The Week in Soap: 2nd July, ’17

I need to start keeping a diary of all the business related things I’ve got up to during the week.  It’s Monday today, and can I remember what I did last Monday? Erm, nope…

I do of course keep a track of each soap I make for the Product Information File (PIF) so I can tell you that last Tuesday I made two double batches of soap – Bewitched and Traeth Craig Du (Black Rock Sands)…

And I even got round to photographing one of them. It traced faster than normal (or perhaps I was less careful with the stick blender, who knows?!) so it’s more a camo pour than a drop swirl, but it’s still pretty:

I had two wholesale orders go out, as well as a load of mini’s for a local guest house:

On Thursday evening I made a load of bath bombs:

Saturday was a frenzy of making… My (have I mentioned how long suffering he is??!) husband took the kids out for the day, and I made soap, yet more bath bombs, another batch of facial soap AND made my first ever batch of lip balm.  The soap was a couple of double batches – Luscious Lavender and Super Scrubby Peppermint:

The lip balm was incredibly quick and easy – beeswax, shea butter and avocado oil with a little honey cosmetic flavour.  To be honest I think I’ll leave out the flavour next time. I deliberately added very little, but it still had a bit of a synthetic tang to me.  I made six tubes worth – one for me, one for Dean, and four to go out to testers.  Make sure you follow my FB page if you want to be in with a chance of being a tester in the future – I have LOADS of ideas for things I want to make, as and when I have time, and they’ll all need human testers 🙂

I posted a question on Facebook and Instagram to try to find out whether people prefer tubes or tins and surprisingly it’s fairly equal between the two – if and when I do finally offer these for sale it looks like I’ll have to offer both options!

I’ve got a busy week coming up – all those bath bombs I made?  All but six have gone – gone! So, there’s more bath bomb making in my near future.  I’m also giving a soap making demonstration to a local branch of the Women’s Institute on Tuesday, giving my regular soaping presentation on Wednesday night, and Thursday will HAVE to be spent making more core range soap.  I also need to find the time somewhere to bevel, wrap and label a load of bars.  Roll on September when I’ll finally be able to work on the business during the days!

Thanks for reading, back soon!