The smell of coffee first thing in the morning is what gets me up and moving.  To have the ability to reproduce that scent in a bar of soap is amazing.  This soap does just that!  

This is what they call a "rebatched" soap.  I made my first loaf of coffee soap and it was a really dark brown so I decided I would rebatch it which entailed chopping the soap in my food processor and then adding the rebatched soap with a basic soap recipe scented with Latte, a fragrance oil.  In the photo you can see a darker pieces (from the rebatched) soap and a lighter base (the new soap).  The scent is amazing!!

The ingredients for the soap are distilled water, lye, coconut oil, olive oil and shea butter; as well as cooled brewed coffee and coffee grounds, and the fragrance oil used was Latte.

Each bar weighs approximately 4.5 oz.

On a personal note, I keep a bar of this soap near my sink and use it after I have chopped onions and it seems to wash off the smell. The coffee grounds add a bit of an abrasive quality to the soap, good on dirty hands!

FALL is in the air!  I just noticed the changing of the leaves this week and they are changing every day!  

This soap is inspired by everything Fall - the falling leaves, homemade soup, chili, pumpkins in the fields and gardens, and Halloween as well as Thanksgiving rapidly approaching!  The scent of the bar is enticing - brown sugar and pumpkin and the color reminds me of fresh baked pumpkin pie!

The soap is made of coconut oil, palm oil (self-sustained), olive oil, castor oil, distilled water, lye, pumpkin puree, Brown Sugar Pumpkin fragrance oil and Copper Sparkle mica.  The last ingredient is that each bar of soap is made with lots of love! 

The weight of each bar is approximately 4.5 ounces.

Watermelon soap, what?  Yes, it is a watermelon soap!  First of all, the scent on this is delightful.  I make a point of trying each and every soap I make.  This is the current soap in the house, and it is so good.  Definitely one of my husband's favorites.  It is a more difficult soap to make with the 3 layers of colors.  I admit the white layer because it is the thinnest was a challenge for me.  The bottom layer is made of two different greens. The middle is a white layer and the top layer is so cool. It even has embedded watermelon seeds throughout this layer.  The embeds are made from a soap dough I made.  On top of the sculpted top are more watermelon seeds as well as starry ecological glitter.  

The seed embeds go all the way through the soap, from first wash to the last!

This soap is made with olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, distilled water, lye and a combination of two fragrance oils, Cucumber Melon and Black Raspberry Vanilla. Magenta mica was the colorant as well as Woodland Green and Lime Green Mojito.

Approximate weight of each bar is 3.6 ounces.

I love to learn different techniques for making soap whether it is melt and pour, cold process or hot process soap.  The method of making soap dough for embeds (which uses a basic cold process recipe but more hands on with smooshing the soap and yes that is how they describe it) and keeping it well wrapped so it does not dry out.  The dough can be formed into components using small molds or large molds and even an extruder to form the soap dough into shapes such as I have used for this hand soap (tiny bats). I have made 2 batches of this soap.  On the first one, the bats were in a row at the bottom of the soap and the other batch the bats decided to move around the soap bar.  I love both styles and cannot take credit for the formation in either soap!

The bat embeds in this soap bar through each soap bar, not placed on top!

The soap batch is made of olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, lye, distilled water, Pumpkin Cardamom fragrance oil, pumpkin puree, copper sparkle mica, red Moroccan clay, pineapple mica, bat embeds required premade soap dough with black mica colorant and lots of love!

Estimated weight of each bar of soap is 4.4 ounces.  

I have already quite a few of these and have had great reviews and tons of smiles when the bats are seen in the soap!

