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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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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The One-Color Challenge: Part 2
By Amber Beltran
UP FOR THE CHALLENGE! Hello again beautiful crafters of all things sudsy! I have to admit, I was feeling a wee nostalgic this past week, so I decided to revisit...
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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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Epic Orange Cold Process Soap
By Amber Beltran
AN EPIC STORY Once upon a time there was a beautiful welsh woman who owned a little market with her beloved (and dashingly handsome!) husband. Side by side, they worked...
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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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