Category: Soap Making
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Your Ultimate Introduction to Crafti-Kit
Hello soon-to-be Handmakers, Here’s everything you need to know about our Crafti-Kits – your complete handmaking project in a box! If you’ve ever: ✔️ wanted to create your own personal care products but don’t know where to start…✔️ felt reluctant to try making your own products because you’re scared they won’t come out right…✔️wanted to…
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The Difference Between Natural and Organic Products
Hello Handmakers! A lot of you have come up to us, asking about natural products and organic products, and some have even gotten them mixed up since many people use them interchangeably in the DIY personal care market. However, there are actually differences between products that can be labelled as organic VS those that are…
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Why You Should Use Honey Soap Base for Super Easy and Beneficial Honey Soaps
Hello Handmakers! Honey soap is popular among those with dry skin or those prone to blemishes. The natural humectant ability of honey helps skin retain moisture while its natural antioxidants can help reduce signs of aging. Honey also speeds up the healing process of your cells which makes it great for blemishes and reducing inflammation.…
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4 Ways to Reduce Fragrance Oil Acceleration in Cold Process Soap
Hello Handmakers! There has been quite a few inquiries on how one can deal with fast (aka accelerating) fragrance oils in cold process soap so here’s a quick post sharing some tips on how can you do so 🙌 Note: Each fragrance oil is made of different ingredients which means that each unique blend has…
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Cold Process Dish Soap Using Premium Extra Red Palm Oil
Hi Crafters! We’ve recently included a new carrier oil to our catalogue and are excited to share the gorgeous orange-red color your cold process soap bar will naturally gain by using our Premium Extra Red Palm Oil. Our Premium Extra Red Palm Oil is also known as Unrefined Palm Oil. It is rich in carotenes,…
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What is Sodium Lactate and How to Use it
Hi Crafters! Some newbie soap makers have come up to us, inquiring about sodium lactate, how they can incorporate it to their soaps and whether it is actually a crucial component or not. So, for today, we’re sharing what we know on this liquid salt 😊 During the cold process soap making process, Sodium Lactate…
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Melting Soap Bases – Which Method to Use?
Hi Crafters! Many beginner soap makers have come up to us, asking about which method is the best for melting soap bases (also known as melt & pour soap). So, we’ve decided to write this little post with the pros and cons of each method and also which would be best for complete beginners, etc.…
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Testing Every Craftiviti Fragrance Oil for Acceleration in Cold Process Soap
Hi Crafters! Throughout the years, we’ve received many inquiries about our fragrance oils and among those inquiries involve whether such and such fragrance oil will cause acceleration or not in cold process soap. Thus, we took some time to test out all 88 of our fragrance oils and create this chart in hope that it’ll…
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DIY Eyeball Soap for Halloween
October is here which means Halloween just around the corner! We’re excited to decorate our shop and make it more suitable for the occasion, but while we were taking all the old props out of their storage boxes, we got the idea to make some that can be used for other purposes as well 👻…
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Guide for Adding Honey to Melt and Pour Soap
Hi Crafters! Some of you have come to us, explaining that your honey soaps made using melt and pour soap bases are too soft or have honey leaking out of them. So, we’ve come up with this little guide for you using our Crystal Glycerin Soap Base and our Organic Longan Honey. PS: If you’d…
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