March

What wonderful weather we are having, the soaps are drying beautifully and love this warm weather as much as me.  March has been full on creating, we have strawberry gateaux with strawberries inside, strawberry cheesecake (admission I forgot the strawbs inside) but it looks and smells great, black forest gateaux. I was worrying about how to do the gateaux, with the edible one you have the chocolate and cherries, so I put cherry smell into the red soap, I love the smell of the cherry blossom we have, then I grated dark chocolate and added chocolate fragrance to the other soap  poured them together over the setting white top and it has turned out brilliant.  We have white soap on the top looking like cream, with red cherries on top, the red and chocolate mingling in the middle and then white cream near bottom.  The Soapworks of America had a challenge and I have swirled soap before but never more than two or three colours, so I did four colours.  It is amazing however I am extremely critical on myself and feel that the mauve is a bit to overpowering, having said that when I made a dark mauve soap before and I thought it was horrid it ran out the door and I had to make more. If I lived in an ideal world I would spend all day making soap.  Today I made three Rose Geranium - one with flowers, one plain, and one with rose petals.

Blogs

I often read other Soap peoples blogs I find it interesting that sometimes, whilst their soaps look amazing they have problems to.  Been onto the Amercian site of Great Soapworks which was good to look at and made me think so have set my daughter and her boyfriend the challenge of making a video of how to make our bath bombs, will see what they come up with.  Just finished icing 150 ready for the next couple of shows.

 Mamouth soaping day - completed lots of soaps yesterday.  Baby soap, Lemongrass and Ginger, Patchouli and Orange, Strawberry gateaux and twelve cup cakes.  They will just be ready for Easter but also for May bank holiday when we are at the Food and South Downs Fair in West Sussex.

 All with lots of sparkle to please us girls.

Lambs

Nothing to do with soap, well they could be if they wanted to use the dog soap, would be really good for their coats.   I went  walking with the dogs and it was so lovely to see the lambs in the field running around.  The week has been busy, met a lovely lady called Claire who works for Womens Wisdom and she has put me in touch with someone who may be able to help me with my packaging and printing allowing me the much needed time to make more soap, which then brings me onto needing somewhere to move to as home is getting too small or should I say I am taking over too much.  The web page is finished all but one picture and I am wating for the sun to shine again to get that one.  I also spent Friday learning about "Google" which adds to my knowledge gained while re-vamping my web site so if I keep going I will be able to change jobs to a computer person, no never, love making the soaps to much for that.  There is a special offer on the web site, not telling you, you have to look but it is a freebie!!

Acne

I have read over the last two weeks two separate cases regarding Acne.  One person said the first thing on their mind in the morning as they awoke was how bad their skin was.  Another person it seems was taking medication which inturn caused severe depression leading to the person taking their life which is extremely sad.  I make neem soap, I made it first for my son who at fifteen was really spotty, not dreadful acne, but realy spotty teen syndrome.  I have continue to make and sell lots of this soap and I get comments back like "I did not think it was working until I ran out".  "Did not think my son was using the soap so put it away, noticed his spots were getting worse and he said it was because I had taken his soap away".  Another Lady emailed me and said that she had a problem with her hands which no Doctors prescription had solved but the neem soap did.  So if you read this and you have a problem with your skin why not give it a try, it will only cost you £3.50 and if it does not work for you then you have at least tried.
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