Homestead Soapery Soap Studio

So, you’re thinking about making the switch to natural shampoo bars, but you aren’t sure what to expect? Perfect - you’re in the right place! Homestead Soapery is expanding their brand and making shampoo bars is a natural next step.

We are all about authenticity and promotion all the same, so thought we’d make a fun post about our meet the maker story (even though we are a few months behind!) So March Meet the Maker has been and gone, and we’ve only decided to do this now...

Giving handmade or artisan products as a gift is a wonderful way to support small businesses and give gifts that are meaningful. When you support a small or local business by purchasing their handmade wares for gifts, you can be assured that the item was handcrafted lovingly and with a lot of personal love. I think handmade gifts pass good energy on and have so much more empathy as opposed to a sterile, mass produced item...

You may have seen our last videos where we use the heat transfer method to make cold process soap. If you haven’t, they’re here, and here.

Basically, the heat transfer method stipulates that you add your lye water solution to your hard oils to help melt them, and simultaneously cool down the lye water solution to room temperature. This decreases the time it takes to whip up a batch of soap.

There are both positive and negatives for this method, which I will outline in this post.

Today we have a special treat, in the form of an interview with our master soap fairy and a discussion on the new vegan reformulation. Let’s not waste anymore time and get straight into it.

How I made the Purple Linen Swirl soap using the heat transfer method in cold process soap making

How I made Tobacco Salsa Swirl soap using the heat transfer method in cold process soap making

Cold process soap is handcrafted from start to finish. As a result, there are some common things that can occur during soap making to make the final appearance of the soap appear as if the soap is blemished. But fear not. Today I explain to you common things you will see on cold process soap and why they occur.

As we launch our products online for the first time, we stop to consider some of the crazy that has happened in the lead up!

In the absence of he traditional touch and smell test, we've filmed our launch soaps in some very short videos so you can virtually 'try before you buy'!

There seems to be a myth floating around that bar soaps are less hygienic than liquid soaps, and I would have to say I very blatantly disagree with that premise.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you can’t say you haven’t heard of zero waste movements and any other number of environmental advocacies drawing our attention to the way that plastic impacts on our environment.