We Love Soap!

We love hand made soap and took a soap making class earlier this year. We have to thank Kate over at Greenstone Soap for sharing her vast knowledge with us and the other ladies in the class. We had so much fun we decided to try making soap at home. So, armed with our new how-to book and a few ingredients like Coconut Oil, Palm Oil, Olive Oil, Lye and some essential oils, we made our first three batches.  Hannah works in the beer & wine industry and wanted to try making soap with beer. It is a little more difficult to make with beer due to the alcohol and sugar content but we felt confident! (We even threw in some honey on top of all that!) So we put on our rubber gloves and got to work.

We made a batch with Atlanta Brewery Sweetwater 420 Ale, a batch with lemongrass & dried lemon peel and a batch with tea tree & lavender with lavender buds sprinkled on top. 
We only had one battery charged stick blender to mix these three batches. We didn't realize that you really need one with a plug for some turbo mixing such as this! For our last batch, we wound up mixing it with one of Carson's vintage hand mixers:

LOL! It took forever to get a trace on that batch. But all three batches turned out surprisingly nice! We just attributed it to the fact that soap making must be really easy, right? Well... as it turned out- those great first three batches must have been from dumb luck. But after that day we were hooked. One thing we all agreed on: soap making was really fun. It's been really FUN coming up with different recipes and putting whatever you want in a batch of soap and testing it out. It has also been really fun doing something together. We are all busy ladies and it is so nice to just hang out on a Sunday with my daughters, sipping champagne & making soap! 

So many of our batches look like food!

This is our lemon bar with the lemon peel. It looks like fudge! We are in the process of mixing & testing new recipes and making them available to the public. For now we are using family and friends as guinea pigs to test soap samples. We will keep you posted.


Thanks & have a clean day!