A meeting in the land of bubbles !

Before leaving on vacation to the south, I just tell you a very special meeting held in June… I had the great pleasure to participate. That the ADNS. But what the ADNS ? It is the Association Of New Soap. A group of professional and amateur soapmakers. A swap space, support, sharing, good humor and passion around the soap. I put you site link here for more information.

But back to this wonderful day of 23 June 2012. We were invited twenty participants in the beautiful region of Chabeuil. From all regions of France and even Tunisia !! We all took a little something to eat for lunch, dinner organized way “Spanish inn”. Then of course soaps show, humer, share, short a great time when all senses were touched. I would not explain precisely what was in the air… but say that I could describe in one word and… “happiness”. A wonderful atmosphere hovered, the reception of the two hosts Frank and Sabine (Soap Gaiia). People whose good mood is contagious. Everyone shared, smiling, laughed, like a big family which. The place is just wonderful, the countryside and horses… I love horses that I was very happy. Besides Sabine works in this medium, elle a site www.moncheval.fr where we can provide in riding equipment.

I also had the pleasure to meet other bloggers with whom I exchange years… since some 5 years now. We all had the same resentment, printing to know for ages and to meet again with friends. People with whom I keep in touch is some ! Then again of course :).

The meeting also allowed me to meet new faces. People as far as Tunisia (Taoufik) and another much closer… in the same city as me, small clin d'oeil to Missrimel. I left the evening, light heart and head full of ideas. Another huge thank you to Frank and Sabine… I look forward to seeing you all at our next meeting !

Here are some photos taken at the meeting by different participants ! Again thank you to them for allowing me to use their beautiful photos here.

The delicacies of the day ! Blocks, wines (moderation ^ ^), lemonade, dried fruit, Tunisian pastries, strawberries in chocolate and much more.


The soap Noa sublime colors, the surprise packets of Sophie, Olivier soaps, of Jurassens and Olga.

Know the Céline marbled, milk soap camel Taoufik, Gaiia soaps and Isabelle.

Soaps eggs deTaoufik, simply eggzellent ! Mine (recipe to come) and a beautiful little dogs of our guests.

So who were you telling me this ? Here is…

Franck & Sabine, the soap Gaiia, guests and interesting people and passionate !
Noa Swanee, great chemist and avid soap, bubbly and full of good advice… and talent !
Michel, our great sage meetings, all done with a touch of humor and also founder of Codina.
Jeff, soap maker who made an impassioned 180 in his life to live his passion ! I admire his career !
Olive, Another soap very passionate with a great concept in soap.
Maria, chemist and a great lover of art. Marriage of flavors and technique, what better !
Severine, great passion, who dreams his own soap and all that will soon be realized !
Sandrine, passionate blogger with soap and plenty of talent. With a beautiful infectious smile.
Karine, that has inspired so many blogger to start making their soap. From a huge talent and will soon release its line of soap !!
Celine, our budding comedian with his story of his first experience in soap, makes beautiful soaps with great passion and cosmetics.
Sophie, sweet and talented, as chemist, a girl who has everything ! In addition it is the same city as me… j’espère qu’on fera un jour un petit savon à quatre mains 😉
Olga, a soap maker and passionate with a great sense of ethics, it offers a very gentle soap, which reflects its own sweetness.
Lucie, it is the little bit of southern sun, a lilting accent that I love and know sublime ! It also will soon release its range !
Olive, another enthusiast who puts a lot of heart to his profession and his own soap.
Claude & Michael, soap couple marrying the perfect symbiosis. One focused on the aspect of care and other visual artists. Soaps that have a bright future !
Taoufik, the Green Hand Soap, it came directly from Tunisia to see us, with soaps awesome… eggs and soaps camel milk… I keep preciously like gold !
Isabelle, know of what I call a perfumer… wonderful smells and makes travel ! She even kind enough to send me another email. Thank you !!

Lucy made us a nice video of the encounter I leave you to discover thank you all for this beautiful day !

Christmas Spice Soap

We are the 24 December… and what better way to wish you all and all a Merry Christmas… a small festive recipe ! A mild soaps for the holidays. I made this one a while ago and I must say it smells wonderful. Here is the recipe…

Coco 28 %
Olive 35 %
Raisin 30 %
Brut cocoa 7 %

Surgras to 7%
Water and soda to recalculate

Additions to the trace :
Fragrance Christmas spice 2 %
Oxide green
Red oxide
Titanium dioxide
Star anise (badianes)

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 mold. Wait 48 h and unmold your soaps with gloves, cut all. Place in a dry place for a minimum cure 4 weeks.

Here I made one a little marbling “free style”, ie no matter how ^ ^. And once again I had a surprise when cutting…. form of a bird sitting on the horns of a reindeer… it is vague in the drawing you say, but it made me smile.

I take this opportunity to wish everyone a very merry Christmas ! I hope you have a wonderful time… please be careful and if you drink… do not take the road !

Soap Citronet !

Everything is in the title… a soap that smells like lemon and clean. Here I used a fragrance as having made soaps with essential oil of lemon in the past… I know that citrus essential oils that do not always hold up well in soap. The fragrance here smells sweet lemon actually. So a little back to childhood for me ^ ^.

