handmade cold process soap

How to make wood grain cold process soap?

Wood grain soap recipe Wood grain soap is not actually a soap with special properties but a technique used to make the soap look like wood grain. Although the ingredients used can be considered special enought to aide in good skin cleaning and conditionoing it is often over shadowed by the design of the actual soap. Making this type of…

How to make artisan handmade soap.

I Pledge – The Inspired Collection New to the Inspired Line of soaps is a new design we call I pledge I had tinkered with the notion of creating a soap for the 46th Independence of the Bahamas but could never nail a concept down. things were a bit busy at the time so it made coming up with an…

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Lignum – Artisan Handmade Soap

Lignum –  Artisan Handmade Soap   The Birth Idea behind Bahamas Candle and Soap, Lignum Artisan Handmade Soap. I’m sitting in a local food place waiting on my food order when I over hear three men having conversation on the topic of national symbols. One young man in particular stated that the Lignum Vitae is the national Tree but no…

Are Essential Oils better than Fragrance Oils?

Essential Oil vs Fragrance Oil in handmade products, Which should you choose? Essential Oils and Fragrance Oils both add an aroma to soaps but both are not equal. To simplify the explanation, Essential oils are natural oils taken from plants that have their own scent, while fragrance oils are often synthetic scents and made in a lab. Because of the…