weeds. If you've never watched I advise you… it's a little inspiration in British film “Saving Grace“, if you've never seen so… well go ahead it's a good slice of laughter !

Here is… then the heroine of the series traffics cannabis to feed his family following the death of her husband. Although it is not a consumer keen she is his drug iced coffees… she even downright drunk all the time. My soap is so inspired by these two things… Cannabis and iced coffee. I have a background of soap smells of coffee and patchouli, with ice melt in&for to finish with a green top layer made of hemp oil and smell of freshly cut grass. Here is the recipe…

Basic coffee
Coconut oil 30 %
Rapeseed oil 35 %
Cocoa butter 35 %

Water & soda to recalculate

Additions
Mica noisette
He patchouli
He petitgrain

Ice cubes
Melt & for goat milk
Coffee butter
Fragrance Coffee
Mica brillant

Base chanvre
Coconut oil 37 %
Hemp oil 16 %
Beurre de karité 26 %
Huile d'olive virgin 21 %

Water & soda to recalculate

Additions
Oxide green
Fragrance Green grass

Difficulty : Conservation : Several months

Traditional method of soap cold
Melt the oils together. Add soda water 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. Then add the rest of your ingredients (essential oil, oil and mica) and pour into your molds. Wait 48 h and unmold your soaps with gloves. Place in a dry place for a cure 4 weeks.

My steps
I cast my first dough “Basic coffee”, add my ice already pre-made and pre-cut. The next day I made my second dough, that hemp and poured it all over.

The design of the hemp leaf
It's very simple, in a thick plastic sheet bought in a DIY store, I drew my paper and cut it to the cuter. Then I've used as a stencil to cut my soaps (48 h after resting)… with pretty green glitter. Sympa non ?

Here rendering larger !

The Illuminator foundation… home !

This is the end of summer… la fin de la bonne mine des vacances. L’automne est là, resumption of work, le retour en cours bref le retour du teint des buildings comme dirait ma mère. C’est quoi le teint building… le teint gris comme ceux des grattes ciel de nos grandes villes. Je suis certaine que vous voyez de quoi je parle. Mais voilà parfois un peu donner un petit coup de main à la nature avec une petite touche de maquillage, the blush… yes… but also a light touch.

I love these compact four-color… turning the brush and hop ! Ce que j’aime moins c’est leur prix… I oui 20 euro c’est beaucoup pour un truc futile. Alors voici une belle façon d’en faire un soi même pour le huitième du prix ! Here is the recipe…

Base powder
4 g arrow root
3 g magnesium stearate
0.5 g of plum butter (or shea, coffee, lawyer, etc.)
1 to 2 macadamia oil drops or hazel
0.5 g Dioxyde of titane
0.2 g soft key

Here the mixture for 4 colors

Beige
0.30 g mica beige

Rose
0.10 g mica rose bonbon

Violet
0.05 g oxide purple
0.08 g mica brillant

White
0.23 g mica brillant
0.07 g mica or

Difficulty : ––Conservation : 6 month —–Capacity : 10 g

Method
Faites votre mélange au mixeur de vos ingrédient pour la base. Lorsque le tout est bien homogène, séparez celle ci en quatre. Ce qui reviendra environ a 1.75 g of base for each color. Mélangez au mixeur 1.75 g with your basic recipe for beige, book and then do the same thing with the pink, ainsi de suite. Vous devriez avoir maintenant quatre pots contenant vos quatre couleurs mélangé chacune à de la base.
Pour roughly one in these cosmetic one cup, afin de former une espèce de forme en tarte. Compressez le tout et appliquez votre godet dans son emballage cosmétique.

Aromazone sells everything you need for this here plus explanations for your compacted powders. Faut prendre le coup de main mais une fois appris ce petit kit est très pratique.

Use
Il ne vous suffit que de vous munir d’un pinceau et d’appliquer cette poudre sur l’ensemble du visage. N’ayez pas trop la main lourde sinon vous risquez de faire fantôme ^^. Vous pouvez aussi l’utilisé par touche sur le haut des pommettes.

Verdict
I love the texture on the skin, l’odeur est délicieuse avec le beurre de prune. Par contre faut pas échapper son compact car on risque de retrouver le tout décompressé. Si vous avez une peau plus foncé… slightly exaggerate the intensity of the four basic colors.

Cliquez pour voir une photo plus grande rajouté suite à une demande de Letis 😉
I had already used the palette from which to defeat the right, rajouté suite à une demande de Letis 😉

Body powder “sweet dreams”

I love body powders… surtout avant de me coucher. J’ai l’impression de m’envelopper dans un petit nuage. J’avais une poudre pour bébé d’une marque très connu “J * hson &J * hson” à la lavande. Été comme hiver je l’utilisais, but good… le pot est maintenant vide. A défaut d’en racheter d’une autre marque, je me suis dit que ce serait bien de m’en faire une moi même. D’autant plus que j’ai reçu il y a bien longtemps, in an order I made in Lady Glamourdise a beautiful little puff of a vintage style and made entirely by hand… j’adore !

Here is my basic recipe, Then we can add the scent you want, mica for shine effect, des ocher, oxides to color, an easily customizable quick recipe.

