Colors, Colors Everywhere!
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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Finding My Favorite Soap Frosting Recipe
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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Revisiting Resins: Making an Infusion with Copal Resin!
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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Let’s CPOP! (Plus, How to Attach Melt & Pour Embeds to Cold Process Soap!)
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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Make “Sweet Satsuma & Lemon Peel” Cold Process Soap!
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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Making “Marbled Mojito” Cold Process Soap: A Lesson in Mica Marbling!
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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Beautiful Earth: Making Cold Process Clay Soap
By Amber Beltran
MY ODD (BUT AWESOME!) CHILDHOOD! As I was narrating this introduction in my head, I realized I was about to get really personal here! That’s okay though... We’re soap makers,...
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Heavenly Avocado Soap
By Amber Beltran
OUT OF MY ELEMENT & UP IN THE CLOUDS! In every way, I felt completely out of my element (literally and figuratively) when it came to this batch of soap!...
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The Total Guide to Soap Frosting!!!
By Amber Beltran
FROSTING FRUSTRATIONS Making soap frosting to pipe the tops of your soap batches with isn’t just addictive and fun, it’s also quite easy too; perhaps easier than you may think!...
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Sunrise Cold Process Soap
By Amber Beltran
IT’S A BEAUTIFUL MORNING! Hello, my name is Amber Beltran, and I am a morning person! Now, don’t get me wrong, I do have an affection for nights as well,...
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Making “Aurora Borealis” Handmade Soap!
By Amber Beltran
NORTHERN EXPOSURE I’ve always wanted to see the northern lights in person... I just wish it didn’t have to be so cold to do it! Although I’ve only seen the...
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101 Fragrance Blends!
By Amber Beltran
THE INNER MUSINGS OF MY MIND! Before I ever start typing-away on my next guest blog post, I always begin with my notebook and a pen in-hand to write down...
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Using Acceleration to Your Design Advantage!
By Amber Beltran
DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR? We’ve all done it at one point or another... You’re perusing through fragrance oils on your favorite soapmaking supplier’s website when you come across an oil...
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Outstanding Oranges & Captivating Corals!
By Amber Beltran
MY APOLOGIES, MANGO TANGO! There was time when “Mango Tango” mica and I weren’t on speaking terms, but it was a TOTAL misunderstanding! I’ll explain… You see, at the very...
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