Peppermint Stripes Soap

Stripes, stripes where are all the stripes?

I'm always amazed at how I try an idea on soap and it ends up so much different than I planned. It was a good soap for doing stripes, it stayed liquid for me all the way through. I had white, green and true red. The red sort of took over the bars! I may have to try again but do it the way I did my tiger stripes in the past. I just wanted a candy cane look but as you can see, that is NOT what I got! I laid white on the bottom then drew diagonally across, red, green then extra heavy on the white. I used squeeze bottles to do it with.

Top view-this is what it was supposed to look like

View from front

Another Set

I'm rotating the soaps so you can see how they look.

Bottoms

A different view

All in all it turned out so much different than I would have expected! Now I don't know what to call it. My original name for it was Peppermint Stripes. Anyone have a good idea for a name? It smells like peppermint candy, it has peppermint candy fragrance oil and actual peppermint essential oil too. Should be a cooling soap! I'll report back on that in a month or so when I get to try some. Meanwhile...what do I call this soap?

And no I can't call it a peppermint mess or disaster! Ha! ;) This red is not supposed to bleed so again I will be excited to see what it does.

Just another day in soaping paradise! I made a Cranberry Fizz a few days ago that traced the second I put the fragrance oil in! That was fun to work with-NOT. Just having sooo much fun here. I had planned to drizzle white through the center of the soap but instead got a pretty solid line. I used a stick and went back and forth to try to get some feathering in but that soap barely budged! So now I have lines with light feathering:

 Oh and I did a soap on October 30 that went gold on me! I changed to Mayan Gold fragrance oil so that went fine but after the soap sat for a week it developed crystals, I shredded it back down and remelted it a couple days back and it looks wonderful now! And smells terrific!  It's a Goats Milk-Almond Milk Soap, the flecks are ground oatmeal which will give it a nice scrubbing action.

Mayan Gold

I replaced my Almond Goat's Milk soap which I've sold out of. It is a bit darker than my last batch because I decided to dedicate it to almond! It has ground almond & ground oats, sweet almond oil and a yummy smelling almond fragrance. This is a nice soap! The first batch I did I loved so much it became one of my favorite shower soaps, I think this one will too!

Almond Goats Milk Soap

So that's what I've been up to lately! I got new business cards made, got a ton of paperwork done and also made 2 of my holiday soaps. Only one to go! Bayberry, oh and then I need to make more Apple Cinnamon Goats Milk-I'm down to 4 bars, and maybe I'll do another coffee soap-only have 3 of those left too! 

My mom's annual church bazaar is coming up the Saturday before Thanksgiving and I plan to send them some soap to put in the bazaar-I hope South Dakotan's will like my Kentucky made natural soaps! :)

Hope you're having a great Saturday! Here the sun is shining and I think it's time to go eat some lunch!

God bless you! Take Care!

Marla Riedling

MJR Soaps

Mayan Gold Soap by MJR Soaps

Mayan Gold Goats Milk Soap

Hello all,

Just finished a new soap that started out to be Almond Goats Milk soap but using extra virgin olive oil prompted the change. It turned out gold from the green oil! I will try again using my standard olive oil on the Almond. I'm nearly out of 3 goats milk soaps and need to get them made so they can be cured out before the holidays.

I'm also doing a few seasonal soaps like peppermint, cranberry and bayberry. It should be fun! Some swirls comin' up! ;)

Here's a video:  Unmolding and cutting Mayan Gold Soap What's really funny is I've been wondering what type of soap I was going to make for that scent! The decision got made for me!

Hope you're doing great and having a wonderful fall season! God Bless!

Take care,

Marla
MJR Soaps