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After a rather long hiatus from making soap (thanks to having messy baby #8), I’m back in action with the Soap Challenge Club! Amy Warden of Great Cakes Soapworks started this challenge club back in 2012 when I was just…
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Questions I’m asked quite frequently: Did you always want this many kids? When do you have the time to make soap? How on earth do you do it all?!?! Well, you asked. So here are the answers! The story of…
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The Soap Challenge Club for March was to create the “Secret Swirl,” a feather-like swirl that’s hidden inside the center of the soap and revealed upon cutting it. The challenge was divided into 2 categories: all-natural soaps and synthetic soaps. For the…
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Once again, we’ve had a great Soap Challenge Club tutorial this month thanks to Amy Warden of Great Cakes Soapworks and her guest instructor, Tatsiana Serko of Creative Soap by Steso. The Cosmic Wave technique proved to be a good challenge…
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Howdy, soapy friends! It’s been a while since I last participated in the Soap Challenge Club (and I have a good reason, I promise!), but I couldn’t resist participating this month! The wood grain technique in soapmaking is just so…
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The Teardrop, this month’s Soap Challenge Club technique, was so appropriately named since it caused so many of us soapmakers to cry! Holy moly, was this a tough one (for me at least)! Amy gave us a lovely tutorial, and…
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What do you do when it’s below zero and snowy outside? I can’t think of anything more fun than making soap! Well, actually, traveling to some exotic and WARM location might be more fun…but if I have to stay home, soap…
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Tall and Skinny Shimmy…sounds like the kind of girl I’d like to be! The Soap Challenge Club is fun for soooo many reasons! Hehehe! I particularly loved this month’s club challenge technique because it yields such beautifully stunning results that…
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I just love learning a new swirl technique, especially one that comes up with great results every time, even if you don’t get it exactly right! This month’s Soap Challenge Club delivered all that with the Clyde Slide, a technique…
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Soap painting has always intrigued me, so I was excited to see that this month’s Soap Challenge Club is based on the art of Ebru paper marbling. After watching many, many videos of both paper marbling and soap making using…
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