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It has been a while since I have written about my experiments! So much going on, but that doesn’t stop me from experimenting with new things... I understand that some people have had difficulties entering the Jenora Soaps blog lately and others have had difficulty leaving comments. So sorry but I am just not sure why. And I am not sure what can be done about it? Could it be since I changed the background? I know one follower had to search for the blog again on google instead of clicking on her saved link. That worked for her. If anyone know how glitches like this can be fixed, please let me know! I share some photos of experiments with you... Beer Honey Shampoo (a fave of mine) Goat Milk Charcoal Facial Soap This was my first experiment with Charcoal & my first experiment with Titanium Dioxide. Charcoal was very easy to work with. Titanium however, was not… Notice the white streaks? After googling it, I found whole lot of advice about how to use Titanium Dioxide. I made another att...

I am very excited to invite you all over the new Naturalmente Mediterráneo blog at http://naturalmentemediterraneo.blogspot.com/, where I am beginning by offering 4 different types of fresh, natural, hand-made soap for purchase. I will be updating with new products regularly. Thank you so much to all of the Jenora Soap followers… what a wonderful experience this continues to be and what a supportive and encouraging group of followers! I would love to see you over at the Naturalmente Mediterráneo blog. Please let me know what you think!! For anyone that becomes a follower of the new blog, I would like to offer a 10% discount on your first purchase. Thank you, Happy Soaping & Happy Showering!! Xo Jen

I had a few email requests as to what I had coloured the soaps with in the stamped soap pictures so I thought I would post about it. The first one in the picture looks green/ grey... well, oddly enough this was supposed to be another lavender soap experiment. I thought why don't I try blue? I had only ever tried the Indigo powder in a salt soap. So I added a little indigo powder at trace, but as the oils were so yellowy, it turned greenish! It looks better in real life, more minty green. I have tried to repeat this same green colour in another soap (Aloe Vera) but no... once again controlling this natural colour alludes me... The second soap has no added colour other than honey. It is a non-scented honey soap. I achieved the pretty purple in the third soap with Ratanjot. It does not look this purple in real life (thank you photo!!) but it is still pretty nice. I infused Castor Oil with Ratanjot and add it at trace. The fourth photo is of my white salt soap. There is no col...

I finally really like my packaging! Yippee! I have played with a lot of different packaging, but when it came to Naturalmente Mediterráneo, it was easier than ever. I knew I wanted to play up the logo, because I love it and because that is what I want people to remember. I knew I wanted to ditch the ribbons, because they didn't seem to say Natural to me. They seemed to say cute and frufru. So here are some photos. Originally, I just had the paper packaging band around the bare soap. You can see my half-size soaps in these photos. I had wrapped the sea salt soap in the same paper I use for lining my moulds because they sweat... but I had so many comments from people at a recent selling event that they loved the fully wrapped soap. Not only did it seem more hygenic and clean to have it fully wrapped but they thought it looked classier. They asked why were only the salt soaps wrapped like that?? So I have begun fully wrapping them all. This solves other issues as well. I think ...

I am so pleased with my soap stamp!!! I knew I wanted my own unique soap stamp so as soon as my logo was finished, I contacted Anhoki http://www.etsy.com/shop/Anhoki , who was referred in a blog post of Lynn http://lynnzartisansoapsandcandles.blogspot.com/2010/08/it-has-arrived-0.html . I sent Anhoki the file to see if it were possible to have a soap stamp of my logo! I was so excited to find out that yes, she thought it would be possible. Her price was fair and working with her very easy and straight-forward. I am so pleased with the result!!! Now, I add soap-stamping to my list of favourite things to do. One of my most favourite things to do is soap cutting… sometimes I look at those awesome soap cutters out there like “the tank” and wish longingly for a cutter like that, which would cut each bar uniformly, but then I would lose out on the pure joy of cutting each bar myself. I take advice from Sergio at Villa Fortuna when it comes to cutting soaps and now stamping soaps… put music o...