Charcoal Soap and Rhassoul Clay Soap Soap Sampler

Soap Sampler

Sometimes people want to try a couple of soaps before deciding which one they want to buy, so I started offering soap samplers.  Here is my latest one that may be found in my Etsy shop.  The Rhassoul Clay Soap is on the left and the Charcoal Soap is on the right, and together they total 2.7 ounces.

Do you as a soapmaker offer soap samplers?  As a buyer do you like trying soap samplers or do you just prefer getting larger bars?

Soap Balls

Soap balls

Do you make cold process or hot process soap?  Have you ever tried making soap balls instead of bars of soap?  What do you do with your little bits of soap leftover from making your batch of homemade soap?

These soap balls are small ones that fit nicely in your hands and are about the size of guest soaps.  If you make cold process or hot process soap yourself, this is a nice way to use the last bits left in your soap pot.  You must use the same safety precautions that you use with making soap bars, including, but not limited to goggles, gloves, and covering for your clothes.  After you have put your soap bars into your soap mold, you are sometimes left with a small amount of raw soap in your soap pot.  Just carefully scoop out the raw soap and hand roll the balls in your gloved hands.  Then cure them for the amount of time that you cure your soap bars.  I made these for my Etsy shop and cured them for the same amount of weeks that I cured the bars before offering them for sale.  Due to the small size of the soap balls, I offered them in sets.   I think I will try to make more next time I do another batch of soap.  At some point, I may do a whole batch as soap balls instead of as bars, because they are just so cute. 

 Have you ever used soap balls for bathing or washing your hands?  Do you prefer them to soap bars? 

Christmas in July 2012: handmade soaps, vintage corsages, mineral makeup - YouTube

Video montage of several Etsy shops participating in Christmas in July promotion on Etsy

Christmas in July 2012: handmade soaps, vintage corsages, mineral makeup - YouTube
Check out this cool video that one of the members of Etsy made.  She was so gracious to feature my handmade soaps and announce my participation in the upcoming Christmas in July promotion on Etsy.  Click here to visit the Etsy shop of the person who created the videos, and LOL, no it wasn’t me.  Click here to visit my Etsy shop that features the soaps shown.