Spiced Hot Chocolate

Sounds like something you'd have on a cold winter's day, but it's actually an experimental soap! It's in the freezer right now and if it turns out the way I'm hoping, it will not only smell delicious it will look fantastic!

Warm and chocolately with a creamy foam topped with cinnamon and scented with a blend of Brambleberry Spiced Italian Chocolate and a touch of Vanilla. I won't know what it's going to turn out like until the vanilla in the fragrances do their trick and turn the base chocolate brown. I'm just hoping that the top stays delicously creamy white.

Here it is out of the mould. It's not yellow, it's creamy coloured:

Day 2:

 Getting darker...

Day 7:

A little bit darker...

Day 14:

Beginning to look chocolatey...

As you can see I cut it a little too early in my eagerness to see what it looked like. It was still very soft and the white has dragged down.

I think next time I'll add some cocoa or Crio Bru to the base to help with the colour as well as the fragrance.

Pure Lemongrass Soap

The latest in the Skinflint Handmade Soap line up is Pure Lemongrass. It's a very pretty lemon coloured soap with delicate green swirls (now changed to a sort of khaki colour) throughout.

Scented, of course, with Lemongrass, it contains kaolin clay which is excellent for oily skin. Lemongrass essential oil is also anti-bacterial, making this soap perfect for teenage skin and for those who suffer from acne.

Made with coconut oil, grapeseed oil and shea butter, it's mild and conditioning, without being too cleansing. This batch of soap is still in the freezer, but when it's out and ready to cure, I'll post a photo.

Ready for use on February 11th.