Lavender Butter Blend

Made with both shea butter and cocoa butter, this soap is full of lavender essential oil both with and without the lavender flowers.


18 oz.  Olive Oil
18 oz.  Coconut Oil
18 oz.  Palm Oil
5.1 oz. Castor Oil
3.2 oz. Safflower Oil
1.2 oz. Shea Butter
  .6 oz. Cocoa Butter

24 oz.  Water
  9 oz.  Sodium Hydroxide

  2 oz.  Lavender Essential Oil
   .5 oz. Vitamin E Oil
1/2  C.  Dried Lavender Flowers

Coffee Kitchen Soap

A good coffee soap is great to have in the kitchen.  It will take away the odors on your hands from working with onions or seafood.  This coffee soap is made with very strong black coffee by the College Coffee Roasters in Lancaster County.  It is a Castile soap and features a new fragrance I recently acquired:  Gingersnap!


28.8 oz. Olive Oil
9.6 oz. Palm Oil
9.6 oz. Coconut Oil
18.2 oz. Ethiopian Yrgacheffe coffee
6.7 oz. Sodium Hydroxide
1 Tbsp. Essential Oils (Gingersnap)
Vitamin E Oil
Finely Ground Coffee Beans

Mad Elf & Trogenator

Today I'm making a batch of Mad Elf with spent grain and a lovely Christmas combination of essential oils in the round bars.  In addition, I'm making the Trogenator recipe with no additives but a full amount of the Forest essential oils.  This will go in the wooden mold that Tom made for rectangular bars.  The extra will go in the 2" PVC for sample bars.  The beer has been sitting in the refrigerator getting flat for two weeks. I'm falling into a rhythm now!

Custom Orders

I've received a few special requests so I'm making a batch of goat milk soap with lavender and pouring into several shapes to fill these orders.  Lavender certainly is the popular scent!

Sacred Heart Christmas Bazaar

I've never been a vendor at a craft bazaar before but Sharon Atland asked me to consider this for her church's holiday event.  It is this coming Saturday, November 19th from 9 AM - 3 PM in Hanover, PA.  If you know me well, you also know that my men's barbershop chorus has our annual dinner show on November 19th, too.  Yep, I'm going to do it all that day!  Hummelstown to Hanover to Lancaster and back.

I have 154 full-sized bars of various soaps ready to sell.  That includes goat milk soap, beer soap, wine soap, Castile soap, and some loofa soaps.  In addition, I have 133 sample bars of those same soaps that make great stocking stuffers.   This is my complete inventory, other than the three batches of soap curing for my next Troegs delivery.

I've been working on my display tables and it's coming along quite nicely.  This is very exciting and I am loving the idea that retirement in December will free me up to do even more with my soaps.  If I could get ahead of the demand, I could consider selling through a website.  At this point, I need time to get ahead of the demand.

I will be glad to sell these soaps (and more) to you for the holidays.  I'll let everyone know what is available after Saturday is over!

Restocking

Wow!  People are finding my soaps and the sales are really picking up.  I've made two more batches of goat milk soap with Lavender.

I also made another batch of Mad Elf for Tröegs.  In fact, I just delivered my third box of soap to them (30 bars in a box) so that's going quite well.

I need to make more lavender soap for the loofas and then even more lavender soap with the flowers added since I know that's quite popular.

Meanwhile, I need to have more beer soap ready for Tröegs as my soap is a popular item in their store.  JavaHead will be next with the coffee beans as an exfolient.  Tomorrow will be a busy one!

Lavender Loofah Soap

I've been wanting to try something new and purchased several loofahs to fill with soap.  They were quite compressed so I soaked them to return them to full volume.  I used the lavender recipe that I've used before but filling the holes in the loofah was trickier than I thought.  The loofahs were wrapped individually but the soap ran out a bit.  Interesting experiment.  I filled two of them and have several more to try so we'll see how this goes.

19.2 oz. Olive Oil  (60%)
6.7 oz. Coconut Oil  (21%)
5.1 oz. Palm Oil  (16%)
1.0 oz. Safflower Oils infused with Russian Sage  (3%)

12.1 oz. Water
4.5 oz. Sodium Hydroxide

1 Tbsp. Lavender Essential Oil & Vitamin E Oil

Tröegs JavaHead Soap

I made this soap a few weeks ago and forgot to add it to the blog!!!

16 oz. Olive Oil
10 oz. Coconut Oil
 6 oz.  Palm Oil

12 oz.  JavaHead Beer
4.6 oz. Sodium Hydroxide

1/2 C. ground coffee beans
1 oz. Essential Oils (Cedarwood, Juniper, Frankincense)


Yield:  9 bars of 3" Rounds, 4 square sample bars