Took a haitus but back in time for Christmas.

Oat & Honey Goat Milk Soap

Gearing up for the busy season with Christmas right around the corner.  With soapmaking, planning ahead is essential because the soap has to sit and dry for 4 -6 weeks.  Planning for Christmas needs to start in October, but somehow, every year, I never feel like I do enough or get enough done in time.  I can't let that be my 'spirit of Christmas'.  Especially this year.

Here are a few of the soaps I did manage to get done.  Thanks to friends who are interested in my work, I looked at my processes in a new light and came up with a much better method of producing my goat milk soap.  The bars are more uniform in size and can be cut in a flash.  It makes the system work better because once I resized the labels as well, they fit better too.  It simplifies and beautifies and that, my friends, is what Nidelva Soap is all about.  

Ginger Bergamot Goat Milk Soap

Lavender Olive oil soap (middle shelf) 
Ginger Bergamot Goat Milk (top and bottom)

Here is a peek at one of the drying racks, where the soap sits for 4 to 6 weeks.  

The lavender soap in the middle is made square (well, almost square)  and fits in a folded box I also hand make.  Perfect for gift giving.  I put two bars of 120g soaps in each box.  

I also managed to create a new product.  DIY Clay masks.  70g of floral water and 10g of dry clay.  These are great.  Teatree/green clay for oily or combination skin and Rosewater/pink clay for sensitive and/or dry skin.   Not only are they elegantly simple and beautifying, but they are very generously portioned.  Use weekly, mix up just the amount you want and need and these mask kits will last for months.  (Keep the rose water in the fridge.  It is organic and contains absolutely no preservatives.)

using a tea tree/French green clay mask
(yes, that is me)

Organic rose water with pink kaolin clay

teatree floral water with French green clay

I put them in cute little gift boxes and will try to get a picture of those posted here.  To see them up close and personal, they are currently sitting on the shelves at Pryd with a tester pot you can sniff and poke at.  ;)