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