By Amber Beltran
WARNING! This guest blog includes two closeup pictures of my eyes (both in and out of a medical setting), which feature mild injury/chemical burns Sodium Hydroxide (lye) can cause to...
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By Amber Beltran
AN HONEST CONFESSION I’m a little bit of a junkie when it comes to a certain freshly-handmade retailer that starts with an “L” and rhymes with “gush”! It’s one of...
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By Amber Beltran
I DREAM OF AUTUMN Before moving to Florida, I remember speaking on the phone with a friend, a born-and-raised Floridian, inquiring about pertinent tidbits of information one might want to...
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By Amber Beltran
PEACE AMONGST THE CHAOS Seems like everywhere you turn these days, there’s one thing taking precedence on everyone’s mind. When news of a new, or “novel”, virus was first making...
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By Amber Beltran
SPRING IS IN THE AIR! No doubt about it, wherever you look, it’s become abundantly apparent that spring has sprung! There’s nothing quite like the days growing a little longer,...
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By Amber Beltran
Master Soap Maker at a Squirrel and A Scholar Soap Co.
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By Amber Beltran
SERENDIPITY IN SOAP MAKING! The wheels in my head are constantly turning and churning-up new ideas for blog topics I can share; topics I hope my fellow crafters will find...
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By Amber Beltran
FRAGRANCE WOES Three weeks ago, I began a soap project I’d hoped would yield wonderfully fragrant results. I had purchased Nurture Soap’s “Botanical Bliss” fragrance oil, and was blissfully in...
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By Amber Beltran
NEW DIVIDES FOR NEW DESIGNS Back in February, I wrote a guest blog entitled, “United we Stand. Divided we Swirl”. In that blog, I shared how to use a simple...
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By Amber Beltran
INSPIRATION IS ALL AROUND YOU! I really and truly feel that I was born to be a soap maker! To some, that may not sound like the noblest of dreams...
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By Amber Beltran
FROSTING INFATUATION! Greetings crafty friends! If you’ve read any of my previous guest blogs, it’s very likely you’ve noticed a common theme… I LOVE making soaps with soap frosting on...
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By Amber Beltran
FOND MEMORIES! Greetings crafty friends! In a guest blog entitled “Incorporating Resins in Cold Process Soap!”, I had such a fun experience making an infusion with opoponax resin, and incorporating...
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By Amber Beltran
TO CPOP OR NOT TO CPOP? Father’s Day is fast approaching, and my husband is running out of soap! I know you must be thinking, “But Amber, you’re a soap...
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By Amber Beltran
OF LEMONS & ORANGES As spring begins to wind down, making way for summer and warmer days ahead, nothing seems to herald the changing of these glorious seasons quite like...
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By Amber Beltran
Dreaming About Soap Making! The inspiration for this week’s soap design and blog actually came to me in a very, very weird dream... Steve Buscemi and I had taken the...
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