Intro

[rainbow]

I'm Carys, from Oregon in the US. I've been making soap for about 13 years. I started with melt and pour, moved on to cold process, discovered hot process, and never looked back (cleaning up *soap* instead of lye and fat!! \o/ )

I make a big batch every so often. It's mostly for my own use, but every so often I make enough to sell the extras.

I use the same olive/almond/coconut blend of food-grade organic oils for each kind, and then add "flavorings" once the soap's cooled. Some of my flavors:

Chocolate mint

Coffee and cream garden soap

Mocha

Mexican chocolate

Calendula and chamomile

Sandalwood spice

Lavendar mint

~C

Comments

[lauredhel]

Hi Carys, nice to hear from you. Do you have any photos of your soap?

The cleaning-up-soap thing is what I like about DWCP :) It's all soap by the end of the day, or often before. I don't have the energy to clean up straight away anyhow (I have pretty severe CFS), so I just put the utensils in an inaccessible corner of the bench until cleanup time.

[rainbow]

Hi Laure, thank you! I think so. Maybe. Out of spoons error? I'll look tomorrow through my pictures directory in the puter and see if I can find some.

I also have severe CFS, with fibro, MCS, rheum arthritis, brain injuries, and celiac on top. (I would prefer a cherry, though.... *g*)

I oten don't clean til the next day ...or later. And sometimes P cleans up for me.

DWCP is the discounted water? I also do that with the HP, as it cuts so much time off the cooking.

I *adore* your slug icon. I'm in Eugene, Oregon, and we have Very Large Brown Banana Slugs. (They're quite fond of dry cat food, it turns out.)

[lauredhel]

Small world isn't it? Wonder why so many of us end up soaping - colud be because of the chemical sensitivity weirdness, maybe? Yes, DWCP is discounted water cold process, handy for a high-olive soaper like me.

I have more slugs!
http://lauredhel.dreamwidth.org/profile

[rainbow]

More cute slugs! EEEEeee!

Yes, I think the chemical sensitivity is probably a big part of it. I know I started making my own soap because every soap on the market made me itchy.

Another high olive soaper, wooo!! I do about 85% olive, 10% almond, and 5% coconut, then mix some extra almond in with the additives to help them blend in nicely.

And I found some pictures and consolidated them into one. It's a bit big, so here's the picture of some of my soaps.

[lauredhel]

Oh, I love your marbling! What a great effect. (It's not too big for her, btw - it's meant to partially be a photos comm, too.)

[rainbow]

Thank you! I love the marbled look, so I specifically try for pretty swirls and streaks *g*.