Eyeballs

Its trick and treating time again and this year we are not only going to treat but pamper you with these cute little eyeball soaps.  They are simply so adorable, they remind me of the power puff girls. Its fun to surprise your little trick and treaters with something that is not going to send them on a sugar high or worse still to the dentist.  Be sure to inform everyone that it is a bar of soap, and not candy!

These eyeballs are nearly 80gms, and in the spirit of celebrating Halloween they are only $5 each.

Ingredients: Coconut oil, palm oil, safflower oil, glycerin, sodium hydroxide, purified water, sorbitol, sorbitan oleate, soybean protein and fragrance oil

Shaving soap

Shaving soap in a cup is just so charming.  If you are wondering about the cup, yes it is soap too. To use wet the shaving brush and move around the shaving soap in circular motion and you'll have a lovely thick foam.  This set is $25, cup weighing over 200gms with a clear glass soap dish and of course the brush.  It's a fun way to shave.  For ladies who may want shave their legs, this works perfectly as well.  It comes in Sensual Sandalwood, Citrus, Minty Melon and Love spell.

Extra Virgin Olive oil Soap

This bar of soap is made with 80% Extra Virgin Olive oil and 20% Coconut oil.  The coconut gives the Olive soap more lather and makes it a harder bar.  It is harder to find 100% Olive castile than one that has another oil added like coconut or palm kernal oil.  This bar offers you the best of both worlds, moisturising and lathers beautifully.  Most soaps with such high Olive oil is also called Castile, so do check the ingredients if you want pure 100% Castile.  These range of soaps are larger size bar, costing $15/bar.

Ingredients: Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, purified water, sodium hydroxide, salt with Lavender, Rose Geranium and Patchouli Essential Oils

Castile soap

Castile simply means 100% olive oil and this is where less is more.  Originally from Spain, the soap is reputated to be soft, slightly slimy.  The benefits of this soap outweighs the labour that goes into making it.  The soap is so gentle, I would recommend it for face and babies. It is so mild when I use it on my face I find that it doesn't have that taut feeling.  If it does, then it would probably be because I haven't fully rinsed off the soap. The soap just doesnt strip off your natural oil, I love it so much I want to make an entire range of just pure Castile soap. It is lightly scented but if you really want to get a good lather out of it, it is best done mechanically with a pouf or face towel.  Remember to drain the soap and the soap will last you a lot longer.  Like with all my soap I try it on my face, hair, body but when you do it right the lather comes off creamy and dense.  I am waiting patiently for my hubby to have his next shave, I think it will make a nice shaving cream.  These are bigger bars around 150gms to 165gms, and they cost $15 a bar. 

Ingredients: Extra Virgin Olive Oil, purified water, salt, sodium hydroxide with tangerine and sandalwood essential oil.

Exotic Oils Galore series - Rustic Charms

It's middle of the year and I have been negleting my blog, all for the sake of coming up with something new. I'm looking into making rustic looking soap or more handmade look about these soap. It's exciting coming up with new recipes. This bar of soap is packed with goodies, goat's milk, oatmeal colloidal, raw honey charcoal, Vitamin E, Rosmary extract (antioxidants) and Grapefruit seed extract (more antioxidants). I used the same charcoal that my mum used to give me when I had a tummy ache. It helps absorb toxin and this bar of soap does the same for your skin. I use my soap for my hair, face and body, you may not want to be so extreme. I don't think it harms the hair to give it a clean once in a while to remove all the build up of stuff we have left in our hair. It will make your hair feels squeaky clean and love the lather.

Exotic Oils Galore series - Exotic Bush Flowers

When I made this soap all I could think of was yum yum if only this is a fruit salad. It contains passionfruit seed oil (who would think you could get oil out of passionfruit seed?) avocado oil, macadamia oil, mango butter and coconut oil. It also reminds me so much of Australia, so I used Eucalyptus, lemon tea-tree and lemon myrtle essential oil to fragrance the soap.( It smells more lemony, the eucalyptus touch smells to have faded) This soap is as delicious as it sounds and I couldn't rave enough about how wonderful the oils are. Packed with antioxidants, they are great penetrating oils which does wonders for skin. Can we really get enough of moisturising soaps?  These are big bars, they are at least 150gms. and I can cut them for you for sample size bars.                                  3 bars left

Chinese New Year

We have been trying out different variation of essential oils for these mandarins and we have come up with the juiciest smelling mandarins ever. They would certainly make a delightful change to the normal mandarins we exchange during Chinese New Year and what a surprise they will make. They smell wonderful and are exactly the same size of normal mandarins. Just let your host know that they are soap!!

New Things to come.

Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day are practically on the same day. I am in the process of working something for this two wonderful occassions. I wonder how often this will happen. Keep checking on the blog for new soap made for this occassion. I am still taking orders but the block soap, I need to sell 10 pieces before i make a new block. I do have some in stock, do write and check with me, jocelyn.soapparadise@gmail.com

roses for wedding

"Jocelyn, Jocelyn quite contrary,

How does your roses grow?

With saponified oils and no other foe"

Christmas Day with Soap Paradise

I have been giving my soap as Christmas presents for a while but this year I was super organised. I set up a sniff zone, where I made an assortment of soaps and my guests can sniff and pick out their favourites, yes as many as they wanted. It was a hit, especially with my new guests. I put aside some white paper bags for their goodies, so everyone leaves with a goodie bag. The only trouble was they had to rummage through the bowl to find their soap and some guests took the samples instead!