Soap for the Christmas Craft Fair

 

  

Northern Lights Soap

I make soap from scratch with no chemical hardeners, no chemical preservatives and
no chemical sudsing agents. I don't use SLS (Sodium Laureth, -al Sulfate). My recipe makes plenty of great lather without it. Most "Melt-and-pour" soaps contain these chemicals. That's one reason I decided to make it from scratch myself. I know what goes into it. I started making my own soap because the commercial soap made my skin so dry. It became a problem that I have not had since I switched years ago. I will never go back to using commercial soap! Homemade soap contains a lot of glycerine that good for your skin, plus my soap has goat's milk, olive and coconut oils!

 

Part of my Aging Soap Collection

I am making soap for the Christmas Craft Fair. It's November 22, 2025, so I have about another week to make CP soap and have it aged 4 weeks, just in time for the Fair. I'm making CP soap every morning now. I will be making HP soap closer to the date, since it only needs to age about 5 days. 

I have two sizes of soaps: Small and Large. I plan to sell the small ones for $4 and the large ones for $5.  

I plan to make more herbal healing soaps, as well. I have chamomile-turmeric and also tea tree-yarrow-eucalyptus for sale at the Farmer's Market now. It's selling well so I will be making more of the same before the Christmas Craft Fair. The ones at the Farmer's Market are "soap-on-a-rope". They can be hung to keep them dry! I don't know if people are buying them because of the rope or because of the herbs. Some of them have the rope knot embedded in the soap bar and some have a hole through the middle with the rope going through the hole and knotted. I prefer to make them with the hole in the middle so customers can remove the rope if they so desire. 

I made this soap today. It's still in the mould. I'll cut it tomorrow. The inside is white with the dark rusty red and light sage green swirl. If it's red and green enough, it'll look like Christmas but I think the red will be too rusty and the green is the wrong shade for Christmas. I was originally going to make Christmas soap but I know from experience that a true red in soap is very hard to get. Mine has always turned out too orange a red to use for Christmas. I might add more fall colours to the top, just a few drops here and there when I make more soap tomorrow... maybe. I'll have to see how it looks when it's cut. 

This is my large size soap mould. The next one is my small size soap mould. 

Small Soap Mould

This is one of my small soap moulds. I have six of these and I like them. They are a good place to put overflow soap. One of these is honey soap. I have a honey soap mould that makes octagonal soaps with a bee on top. I filled it with honey soap this morning and had this small amount of soap left over. Just enough for this one small honey soap. Perfect! Bubble wrap makes it look like honeycomb!

I have a butterfly mould, as well, and a lot of butterflies for upcoming soaps. I also have an undersea mould. Some pieces you see here. I have a few various moulds that I have collected over time from several different sources. Some from garage sales! 

 

These smaller pieces don't always go into the small soaps. Some of them get put on top of the large soap bar.  I have large soaps with the seashells and seahorses on top, as well. 

 

 

 

 

I have small soaps for sale at the Farmer's Market now. Vanilla-Honey, Lavender, Peppermint, Coconut, Honeydew, Strawberry, Raspberry & Rose. I'll have these at the Farmer's Market along with the larger, fancier ones. 

 

 

I will be making soap again tomorrow morning. Hmmmm... I wonder what soap I should make next?