You know what that means? It’s time for ice cream, hot dogs and cold lemonade.

Here in Bellingham, Washington, we haven’t had a true summer’s day yet. It has been raining and thundering and hailing and raining some more.

The sun is shining today (finally) and we are loving every precious minute of it. I found these soaps on Etsy. They are so realistic that they remind me of summers as a little girl; the memories of ice cream dripping down my entire arm because I couldn’t eat it fast enough or of my burned veggie hot dogs over the campfire because I lacked patience to “slow roast” it. And of course, there is nothing like lemonade to quench your thirst after an exhausting game of boccee ball.

Find the Hot dog and Lemonade soaps by Mollycoddlesoap on Etsy here and the Ice cream soap by Plumberrylane on Etsy here.

The connection between food and soap is a strange one. All of my favorite fragrances are food scents – Almond, Tangerine, Bread – but I have never been tempted to eat soap.
And it seems that I am not alone in the fascination.

Here are a couple of images of some amazing soap creations made by our talented staff at Otion. To the right is a lemon meringue pie completely made from soap!

To the left is their version of a Strawberry shortcake. I love the whipped soap – it looks soft & fluffy but it’s not!

Of course my favorite foodie soap maker is Debbie from Soapy Love. They look and smell like cool, refreshing popsicles but they’re not!

There is a medical term for people who are compelled to eat soap – although I cannot recall the exact name. I am curious to know if there are more soap eaters out there now as a result of all of the fabulous foodie soaps being made?

Someone should do a research project!

Super cool Bath fizzies! with icing!

We suspect that the icing is made with a baking soda, water type mixture and then piped on. Anne-Marie actually tasted some, much to the dismay of her hubby, and that’s what she determined.

The bath fizzy in the middle is an adorable two bath fizzy wedding cake. It’s very simple but gets the point across nicely.

To the right is a close up of one of the fizzies with a little heart soap detail set in the top.

And finally we have a couple of samples of cute little bath fizzies made using a guest size soap mold (below). The pink soap and bath fizzies were made by Linnie S. in California who always sends us the most fabulous gift packs – thanks Linnie!

Hopefully, you can see that despite the fact that most bath bombs or fizzes are sold in sphere shapes – you can really use any shape you like!

Someone described this photo as cake soap porn. I’m not so sure I’d go that far, but these are amazing bars of soap. The detail works in incredible and I can only imagine that the molds are the heavy duty silicone moles that allow for better 3-D effects and help ease unmolding. To see more of Halina’s soaps, check out her site. She makes some very creative bars.

Steak Soap anyone? The soap is scented with Cranberry fragrance and apparently was designed to match a meat-themed-bathroom. You would think I was kidding … but I’m not.

It’s a very cool example of creativity and thinking outside the proverbial, cliched box.