It’s hard to believe but Jamisen is four months old already. We are experiencing what every other new parents on the planet have experienced: the time space continuum breaking and time speeding way way up.
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Pretty in Pink: Salty Cold Process
Why put Pink Himalayan Salt in your CP? The obvious answer is that it looks totally unique. What you may not know is that Pink Himalayan Salt is known for its nourishing and soothing properties. I love it inside cold process for its exfoliating and moisturizing abilities. Plus salt bars have a very creamy lather. For this project, we just added a little of the coarse sized salt on top for the WOW factor!
CP + MP = Magma Soap
This free flowing, lava like design inspired the name for this project. Magma Soap is an intricate project with so many possibilities. I’ve combined melt and pour soap with cold process soap to create a uniquely fascinating bar.
Back to School Mash-Up
As summer comes to an end, it’s time to get the kids ready for school (“Already?!” Awwwww Mo-oom!“) Make a good impression on the teacher with the gift of handmade soap! Or just have fun making soap with the kids. Here are some favorite back to school projects compiled from the Soap Queen Blog. Enjoy!
See the bottle of glue in the upper left picture? You guess it. It’s really soap!
No BB Account Needed
We recently received some feedback from some fabulous Bramble Berry customers who mentioned that they find it a little bit inconvenient to log into their BB account when placing an online order. I know shopping online can be frustrating at times and we don’t want our customers going through any grief. The great news is that our system does allow you to place orders without logging into an account! If you have previously made an account with us, you’ll just have to use an alternate email address to order as a guest.
How to Order as BB Guest
Soap Queen TV : Learn to Make Mineral Makeup
In this episode, I show how to make your own eyeshadow and eyeliner from scratch using our Mineral Makeup kit. I think you’re going to be surprised at how easy it is. I also go over some of the most common mineral makeup ingredients and share two of my favorite recipes.
Here’s the recipe for the light brown eye shadow:
1/4 tsp Sericite
1/8 tsp Honeyed Beige Mica
1 mini scoop Patina Sheen Mica
1 mini scoop Cappuccino Mica
3 mini scoops Super Pearly White
And for the Dark Brown eyshadow that I used to make eyeliner:
1/4 tsp Sericite
1/8 tsp Honeyed Beige Mica
1 mini scoop Patina Sheen
7 mini scoops Cappuccino Mica
4 mini scoops Luster Black Mica
Sweet New Soap Stamps
Our new acrylic soap stamps are amazing in cold process soap. Because of the acute details they require some special attention. In our testing, we found that they worked best on one of our basic cold process recipes after 4-5 days of curing time. The soap can’t be too soft or too hard so you’ll have to experiment with your recipe to find the perfect consistency. Once you find a happy medium, the extra work will be totally worth it and “Life is Good”!
Do you like our colorful soap? Kristy from Kristy’s Lovely Lathers made it on Soap Queen TV (see the blog post here). Video coming soon!
Latest Etsy Purchase
I found a new Etsy shop called Herbolution and I couldn’t resist buying a few things. I absolutely love their philosophy on being green and earth friendly. It’s what we strive to do at Bramble Berry too.
“We are Sasha and Veronika, a young couple, who is conscious about the current state of our planet which directly affects our health and well-being. After long searches for healthy and natural personal care products we came to a conclusion that many companies that try to take good care of their customers take very little care of the Earth and vice versa…” Read the rest of the Herbolution profile here.
Swoon over my latest purchase…
Shout Out and Fall S.O.A.P. Reminder
Soap Shout Out! These darling and detailed apple soaps were sent in for the last Bramble Berry Soap Swap. They were scented with a yummy apple fragrance and packaged in a hand painted muslin bags. And keep in mind that she sent in 24 of these soaps…that’s 24 hand painted bags and 24 super detailed apple soaps. Now that’s what I call attention to detail. Get your own Garden of Eden Apple Soap at Her Best Apple. P.S. We’ll be doing another Bramble Berry Soap Swap after the holiday season so you have time to start brainstorming your next project!
Foaming Bath Whip Frosting
Recipe
1 Cup Foaming Bath Whip
1 Cup Clear Melt and Pour
1 Tablespoon Liquid Glycerin
3 Tablespoons Meringue Powder
7 ml Clementine Cupcake Fragrance Oil
We tested and tried many recipes before settling on this one. Here are a few key characteristics of this recipe:
- Hardens up and could easily be packaged.
- Easy to frost the cupcakes.
- Have roughly 5 minutes to work with it
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New S.O.A.P. Fragrance Arrival
After weeks of built up anticipation, it’s finally time for the big fragrance oil reveal! Our new S.O.A.P. fragrances (Summer edition) are here and ready to order. Here’s a link to the S.O.A.P.(Y) Round Up from the Summer Soap Panel.
Try all three fragrances in the click of a button!
Southern Peach (mystery fragrance #3): This isn’t your traditional peach; it’s softer, more rounded with some white floral notes and supporting softer tropical notes (think guava, mango and ripe papaya) thrown in to make a complex, sweet peachy dessert scent. It goes a yellow in CP soap (but you can easily make this work with your design).
S.O.A.P. Team Reaction: “Out of the bottle, this is a sweet, smooth fragrance. One of my favorites, for sure! In CP soap, it turned lemon yellow initially and still smells really good. Really hasn’t discolored much over time either. In the lotion test, it performed quite nicely, and took 2nd place in my customer’s poll.”
Essential Oil Feature: Bergamot
Bergamot (Citrus bergamia): An orange-sized citrus naitive to Italy, most people are familiar with it’s scent from Earl Grey tea. The juice was onced used as an anti-malaria remedy in southern Italy. It takes about 100 bergamot oranges to get about 3oz of essential oil!
Oodles and Oodles of New
We’ve been hard at work adding new products for your soaping and toiletry needs – molds, additives, colorants, new fragrance kits and more! Read on to be introduced to the latest products in the Bramble Berry warehouse. And be sure to add a few to your shopping cart on your next visit to show ’em some love. =)
Healing Under Eye Serum
Nothing does more damage to your skin than being outside in the elements in the sun and wind. Treat your overly sunned face to some pampering oils to help nourish, replenish and reduce inflammation. We’ve had a string of nice weather here in Bellingham, WA so you better believe that I’ve been wearing SPF protection and treating my eyes at night with this serum. Stay away wrinkles! You are not welcome here!
What makes this recipe so healing and skin loving?