How does that I offer recipes for soaps ? Ben oui… the holidays arrive… so I carbureted for a month to make soaps as gifts. Du coup j’en ai beaucoup de recettes à vous montrer 🙂 Voici donc la recette de mon citronet…

Coconut oil 25 %
Beurre de Karité 15 %
Organic Palm Oil 12 %
Olive oil 30 %
Soybean Oil 18 %

Surgras to 7 %
Water and soda to recalculate

The trace :
Lemon fragrance 2 %

Decor :
Ecorse lemon
Neon yellow dye
Bright lime green

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 mold. Wait 48 h and unmold your soaps with gloves, cut all. Place in a dry place for a minimum cure 4 weeks.

I like the color of this soap… a creamy beige with neon yellow. I applied the same method as my soap scroll, but here my mold was made of wood… I think it changes the rebound effect. It's pretty small by against yellow flames.
Here is a small label to accompany the soap.

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.

My fancy soap… Orange delight !

I love how visual experiences in soap. I guess it must be my side “artist” takes over in these moments :D. Still it is after seeing the technique to make nice drops in our soaps with the technique of Ka. I thought… hummm and what it might have happened if I did like this and that… And what was my surprise when the stripping and cutting my soap seen these beautiful curls !!!

Let's start with the recipe for soap…

Hv coconut 30 %
Hv soy 25 %
Olive Hv 25 %
Cocoa butter 19 %

7 % surgras
Water and soda to recalculate

The trace :
2 % He orange, clary sage and lavender
Turmeric

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.

 

Method that I call “rebound” used for this soap visual

In fact I have done exactly as in the Ka video you can see here… but I did my very slight traces ! This means that my dough was much more fluid than his.

I took a plastic mold from a height of approximately 6 cm I lined with parchment paper. I think the mold material is important for the “rebound” if Fasse. I did this technique in a wooden mold and the effect is not the same but still very nice. I'll show you the result with another of my creation savonnesque.

I separated my dough one remained unchanged and the next I added the turmeric. I poured some of my dough and made clear vertical tracks quickly with my colored paste. With a spatula I applied the rest of my dough and made clear my marbling with the rest of my orange mixture.

Well no it's not that simple ^ ^.

My impression soap
I like turmeric in soaps… here he gave me a pretty rusty ! The foam is very soft and fine. And the smell… oufff but the smell is to die I love !! I would do this synergy that's for sure ! Here I used the’Orange essential oil from at Soapsession, it is really good in soap, which is not the case for all essential oils citrus.

A big thank you to these magnificent Ka tutorials and videos !! Well yes it is thanks to you I made this soap !! She workshops if you ever environmental learning at the hands of an expert ! You will find everything on soapsession.com

Making a castile soap… it is easy !

I think it should be the easiest soap making… and a softer and more ! It only takes a few ingredients because it contains a rate 100% olive oil. This is not a soap says “foaming”, but it is not so serious because now everyone knows… this is not the bubbles that wash ! Mr. soap does not foam but what it is gentle to the skin. This is also a perfect soap for toddlers. The recipe has been passed down for ages and just Castile in Spain… OLÉ ! Here's mine… finally… that I did what ! Here I make a castile soap to surgras 8 %.

Olive Hv 100 %

Water and soda to recalculate

The trace :
0.75 % essential oil of lavender (optional, do not put if it's for your children)

In Deco :
Of bay leaves, of oliviers leaves or other
Green clay

Difficulty : Conservation : Several months

Traditional method of soap cold :
Reheat gently in olive oil. Add soda water and allow to cool. When both mixtures, water and soda, are room temperature (35 ° C.), pour the soda / water in your oil and mix until the appearance of the trace. Then add the essential oil and pour into your molds.

For decoration I simply asked some bay leaves on top of the dough freshly fit the mold and then sprinkled with green clay.

Wait 48 h and unmold your soaps with gloves. Remove leaves gently. Place in a dry place for a cure 4 weeks.

I finally got to use my soap and it is a wonder. It is so sweet, the smell is fresh and not heady. Pure soap and I like the cream color. Anyway, if you hesitate to start in making homemade soap, this recipe is perfect to start.

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 !

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 😉

Soap purple

I made some time ago a beautiful purple macerate in oil, grapeseed. I wanted to make a beautiful clear soap decorated with small flowers. I've also added a macerate roibos with vanilla… the smell is really falling ! So here is my recipe…

170 hv g coconut
110 macerate g of purple grape seeds in hv
148 g beurre de karité
22 g macerate roïbos vanilla hv rapeseed

Calculating water and soda

The trace :
Purple flowers (that of the macerate)
4 g fragrance yaourt
2 g fragrance vanille
2 tablespoons of yoghurt powder
3 tablespoons of zinc oxide (to a white color)*

Difficulty : ––Conservation : several months —

Melt the oils together. Add soda water and cool. When both mixtures 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 (additions) and pour into your molds.

* For better success obtaining color… mixed oxide with oil before adding to your soap paste.

Next Page »