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The projects inspired by the Alps and The Sound of Music ended this week. The series includes the Lavender Goat Milk Melt and Pour Bars, which are made with Goat Milk Melt and Pour Base. To go with the earthy scent of Lavender 40/42 Essential Oil and Spring Meadow Fragrance Oil, the soap is colored with Ultramarine Violet Color Block. It’s easy to make and enjoy.
Whether you’re hiking in the snow-capped Swiss Alps or playing in the sun, physical activity can take a toll on your body. The best way to relax at the end of a busy day is a soothing bath. For an even more relaxing experience, you can sprinkle in these Soothing Floral Bath Salts.
This recipe has three different types of salt – medium and fine grained Dead Sea salt and Epsom salt – for an extra luxurious experience. It is scented with a light and floral combination of Orange Blossom Candle and Soap Fragrance Oil and Lavender 40/42 Essential Oil. As an extra special touch, there are several types of flower petals in the bath salts that will make you feel like you’re bathing in a mountain stream.
The Swiss Alps are bustling with wildlife, including marmots, red deer and foxes. Another familiar sight is goats grazing on the hills. Not only are goats adorable, but their milk can be for a variety of projects, including soap. It gives the soap a creamy, silky feeling. The Goat Milk Melt and Pour Base from Bramble Berry is made with 10% goat milk and feels amazing on the skin.
The goat milk base used in this Lavender Goat Milk Melt and Pour Soap adds luxury and a touch of shimmer. The goat milk lettering is a beautiful contrast to the base, which is colored with the Ultramarine Violet Color Block. To go along with the shimmery purple, an earthy blend of Lavender 40/42 Essential Oil and Spring Meadow Fragrance Oil are used. You’ll have a blast making this easy and beautiful soap!
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This week is the start of a series of tutorials inspired by the Alps and The Sound of Music. The series includes the Sparkling Snow Sugar Scrub, which is made with Foaming Bath Butter. It also has sugar to exfoliate, and Fresh Snow and Spring Meadow fragrance oil for a clean scent. Snowflake Sparkle Mica and Super Pearly White Mica are added to make the scrub look like sunshine on snow.
The Swiss countryside is famous for its sweeping mountain landscapes. The rolling green hills and snowy peaks of the Alps were the inspiration for this Alpine Adventures Cold Process Soap. When I look at these bars, I can’t help but sing, “The hills are alive with the sound of music!” in my head. Scented with a combination of Fresh Snow Fragrance Oil and Heavenly Honeysuckle Fragrance Oil, this soap smells floral and clean. It’s the next best thing to actually being in the beautiful Swiss Alps.
Landscape soaps have become one of my favorite cold process soap projects. I love scouring Pinterest for inspiration landscape photos, and the challenge of recreating them with soap. Recently, on the Bramble Berry Facebook page, I asked soapers to share their landscape soaps and was blown away! It was so fun to see all the soaps there and this one really grabbed my eye: Morning Glory Cold Process Soap created by Soco Soaps. Great soapers obviously think alike! 😉 Click here to see more of Karey’s creations on Instagram. If you’re looking for more landscape soap inspiration, check out the Sahara Sunset Cold Process Soap tutorial.
This project includes several steps, layers and colors all done with a thick thick trace. It is an advanced technique, or rather, series of them. It requires a good understanding of trace, particularly working with a thick trace. If you’ve never made soap using a thick trace, I would recommend getting a few simple recipes under your belt first, such as the Layered Lilac Loofah Cold Process Soap. I also highly recommend having your workstation thoroughly prepped with plenty of spare spoons, containers and whisks just in case! For more tips on setting up your soaping area, check out this blog post.
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