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 !

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 !

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 “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 "Flower Rice"

I made this pretty soap for a friend who wanted to offer a small gift to guests at the baptism of his daughter. She wanted a soap with a slight odor and not too heady. It is decided for rice flower fragrance, a very soft feminine odor. Here is the recipe for this little soap with packaging that I made for the occasion.

38 % hv coconut
27 % Olive hv
25 % hv sesame
10 % beurre de karité

Water and soda to recalculate

The trace :
Rice flower fragrance
Mica pink

Difficulty : —–Conservation : several months PH : To be

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 (fragrance 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 the packaging and the label I made for this special opportunity. I first wrapped soaps in a brown paper, then in a pretty pink tissue paper. A pretty green ribbon around the whole anise and symbolizes the stem and leaves. The flower is creating dried rose petal (from my rosebush) glued one by one with a shiny heart.

Ice cream with mint shower

We must explain one thing before going to the recipe… I hate having hot… well yes I am a true Nordic ! L’été je prend souvent des douches froide… without hot water, my husband come back yet :D. Donc lorsque j’ai vue cette recette chez MissLollipop I have not been able to restrain myself ! Voici ma version… I keep in the freezer for an even more shivering !

29 g butter illipe
15 g cocoa butter
33 g beurre de karité
17 g emulsifying wax
6 g macerate vanilla
11 g neutral cleansing base
10 gouttes he menthe verte
5 vitamin E drops (antioxidant)
1 advanced inorganic oxide green
1 peak white mica glitter

Difficulty : ––Conservation : 1 month —–Capacity : 110 g

Faire fondre les beurres et la cire au bain-marie. Lorsque le mélange est bien fondu ajouter votre macérât et la base lavante en remuant doucement. Lorsque votre mélange est bien homogène verser le dans votre moule favori et placer le au congélateur. J’ai laissé le mien toute la nuit au congélateur et au petit matin je me suis régalé d’une douche revigorante ! Je trouve par contre qu’il fond un peu trop vite, mais la texture est fantastique. Pour qu’il fonde moins vite augmenter le dosage de beurre dur (illipe,cocoa) and decreased the amount of soft butter (Shea).

Le dosage des huiles essentielles dans cette recette sont à un faible %. Mais attention l’he de menthe est dermacaustique je vous conseille donc de l’utiliser sur le corps uniquement.

Lament my picture is not very pretty but I could not help but to use it quickly :D. J’avais pris un moule “Celtic Lace” obtained from Alternative nature. On ne voit pas bien sur cette photo mais le fondant brille beaucoup !

Note the essential oils are not recommended for pregnant women and children under 5 years without medical advice.

Soap "tribute to the monastery"

Depuis que je suis arrivé en France on m’a fait goutté à beaucoup de spécialités régionales. Une d’entre elle m’a beaucoup surpris autant par son goût, que par sa fabrication et par sa magnifique couleur dont je raffole. Je parle bien sur de la Chartreuse, ce petit digestif fait avec beaucoup de patience et surtout dans le plus grand secret de ses fabricants. Les moines chartreux gardent jalousement sa recette mais nous laisse tout de même le plaisir d’y goutter. J’ai donc décidé d’en faire un savon… yes yes you understand !! Son odeur est tellement agréable que je ne pouvais pas passer l’opportunité de tester une recette avec ce merveilleux élixir ! Here is my little recipe.

40 % hv coconut
27 % Olive hv
25 % hv canola
8 % hv macadamia
water and soda to recalculate

The trace :
8 % hv nuts (Grenoble course)
Elixir of chartreuse plant
Mineral oxide green (for the above)
Mineral oxide yellow (for the above)
Brilliant Green (a sprinkle to decorate)

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 and pour into your molds. Wait 48 h before removal and book all in a dry place to dry for about a month.

It is still undergoing treatment but it feels really good, l’odeur est légère et verte. J’adore !

The elixir unlike alcohol Chartreuse is used to relieve minor ailments… notamment des maux de cœurs. On en met une goutte sur un sucre ou dans le thé.

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I invite you to visit the website of the cellars of Chartreuse in Voiron, really to be missed if you are in the Grenoble area. www.chartreuse.fr

And here is the Carthusian monastery, an order of monks who have made vows of silence… on ne peut pas visiter le monastère car ces moines sont coupé du monde mais les environs se visite. Une belle marche à pieds à faire dans les massifs de la chartreuse.