This is another adventure with soap dough and embeds.  I pictured a dark blue night sky as the back drop with 3 tiny white stars in the sky.  In the center is a big orange pumpkin with 2 shades of green for the stem.  The embeds are premade with soap dough which is made from soap batter and then colored and placed in an air tight container for a few days and then manipulated by introducing heat into the dough which loosens up and becomes malleable to shape.  I was lucky to have a pumpkin mold to premake the pumpkin and then add a formed stem on the top as well as to extrude the 3 white stars.  Both of these embeds go the entire length of the soap loaf and the design is present in most stages of use (there may be a delay for the stars on one side as the embeds sometimes shift but it should appear soon after using the bar.  

The ingredients for this soap are:  Olive oil, shea butter, coconut oil, distilled water, lye, Cardamom Pumpkin fragrance oil; Orange, white, and 2 green micas for coloring.  Each bar is made with lots of love.

Estimated weight of each soap bar is 4.8 ounces.

I originally made a swirled soap loaf that I loved everything about it except that one of the swirl colors was way too dark and thick and I was not liking it so much.  So, I decided to remake the soap using ground up pieces of this loaf added to another batch of soap base and I am so much happier with the way this soap loaf turned out. 

The scent I used for this is Frosted Fir which is, you might think, very wintery and fresh like walking through a fir tree forest, and you would be correct!  The soap base is white with small pieces of three colors of green throughout.  After using this soap, your hands smell so good!  

The soap is made of rebatched soap (as described above), coconut oil, olive oil, shea butter, sodium hydroxide, distilled water, Frosted Fir fragrance oil, titanium dioxide, Micas for color agents (green, light green and dark green) and of course, lots of love!.

Estimated weight of the soap bar is 4.5 ounces.

As a gardener, I always planted calendula in my flower garden. The mix of yellow and orange blossoms was always a striking combination.  I had read that the dried petals could be put into soap both as a coloring agent and as an herb.  I have a bunch of dried calendula and chopped the dried blossoms up and used them in a batch of soap!  It provided a very soft pale yellow color to the soap.

The soap is made of sodium hydroxide, distilled water, dried calendula petals, coconut oil, shea butter, cocoa butter, olive oil, castor oil, Garden party fragrance oil and lots of love!

Estimated weight of each soap bar is 4.5 ounces.

This soap smells so good!  It has a sweet lemon fragrance!I always take a sample soap to see what it is like and it is creamy, bubbly and just delightful!  It is an off white soap with a pale yellow swirl throughout.  

The ingredients are as follows:  Olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, sodium hydroxide, distilled water, Italian Limoncello fragrance oil, yellow mica colorant, titanium dioxide, gold ultrasparkle mica and lots of love!

Estimated weight of each bar is 3.7 ounces.

Beach glass sure does bring back memories of being at the beach and collecting shells and beach glass.  I wondered just how long that beach glass had been tumbling around in the surf.  Always fun to bring back a jar of beach glass memories!  I tried to capture the memory of sea glass memories in this soap some of the blue shades I remember.  

The ingredients for this soap are coconut oil, palm oil, olive oil, castor oil, sodium hydroxide, distilled water, titanium dioxide, Vitamin E, Frosted Sea Glass fragrance oil, Turquoise Teal mica and Turquoise Teal with titanium dioxide and lots of love!

Estimated weight of a bar of soap is 4.5 ounces.

This bar of soap takes my breath away.  It swirls in all directions - side to side, crossways and diagonally.  The colors are a combination of neon colorants that were softy muted but they are mesmerizing.  It is a smaller bar but time consuming with this swirl.  

The ingredients are as follows:  Sodium hydroxide, olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, distilled water, titanium dioxide, Neon mica pigments of blue, hot pink and House Party Purple; Garden Party fragrance oil and Into the Mystic biodegradable glitter and lots of love!

Estimated weight for each soap bar is 2.8 ounces.

Sea shells, see shells down by the sea shore was running through my mind as I was thinking about what kind of soap did I want to make and this is what I came up with.  I had a bunch of white soap dough that I used to make some sea shells to place on top of each bar and some nice biodegradable glitter to sprinkle on top and I got to work!

I premade sea shells out of homemade soap dough which has similar ingredients to the soap base I used.

