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 !

A good discussion of bubbles !

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…

	Soap Eucalium Lucie, As beautiful to the eyes and nose, emanation of the essential oils of eucalyptus, patchouli and geranium. Its marbling and color gives the appearance of precious stone. I can not wait to try it ! laulan.unblog.fr
	Savon Berlingamote De Pascale, Superb soap shaped carton with the smell of bergamot, a small return to childhood, a moment of pure delight ! I can not wait to test it ! www.dans-ma-nature.com
	Immortal snow The Karine, Explosion of colors and fragrances for scented soap edelweiss extract and combawa… all with jojoba beads for a little gentle exfoliation. I do not know if it will end immediately in my shower because I can not take off my nose top ! I conquered ! www.soapsession.com
	Savon ketchup D’Annabelle, Tomatoes are scrambling to provide a soap that any gardener should have ! Here was to propose an alcoholic maceration of tomatoes, essential oil not just the sweet smell that reminds me pies tomatoes ! I want to garden ! Soap-minervoise.com
	Soap Pan Celine, So then this trip is a journey with nature, des odeurs fleuri d'Ylang Ylang. Its scent relaxes me a lot and bright colors makes a good mood ! All came with a beautiful poem Celine enchanting. sealeha.canalblog.com
	Alain soap ! Anja D', This soap is truly refreshing, I love the smell of mint so I'm spoiled here, because you will understand it contains. It was also made with stone alum and local oils. A great discovery that I can not wait to take a shower. www.saponaire.com
	Savon Bugsbunny Claude, Beautiful pastel soap invites a moment of sweetness. I want a pampering time with this one. Here we delight of course essential oil… carrots ! Little trip to the land of Disney assured ! jurassens.fr
	Oh my soap “Gold” ! Jessica, A real luxury this one… beautiful soap sprinkled with gold leaf ! Oh my gold en effet !! The very fragrant for a trip in the south of France… in lavender ! And J'ad-or- ! pokafantaisie.com
	Inspiration soap feline Of Mary, Small soap wildness that when the well positioned quietly shines. Its smell of spices is a treat. Key vetiver, cedar and cinnamon… grrrouaawwww ! secrets-cosmetiques.com
	Soap Bubbles greedy Michaël De, It really deserves its name, it looks like a pastry this soap. A slice of cake in which I'd like to chew… but we'll save that for the shower ! Odeur de verveine, orange, ylang ylang and palmarosa to come to spice up the nostrils ! jurassens.fr
	Soap Rain pastels Raphael, Here was a double surprise because we had a chance of falling on either a soap or fresh floral fragrance ! To tadammm… I had the fresh ! A delicious smell of mint is one escapes its appearance is sublime with its bluish green peas… one time pop ! ruedusavon.fr
	The soap Impromptu The Sandrine, Soap canvas, a small work of art decorating the bathroom well when bathing or showering (Greener is better). Its smell is fine and soft dotted orange, Geranium, palmarosa, Patchouli, of coriander, de benjoin, guaiac wood and balsam peru. A mix that invites a relaxing. lils63.canalblog.com
	Soap salt and oil in Africa De Swanee, A discovery for me much in the sense of touch that smell. A trip to distant lands… green and spicy fragrance both. PaloSanto, Okoume, Gaping mouth, Maniguette sweet bejoin. The salt gives it a grainy as if it was a piece of a brick of a lost temple. I love. byswanee.blogspot.com
	Savon Vanilla Bean Severine, Of gluttony in bar… is it really !! It looks like a vanilla caramel… course because it is flavored with vanilla. Decor is greedy are also the colors of our favorite dessert ! Plus it has a small exfoliating hand with the heart of the poppy seeds. 'll Admit… you have a small environmental non caramel ? lesfoliesdusavon-leblog.com
	Loofah Soap Michel de, A great big soap looks like a very gentle and will be perfect for summer happens because it contains the loofah will exfoliate the skin well ! It feels very fresh, la menthe forte (non démentholée). It gives me environment to go to this spa soap !! codina.net
	Loofah Soap The Franck, Colossus, It is aptly named ! Soap and smelling generous nature. It reminds me of a trip in the mountains, I was camping out, with smells of Himalayan cedar, sandalwood and vetiver. I admit I fell for this line of soap in the past. I am delighted to have another ! gaiia.fr
	Savon May Chang & Patchouli De Zinette, The type of soap that I would take with me on a trip ! A small green fragrant May Chang and patchouli as its name indicates. I love the smell and his notes a little lemon. A nice buffer conceals all. lesutilesdezinette.com
	Soap Arabian Nights Laura, A perfect soap to encourage dreams. A nice marbling and a divine odor,. The scent of anise, basil and tropical vétivier come capture your nostrils ! You breathe well, closing his eyes… I keep this one for sweet dreams !! know-soleya.fr
	Once upon a time soap Maud, What a tribute this one soap, which was made in honor of his mother. Mild shared with us to discover very feminine odor moment, Lavender, geranium and patchouli. All this decorated pink damask. Soap that makes me think of my own mom who I miss a lot ! A beautiful moment olfactory ! maudsiegel.com
	Soap Nunavut This is mine !! But I will speak tomorrow! 😉

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.

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 🙂

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

Le webzine NaOH n°2, venez vite le lire !!

Je passe en vitesse vous parler du dernier numéro de NaOH… j’ai eu l’honneur d’être invité à participer au deuxième numéro de cette superbe revue en ligne. Une idée 100% Keskafée !! Elle me surprendra toujours cette kafée avec ses nouvelles idées et ses articles.

