The Best Soap Ever!
By Carrie Jack
This is guide on how to make the best soap ever! What is great soap? It’s soap that cleans, feels good, doesn’t cost you your first born child and is...
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Jeepers Creepers! What'd You Do to Those Peepers? A Lesson in Sugar & Lye Safety!
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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Foxy Infusions: Making Jasmine-Infused Cold Process Soap!
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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No-Stink Beer Soap! Make “Honey Barrel Beer Soap”- Without the Beer Soap Smell!
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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Bourbon Street Beer Soap
By Amber Beltran
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL! Laissez les bon temps rouler is a famous French motto in New Orleans which means “let the good times roll”! On a personal level, when...
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What is Mica? Is it Natural?
By Carrie Jack
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what mica is. A lot of people will tell you that all mica used in cosmetics is lab-made. The reasons given...
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Revisiting Acceleration for Therapeutic Soap Making!
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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All the Pretty Purples!
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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May Your Soaps be Merry & Bright
By Amber Beltran
Deck The Halls With Crafty Projects Thanksgiving has come and gone, and as we officially kick off another glorious holiday season (and attempt to come up with different and clever...
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My Blending Obsession
By Amber Beltran
MY COLOR OBSESSION CONFESSION Hello beautiful world of fellow crafters! My name is Amber Beltran, and I live, eat (Not literally, but sometimes I wish I could!), breathe and sleep...
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Reformulate to Be Great!
By Amber Beltran
Master Soap Maker at a Squirrel and A Scholar Soap Co.
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Bright Ideas & Beautiful Blends!
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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Anchoring Fragrances in Cold Process Soap
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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Formulating Recipes; A Look at Fatty Acids
By Amber Beltran
REACHING OUT Hello my magnificent masters of suds! This week’s blog topic was inspired by a truly wonderful fellow soap maker who recently reached out to me in an email....
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Give It A Whirl! (Do the Whirl Swirl!)
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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