It's a Wrap

 All the holiday soap is wrapped and the mess is finally put away.

Most of the year I can't give the stuff away and in the last few weeks I could barely come up with enough for everyone who asked.

 Everyone got a bit of what they asked for. It was a good thing I went on a soap making binge six weeks ago.

The big batch of glycerin soap for Meals on Wheels is getting delivered today. I had to put The Mister to work in order to get it done on time.

 The lotion bars are also all wrapped and gifted but I forgot to take a picture of them in their cute little tins that I lined with seasonal cupcake liners.

Someone asked for my recipe yesterday so here it is:

For each little cake I used 1 tablespoon of white beeswax pastilles, 1 tablespoon of either cocoa butter or shea butter and 1 tablespoon of a light soap oil. Sometimes I used sweet almond. Sometimes I used avocado. Sometimes it was safflower. Basically it is 1/3 beeswax, 1/3 hard butter and 1/3 light oil to get a hard and not too oily bar that stays white. I would also add a few drops of an essential oil for a very light fragrance. Lavender and Litsea Cubeba were my favorites. I used a small permanently designated jelly jar in a pan of boiling water to melt the mixture as the microwave didn't do the job. The beeswax takes a long time to melt. You've got to stir and stir to get a clear liquid to pour. I stirred it with a craft stick because it is very hard to clean off a spoon. That's also why I used a jelly jar for melting to avoid the cleanup-which is no fun at all.