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Orange You Glad? New SoapQueen.TV Episode!
Here’s another fun project perfect for the holidays on Soap Queen TV!
In this episode I share how to make Orange Slices, which you may remember from this series of blog posts I did in 2008. Using our Orange Spice Fragrance Oil, this project has been transformed into a wonderful Holiday treat.
Orange Slice Soaps from Soap Queen on Vimeo.
Ingredients:
Jute Bags (optional)
Click here to add everything for this project to your Bramble Berry shopping cart (you can always add or remove items before checking out)
Other tools you’ll need:
Heat safe container for melting soap
Microwave (or a double boiler)
Spoon or stirring implement
Spray bottle with Rubbing alcohol
Knife or soap cutter
Note: The Orange Mica has since been discontinued at Bramble Berry, but you can use the brand new Perfect Orange Color Block to get a similar color! Try it and other color blocks out here.
Have a question about this blog post? Come join us at Bramble Berry’s Facebook page and we can help you out with any of your soapy questions!
Tangle Free Soap Queen TV!
Learn to make Shampoo and Conditioner in this episode of Soap Queen TV.
I love making my own hair care products so I can scent them with my favorite fragrances and layer my signature scents with matching bar soaps and lotions (for a subtle scent that lasts all day)! Making hair conditioner is just as easy as making lotion. You won’t believe how fast and economical this project is.
As a special bonus, I made the label template used in the video available as a free download on the Bramble Berry web site- Check it out here!
How to Make Shampoo and Conditioner from Soap Queen on YouTube.
Fragrance Blend:
1 part Rosemary Essential oil
1 part Peppermint 1st dist. Essential oil
1 part Tahitian Vanilla Fragrance
For the Shampoo:
1/4 oz Fragrance Oil Blend
10 oz. Shampoo Base
For the Conditioner:
2 grams Liquid Silk
22 grams Liquid Glycerin
35 grams BTMS-50
13 grams Jojoba Oil
6 grams Sweet Almond Oil
12 grams DL-Panthenol
374 grams Distilled Water
4 grams Fragrance Oil Blend
4 grams Optiphen
Get everything you need to make this project added to your Bramble Berry shopping cart by clicking here.
I’ll Have the Honey Ale (Soap), Please.
Honey Ale Melt and Pour
Ingredients
25 oz Honey Melt and Pour
5 Tablespoons Liquid Soap
ONE: Melt 25 ounces of Honey Melt and Pour soap base in the microwave and mix in .5- .75 ounces of fragrance oil.
TWO: Whisk the melted soap until you have frothy bubbles on top. Switch between whisking and stirring the soap. The goal is to suspend the bubbles in the soap (to look like carbination). Stir until the soap is gelatinous and pour into the mold. Do not spritz with rubbing alcohol. We’re keeping the air bubbles this time!
THREE: Once the soap has cooled make your frosting recipe for the “foam”. Combine, 5 tablespoons of liquid soap, with 8 ounce of White Melt and Pour and .25 ounces of Honey Ale Fragrance Oil and blend on medium/high with an electric mixer (or super strength elbow grease). See this Soap Queen TV episode on Soap Cupcakes with Whipped Frosting to learn more about soap frosting.
FOUR: Once the beer soap is completely cool and the frosting recipe is frothy, spritz the first layer of soap with rubbing alcohol and pour the soap frosting on top. No spritzing alcohol on the frosting. You don’t want to deflate the beer froth.
FIVE: Once the soap has cooled, carefully release from the mold and cut into adorable cubes and give them away or keep them all to yourself.
SQTV-4-Life
Today was a success (phew!). SoapQueen.TV is back for fall. We filmed 3 more episodes of Soap Queen TV today, laughed, snacked, soaped and laughed some more (I have the best crew). It’s the first time debuting my short haircut on the show; I hope you like it (‘cuz if you don’t, it’ll take a few years to grow out). Two episodes we shot today are based off of super popular Soap Queen Blog tutorials (but you’ll have to wait for the episodes to air to see how I tweaked the recipes) and the other is brand spanking new. I can’t wait for you to see it! Have a great weekend everyone.
The new Fall set. Love!
Our producer taking notes and watching the project filmed on the mini monitor.
Melting soap int the coolest microwave ever! Check out the perfectly matched shirt too.
Soap Queen Projects on Facebook
I am always so thrilled when I see soaps that were inspired by a Soap Queen tutorial (melts my heart). Here are some projects that were posted on the Bramble Berry Facebook page! Become a fan and show off your soaps. Until then, enjoy some soapy inspiration:
Tammy Wall-Brodbeck posted her pinwheels via Facebook.
