Alabama Soapmeeting 2007

Kelly Bloom, owner of Southern Soapers, BloomWorks Natural Soap Company, and the Soapalooza! Soap Arts Studio will be the new Keynote Speaker at 11th Annual ASM‏
Are you an Alabama Soap Maker?
Or maybe a soapmaker in a nearby state …say Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, Louisianna, Oklahoma, or even Texas?
If you are and can [...]

We have had so much rain here in the Yorktown, VA area that I only just finished planting our Victory Garden today. The trellis for the pole beans, romano beans, and cucumbers went up today. I also caged the tomatoes. They are determinate, but cages will lend support when they get heavy with fruit. The [...]

Southern Soapers & BloomWorks have been using the trays from Soap Equipment to cure soap now for many years. The only downside has been that it has required unstacking each tray to get to the earliest batches on the bottom levels, quite a chore when there are twelve trays with three batches on each. See [...]

Wooden Soap Mold, 2 lb
Handcrafted wooden loaf, or log soap mold. Dimensions: 7″ long x 3.5 ” Wide x 2.75″ high
Made for Cold Process soapmaking with the added benefit of also being able to be used for Melt & Pour soap logs. This mold MUST be lined with either a freezer paper or a [...]

I am at the HSMG Soap Convention, and at 4:00 pm today I am diving a presentation on making a fun cold process soap project. I am using natural colorants, but you can easily do this with dyes, ultramarines, oxides, or micas.
Stay tuned, I will post photos of the soap project!  #soapguildp09

STARTER Trinity formula
Olive 35%
Coconut or PKO (either will work) 25%
Palm or Soy Shortening (either) 40%
After getting the feel on trace times, bar hardness, lather, etc on that above formula (that is a good starter formula also), I would learn to start tweaking, to build other elements into the bar… TAKING NOTES each time you tweak [...]