Chocolate Milk with Caramel

Inspired by last year's Orange Chocolate Truffle, this soap has a delicious fragrance and fudge like appearance, so make sure you label it clearly! Recipe below.

For an 8 inch drawer organizer you will need 1.5 lbs of Goat Milk Melt & Pour.

 For the first layer melt 15 squares (.75lb) of soap. Stir in 1 tsp of Salty Caramel fragrance and 1/4 tsp of Honey Beige Mica. Spray with rubbing alcohol if the mica clumps. Pour into the organizer - I placed mine on a slanted board.

Melt the rest of the soap for the second layer and add 1tsp of Chocolate fragrance plus 1/2 tsp of orange essential oil (optional, I couldn't help myself). Colour this layer with 1/4 tsp of Cappucino Mica.  Your first layer should have a very thick skin on it by the time you have the second layer ready. Spray the soap in the mold with rubbing alcohol and pour the second layer on top. If your mold was on a slanted board put it flat before you pour.
If you have a 12 inch organizer you will need 1lb of soap for each layer, 2lbs total.

Melt & Pour soap is 10% off until Sept 30 so hopefully you will try this recipe!

Making a Clay Mask

Some interesting info on clay masks. Actually, the whole site (wholeliving.com) is pretty good!

http://www.wholeliving.com/photogallery/anti-aging-beauty-tips

More Free Printables

For those with kiddos starting or returning to school these free printable signs from How Does She are really cute. Find them at http://www.howdoesshe.com/. Look under featured posts, you'll find other free printables there as well.

Sand Toy Starfish

These bath bombs were made from a mold I picked up at Superstore. There was a package of sand toys on sale for 99 cents. There were six different shapes- crabs, fish etc- but I just wanted the starfish & 99 cents isn't a bad price for a single cavity mold. Should have bought more :) The colour on the bath bombs is from some clay beads I put into the bottom of the mold before packing it.

This is the starfish I used from the package.

Free Printables

I'm hoping the link I've posted works or you can download these free printables from the TomKat Studio site. They were designed for HGTV so you might find them there too.

http://www.thetomkatstudio.com/hgtv-free-printable-chevron-invitations-favor-tags-in-6-colors/

Soap and Stamps

Just messing around with clear stamps in an eight inch drawer organizer and some melt & pour. Hope everyone had a good weekend.

Hawaiian Shores Melt & Pour

Made with 1lb of goat milk melt and pour base coloured with a liquid orange colourant and 2lbs of clear glycerin melt & pour base coloured with blue colourant. The orange coloured soap was poured into a loaf mold and then the blue soap was poured in right after. In a smaller mold this soap would have self layered but in a loaf mold you get more of a two colour tye dye look. This soap is fragranced with a blend of Ocean, Pineapple and Mango fragrances.