Artist Danielle Julian-Norton used 20,000 amber gylcerin bar soaps to create an art installation with 7-foot high walls that ran 40 feet long and 12 feet wide in a wave-like shape. “It is the clean identity, amber color, fresh scent, bodily reference, striking surface and translucent aesthetic that inspired me to create Ambrosia,” Ms. [...]
Working with small batches is often trickier than doing the huge batches I often do. But doing small batches lets you get all kinds of creative. Best of all, if you make a mistake, you’re not tossing out hundreds of dollars in materials. It’s fairly easy to “rebatch” a mistake batch when it’s [...]
Sometimes, you may have a soap idea, but can’t find a commercial mould that fits your need, or you just want to create something silly or personal. For those times, making your own mould is your best option. Mind you, this method does not create professional grade silicon moulds that will hold up to hundreds [...]
Elizabeth Carnahan from Longcroft Soaperie in Scotland is one of the success stories of the boutique bath industry. Elizabeth has parlayed her hard work and genius with product development into a cottage industry that has been on the pages of some of Europe’s top magazines.
As well as producing, marketing and selling her soap, Elizabeth has [...]
What’s the history?
The earliest known evidence of soap use are Babylonian clay cylinders dating from 2800 BC containing a soap-like substance. A formula for soap consisting of water, alkali and cassia oil was written on a Babylonian clay tablet around 2200 BC.
The Ebers papyrus (Egypt, 1550 BC) indicates that ancient Egyptians bathed regularly and combined [...]
