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I’ve been asked a few times over the past couple months how I colour my soaps. One of my biggest pet peeves is seeing a store like Lush or The Body Shop branding itself as “natural”, and seeing how many artificial, petroleum-derived colourants they use in their products. That’s just not my style.
I tend to use natural colourants, ranging from naturally coloured oils to oxides. The saponification process is a bit of a wild card, in that you never know how a coloured ingredient will be effected afterwards. Apparently rosehip extract, which is bright pink, turns black turning saponification. Whoops, haha. Anyhow, here’s how I colour my soaps, without the use of any artificial dyes.
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This intoxicating soap is lightly golden and reminiscent of tropical gardens and exotic locales. It makes me think of small towns in the summer time—specifically Gig Harbor, Washington. My Aunt’s family lives there, and all of my most recent visits have been in the summer. We’ll always spend one afternoon walking the main street of their quaint downtown.
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Tags: butter, clay, coconut, homemade, instructions, kaolin clay, natural, oxide, recipe, shea butter, skin, soap, summer, tea, Titanic
This soap is rather intoxicating; sweet, spicy, and reminiscent of steamy beaches in southern Asia (if I had any memories such memories, that is). I love its soft purple swirl, its rich lather, and the slip the clay adds, making it a great shaving soap as well.
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I feel like patchouli is one of those scents that has worked its way into the collective memory. I was instantly flooded with nostalgia when I opened my first bottle of patchouli oil—I remembered my trip to Germany and the mother of a friend who has always smelled of warm, spicy patchouli. It’s a scent I’ve known all my life, but I only recently pinpointed the source. This wouldn’t be the case, I’m sure, if I’d been around in the 1960′s, but alas, I wasn’t (though my musical tastes don’t seem to know that).
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There’s something about citrus that makes it perfect for morning showers. Bright, happy, clean, and refreshing. Grapefruit is a nice quasi fringe citrus fruit—lemon and lime are so cliché, don’t you think?
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