Soap & Candle Crafts

Whether you're new to soap making or a seasoned vet, why use artificial ingredients to color your all-natural home made soap? Check out these easy to use natural ingredients that will give your soap the beautiful colors you're looking for!

Learn how to make simple, natural, authentic soap at home, using ingredients that you probably already have in your kitchen. Soap making does not have to be a costly hobby - in fact, you may find that it's ultimately cheaper than buying soap!

Learn about the fats and oils used in making soap as well as the differences between saturated and unsaturated fats.

A complete illustrated guide to making votive candles the easy way. Try my personal foolproof techniques that get perfect votives every time!

After seeing solid sugar scrub bars for sale on Etsy that had been made from a melt pour soap base, I wanted to see if I could recreate the product myself.

Beer soap is an advanced type of soap making, but here are a few tips to help make this ingredient easier to work with.

How to adapt Liz Ardlady's famous shampoo bar recipe to make liquid shampoo.

Making your own liquid hand soap is an easy afternoon project that will potentially save you hundreds of dollars. Choose your scent or opt for a fragrance-free soap. Make enough for a large family or plenty for gift giving.

My favorite soap recipe and how it evolved.

Learn how to make liquid hand soap at home using just a couple of simple ingredients.

This exfoliating bar is an easy melt and pour soap recipe that anyone can make.

This recipe and step-by-step guide (with images) shows you how to recycle soap bits to make homemade soap with added honey. You can also scent it with essential oils and fresh or dried herbs, and optionally colour it with food dye.

Learn the tricks to making a successful goat milk soap! I'm sharing my recipe for a lovely soap with my thought process behind the ingredient selection.

In this article I explain how to make your own castile soap using both the hot and cold process methods for bars or liquid soap!

Homemade DIY soaps make beautiful all-natural gifts and making them is a creative and practical craft for providing your family with the best!

Hot process soap making is one of the ways to make all-natural soap at home. But can you make the soap really, really pretty? What can you add to it to make it more interesting? Here's an account of some of my recent adventures in hot process soap making. You should be able to learn something, too!