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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Incorporating Resins in Cold Process Soap!
By Amber Beltran
WHICH CAME FIRST? THE RESIN OR THE FRAGRANCE OIL? Ah-ha! Finally, one of those age-old “Which came first?” questions I can definitively answer without getting into a long, thought-provoking debate......
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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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Heading South: A Landscape Soap of Glacial Proportions!
By Amber Beltran
INSPIRATION EVERYWHERE! Oh my goodness! There were so many inspirations for this week’s soapy project, I don’t even know where to begin! Well, first and foremost, my inspiration was kindled...
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Land of Milk & Honey Cold Process Soap
By Amber Beltran
BACKYARD INSPIRATION! Hello my fellow, wonderful, soapy associates (technically, would that make you “as-soap-iates"?)! If you’ve ever read any of my previous guest blog posts, you’ve probably found it obvious...
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United We Stand, Divided We Swirl!
By Amber Beltran
A CASE OF THE MONDAYS It’s Monday. Fall feels as if it has just arrived to Florida... In February. The wind is howling, the sky is dreary and gray, the...
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Making “Apricot Sunrise” Ombré Soap!
By Amber Beltran
NEVER SAY “NEVER”! Greetings fellow soap enthusiasts! Have you ever seen a picture of a handmade soap so outrageously beautiful and skillfully crafted it made you instantly think, “Holy moly!...
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Tea Time! Making “Tea with The Earl” Handmade Soap!
By Amber Beltran
WINTER IS COMING! Here in balmy Florida, there’s three things that happen each year that remind me winter is coming, and unfortunately, none of them involve dragons or Kahl Drogo...
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Giving the Zigzag Swirl A Try!
By Amber Beltran
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING FUN TO DO! There’s nothing that gets those inspirational juices flowing quite like a change of scenery! My husband and I flew in...
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Your Amazing Face & My Favorite Face Soap Recipe!
By Amber Beltran
LOVE YOUR AMAZING FACE! When it comes to my face, I’m the typical, yet frustratingly confusing, combination skin-type. I’ve got that embarrassingly dry “T-Zone”, where dry, flaky skin on the...
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