Soap Week 2026

 

The transformation is complete. The downstairs craft room is covered in plastic so I can make a big mess. 

If I don't get some soap made now there won't be any in the fall to give away. It's a very long process. 

I've been on the hunt for herbal fragrances and I've got a bunch of new ones including one that claims to be an Herbal Essence knock off. It's not but it does smell nice. They all do. I'm excited about turning them into soap along with the three other new fragrances I posted about a while back. 

First up was Greet Tea. It smells nothing like green tea but it does smell nice. It looks nice too.

Not much else is going to get done around here for the next week or so. I even have to use the sewing table upstairs to hold the newly cut soap until the bottoms are hard enough to go up on the drying shelves without leaving ridges. 

Speaking of drying shelves, the black soap I made last month will be ready to test on Monday. It darkened up quite a bit. I'm happy to say that the fragrance faded a bit. It's not fragrance free but it's close. I might do this one again and make it unscented for myself since that's what I prefer. Of course, that'll be after testing. I'm still wary of that amount of activated charcoal.