Huckleberry & Grapefruit Gourmet Soap Pictures

I promised to upload a few pictures after yesterday's soap was done setting up!  The insulated shelves worked fabulously!  I couldn't be happier!!!!  What a wonderful idea my husband had!  The dough racks work great as well to finish the curing process in the weeks to come.  Here are the pictures of the huckleberry soap and the grapefruit soap:

"Steppin" It up A Soaping Notch - Labor Day 2012

What a summer it's been, but I've learned a ton!  So, I am stepping it up a notch and changing a few things in Bon Logic.  My husband just finished building me a brand new shop and this is really the first weekend, I have really got to come out and be creative.  I absolutely love it and feel very blessed that he built it for me!

Bon Logic Shop

The things I am changing:

I am creating three separate retail soap categories:

#1 Gourmet Soaps - Beautiful usable soaps.  They are the ones that will smell and look beautiful!  But, you may not want to use them! Below are pictures, still in the molds, curing and setting up the first 24 hours, on the insulated curing shelves in my shop.

#2 Essential Oil Soaps - Using only essential oils in the soaps, for those that want natural products, not fragrance oils.

#3 Regular Bar Soaps - Nothing fancy, just bar soap, made with fragrance oils.  Many fragrance oils are not available in essential oils. We would be so limited if we only had essential oils to choose from, like huckleberry soap for example:

Huckleberry Heaven (fragrance oil) Cold Processed Soap

Grapefruit Essence (essential oil) Cold Processed Soap

I'll have to update the blog when I cut them.  The shelves I cure them on are wonderful and designed by my husband.  It makes the initial curing and setting up of the soap a breeze.  They are a metal shelving unit, insulated on the top, sides, back and front.  You just slip the molds in, put the front on and presto, no worries.  You just let it cure and set up the first 24-48 hours, remove and cut the soap for further 3-4 week curing.

Insulated Cold Processed Shelving

I also made my own Laundry Soap this weekend.  Something, I have always wanted to do.  Here is the recipe for any of you the want to try it.  At the last fair I did last week, one of my fellow vendors gave me the recipe.  It makes 5 gallons and costs about 3 cents a cup.  You can buy the ingredients at a local Winco or Walmart:

Heres what you need to get started:

5 gallon Bucket with a Lid

1 cup Washing Soda

1/2 cup Borax

1 Bar of Fels Naptha Soap

Bring a pan of water to a boil and add the shredded Fels Naptha Soap.  Stir to melt.  Fill a 5 gallon bucket half full of hot tap water.  Add the three soaps and stir well.  Then fill the bucket to the top and let it set overnight.  It will thicken overnight.  I used my stick blender the next morning to blend it.

Use a cup for normal loads.  This calculates out to be about 3 cents a cup.  Much less expensive than normal laundry soap for sure!

One bar of Fels Naptha is about 97 cents at Walmart.

One 3.7 oz box of Washing Soda at Walmart is about $2.77

One 4#  box of Borax at Walmart is about $2.98.

Happy Soaping!!!!!

Bonnie

Soap Day!

I LOVE making soap more than anything else that I do.  There is something so.... satisfying about it, it's like cooking, only something practical, with an artistic touch!  You can make swirls with color, all natural, or add natural seeds, like vanilla bean specks.

The scents are amazing, I love the all the scents you add that actually smell like the real thing!  Some people like fruity scents, some like floral and some like woodsy, oriental or natural scents.   I like floral.  Hawaiian Plumeria is by far my most favorite scent, followed closely by Lilac as my second favorite.  The lilac soap I make smells just like a lilac bouquet you just picked from the lilac bush!

Today was a busy day, as I made, Huckleberry, more Huckleberry, Lemongrass, Lemongrass & Loofah (ground loofah is wonderful, it's a great exfoliate), Hawaiian Plumeria, Hawaiian Plumeria & Loofah, Vanilla Bean and Manly Man!

I'll post "how to" Pictures soon, as well as instruction how to make soap for those of you that would like to try and make some yourself!!!

New Anti Age Spot Cream by Bon Logic

I started marketing my new Anti Age Spot cream today.  It lightens dark spots and age spots and moisturizes your skin at the same time!  It contains the active ingredient, Undecylenoyl Phenylalanine and when used for one to six weeks will lighten those age spots!  I've been making it for awhile and I am having a hard time keeping it in stock!

I don't know about you, but I don't care that much for the aging process...whatever I can do to make it a little bit better I will try my very best!  I use everything I make everyday!

You can purchase it through my easy at : www.etsy.com/shop/bonlogic

Thank you to all our customers!!!