2020-06-27 14:08
Olive oil soap takes a really long time to trace. Sometimes you start to wonder if it is going to happen at all. The trace is the point where a stable emulsion has emerged, and the soap has… Read More
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Adventures of a soapmaker.
2019-07-24 08:18
It's been a long project, but finally it's here: our soap recipes published in a book. Check it out from Amazon! All Natural: A collection of the best handmade soap recipesIn this book you f… Read More
2018-06-24 17:39
Recipe: Coconut oil 40%Olive oil 30%Beeswax 20%Castor oil 10%38% water as percentage of oil weight15% superfatMethod: oven hot process, 100C for 60 minutes.Few years back Heidi created… Read More
2011-07-28 13:58
Thank you Ambra, writer of NaKIN soap blog, for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger Award! The rules of the Versatile Blogger Award are:1 – Make a post and link it back to the pers… Read More
2011-07-25 13:34
I absolutely love Sesame seed oil in soap. It gives wonderful lather but still feels moisturizing and conditioning. It's no wonder it has been used for healing skin conditions for thousands… Read More
2011-03-26 20:13
I whipped up my first batch of facial & body cream today! A few weeks earlier I was having dinner with some of my friends and they were talking about all the special facial creams they h… Read More
2011-03-01 20:16
Just to have a little fun, we asked the Facebook fans of Saponina to describe what their dreamsoap would be like and promised to create excatly those soaps. One of the wishes was a Eucalyptu… Read More
2011-02-21 19:57
These are pictures taken by my 9 year old son on our way to my soaping room today. It's actually at my father's house so I usually take the kids along. It's a great arrangement because the k… Read More
2011-01-20 17:54
I must admit that until recently when I started to make larger quantities of soap I used to just toss all the odds and ends away. Now that the quantity of the leftovers is increasing it just… Read More
2011-01-08 17:10
Wow, it's first time that it has happened to me! The salt soap is sweating! I have made salts soaps in summer and winter, humid and dry weather but never had sweat on salt soap. I belie… Read More
2010-12-14 11:09
A few days ago I found from my stash this soap that I had made some months ago. It is a soap in which I had just dumped all the remaining oils I had that time so I did not expect very much o… Read More
2010-12-12 19:07
I wrote some time ago that I've got a licence to sell soap, which required that I would need to found a company. The company is called Saponina and that's our logo. (It's designed by Antonio… Read More
2010-12-06 19:47
It's been amazing the last five days. I participated in a crafts fair that had about 380 female exhibitors who sold mainly handcrafted items. During those days I met some wonderful and extre… Read More
2010-11-30 13:49
I am sorry that I've been a lousy blogger lately. The reason is a 5-day Christmas Craft Fair I am going to. Here are some of the little soap packages that I have prepared for the fair i… Read More
2010-10-23 18:53
I have always loved beautiful white bars of soap. Unfortunately, with natural colorants pure white is not that easy to produce. So I decided that it was time to try titanium dioxide for the… Read More
2010-10-03 09:26
We agreed with Ambra and Jen to work on orange color. Check out their experiments, they're just great! Here is my first experiment. I decided to try a new recipe that I plan to use for a sha… Read More
2010-09-28 07:35
Here is my green soap that I've coloured with chlorophyllin that I got from The Soap Kitchen. I aimed at lighter color, but it seems that it is really difficult not to use it too much. This… Read More
2010-09-20 19:41
I have made some nice soaps with beeswax before so I have long wanted to also try some other kinds of waxes. I bought some Jojoba wax at Gracefruit a while ago but have not been able to find… Read More
2010-09-03 19:22
I have a secret. I have spent the summer making the paperwork so that I could sell my soap. In the EU it is not that simple because the production of cosmetics is under licence. I had to fin… Read More
2010-08-10 16:05
Some pictures of what I've been doing besides enjoying the extremely hot summer. These are all salt soaps! Some of them have coarse and some fine sea salt. In all of them I used full water a… Read More
2010-05-30 10:04
It was supposed to be a three colour swirl so I divided the batter into three parts. One without colour, one light green & ground almonds and one dark green. After that I added the FO to… Read More
2010-05-17 19:07
I have been soaping with my sister. Let me present her first handmade soaps!The looks is not what we aimed for. We wanted to make layered soap, something like the "Dreaming of Provence" with… Read More
2010-05-08 17:45
Hooray! I finally managed to make decent looking salt soaps. Here they are!I used 50% liquids as percent of oils and thus had no trouble with pouring the soap into the mold. They are really… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
These delicious round little babies are Aloe Vera-soaps. The soap base is almost exclusively olive oil soap, with just a little bit of coconut oil to break the 'slimy feel' of pure olive oil… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Now is the perfect time to make soap for Valentine's Day! There is still a month or so to go so it will be cured and ready just in time.One of our all time favourite soaps is white heart sha… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Some of my readers might remember that I started a soap business with my sister Suvi under the company name Saponina. Even though the customers have loved our soap, the situation right now i… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
It's been a while since my last post. Please check out our business blog for more frequent posts. It has been very busy with the soaping business. It seems that at every fair we sell ou… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Couple of months ago the most implausible thing happened. I ran out of soap! I called Suvi and she volunteered to whip up something new for me. She knows that I just love soaps that give lot… Read More
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