Ingredients used were Olive oil, coconut oil, olive oil, sodium hydroxide, distilled water, shea butter, titanium dioxide, Sea Glass fragrance oil, biodegradable glitter and lots of love!

Estimated weight of each soap bar is 3.9 ounces

Oh my goodness, this soap exceeded my expectations and I am so pleased with it!  I was looking for the last soap to complete my Halloween/Fall season and this is the way I wanted to finish up.  In my mind I pictured a jack O'Lantern sitting in the middle of the top of the soap with a Halloweeny color scheme and here we are!  When the soap was first taken out of the soap loaf and cut, I built up the middle of each soap and placed a premade soap dough Jack O'Lantern piece with careful mounding up the pumpkin on all sides while the soap was still soft.  

Then we have the swirls.  I am still learning about swirls and these swirls are so awesome and so fit in with the color scheme and the Jack O'Lanterns.  I am so excited and I hope you are too!  

This soap has been cut and will be released for sale on September 25, 2024.  Please send me an email (thesunflowercupboard@gmail.com) if you would like to be on the order list for this soap),

The ingredients for this soap are as follows:  Olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, black and orange mica colorants, and scented with Witches Brew fragrance oil and lots of love!

Estimated weight of each soap bar is 4.4 ounces.

HAPPY FALL Y'ALL AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN

I expect to see Christmas ads in the next few weeks and that has me excited - excited to be making great quality handmade soap just for you!  

These bars are made of top quality ingredients with a 3-color swirl throughout the soap bar, and the swirl can be seen on the top of the bar as well as holographic biodegradable mini stars.  I also used one of my favorite winter scents, Elderberry and Evergreen.  This soap loaf was made of my regular recipe soap base and it is great - lots of lather!

The ingredients used were olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, sodium hydroxide, distilled water. The mica colorants are True Red, Gold Sparkle, and Woodland Green.  I also added holographic biodegradable stars, Elderberry and Evergreen fragrance oil and of course, LOTS OF LOVE!

Average weight of each soap bar is 4.5 ounces.

Shipping charges are for per soap bar.

Christmas is approaching!  I love this time of the year!  This is the second soap bar I have designed for this wonderful season.  

This is a pretty elaborate soap to make with three colors of swirls (red, white and green} throughout as well as a "swirly top", snowflake sparkle mica and dried cranberry seeds. Each soap bar is scented with a new fragrance I discovered, called Juniper Berry and Cedar and it is wonderful!  

The ingredients used were olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, sodium hydroxide, distilled water and titanium dioxide.  The soap is scented with Juniper Berry and Cedar fragrance oil. The mica colorants are True Red, Woodland Green and white.  I also used a snowflake sparkle mica for the top along with dried cranberry seeds.  The last item is added to all of the soap bars that I make - LOTS OF LOVE!

Average weight to each soap bar is 4.5 ounces.

Shipping charges are per soap bar.

This is my first attempt at doing an ocean/beach soap and I love how it turned out!  I can almost hear the roar of the waves and the pounding sound when a wave cuts and runs up the beach!  As a child my family spent 2 weeks mid summer at the Jersey Shore and those were 2 weeks of pure bliss! 

It was very important for me to show the layers of a wave with three colors - white, blue violet and an aqua turquoise.  I am just as excited by the sand layer which was made with a gold mica mixed with vanilla bean powder which I think definitely defined the grains of sand.  The top of each bar is equally spectacular with the blue colors and white defining the swirl of the sea.  

The ingredient used were olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, distilled water, sodium hydroxide, titanium dioxide, there were 4 micas used - blue, green, white and gold sparkle as well as vanilla bean powder to help add color and dimension for the sand.  The scent I chose for this soap was very well-named - Sea Salt fragrance oil.  The best ingredient is always included in each bar of soap I create - LOTS OF LOVE!

Average weight of each soap bar is 4 ounces.

Shipping charges are per soap bar.