This is what I have been up to yesterday!  The unmolding happens this afternoon!  Can't wait to see the results!

I just had to try the newest technique in soapmaking...."The Thin Middle Line"!  This is a memorable soap for me due to my son!  He walked into my soap room & starting asking about soapmaking & if I could make a soap with him.  Well my sweet son is only 11 & there is the safety issue with the lye.  So I asked if he would settle for making a fragrance for me.  He thought for a minute, scratched the top of his head & finally agreed! *lol*  Took him a minute to think if that was going to satisfy him!  So I let him go through all my fragrance oils to see what I had.  He choose a bottle of Jasmine & a bottle of white tea...neither I have used just yet.  He held them up & asked how they would smell together.  See, he has this tea fetish that has been going on for several months now....jasmine tea!  He fixes himself a cup every morning now!  I told him I didn't know but I knew a way we could find out.  He ran upstairs and got me some q-tips while I found a bottle.  I let him dip each cotton tip into each bottle & we put them in the bottle.  About an hour later, he comes downstairs & asked if we could now smell inside the bottle.  I opened the lid & the smell was wonderful!  I just beamed at him..."Good choice baby"!  And here is the result of my little boy's scent that he made himself!  Jasmine White Tea!  And I can't tell you how wonderful it truly smells!  I will make him into a soapmaker yet!  Good job Ashton!  Mama loves you ever so much!!

Sandalwood Dreams!

I can't believe how well this sandalwood soap turned out which one of the reasons I love soapmaking!  You never know what you are going to end up with at the end!  I started this one and it turned out all wrong.  I was going for a tan bottom with a white top and I used a new slab mold I have received recently.  So I thought I would try it out!  I didn't like the results of it so I unmolded it & made curls out of it.  I set the curls on the shelf & stared at them for days trying to figure out what to do with them.  Finally I decided to just make a new batch with my log mold.  After pouring it in, the FO behaved so well I decided to insert the curls into the top & walla!  Here is my creation!  Now I am hooked on making curls & I will never see a batch of "not so pretty" soap the same way again! 

My Soaping Journey

I started this soaping journey of mine several years ago when I saw an article in a magazine about a soapmaker.  Of course the inquisitive creature that I am, I had to Google her and find out more about this seemingly amazing soap that the magazine was raving about.  They were not kidding!  I bought some of her soaps and I was blown away!  I could smell the goodies before I even opened the box!  And what a wonderful smell it was!  I still to this day still have one of them...I just couldn't use it..smelled too darn good!  Once again I got curious about how this process worked.  I then went on to make 10 batches of soap over the course of a week!  I fell in love!  I love the not knowing how its going to turn out in the end.  Unmolding each batch is like Christmas!  Over the years I tried many different recipes and come up with recipes of my own enjoying each second of it!  During this journey I have made some pretty incredible friends along the way that without taking this first step into the world of soap I would not have ever met.  I am so amazingly thankful for that magazine article that brought to light a whole new world to me!

Welcome to Lather Effect!

Welcome to Lather Effect where bubbles are our business. We are so looking forward to getting to know other soapmakers and soaplovers out there who love bubbles as much as we do!!