Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ~Matthew 6:21~
When I started making soap, I learned from the book Handcrafted Soap, by Dolores Boone. It is well worn – though I don’t follow the recipes, I follow the technique. I love the hot process soap method because it is fast and pretty hands-off. My style. My soap can be in the molds in about an hour and half, with only 15 minutes of hands-on time. Then the next day, it takes about 15 minutes to cut up the bars. Half hour soap! 
I delivered my goat milk soap yesterday to Localvore Fresh Oregon Foods, a new food store in Sutherlin that features Oregon-grown, naturally-grown food items.
Allrighty. I bet you’re thinking that it took me long enough to show you the cut up bars of goat milk soap. All I can say is that the reason this took me so long is because it was really hard to do. 
This is not going to be a goat milk tutorial. There are so many good tutorials on the web and I’m not a proficient or knowledgeable enough soap maker to think I could cover the subject well. But here are some pictures and brief descriptions of the process I underwent yesterday in my first attempt at making goat milk soap.
Yesterday we went to the grand re-opening celebration of the new Umpqua Store in Umpqua, OR on Fort McKay Road. They had a ribbon cutting and some hooping and hollering and then we all got to eat! Then we walked around and got a peek at the gift section, featuring some of the crafts we’ve made.
A local organization took ownership of a country store in the area. They are in the process of renovating it and adding fresh produce, a vegetarian restaurant, bulk foods, and gift shop. They asked me to contribute some of my craft items in the gift area. Of course I said yes. I am mostly participating [...]
I usually make hot process soap, following the method in Handcrafted Soap by Dolores Boone, but this week I made cold process soap. I had been given a wooden soap mold and I was itching to experience the pouring of soap-brought-to-trace-but-not-fully-saponified into a prepared mold. Well, I experienced it. Can’t say that my life is [...]
Here’s what we learned. If you want to skip all the stages of the “cooking” process, just boil over. You’ll go from trace to done in about 1 minute. (Instead of 3 to 4 hours.)
For some months now, I have been following a mostly-homemade and natural skin care routine. I like it very much. 1) Suds up hands and face with homemade green tea castile bar soap or liquid castile soap (avoiding the eye area, because the castile soap burns). 2) While still sudsy, sprinkle a bit of baking [...]
Go! Naomi helped me get started on the men’s Christmas gifts. She pounded pumice for the pumice hand scrub, she picked cedar pine needles for the after shave, and she grated soap. At one point, she also flipped the Vita-Mix to HIGH too quickly which spurted soapy-borax-water all over the kitchen — oops! But no [...]
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