Handmade Soaps posted Swirled M&P via Facebook
Cassandra J. J, Resudek Posted her Plaid Soaps
Holly Port shared her Sugar Cubes
Christne Gaudinier shared her Citrus Slices
Check out these tutorials by clicking on the links below and give these projects a try:
Tattoo Your Soap on Soap Queen TV
Check out this, quite possibly my coolest, edition of Soap Queen TV ever! I show how to make Tattoo soap.
Wait, is cool still cool? Maybe this is my sickest Soap Queen video? Whatever the case maybe I had a great time making these soaps and I think you will, too! Wouldn’t this be a great project to make with your teenager or soon-to-be teenager?
In this episode of Soap Queen TV, I show how applying temporary tattoos to your soap is a fun and easy way to liven up your plain bars of soap. I also show how to embed a tattoo design to make it last even longer.
How to Make Tattoo Soap on Soap Queen TV from Soap Queen on Vimeo.
To make the Rock Star Soap you will need:
White Melt & Pour Soap base
Liquid Black Pigment
Wasabi fragrance oil
Organic Flexible mold
Rock Star Tattoos
To Make the Groovy Flower Power soap you will need:
Clear Melt & Pour Soap base
White Melt & Pour Soap base (or you can just add some liquid white color to the clear)
Yuzu Fragrance
Flexible Dome mold
Flower Power Tattoos
Or make it easy and get one of our kits. Here for the Rock Star and here for the Flower Power.
How to Make Cupcake Bath Bombs on Soap Queen TV
I posted my first bath bomb cupcake tutorial in 2007, check it out here. I sure have learned to take better pictures since then (embarrassed grin). Last year I posted my revised recipe (with much better photos) here. This tutorial is still incredibly popular, so I thought it would be fun to show how to do it in an episode of Soap Queen TV. Enjoy!
You can purchase our Bath Bomb Cupcake kit here, and get everything you need to make 6 cupcakes. (Please note that the frosting recipe I use in the video makes closer to 12. So the kit recipe is slightly smaller than the one I demonstrate. Just be sure to use the recipe instructions that come with the kit.)
Or you can get the ingredients separately:
Bath Bombs:
1 cup Citric Acid
2 cups Baking Soda
Orange Sherbet Fragrance Oil
Coral LaBomb Colorant
Cupcake Liners
Cupcake Mold
Frosting:
1 1/2 cups Meringue Powder
1/2 cup warm water
8 tablespoons Jojoba Oil
2 cups Powdered Sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons Cream of Tartar
1 3/4 cups Sodium Laurel Sulfate (SLS)
Vanilla Fragrance Oil
Vanilla Color Stabilizer
Tropical Pink LabColor
Jojoba Beads or Glitter (optional)
Dust Mask
Soap Queen TV: Bath Fizzy Fun!
Learn how easy it is to make Bath Fizzies and Bath Bombs with me this week on Soap Queen TV!
How to Make Bath Fizzies from Soap Queen on Vimeo.
Bath Bombs are so easy and economical to make but they have a reputation for being tricky to create.
Let me show you how simple and fun making bath fizzies can be. First, I create a multi-colored star with a Soapylove stacked star soap mold and then I show how to use our stainless steel sphere mold to make the ever popular round bath bombs. To find the recipe for the bath fizzy frosting I mention in the video go here.
To make the star fizzies you will need:
1 cup Citric Acid
2 cups Baking Soda
18 ml Coconut Citrus Sorbet
Gurlie Pink LaBomb Color
Adobe Brick LaBomb Color
Cornflower Blue LaBomb Color
Witch Hazel
SoapyLove Stacked Star Mold
Note: The mold shown in this video has been discontinued. This kit now contains the 6 Cavity Heart Silicone Mold.
Or click here to add everything you need to make these to your Bramble Berry shopping cart.
To make the mondo lavender bombs:
1 cup Citric Acid
2 cups Baking Soda
3 Tablespoons Kaolin Clay
18 ml Lavender Essential oil
Lilac LaBomb Color
Stainless Steel 2 piece Sphere mold
Or click here to add everything you need to make these to your Bramble Berry shopping cart.
Behind the Scenes at SQTV
I hope your Memorial Day was fantastic – and that sometime today, you found a moment in silence to reflect on why Memorial Day matters to you or better yet, thanked a service person for their sacrifice on behalf of our Country.
The SoapQueen.TV crew and I took advantage of the week day off to shoot two new episodes of SoapQueen.TV. It was a luxury because normally we shoot on the weekend.
This is our Director Ron. He looks happy with me at this moment (phew!). We’re in dress rehearsal (thus no apron and the messy table). Besides our script writing sessions and script read through, we also go through all the steps before shooting the ‘aloud voice’ part of filming. It helps us find the best shots for the final cut.
