Good Morning :-) -- Banana Kiwi

Well, this morning I have several posts to share with you on several new soaps!  I've been a busy soaper LOL but haven't been posting as much as I should have because I'm behind!

My Banana Kiwi soap trial batch turned out great and I'm really happy with it.  I went ahead with a full ounce of fragrance per lb of soap instead of the recommended 0.8 ounces so the scent is nice and strong.  I can't wait to see how it will develop over the next couple of weeks.  The description for the fragrance is:

The aroma of fresh banana (not too ripened), with a base note of tart kiwi. 

And that is exactly what it smells like... awesome bananas and a kick of kiwi :-)    The base of the soap is a natural cream and has yellow and lime green chunks embedded.  The top of the soap is rounded with chunks of yellow & green embeds and sprinkled with lots of pretty diamond glitter :-)  This soap is absolutely beautiful and looks great sliced into bars.  

Almost forgot!  I'll be listing these on my Etsy store on Nov/18 and they will be ready to use on Dec/02.

Take a look:

 

Clean Type - A DLish Dup

New at K-Cherie' Soaps -- "Clean" type -- a DLish dup! This soap will be available in the Etsy shoppe on Nov/17 and will be ready to use on Dec/01.

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"Clean" Type - DLish Dup :-)

This trial turned out so good!  First, the fragrance was very easy to work with and smells gorgeous.... and the colors in the swirl of the soap are so pretty.  I will definitely be ramping this fragrance up to a larger loaf :-)  Here's some pics:

Cotton Candy

New at K-Cherie' Soaps -- Cotton Candy! This soap will be available in the Etsy shoppe on Nov/17 and will be ready to use on Dec/01.

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Cotton Candy

This trial loaf turned out awesome!  I really think you're going to like the look of this soap.  It just looks so fluffy and light LOL  And the fragrance is really delicious!  Here's some soap pics for your enjoyment:

Add Another Two New Soaps! Clean and Yuzu :-)

I guess the soaping bug hit this evening.  I had all of my equipment and supplies out so I thought, hey, why not soap a couple more trial batches?  LOL  And I did!  My house smells incredible right now!

The first one I soaped was "Clean" - it's a DLish dupe.  And it's so good.... I really like the fragrance alot  And it really does smell clean and refreshing to me.  Here's the fragrance description:

It combines the fragrance notes of litsea cubeba, orange, sweet lime, pink grapefruit, passion lily, rose geranium, and white musk. 

I soaped this one in a creamy white base and swirled with a dark purplish blue.  Then I added some diamond glitter for a shimmery effect on the top.  And I embedded 3 small white stars on the top of the loaf :-)

The second one I soaped is Yuzu.  I've heard of this and heard how wonderful it smells but just never really was interested in trying it.  Wow, I've missed alot because this fragrance is AWESOME!  This is now one of my favorite ones.  I'm sure it's going to even get better than what it smells like freshly soaped - most fragrances take two weeks or so to bloom into what they really smell like.

For the Yuzu soap, I did a 3 color swirl (where you drizzle the 3 colors back and forth until you run out of soap and then you do your swirl).  I have no idea how this soap is going to look because this will be the first time I've worked with this swirl technique.  So I'm anxious to cut this loaf tomorrow and see what the bars look like :-)  Oh, here's the fragrance description for Yuzu:

Yuzu begins with top notes of mandarin, tangerine, lemon satsuma, and ruby red grapefruit, middle notes of bergamot, and base notes of oakmoss.

 Well, it's almost midnight and tomorrow morning at 6 AM comes fast - so I'd better sleep fast, eh?  Have a great night!

New Soaps Coming! Cotton Candy & Lemon Meringue Pie

I've been busy this afternoon!  I've been soaping again :-)   These are both trial batches and, if they cure up well I can tell you that they will become a part of my regular line of soaps.  They are both awesome so far.

The first one is Cotton Candy - and oh my goodness, I just wanted to lick the spatula LOL  It absolutely smells just like real cotton candy!  And, did I tell you, that I LOVE LOVE LOVE cotton candy?   This soap will be layered white/pink/white and then fluffy pink cotton candy globs on top with diamond glitter sprinkled on.  It is absolutely beautiful.   I can not wait to cut this soap loaf tomorrow and see exactly how it turned out.  If it looks and smells 1/2 as good sliced into bars tomorrow as it does in the mold tonight, I'll be listing this one in my Etsy shoppe on Nov/17 and the ready to use date will be Dec/01.

The second soap I worked on this afternoon is Lemon Meringue.  It just seems like I have a sweet tooth today LOL  This soap is so cool.... on the bottom I have the "lemon" filling and on top there's beautiful white meringue topped with lots of stars piped on.  I am definitely hoping the colors will stay because there is some vanilla content in this fragrance oil and I used a ton of titanium dioxide (white pigment) trying to keep it from going off color.  But we'll see.  This is really going to look like a lemon meringue pie!  And the fragrance is so REAL smelling.  Too bad I don't know where to get a lemon meringue pie at 8 PM at night LOL