New MOM Soap (Milk, Oatmeal & Honey)!

When I first decided I wanted to make a milk soap, I knew it had to be an Oatmeal, Milk & Honey soap. I asked my mother how you said Oatmeal, Milk & Honey in Ukrainian and she said it was "Malako", "Ofsienka" and "Myod" (phonetically spelled of course!!) :-) Well, I took the first letter of each word and it spelled MOM, which related perfectly. Not to mention an Oatmeal, Milk & Honey soap seems just like a "Mom" kind of soap! :-)

Since there would be no real swirl design with this one, I decided to go back to my log mold, which actually worked out well, since this time I wanted to line my top with whole oatmeal and a dash of cinnamon.

This milk soap is a saponified blend of whole milk, coconut oil, olive pomace, palm oil, avocado oil, castor oil, jojoba oil, beeswax, hand-ground oatmeal, honey, cinnamon and Oatmeal, Milk & Honey Fragrance.

New Firebird Soap!

I've sold out of all my Firebird soap on Etsy and have just made another batch! This is my 3rd concoction of Firebird and my prettiest to date!!

I used my new mineral oxides for coloring and they work the best by far! Going to cut into it in about 4 hours and see how the bars came out. I'm VERY happy with my swirls and new slab mold!

Firebird is a saponified blend of Olive Pomace, Coconut Oil, Avocado Oil, Palm Oil, Wheat Germ, Beeswax, Essential Oils of Lavender, Spruce, Sweet Orange, Clove, Sandalwood and Tea Tree, and the following spices for a light exfoliating feeling: Turmeric, Cinnamon, and Pumpkin Spice.

A zesty endeavor, the Firebird soap, is a FANTASTIC soap that many have become hopelessly addicted too, including my boyfriend!

My Etsy Store!!

Kupala Soap is now up on Etsy!

Click here to check out all the wonderful soaps available!!

New Soap Packaging

Huzzah! My beautiful 100% recycled soap boxes FINALLY arrived last week and I have been working on my packaging design ever since! At first, I was thinking about simply printing a sticker out and sticking it on them and maybe a little ribbon to finish them off. I nixed the sticker idea as the main theme and got some individual letter stamps and some pretty neat image stamps and went to town on my boxes. I kept the ribbon idea, and chose a different ribbon for each soap type.

My only complaint with the boxes are some of my soaps are a little short for the hole and they swim around in the box a little. When this happens, I add a few cardboard strips into the box with the soap to help hold them in place and up to the cutout. I'll just have to start making my soap a little taller ;-)

Below are all my different soaps in their new and lovely packaging! I think I may tweak my boxes a little, perhaps add some more colors to my drawings or colored stamps, but I'm very happy with the look of them: handmade, unique, artistic, raw and totally my own! :-)