Ornaments Bath Bombs

 

I used this recipe with out any colour to make some bath bombs in the Milky Way Ornaments mold. I brushed a little mica on after they had dried. I think they will be cute in gift baskets for Christmas, I just need to find the right size of cellophane bag for them. Has anyone else started thinking about what they're making for the Holidays?

Soy Wax Tart Melts & New Molds

We have some Milky Way Wax Tart molds at the store and on the web site so I decided to try a few of them out. I didn't have any suitable wax on hand so I melted some of our Beanpod Wax Beads.

 I used McIntosh Apple, Cinnamon Bun and Pumpkin Pie. The molds have eight cavities and one tube of the wax beads will fill five. The amount of beads seems to vary a little so I just divided the melted wax evenly to make five tarts. In my microwave two bursts of 45 seconds was enough to melt almost all of the beads and a few little swishes of the measuring cup I had them in finished the melting process. They harden in about an hour.

Aren't they cute? You could also make small bath bombs or bath melts in these molds.

The picture of the jars below isn't great but these little glass jars from Superstore each hold five wax tarts perfectly.

Here is a picture of the mold I did not try. I think this butterfly would be cute with a fruity scent like Lemon, Lime or Orange-Vanilla, yum!  Thanks for looking!

Blue & Green Dolphins - Playing with Colour

Here's a variation on an old post from 2010 using multiple pours of coloured soap. You need as many hands as you have colours because they are poured at the same time. For the variation, I filled my molds part way with some Goats Milk melt and pour and then added the colours, which in this case was only two. The shape of the mold helped the colours to stay separate, I really like the way these Dolphin soaps turned out.

 You can see in the background that I have a tray mold in a cookie sheet of cold water, that's for the leftover soap. I melted a full 2lbs of Goat Milk soap and a 1/4lb of each colour.

Here are some Dolphins having their close up.

 I poured the left over Goat Milk soap in to the tray mold and then the coloured soaps, one colour at each end.

These flowers are a bit of a fail. I had my sister help me and we did purple, pink and yellow soaps. Although the soap turned out pretty,  I was hoping for something more like the leaves we did in  this post. Thanks for looking, any questions let me know in the comments.

Honey Soap & Butterflies

The latest soap shipment also includes some  Glycerin with Honey melt & pour that's a little darker than what we got last time. I told the manufacturer that we're used to having the honey soap a nice amber colour so they used a different kind of honey, now it looks more the colour that I'm used to. The three bars at the top of the photo are made with the paler honey soap, which is still nice.

Here's a closer look, the butterflies show up nicely with both kinds. I actually like the mix.

Thanks for looking!

Butterfly Guest Mold Bath Bombs

Another mold I've been meaning to try is the new Milky Way Butterflies Guest Mold. I made a single batch scented with Lavender essential oil and coloured with a bit of purple powdered colourant. I had a hard time capturing the detail in the photos but in real life the butterflies show up great.

This link to a post a month or so ago will give you the basic recipe. Thanks for looking!

Pink Puppy Paws

Why oh why did I wait so long to try the new Milky Way Puppy Paw mold? The little paws are filled with some Goats Milk melt & pour soap that's been tinted a very light pink. The background is from our new shipment of coloured glycerin melt & pour, I added one little square of goat milk soap to the pink glycerin when I was melting it. It made the pink soap a little less clear, I like it that way sometimes. The little paws were easy to  fill and the soap was already starting to harden in the mold by the time I'd done them all. I did a little cleanup with a toothpick and then gave them a good spray with rubbing alcohol before adding the pink soap. I was really glad that I had the pink soap already melted and fragranced. This soap is scented with Strawberry fragrance. Thanks for looking!

Pre Coloured Melt & Pour Soap Back in Stock

It was slim pickin's in our selection of pre coloured melt & pour soap lately. We were down to yellow and lime green, but that has changed as of this morning. We are restocked in emerald green, red, pink, purple and are now carrying blue as well. We were unable to get that one last time. All coloured melt & pour soap has been priced at 10% off until August 31.