Teardrop Soap

Chichi.ca project: Day 70 This month, the technique of Amy’s soap challenge is “Teardrop”. I used the recipe recommended by Amy, which contains lard. Apparently lard slows down the trace of soap batter so it’s useful when I want to make soap with complex designs. I had never used lard before, and I didn’t have…

Very Japanese Soap

Chichi.ca project: Day 66 Another week passed by without being able to make any progress on Chichi.ca 😦 I have been really good at doing what I should be doing, which is focusing on the assessment for my Master’s degree. But I couldn’t take it any longer! I had severe soap withdrawal today. The soap…

Ghost Swirl Soap After Curing

Chichi.ca project: Day 59 Sadly, I don’t have time to make any new products at this moment because of my study for the university 😦 But, I still study my soap everyday (look at it, pick it up, turn it around, smell it, squeeze it, and smell it again lol) Today, I was looking at…

Taiwan Swirl Third Attempt

Chichi.ca project: Day 48 I’m still in the natural soap mood. I made the Taiwan swirl soap without dividers! The colourants used in this soap are kaolin clay for white, pink clay for pink, spirulina for green, and ultra marine for blue. The scent is a combination of rosemary and sweet basil essential oils. Because…

Honeybee Blessed Soap

Chichi.ca project: Day 47 After I played with the fragrance oils and the colorants, I am back to “natural” soap. Although there is no legal regulation for using the word “natural”, it is to me that no synthetic or artificial ingredients used (except sodium hydroxide because I can’t make soap without it) in the products….

Ghost Swirl

Chichi.ca project: Day 40 I created the best formula I could using what I had; this soap will be nice and bubbly, yet very creamy and conditioning after it is fully cured. I like how the colour and the swirl turned out too. I tried to do a ghost swirl. The soap batter thickened up…

Japanada Soap

Chichi.ca project: Day 38 Can you guess what I was planning to do with these shapes? I made reversible soap called Japanada soap (Japan + Canada)! And when you flip the soap to the other side… I am supposed to make “where you are from” themed soap for this month’s soap challenge, but I couldn’t…

Chichi vs Cream Soap

Chichi.ca project: Day 36 I have been trying to make cream soap but it hasn’t been a success… 😦 My first attempt: I tried a very untraditional method, which is making cream soap with soap bars and liquid soap that have been already made by me. The basic rule to make cream soap is to…

Butterfly!

Chichi.ca project: Day 32 My second attempt of the butterfly swirl. It went much better than the first attempt. You may be able to see a butterfly if you are told that the shape of the swirl is supposed to look like one. I was supposed to keep at least two thirds of the soap…

Butterfl…?

Chichi.ca project: Day 31 After I mastered a drop swirl with the cherry blossom soap, I am facing a new challenge, which is a butterfly swirl. I wanted to try out the frankincense & myrrh fragrance oil, and it has an incense-like scent, so I decided to use a calming colour; hence, purple (alkanet root…

Margarita Soap

I’m getting busier and busier with my full-time job and university as the season end of the season approaches. Therefore, I don’t have much time to work on Chichi.ca. The Chichi.ca project is not moving forward as quickly as I want it to be, but I am not going to get stressed out because I…

Cherry Blossom Soap

Chichi.ca project: Day 23 I got up early this morning so I could cut yesterday’s soap, and it looks like I finally made a drop swirl work! No soda ash on top of the soap either because this time, I didn’t forget to spray 99% alcohol on the surface before I put it to bed….