A new Hobby Soap making Love it

That is so cool I would love to learn how to make my own soaps. I will have to do some research just trying to get garden planted bet this would make a great winter project.

Beautiful Julie!! Love monkey farts!! Can't wait til my stuff comes in.

Great idea to start this thread over here Julie !!!  Thanks !!

Making soap is one of my favorite things to do.  It is so relaxing and makes the house smell divine !!  I've been making soap for about 10 years now - I haven't used a bar of store bought soap in a good 15 years, and I never will use one again.  There is just no comparison, as far as I am concerned.

Wow - you have some colorful soap going on there Julie !!  Maybe one of these days I'll give pigments a shot.  I've just always made my plain.  I don't use expensive molds either.  I found a guy on the internet that made my molds.  I gave him the dimensions that I wanted and he made them out of poplar or pine (I think - who knows???) unstained, unfinished.  THey are just a plain long loaf mold with a lid.  They hold 25 bars, 3 inches thick.

I'm making soap this evening - I'm making my signature chamomile/Neroli.  I also ordered fragrance oils in Moroccan Fig, and Dragonsblood.  I'm still on the fence with the Dragonsblood and Moroccan Fig.  I've never used fragrance oils in my soap.  I'm into all natural - no chemicals - so I've always used only pure essential oils and the herbs that I grow myself.  I'm going to give it a shot and see how I like it with the fragrance oils.

I'll keep you posted on how the two new fragrances come out.

I went with the Moroccan fig like you sounded so good. One of my favorite lotions is festive vanilla fig from BBW so was hoping this would be good. And went with camomile on your suggestion that it was your fav. I'm sure I know what camomile smells like but just cant come up with it. The others I bought were a coconut and a pineapple cilantro. So hoping I could mix these for a piña colada scent or even plain. I looked for a coconut lime verbena on brambleberry but didn't see one and hated to order from several places. Maybe next time.  The eBay auction showed several wooden boxes like you describing  I just picked a cheaper one made of PVC so it's non stick and doesn't have to be lined supposedly. Wish I would have done like Julie and just used what was available. I just searched eBay for soap loaf molds and there were several options

Kassandra - if you want to make the chamomile, I'll send you the recipe.  You will need Neroli essential oil and you need to "cook" your chamomile in the olive oil to infuse it.  If you want it, I'll send you the recipe.  The chamomile is my favorite of any soap I've ever used.  It really is wonderful.

Sure. I'll give it a try!!