Pour l’occasion j’y ai crée une recette spécialement pour elle. Un “blush café olé”… oui il y a bien un jeu de mot ;). Je mettrais bientot ma recette ici mais je vous invite à la découvrir sur son blog.

What ? Vous ne l’avez pas encore lu ? Allez y vite ça en vaut la peine… N.a.O.H. n°2

Soap "tomato lemon"

J’avais envi de faire un savon de saison. Bon, of course tomatoes are not ripe yet, loin de là. Mais en faisant mon mini jardin de balcon, all specifically, planting my tomato plant in the planter, cela m’a donné une bonne idée de savon. Car la tomate dit on est bonne pour les peaux à problèmes et le citron aussi. Alors pourquoi pas en faire un savon pour le corps! Il est encore en cure et à vrai dire toujours dans ses moules depuis deux jours afin d’être bien sec. Néanmoins voici la recette et je vous en reparlerais lorsqu’il sera fin prêt !

30 % hv coconut
32.5 % hv macadamia
37.5 % Olive hv
Water and soda to recalculate

The trace :
4 % Grease on hv macadamia
tomato juice
ET lemon
he de tea tree
dried lemon peel in the sun
Mica cuivre

INS : 157

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

Melt the oils together. Add soda water and cool. Je précise que j’ai coupé de moitié environ ma quantité d’eau et que je l’ai remplacé à la trace par du jus de tomate. 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, zest of lemons, mica and tomato juice) and pour into your molds. Avec le mica les zestes prennent une jolie couleur rouge, but this is not a requirement to use in the recipe.

For now I did not test it because it is not ready at all but I was really looking forward to the presented :). Mais lorsqu’ils seront sorti des moules j’en ferais d’autre photo promis.

Savon "Cosmopolitan"

I watched Sex and the City on a Friday night and I thought… why would want to do a soap after the famous cocktail of the show. Cocktail I drink elsewhere, depuis longtemps avec mes propres amies. Alors voici donc la petite recette qui en a découlé !

37 % hv coconut
37 % beurre de karité
8 % hv wheat germ
8 % hv apricot kernel
8 % hv grape seeds
Water and soda to recalculate

The trace :
8 % Grease on hv amandon prune
cranberry juice *
ET sweet orange
aromatic extract : grenade, strawberry and fig (* or cranberry)
Cranberry powder *
Red oxide

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. Ici j’ai séparer ma pâte en deux et j’ai ajouté le colorant rouge dans une d’entre elle, Then I mixed in roughly mussels the two doughs.
*Cranberry is indeed the name en français Cranberry.

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What !? You never drank Cosmo ? Bien voici la recette :

4 cl vodka
2 cl Cointreau
2 cl cranberry juice
1 cl lime juice
a little lime zest

On contre attaque la buée !

Quoi de plus énervant que de sortir de la douche sans en devant essuyer le miroir et ne toujours rien y voir !
Et bien il y a un astuce tout simple, 100 % naturel et efficace.

Prenez un savon, frotter le doucement sur votre miroir, il doit être sec ! Essuyer celui ci avec un chiffon propre. Voilà le tour est jouer ! Vous ne me croyez pas ? Soufflez dessus pour voir ;-).

J'aime Olivier !

Pour poursuivre sur mon voyage au Québec, de retour dans mon beau pays. Mon époux et moi même visitions la belle région de la Baie. Tout près de la rivière du Saguenay nous avons trouvé une jolie maison d’époque victorienne avec ses jolies frises de bois (comme je les adores). Eh bien là je dois dire que c’était une très belle découverte pour moi. Il s’agissait de du savonnier “Olive“. Un beau magasin aux allures d’antan avec une belle odeur de nature. Note à la porte, démonstration à 15h30… parfait il est 15h20 cela me donne juste le temps de découvrir les produits de la boutique avant que tout commence.

La démonstration commence, un jeune homme entre, l’air joyeux et pétillant. Il se nomme, de lui même, le gros monsieur du savon. Il nous a fait la présentation et l’explication des savons de la compagnie. Comment on les fabriques et avec quelles matières premières. Avec humour et une touche pour chaque génération (il y avait des petits enfants) il a su nous porter dans ce monde qu’est la création du savon. Franchement il était vraiment pro, il faisait rire les enfants et avaient toujours les mots justes pour décrire les choses aux adultes. Un réel moment de plaisir ou j’ai d’ailleurs dépensé beaucoup de sous… mais les produits en valent largement la peine. Je les adorent tous !

Je me suis procurer des savons aux odeurs multiples et variés pour des cadeaux et un savon au sable… oui oui au sable pour exfolier les pieds, un prêt à raser (il est fannnntastique), un au théier (tea tree) pour les soins particulier, un à la poire (pour corps et cheveux), du shampoing etc. Vraiment chacun sont de vrai délices ! Cela tous fait à base d’huile d’olive dont on connait maintenant bien les vertus !! De plus pour certains de leur savon, ils travaillent avec des artistes peintres, qui leurs crée des toiles sur le thème du savon créer. Celles ci sont utilisées à chaque fois sur les emballages !! Vraiment un art du savon et du visuel ! Ils font de tout, savons, creams, nut tree, shampoings, huiles thérapeutique, beauté pour hommes et femmes etc.

Franchement si vous avez l’occasion de vous déplacer vers une de ces boutiques je vous conseil vivement le détour ! Pour ma part j’en suis, comme vous l’avez bien compris, totalement enchanté !!

Voici leur site internet pour plus de détails,
www.oliviersoaps.com