The powder :
80 % arrow root
10 % white clay (mattifying fantastic summer)
10 % cosmetic talc powder coated or silk (brings softness)

Optional additive :
Essential oil ( to 2%)
Natural fragrance
Mica
Ocher or oxide
Flowers

Difficulty : ––Conservation : 6 month Safe and dry

Method
Mélangez les ingrédients sec ensemble dans un bol. Ajoutez vos additifs et passez le tout dans un mixeur pendant quelques minutes afin de tout bien mélanger. Versez dans un pot poudrier ou un flacon poudrier stérile. Conservez bien sur votre mélange dans un endroit sec.

Here I added mica beige, few drops of lavender essential oil and vanilla extract.

I invite you to discover the shop Lady Glamourdises for la houppette et plusieurs autres objets. J’ai vraiment un coup de cœur pour cette boutique, Laetitia est une vraie perle. Elle a beaucoup de petits produits inédits et offre un service des plus agréable. Encore merci à elle pour ce joli cadeau !

 

 

Soap “Gingerbread”

In the month of May I am back in my beloved country to visit family and friends. It was a wonderful trip, it had already been three long years since I had not returned. No need to tell you that I was lacking in my native Canada ! Not always easy to live away from his family but good… Ainsi va la vie. To return to our sheep… I had prepared beforehand to give small gifts, I had three different soaps which one I am presenting today.

It is as the name suggests a soap spices. I wanted black with golden yellow. I'm rather pleased with the visual result. The smell when cutting was absolutely delicious… a molasses cake as in my childhood. After his treatment he feels much cloves and molasses. Citrus fruits are harder to keep in soaps. Without delay, So here is my little recipe…

32 % Coconut oil
42% Olive oil
26% Beurre de karité

Water and soda to recalculate

The trace :
3 cs Molasses
2 cc charcoal.
1 cc mica or + yellow ocher (for forms in spirals)
2% Clove oil and grapefruit

Difficulty : Conservation : Several months

Melt the oils together. Add soda water 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. Then add the rest of your ingredients (essential oil, oil and mica) and pour into your molds. Wait 48 h and unmold your soaps with gloves. Place in a dry place for a cure 4 weeks.

Here is another photo that is very bad sorry… but I can take it with my cell phone at the time because my camera was out of service. With the way I've always done… une étiquette 😉

My red pencil "The time for figs"

For the sake of practice I wanted to make me a little red in original format… Gros crayon ! It is easier to flow in a tube lipstick, convenient to take and especially original ! I took my recipe “Multicolored lipstick” because I love its texture and planting seedlings firm red gloss effect. It is very comfortable especially during these hot summer ! Why figs… I think the color looks great in the heart of the fig. I remember the first time, last year, where I had the pleasure to taste a freshly picked fig tree, Uncle and aunt darling… a pure happiness !

2.7 g hv ricin
0.6 g cire de candellila
0.3 g carnauba wax
1.5 g butter Tucumã (if you do not have cocoa butter is)
3 vitamin E drops
7 drops aromatic extract fig

The color :
0.25 g mica rose bonbon
0.29 g red oxide mineral
0.28 g mica beige

Difficulty : ––Conservation : 3 to 4 month —–Capacity : 6 g

Melt the wax, castor oil and vitamin E, when everything is melted add your aromatic extract without forgetting your pigments.

Then the pencil I found in MaCosmetoPerso, just cover the tip of the pencil with a piece of aluminum foil, remove the tip of the pencil and gold sink his mixture into the hole. I let it cool while standing tip down in a glass. When everything is cooled replace the cap and place in the freezer. Then to use it enough to cut, the big pencil sharpener, and voila !

I think this format really practice it may well draw lips.

My pink and beige mica just in Bilby&Co.

My red oxide, my oils, butter, aromatic extract, waxes and vitamin E they are in Aroma-Zone

My little yellow sun shadow

Go have fun today !! For some time we see around pretty eyes adorned with sun… de beaux fards jaune. Certes cela n’est pas du gout de tous mais je trouve amusant ces couleurs acidulé qui nous plonge dans l’été. J’avais donc envie d’en réaliser un moi même… well yes we have some nice colors with the natural… is not just shades of brown in natural cosmetics ! 😉 Petit clin d’œil à deux copines cosméteuses. Voici donc la dite recette qui est d’ailleurs très simple à réaliser.

The base :
4.5 g arrow root
2 g of the zinc oxide (gives a white tone)
0.3 g beurre d'abricot or karité
0.2 hv g rice bran
2 vitamin E drops

The color :
1 g mineral oxide yellow
0.6 g mica doré
0.3 g mica orange clair (optional)

Difficulty : ––Conservation : 4 month —–Capacity : 8 g

Mix in your blender for powder based, au bain marie faites fondre votre beurre avec l’huile végétale et la vitamine E. Lorsque tout est bien fondu versez le contenue dans votre mixeur ou se trouve les poudres pré mixée. Re mixez le tout et ajoutez vos couleurs. Hum… yes re re mix ;). Ensuite il ne vous reste qu’à versez le tout dans un flacon poudrier stérile. And here ! You have your eye yellow ! Si vous en avez un peu trop… the final cut in half and add a bit of another color… green, red, of brown… de cette façon vous aurez deux fard différents qui pourront s’allier à merveille 🙂

Pour ce fard je vous conseil tout de même de mettre une base pour fard et de jouer avec un fard clair. N’hésitez pas à ajouter plus de mica doré si vous voulez un effet plus brillant ou mica blanc pour un effet jaune glacé.

Voici quelques star du monde de la musique qui porte très bien la couleur en question !

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