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Nov. 26th, 2021 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormI'm making more soap.
The last soap I made had sugar in it for extra suds, sunflower seed oil to make it more nourishing/moisturizing and to make it spoil faster (it felt right), salt in it to harden the bar, and both kinds of grit. Plus it had every scent to make me feel nourished: roses and joint soothing and benzoin to remind me of Tucker and fir needle to remind me of the woods. It's for getting through memories and hard times and is every colour, the kind of confused mix of cranberry seeds and walnut that reflects my current inner state. It will not last forever, I'll need to use it up before 2 years.
Today I'm making shea butter soap, so rich like a blanket. Sugar for suds, no grit, and sweetgrass and sage and birch for cleansing and the first sap of spring. It'll keep well and won't spoil. One day I'll be ready for it and it will be there, white and clean and gleaming.
Soapmaking is a thing we did together and it will always bring him to mind.
The last soap I made had sugar in it for extra suds, sunflower seed oil to make it more nourishing/moisturizing and to make it spoil faster (it felt right), salt in it to harden the bar, and both kinds of grit. Plus it had every scent to make me feel nourished: roses and joint soothing and benzoin to remind me of Tucker and fir needle to remind me of the woods. It's for getting through memories and hard times and is every colour, the kind of confused mix of cranberry seeds and walnut that reflects my current inner state. It will not last forever, I'll need to use it up before 2 years.
Today I'm making shea butter soap, so rich like a blanket. Sugar for suds, no grit, and sweetgrass and sage and birch for cleansing and the first sap of spring. It'll keep well and won't spoil. One day I'll be ready for it and it will be there, white and clean and gleaming.
Soapmaking is a thing we did together and it will always bring him to mind.
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Date: 2021-12-06 05:07 pm (UTC)people sell soap at craft fairs and so on here, with the ingredients listed on a card on the table, but no particular packaging. other people package theirs all kinds of ways - completely folded in paper, or just a thin paper band, or plastic wrapped, or those little cloth bags. the bags definitely look easy from the maker's side of things! and stickers are an appealing way to get the information to the buyer. as a buyer of soap i find the bags slightly annoying - they ought to be useful as a reusable object, so i keep them, but then they mostly aren't all that useful, which has kept me from wanting to use them for my soaps that i'm selling. i am working on developing a right-sized little paper band with ingredients & our website, but it's kind of a pain. the bags would keep cat hair off the soaps though. >_> (i keep picking them off. there's ambient atmospheric cat hair in my house.)