Lotions are a fine product to have on sale at your soap shop, but there are some basic ingredients the go into almost every recipe. Oil, water, an emulsifier to bring the oil and water together, and a preservative are necessary elements in order to make a quality lotion. Get a full tutorial about lotions here:: What Ingredients Do You Need If You’re Starting Out? Lotions
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Cut Your Own Soap Mini-Bars and Save
Many of the soaps offered by the Soap Guy come in 5 oz blocks in order for you to save. However, many of you might want to cut up the soap into smaller bars in order to sell them, give them to friends, or use them as a promotional item. Sure, we can cut them up for you for a price, but you can easily slice them into neat bars yourself! Check out the video below for a tutorial.
Deep Clean Skin with Clay, Adding a Fresh Mint Scent
You can exfoliate, clean, and smooth you skin using activated charcoal and clay while adding a perky, refreshing mint scent to it as well. Using poppy seeds, charcoal, green zeolite clay, and oils, you can easily make minty clay melt-n-pour soap at home. It makes a fine gift for soap customers, male or female. Get the full recipe here:: Minty Clay Melt & Pour Bar
Have a Permanent Washcloth By Making Felted Soap
One pet peeve many people have is that they feel they use up their soaps without making a good lather. There’s a solution! Using nylon stocking, wool roving, and your favorite bar of soap, you can make a soap wrapped in its own washcloth for instant lathering every time you wash. With a little bit of creativity, you can make your own designs to sell on you soap shop website. Get a full tutorial and creative inspiration here:: Felted Soap Tutorial
Soap Shop Owners Unite!
Owning and running your own craft or soap shop can be daunting task for any individual. It is up to yourself to make your dreams come true and thrive among the competition. However, just because you have competition, it doesn’t mean you’re enemies.
It is important for soap entrepreneurs and craft sellers to get together, bond, and collaborate. It allows you to test out new ideas or products. It is easier to get solid advice or just an ear to listen to your shop troubles that can relate. Overall, forging a community of creators can just lead to more creativity. For more on this topic and an opportunity to link up with other creators, please click here:: Coming Soon: A New Community for Makers – The Thriver Circle
Hydrate Skin with a Bit of Sparkle
Cold weather can leave skin dry and flat. A great way to combat this is make your own burnt sugar shimmer lotion to rehydrate and moisturize your skin while leaving a soft sparkle that’ll make your skin tone pop. Using aloe lotion, lip safe copper mica, cappuccino mica, and burnt sugar fragrance, you’ll end up with a fine, effective moisturizer. Get the full recipe here:: Burnt Sugar Shimmer Lotion
Everything’s Better with Bacon (Including Soap)
Whether you’re a manly man or a woman that’s a carnivore at heart, the smell of bacon can put a smile on almost anyone’s face. Using real bacon fat with some coconut oil, you can make some fun gift soap for the bacon lover in your life or in the in the lives of your soap shop customers. Get the full recipe here:: Homemade Bacon Soap Recipe for Men
Make Good Use of Scrap Fabric
Okay, so you’re finished making that dress, sewing up a new shirt, stitching a new quilt, and so on. Now you have all this leftover fabric. None of it really matches for outfits or any other cloth crafts… or does it?
There are a number of projects you can do with scrap fabric laying around your home. You can make colorful headbands, skirts, or pillows. Heck, you can even make a fun puzzle out of fabric scraps. Check out the tutorials for these projects and others here:: 25 Cute Scrap Fabric Projects
Revitalize Skin Using Natural Oils
Natural plant oils are a great way to moisturize and nourish your skin while it also replenishes skin cells. Making a skin serum using jojoba oil, tamanu oil, rosehip see oil, pomegranate seed oil, and vitamin E can feed any need your skin may have. Get the full recipe here:: DIY Beauty: Nourishing Skin Serum
Exfoliate and Smell Like a Dozen Roses
What’s better than a clay mask that can cleanse and moisturize your face? A clay mask that lets you smell like a bunch of roses. Using argan oil, meadowfoam oil, walnut shells, and primrose extract, you can make a quality exfoliating face mask at home to freshen up the faces of your soap shop customers. Get the full recipe here:: Rose Clay Exfoliating Mask