We shot two episodes today: Tattoo Melt and Pour Soap Project and a Premium Episode – Liquid Soap from Scratch (can’t wait? We have a downloadable E-Book that will give you the basics). The Tattoo Melt and Pour Soap project is super duper cute and ultra teen-friendly.
Even though I’m the only one on camera, SoapQueen.TV has an incredible crew making sure everything goes smoothly. Notice my ‘stunt double’ in the back of the set, babying the liquid soap through gel phase? If I didn’t have the incredible support of a competent team, the shoots wouldn’t be nearly as much fun AND they would go three times as long.
Thank you SoapQueen.TV crew. You guys rock!
Using Colorants in Cold Process Soap – Video
And your patience is rewarded! Here it is, the last in the basic Cold Process series. This episode is all about how to color your soap. I talk about (and demonstrate) how to use Micas, Oxides and LabColors. And I show how morphing isn’t always bad. Happy Soaping!
How to Make Cold Process Soap: Using Colorants, Episode 4 from Soap Queen on Vimeo.
Safety First! Watch the first video in this series “Lye Safety and Ingredients” Before attempting to make the soap demonstrated in this video. While you’re at it – maybe you should watch the second video “Basic Terms” so you are fully prepared to make a successful batch of CP soap.
Recipe:
7 oz Coconut Oil
7 oz Palm Oil
7 oz Olive Oil
1 oz Castor Oil
7.3 oz Distilled Water
3.1 oz Sodium Hydroxide
Heat Safe and Non-Reactive Containers and Utensils
Stick Blender
Colorants used:
Red Mica
Cellini Blue Mica
Ultramarine Violet
Fuchsia LabColor
Soap Queen Sunday and Fizzies Galore!,
I hope everyone had a great weekend! It was drizzly and cold here in Bellingham so it was a perfect day to be in the studio filming episodes of Soap Queen TV. I’m so excited for these episodes to air. We made the cutest bath bomb cupcakes, patriotic fizzies and 3D mondo bath bombs.
“Bath Bomb Cupcakes: Take One” (Look, we even got an official clapboard!)
“A Table Full of Cuteness”
“Mondo Bath Bombs in Progress”I can’t wait to share these episodes with you. If you’ve ever had trouble with bath fizzies, making the mondo stainless steel bath bomb molds stick together or couldn’t figure out how to frost your cupcake, these two episodes will solve those mysteries and more. This upcoming week, the last of the Basic Cold Process series airs and I’ll have the Advanced Premium Swirling SoapQueen.TV videos done soon thereafter.
Using Fragrances in CP Soap on Soap Queen TV
Finally! I share a recipe in this, the 3rd episode in my ‘How to Make Cold Process Soap’ series. I really wanted to emphasize the need for safety and understanding the ingredients and process before showing a complete recipe in my video series. Thanks for being patient. (Can’t see the video because you’re using a blog reader or get SoapQueen delivered to your email? Click through to the blog to see the video).
How to Make Cold Process Soap: Using Fragrances, Episode 3 from Soap Queen on Vimeo.
Recipe:
7.9 oz distilled water
3.4 oz Sodium Hydroxide, Lye
8 oz Coconut Oil
8 oz Palm Oil
8 oz Olive Oil
2 oz Oatmeal, Milk, & Honey fragrance oil
I used our 2 pound wooden mold – so cute!
Be Safe! Watch the first video in this series “Lye Safety and Ingredients” Before attempting to make the soap demonstrated in this video.
While you’re at it – maybe you should watch the second video “Basic Terms” so you are fully prepared to make a successful batch of CP soap.
In this episode of Soap Queen TV learn what terms like Ricing, Seizing and Acceleration mean. This is the third episode in my How to Make Cold Process Soap series and it’s all about how to use fragrances and essential oils in your CP soap and what to watch out for.
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Music: PsyWoofers’ “Dancing 4 Joy”
How to Make Cold Process Soap, Episode 2
Learn what terms like DOS, Saponification, Superfat, and Trace mean in the second episode of my Cold Process Soapmaking series. In this episode, I show examples and carefully explain the mysterious world of CP soap with a live demonstration of trace and a visual explanaition of saponification and superfat. Cold Process Soap making is both a science and an art; learn about it all with my in-depth Cold Process Soapmaking Series.
How to Make Cold Process Soap: Basic Terms, Episode 2 from Soap Queen on Vimeo.
In future episodes I will explain how to use fragrances and colorants. After watching the first 4 episodes of my ‘How to Make Cold Process’ series you will be prepared to make your first successful and safe batch of soap! Can’t wait? Check out the Cold Process DVD I made here.