Day at the Beach Soap

This soap smells amaaaaazing! You remember the smell of Coppertone when you were growing up? Yup, that's the smell of WSP's Beach FO. It was a little too much for me, so I used 1 part Clean Laundry and 3 parts Beach. Makes me want to bask in the sun!

Don't look at that corner that I dropped......or the air bubbles. Look away.

S.

Cafe Mocha CP Soap

I love all of the challenges that are going around the online soaping community. It really pushes me to get in there to create and learn new techniques, meet new soapers, and put my soaps out there. The latest challenge was with the FB group Soapers Retreat. I had sworn off Facebook. It is a time sink that I just don't need or have time for. Then I found the Soapers Retreat group, and now I am hooked back in. Dang. At least I don't spend time on my newsfeed. I just go on to look at and talk about soap. The way it should be!
The challenge was to create a soap based on your morning drink of choice. Well, coffee of course!

I used 3 parts of BB Oatmeal Milk and Honey and 1 part WSP Coffee Mocha. I scented the light tan with OMH and the dark brown with Coffee Mocha. The white I left unscented. It smells O Yum.

For the swirls I used a spoon in the mold swirl.

Blessings to all!
S.

Kentish Rain

It's been couple of days since my last post, but I have been busy labeling, wrapping and gifting my soapy creations for teachers at my girls' school. I gave each of them a bar of Cold Process soap and a Peppermint Lip Balm. Hopefully they love (and use!) the soap and don't let it languish in a decorative dish, or even worse, in a closet. I gave away some of the Cranberry Fig, the Lemon Verbena, the Fresh Snow, and the Kentish Rain.

Speaking of Kentish Rain, here is a picture of it. A leopard spot design gone horribly wrong. My soap started to get way to thick, and I had to bang it on the counter to get rid of the air pockets. Well, that just flattened and smushed my spots. Plus, I should have put more lines in. It is kind of skimpy on color, don't you think? Feels unbalanced. I am banking on the fact that no one would know it was supposed to be a leopard spot design unless you told them. Now I told you. Smells good anyway. Even ugly soap can smell great.

 

I also got some new weatherproof labels from onlinelabels.com They are very easy to use, but I was a little disappointed that my printing was somewhat muted. I really liked the sheen and brightness of the photo quality paper I used to use. I am going to try again with different print settings. I love the stickers instead of all of the cutting, packing tape, etc. More on my experiments with labels later.

Well-almost done writing my Peacock Swirl post. Check back in the next couple of days. I still need to steam a little ash of of some of the bars. Then I need to photograph the whole batch, and do a couple of close ups of the swirl. SO fun. They turned out great!

Hazelnut Toffee

It is FINALLY summer in Minnesota. We have had a ridiculously cold winter and froze our way through what was to be spring. I (along with what seemed to be like the rest of the Twin Cities area) finally got a chance to buy some annuals and hanging baskets at Bachman's today. Will post some flower pictures tomorrow.

Back to Soap!
Mmmmmmm. My Hazelnut Toffee in the pot swirl soap. This is a new to me scent from BB that I think smells divine! It is sweet, toasty, and definately hazelnut. However, I could be convinced that this scent was root beer. Great either way.  I just love the way it discolors to a creamy brown. I think next time I will only scent the main batch, and leave the white swirl unscented. That way, hopefully it will pop a bit more. I am wondering if this is as brown as it will get. I just cut it about 5 days ago, so we will see!

Cranberry Fig

Hey friends! Here is some awesome Cranberry Fig CP soap. I used TKB POP micas for the green and purple colorants and BB electric bubblegum for the pink. I did a high pour to get the design inside, and tried my hand at a mica swirl top. I still need to play around with it, because I haven't been totally happy with the results. The micas swirl looks so beautiful wet, but when it dries? Meh. Kinda wrinkly and crumbly looking. I think it is a matter of taste. I have people who think the tops are just beautiful. To each her own!
S.

Tiger Stripe

Back in March, Amy from Great Cakes Soapworks hosted a soap challenge, and taught us all how to do a really awesome tiger stripe soap. You know what was even awesomer? (I'm thinking this should be a new word-I'm trying to get it to catch on) I got a free tiger stripe sample colorant pack from Bramble Berry when I used the code provided on her blog with my order. Nice. I got titanium dioxide, activated charcoal, fizzy lemonade, and electric bubblegum. Everything I needed to tiger stripe! I decided to play it safe, and went with Amy's color scheme of white, black, and pink. Well, safe and I LOVED the look.

Here is my rendition. Not bad for a first try, but next time I think I will disperse my TD in water not oil. It got kinda chunky, so when I cut my bars there were TD drag marks. ugh. I scented the batch with BB fresh snow, so maybe instead of cleaning it off, I should have just named the batch Blizzard or something along those lines.

Want to learn how to tiger stripe? Go here and get to it!

S.

First Post! and Green Bay Packer Soap

Welcome to my first blog post! I am SO excited to share my creative journey with all of you.

Welcome to Scattered Bath and Body, where you can share in all of my creative ventures. I love to soap, both Melt and Pour and Cold Process. Make all sorts for body products from lip balms and scrubs to bath bombs and facial serums. I also really enjoy sewing, baking, dying yarn and fabrics, knitting socks, and being with my kids, so there may be an occasional post about my other passions as well! I live in Minnesota with my two beautiful girls and my husband.

So to get us started, how about a soap pic? This is my unintentional Green Bay Packer soap. I grew up in Wisconsin, and now live in Minnesota. It is a bitter rivalry. I am not a football fan. I just don't see what all of the excitement is about. It seems to be a lot of waiting around.  Just sayin'. It is scented with BB Lemon Verbena Yankee Candle (smells awesome), which is why I went with the green and yellow, with white accents. Either it accelerated, or I was soaping too low, but it got thick FAST! To get the layers, I used the spoon plop counter bang technique. Very sophisticated.

Back tomorrow with more soapy creations!
S.