The are holidays said and done and the new year is underway, so now is the time treat yourself to new soapy products. There are dozens of new products (including a crazy triangle spatula and new silicone molds) since the last What’s New post. In the upcoming year, you can expect more new items based on your suggestions.
Fragrance Oils
Sunny Herb Garden Fragrance Oil, Sugared Fruit Surplus Fragrance Oil, Wildflower Honey Fragrance Oil, Tobacco & Bay Leaf Fragrance Oil
Four new fragrances were added to an ever expanding fragrance collection. Sunny Herb Garden and Tobacco & Bay Leaf are both earthy, masculine scents. Wildflower Honey is subtly sweet, while Sugared Fruit smells just like its name implies — delightfully sweet candied fruit!
Silicone Molds and Liners
Silicone Liner for 9 Bar Mold, Mini Square Silicone Column Mold, Mini Round Silicone Column Mold and Mini Heart Silicone Column Mold
Make your soaping sessions even more convenient with a silicone liner for the 9 Bar Birchwood Mold. These liners make unmolding soap quick and easy, and you can even use them to make melt and pour projects too. Keep in mind that silicone insulates cold process soap much better than paper liners, which means it can take longer for the soap to harden. We recommend adding 1 teaspoon of Sodium Lactate per pound of oils in the recipe to release soap from the mold faster.
Embedding shapes are a snap with three silicone column embeds. They are watertight, so they’re suitable for both melt and pour and cold process. For more on how to use them, check out this Rainbow Hearts Melt & Pour project featuring the Mini Heart Silicone Column Mold.
Colorants
Neon Blue Raspberry Colorant, Extra Small Pink Sea Salt
Since finding Neon Blue Raspberry Colorant, it’s become a go-to colorant for cold process projects. This colorant is approved for soaps, lotions, lip products and even eye shadows. It’s also non bleeding! Recently, it has been used in the Amethyst Garden and Cherry Blossom Glitter cold process tutorials. The Extra Small Pink Sea Salt provides color as well as gentle exfoliation to scrubs and soaps. Try it out in this Pink Sea Salt Foot Scrub.
Tools
2 Quart Glass Mixing Bowl, Guest/Standard Dividers for 36 Bar Birch Mold, Squeeze Bottle and Triangle Silicone Spatula
You can never have too many soapy tools to ensure soapy success. The 2 Quart Glass Mixing Bowl and Squeeze Bottles are staple tools in the Soap Queen Lab, while the Triangle Silicone Spatula will help you scrape every last bit of batter out of your containers. After you’ve used these tools to make your project, use the Guest/Standard Dividers for the 36 Bar Birch Mold to add the finishing touch. These dividers are unique in that they create 24 guest-size soaps (2 oz.) and 24 standard-size soaps (4 oz.).
Butters, oils & preservatives
Creamy Body Butter Base, Virgin Coconut Oil, Optiphen ND
If you’re looking to expand your soapy product line, the premade Creamy Body Butter Base makes it easy. Luxurious and moisturizing, the base comes unscented and uncolored. The recommended fragrance usage rate is 1% – 2% or about 0.2 oz in 16 oz. of lotion. Use LabColors to color the base. To switch up your soapy recipes, consider using Virgin Coconut Oil. It comes from a certified organic manufacturer, and behaves just like regular Coconut Oil. To preserve your lotions, scrubs or shampoos, Optiphen ND is a highly effective paraben and formaldehyde-free preservative. The recommend usage rate for this preservative is 1%.
Books
Creating a Custom Silicone Slab or Block Mold for Soapmaking, Let’s Get Soapy E-Zine Kit #2 and Let’s Get Soapy E-zine Kit #1
Expand your soapy knowledge and be inspired with new e-books and zines. Learn all about silicone molds and how to create your own in Creating a Custom Silicone Slab or Block Mold for Soapmaking. You can also find pages upon pages of soapy inspiration from the Let’s Get Soapy E-Zine Kits #1 and #2.
Molds
Do you have a football fan in your life? There’s a mold for that! From beautiful butterflies to basic shapes and cute puppy paws, the newest crop of molds has something for everyone.
Guest 5 Butterfly Mold, Guest Mini Football Mold, Guest Mini Flip Flop Mold, Guest 4 in 1 Mold
Guest Gold Fish Mold, Guest Mini Mustache Mold, Guest Mini Peppermint Candy Mold, Guest Mini Snowman Mold
Guest Mini Soccer Ball Mold, Guest Tray Handmade Mold, Guest Mini Watermelon & Hearts Mold, Kid Critters 5 Mold
Paw Print Mold, Tropical Vine Mold
I’m curious, if you could have any of these products, which one would you choose?
I want to make some of the little snowman soaps. I can’t quite figure out what color blocks to use for the blue hat and orange nose. Any advice? Thank you!
Hi Corri!
Our Ultramarine Blue Color Block would create a great blue. Also, our Perfect Orange Color Block would be perfect for the orange nose!
Just shave off pieces of the color block into your melted soap and stir. If you want it a little brighter, you can add more shavings. 🙂
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
Non Bleeding Ultramarine Blue Color Block: https://www.brambleberry.com/Color-Block-Non-Bleeding-Ultramarine-Blue-P5368.aspx
Non Bleeding Perfect Orange Color Block: https://www.brambleberry.com/Color-Block-Non-Bleeding-Perfect-Orange-P5396.aspx
love the snowman mold! its perfect for craft fairs and i sold a ton
Hi Taylor!
