Layered Bath Salts

Colored bath salts are so easy and an inexpensive gifts to make that you can even include small children join the fun. This is an ideal classroom project to teach primary color and color mixing or a project to do during vacation or rainy days. This layered bath salts recipe by Jane Lake involves minimal supplies which you can get at your local retail establishments.

Lemon Body Scrub Recipe

I do not know what it but lemons always conjours up wonderful thoughts of summer. If you would like to create your own summertime memories by creating this Lemon Body Scrubs recipe appears free on Craftbits.com.

Now if you do not know - citrus essential oils are photosentive when you wear them in sunlight. So take precautions when using them in your bath and products. If you are concern about this then you can subsitute the essential oil with its fragrance oil counterpart.

Sweet Meyer Lemon Scented Coco-Macadamia CP Soap Recipe

Summer is finally here and all I can think of is sitting on the porch sipping a large glass of lemonade. If time will not allow you to enjoy a lemonade then you may want to create this Meyer Lemon Scented Coco-Macadamia Cold Processed Soap Log from Aussie Soap Supplies.

In this ITP (In the Pot) swirl recipes uses BrambleBerry Sweet Meyer Lemon Fragrance and Lemon Drop Pop Mica. If you do not know what ITP process means is that you actually take a portion of the soap in which you add the color, then you taken that portion and simply poured back into the main pot. Then colors mix themselves as you pour the batch from the main soap pot into the muld. Aussie Soap Supplies recommends using slab or log molds are best for this kind of soap, though vertical moulds can look really nice too. They also mention that the most important thing with ITP style coloring is to avoid overtracing the soap. If it is too thick, it won't swirl well and will clump instead of flow. Also important is to use a fragrance or essential Oil that doesn't accelerate trace.

Selling Your Cold Process Soap

So you want to turn your hobby of making soap and generate some extra cash? Well, here is an article which appears on the Soap Queen's blog Soap and the Finer Things in Life. This two part article by Kim of Pepo Park has some really good tips in order to help you decided what is the best way to sell your soaps. So if you are interested in selling your soap creations or selling for awhile, both articles have useful information to help you in the area of selling your soaps.

So You Want to Sell Your Soap? (Part One)
So, you want to sell your soap: Part 2

Juicy Watermelon Soap

Watermelon is my favorite summer time fruit. Since you may be celebrating the Fourth of July with a picnic, you may want to create this fun melt and pour soap to give out as favors. This refreshing watermelon soap tutorial appears on the Soap Queen's blog - Soap and the Finer Things and I would have to say that it looks good enough to eat. Just a reminder that you can purchase all of the supplies through Brambleberry.