Soap "Lavender Milky"

J’aime beaucoup l’odeur douce et ensoleillé de la lavande et l’odeur riche et crémeuse du chocolat blanc. J’ai donc voulu en faire un savon pour profiter pleinement et sans conséquence de ces combinaisons. Voici ma petite recette douce et gourmande !

39 % hv coconut
29 % Olive hv
8 % beurre de karité
24 % hv sesame
water and soda to recalculate

The trace :
he washes the end
aromatic extract of white chocolate
dried lavender flowers

INS : 160

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 and pour into your molds. Wait 48 h before removal and book all in a dry place to dry for about a month.

I was a little disappointed against my brown lavender flowers top soap for the cure… you know why ?

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Easy homemade shampoo

Here is a small simple recipe for shampoo making its own without much hassle and with raw materials readily available !

510 ml of hot water ( decoction)
75 g of grated soap, Aleppo here (or 55 g Marseille, castille)*
3 cs of dried flowers
3 tablespoon apple cider vinegar (Purifying)
or lemon juice (light hair)
1 tablespoons oatmeal (sweetness)
1 cc of olive oil (moisturizer) or 1 cc the beurre de karite (moisturizer)
1 tablespoon aloe gel (soothing)
2 Vitamin E capsules
Conservative choice (I use the ECOGARD)
80 drops essential oil of your choice

Possible and optional additions :
1 DC phytokératine (force and effect)
1 teaspoon ground ginger (tonic)
1 cs foam babassu (foamability, less if you have oily hair)
1 cc of liquid honey (humectant)

Difficulty : ––Conservation : 2 weeks —–Capacity : 500 ml

Make a decoction with your plants, either boil for 15 minutes l’eau et les plantes. Lorsque l’eau et les plantes bouillent depuis environ 12 minutes already, ajouter l’avoine et laisser frémir. Attention de bien remuer car le mélange peu monter vite. Filtrer le tout et remettre dans la casserole. You must have 500 ml of liquid.

Add vinegar or lemon, votre savon râpé et remettre sur le feu jusqu’à ce que le savon soit complètement fondu. Si vous utiliser du beurre de karité ajouter le en même temps que le savon. Votre préparation est maintenant prête, pour in a vial glass filter in re.

Add your olive oil (if you do not use shea butter), your aloe gel, your essential oils, la vitamine E et votre conservateur. Si vous utiliser de l’extrait de pépins de pamplemousse vous devez en mettre environ 4 ml or about 80 drops.

And now you have your shampoo, il peut aussi être utilisé comme base pour des gels douche. Si vous trouver la base trop liquide ajouter un gélifiant, Aguar Aguar as xanthan gum or which is in organic stores.
Mix well before each use and keep cool !
*Use less soap if you make the recipe with soap, as it hardens the washing base.

Here are some suggestions of essential oils to your shampoo
blond hair : chamomile, lemon
dark hair : sage, thyme, rosemary
greasy hair : lavender, lemon, palmarosa
dandruff : mint, rosewood, cedar
hair loss : grapefruit, sage, bay St-Thomas, ylang ylang
dry hair : lavender, ylang ylang, small-grain

Here are some ideas of plants for each hair color
Blond hair : Chamomile, Rhubarb root, dried lemon
Red hair : Hibiscus, ginger
Dark Hair : Sage, black tea, rosemary

cs = tablespoon
cc = teaspoon

Fine découverte !

Lors de mon retour au Québec j’en ai profiter pour parcourir les boutiques de produits naturels. Je suis tombé sur une petite douceur des plus agréable. Un savon avec une odeur divine ! Aux bleuets !! Oui oui il s’agit bien de myrtille et non de la fleur. Elle est faite par une entreprise agro-touristique spécialisée dans la production de lait de brebis.

Elle se nomme “Le Fin Berger inc.“.

Un petit logo tout mignon et surtout des produits créer par une famille passionné de la terre et des produits du terroir ! Ils font de tout, fromages, savons, lotions, savons luffa, sels de bain, bombes de bain, huile de massage, chandelles, ainsi que des paniers cadeaux personnalisés.

Vous pouvez également visiter la ferme et rencontrer ces gens passionnés par leur métier ! (je n’ai pas eu l’occasion d’y aller mais je n’y manquerais pas la prochaine fois !)

Je vous invite à visiter leur site même si pour l’instant il est en construction !
www.lefinberger.com