I’m so glad you like the Snowman Mold, I think it’s super cute as well 🙂
-Amanda with Bramble Berry
All of these new products are amazing and I can garuntee that my future orders wil contain some of those mini silicone molds and that Clue Raspberry colorant as well as all of those fragrance oils!!! I am so excited!!
Hi Janel!
I’m happy to hear you enjoyed this post! The Silicone Molds are fabulous, and I would really recommend giving the Neon Blue Raspberry Colorant a try, it’s such a beautiful color 🙂
-Amanda with Bramble Berry
I would like to try the mini silicone molds, I imagine some fun creative soaps that could be made with them!
Hi Leilani!
The Silicone Molds are fabulous! They make unmolding your soap so quick and easy, and the column molds give you so many creative options! 🙂
-Amanda with Bramble Berry
I just bought the mini silicone mold kit, so it would have to be the wildflower honey fragrance or the mixing bowl
Hi Deborah!
The Wildflower Honey Fragrance Oil smells so yummy! I hope you give it a try 🙂
-Amanda with Bramble Berry
Anything on that page? I would love the fragrance oils! Love to try a new fragrance, always.
Hi Shannon!
Awesome choice! I am particularly loving the new Tobacco and Bay Leaf Fragrance Oil, it’s the perfect manly scent!
-Amanda with Bramble Berry
I would love the mixing bowl. You can never have enough
Hi Patricia!
You’re so right…you can never have enough soaping supplies! 🙂
-Amanda with Bramble Berry
Ooh so many nice goodies, so little money (with the exchange rate the way it is at the moment. ha ha)
I think I would have to say a must have are the silicone moulds/ liners. They make soaping sooo much easier adn save so much time.
Hi Odette!
I love the silicone molds as well for that exact reason. They make unmolding your soap so incredibly easy 🙂
-Amanda with Bramble Berry
Oh my! If I had to pick one it, would be the Neon Blue Raspberry Colorant; it looks like super fantastic fun!! But as usual, anything “Bramble Berry” dazzles me. I adore the Paw Print Mold, the Butterfly Mold, and I’m gonna have to try the Creamy Body Butter Base… oh, my!
Hi Shannon!
The Neon Blue Raspberry Colorant is really beautiful, it’s a favorite of mine for sure! I’m glad you enjoyed this post! 🙂
-Amanda with Bramble Berry
Everything looks like lots of fun. I definitely am gonna try the creamy body butter soon though.
Hi Patrice!
Definitely give the Creamy Body Butter Base a try, it feels so awesome on the skin! 🙂
-Amanda with Bramble Berry
I would love the brambleberry liner. My darling husband surprised me by buying me the soap cutter. I just picked it up today all the way from America!!! Wow!! I have never been more excited in my life. Thank you so much Brambleberry for all you do.
Hi Cindy!
What an awesome surprise! A soap cutter makes cutting your soap so quick and easy :). Thanks for being a reader Cindy! 🙂
-Amanda with Bramble Berry
I love fragrances, colors, and molds (especially for embedding!). That being said, I’ve got the mini heart column in my wish list-I’d love to embed colored hearts in a loaf, like in your post a few days ago!
Hi Addy!
If I could choose one product from this list, that would be the one I would choose as well! Our Rainbow Hearts Tutorial is one of my favorite recent projects 🙂
Rainbow Hearts Melt and Pour:
http://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/melt-and-pour-soap/rainbow-hearts-melt-pour/
-Amanda with Bramble Berry
Would love to know how you do the different colors on the molds such as the football, watermelon, soccer ball etc. Thanks!
Hi Julie!
The photos shown above are more representatives of what the mold looks like, rather than actual pictures of soap. But you can easily achieve similar results! The easiest way to do this would be with melt and pour and an injector tool, like we did in this tutorial! 🙂
Butterfly Garden Tutorial: http://www.soapqueen.com/bramble-berry-news/sunday-night-spotlight-green-colorants/
I hope that helps! 🙂
-Amanda with Bramble Berry
I agree with everyone – lots of great new stuff. My “wish” choice would have to be the mini-column molds. I’m dying to use one of them some time.
Hi Michael!
That’s an awesome choice! I love those molds, they make such cute embeds! 🙂
-Amanda with Bramble Berry
Great new stuff! If I could pick from that list, I would want the paw print slab mold. I am working on developing a doggie soap and that would be a great mold for it.
Hi Karen!
You’re right, that mold sounds like it would be perfect for your project! 🙂
-Amanda with Bramble Berry
So much fun new things! I literally bought all the new silicone molds 10 minutes ago!!!
Hi Anna-Rose!
I’m happy to hear you picked up the silicone molds, my new favorite is the Mini Heart Silicone Column Mold 🙂 We used it in this tutorial, and it made such cute soap!
Rainbow Hearts Melt and Pour:
http://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/melt-and-pour-soap/rainbow-hearts-melt-pour/
-Amanda with Bramble Berry
That koi mold, it’s adorable! Not sure what I’d do with it, but I think I have to have it.
Hi Victoria!
Isn’t it cute? That’s a favorite of mine as well. I think melt and pour would work great for that mold, I can see the tail looking beautiful with lots of layered melt and pour!
-Amanda with Bramble Berry
What a lot of fun stuff! It’s always nice to see what’s new out there. I’m pretty sure that a future order of mine will contain some mini silicone column molds and the neon blue raspberry colorant.
Hi Amy!
I’m glad you enjoyed this post :). The Neon Blue Raspberry Colorant is so pretty, I hope you give it a try 🙂
-Amanda with Bramble Berry