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 !
WAHOU !!! It is truly a magnificent Congratulations colors, technology and design is everything, a very beautiful tribute !!!Bisou
Merci ma belle Chris 🙂
It is really beautiful and very representative!!! I love the synergy of being truly a treat and your marbling and fall
a grand good
Thank you very much Flo… My only regret is that citrus ET is really not that much in soap ^ ^
As I've already said your soap was a real favorite for me and see that it has more real meaning than it does add a little more charm. Again thank you for letting us share a little about yourself !
oh merci c’est vraiment gentil 🙂
I have a real crush on your soap! Brave
Goods but beautiful Finger !!
Thank you for sending us a piece of Canada, I find it very beautiful and very successful and the packaging was top !
Oh I'm really glad you liked ais ! Your soap is really beautiful so I really can not wait to use the smell is heavenly !
I love this beautiful story of soap. I could read you again and again on these native cultures, of these peoples… oh yes yet !!
Your soap is wonderful and how warm tribute…
Goods Gwen ^ ^… ça m’a donné une idée tout ça donc tu risque d’en voir plus dans les prochaines semaines 🙂
I'll add another to tell you it is really beautiful! this blue!! what blue! deep! and I love the little bear of course!! thank you for your technique reveal!
Oh thank you my little lime ^ ^ ! Ben is a shared space here eh… pas sur d’avoir inventer un truc mais bon j’aime tout essayer 🙂
wow ! Your soap is just gorgeous ! I am appreciative ! and I loved reading her story !!! kisses
Thank you very much Metisse <3
B O S a course, and I am especially pleased, because for once I have a B O S in the hands.
Very interesting technique of marbling reversed,great idea, I will test.
Oh merci ma Swanee 🙂 oui et moi j’ai ENFIN une de tes fabuleuses créations !! <3
Oh it is beautiful…..I'm really in love! Especially since my sister in law works in Salluit for several months now and all returns 3 week and I asked myself a fat raporter of his choice down to the soap Inouit….and here I see this article. I can not wait to do mine and that you can see, j'adore le grand nord, their traditions, leurs arts aussi 😀
Ohhhh lucky !!! I Ouuiii super looking forward to seeing you will keep me huh !! Yes really the first nation cultures fascinates me ! I'm also crazy about their art, when I lived in Banff I bought a painting of a Native American artist, I brought with me of course in France. I wish I had more including soapstone sculptures… like it gives me an idea that ^ ^
Just fabulous, and soap and its history…
Zinette thank you very much and you know how much I love your soap !!!! <3
When I saw all know the swap, I fell for yours !! and now that I know of the genesis, it reinforces my idea !! It is simply beautiful ! A beautiful tribute…
Thank you so much it touches me deeply !! Hésite pas à visiter les autres histoires aussi 🙂
The soap is wonderful and makes a glowing tribute to the people and his country
Your soap makes this feeling, then it is really “inspired”
MLK Merci ^ ^… must say I did it just before the holidays… be away from my family in the play for something.
I love your soap is too good and I love the story he tells ^ ^
Goods but beautiful !! Le sentiment est partagé 🙂 <3
I love everything in your soap Mariejoe : colors, the technique but also, obviously, the idea that inspired you.
this is a great success. A soap can be a work of art and have a soul. Proof …
Yes Irene like you I see a lot of soap as an art that is also what attracts me in there, beaucoup plus qu’avec la cosmétique 🙂
Mariejoe, know your beautiful and fine craftsmanship ! Brave !
What a treat and what a wonderful freshness of blue !
Thank you very much for sharing your and your very clear explanations of technical.
really beautiful tone soap!!! jsuis fell in love with this soap!!! I hearts turquoise lol oh really too good!!! brave
Thank you ^ ^ !
-nothing of this is the truth!!!
kisses
Mariejoe wonderful soap for a wonderful tribute, although we recognize you in there.
I'll hug!
Merci beaucoup Mavalca 🙂 gros bisous !
magnificent !
Goods Emie
C’est avec un peu de retard que je te félicite pour ce savon, j’ai eu la chance de pouvoir le tester et j’ai eu moi aussi un coup de cœur pour ton savon, une belle réussite, brave !
Merci beaucoup Raphaël 🙂 Le tiens trône encore dans notre chambre j’ose pas l’utiliser tellement il est beau !
Tout simplement MONSTRUEUSEMENT SUBLIME!!!!!!!!
Qu’est ce que j’aimerais en avoir un à moi!!!!!
Thank you it is nice ! Ils sont vite parti ceux là ^^
Hello,
Je viens de trouver ce site.
Vraiment génial.
Cdt,