Chocolate soap

It was very hard to control the urge to eat chocolate when the smell of real chocolate and sweet orange essential oil going into the warm soap wafted out, like the smell or warm chocolate on a waffle. The smell was lovely the house smells of chocolate and orange.

Chocolate

Chocolate - why is it we go mad and spend thousands on chocolate at Christmas.
A friend of mine sells chocolate and she said that people buy around £60-80 chocolate in one go for presents. On the news they are offering to pay for people to loose weight but with this mamouth demand for chocolate over Christmas no wonder people put on weight. I suppose we starve ourselves being good all year and then let rip at Christmas putting the winter blues and Christmas as the blame. So what to do, last year I made chocolate lip balm which my daughter said her friend was trying to eat the other day because she could taste the chocolate, about to make more, then I have a request for chocolate foaming shower butter, I already make chcolate bath bombs so the next obvious thing is real cold press soap with chocolate - yes I am in the middle of making it as I write and I thought chocolate orange would be nice. So instead of spending £60-80 to put weight on you can spend £20 and get the luxury smell of chocolate, the relaxing, luxurious aroma of a foaming chocolate bath and NO weight gain. sounds good.

Updated web page

Updated web page with all the products including the Christmas wraps. Will put on in the next couple of weeks the Christmas hampers. Off to get some more as already have serval orders for the hampers.

Soap of the month

Soap of the month has to be pumpkin for October. Found the man at Slindon with all his pumpkins. I never knew there were so many different kinds, orange, red, blue, green. Am going to roast the seeds for the top of the soap and chop the flesh into the soap. Should turn out a lovely orange colour soap.

Christmas

Three months to Christmas, the down side is it is one month to the clocks changing, however this means halloween and bonfire night. Something to look forward to. Making soaps with halloween theme.

Soaps - folksy

Have listed more soaps and bath bombs onto folksy. Fun penguins for little ones bath times and strawwberries for the girls. Will be at Pulborough market this Saturday.

All soaped out

In two days have completed three large blocks of soap, numerous small soaps, four candles and dozens of bath bombs. Taking more orders everyday and swopping soaps for christmas presents. Making up Christmas baskets to sell at markets. Pulborough market on Saturday till 12 also the Harvest Day on the field. Don't miss us.

Fairies and marshmallows

I have just been making bath butter/shower cream and using Rose Geranium, the colour is pale pink and it looks like fluffy marshamallows and reminds me of fairies dancing in a container. Walking yesterday I came across a fairy ring of the red toadstalls off to take a picture today.

Molds

Am looking for animal and vehicle molds for Christmas for the kids.
Have lots of orders to get done and out in the next couple of days and things are gearing up for Christmas. Bought some lovely trug like baskets for soaps for Christmas and some jolly little bags with snowmen and santas on.

Soaps

Managed to find three moulds which are meant for candles but give gorgeous shaped flowers for my glycerine soaps, so will be making those for Christmas. Went to the florist wholesaler and they were putting out their Christmas goodies, fatal, found some lovely trug like felt baskets to put soaps and candles in for Christmas plus other goodies. Now need to make candles and soaps both matching in smells. Great fun, just finding the time. Had an order from a gentleman via his young lads they want some fun bath bombs in their Christmas stockings so looking at that.

Fairies

Rather than soaping which I need to be doing I am icing cakes.  Years since I have done it and I had forgotten what a nightmare.  The fairies on the cakes are great, the letters have been a nightmare to get cut out and then the icing I had forgotton that it has a mind of it's own.  Was advised to ice while frozen now panicking as they are sweating - we have 24 hours, I am sure I get three more from one of the big supermarkets.

Weddings

Delivered wedding favour soap which Bride was pleased with and made her a wedding cake out of soap as a present, it looked really good, white soap, white rose on top and surrounded by little silver balls.

Weekend over.

We had a very busy weekend, with Saturday being the nicer day and I was worried we would not have enought soaps but we did.  Need to make lots of soaps this week.  Off to deliver wedding favour soaps and am aiming to make the bride a small wedding cake in white soap.

Why?

Why does the clock turn so fast when you have so much to do and when you have so little it goes so slow?  Racing against time to get things ready for Amberley tomorrow, made royal icing and it was good with the chocolate, then made some with rose pink and it thinned it and it has not held the shape properly.  Always the way when busy.  Anyway they are drying in the sun at the moment and I am sure they will be great when dried.  Look on www.justbevangelicsoaps.co.uk to see the iced bath bombs.

BEER WHISKY

Just re-batching soap with beer. Busy doing labels and making bath bombs for the weekend. Chocolate bath bombs made, just making chocolate lip balm.