Andee

About Andee

Director of Happiness. I'm a thirty-something soap snob. I've grown up with handmade soaps, and I love them! I really like making lotions, soaps, and perfumes. I adore mixing scents to come up with something new. My favorite scent is either Wicked or Cotton Candy. I tend to hoard fragrances, I even have an Earl Grey Tea from the MMS catalog. I won't tell you how old it is, but it sure is good!
I’m so excited to share our latest additions to the catalog with you! We just released the Daisy Lip Balm Pots and they are just so much fun. These pots are easy to fill and a wonderful bonus is that you can stack several pots and have a collection of […]

New Containers

 in Thoughts from The Sage by
This is a question that comes up for everyone learning to make soap. I recently stumbled across this cute illustrated explanation of saponification. This is a fun way to enjoy learning about saponification without covering several whiteboards with chemical changes at the molecular level. I wish all confusing questions could […]

What is Saponification?

 in Soap / Thoughts from The Sage by
If you have ever been the Master Food Preserver Program with your local university extension office, then today’s paper might be familiar to you. If you aren’t familiar with home canning, this paper will still be useful to you as it explains why jars break, just like the jar in […]

Why Jars Break

 in Thoughts from The Sage by
4
Donna submitted her milk soaps for our Milk Soap Challenge. Here is her perspective on the process of making milk soap. Enjoy! First, here’s the recipe I used — it’s a little varied from my usual mix, because I wanted to use the last of my cocoa butter & shea […]

Milk Soaps Challenge

 in Cold Process Soap / Soap by
61
I’m well known to be a Coffee Butter junkie, but I haven’t shared my other major junkie affliction. Yes, I am a chocoholic. Doesn’t that sound like an anonymous group of sorts? “Hello. My name is Andee and I’m a chocoholic.” Whoops! I think I got off topic! Anyway, I […]

Chocolate Cold Process Soap

 in Cold Process Soap by
Wow! I can’t believe that it is almost the end of February already. Time has flown by and I’ve had a few questions of what is upcoming for blog posts. I’m excited to announce that starting next week, we will have a short series on Cream Soaps as well as […]

Upcoming Blog Projects

 in Thoughts from The Sage by
9
It has been a while since our last challenge, so I believe that it is time to extend another challenge to all blog readers. We just finished a week of milk soaps and now I’d like to see how your milk soaps turn out. Rules: 1) Submit a picture to […]

Blog Reader Challenge

 in Challenges and Q&A by
Last week, we made fresh Almond Milk for our Cold Process Soap: Half and Half Method with Almond Milk blog post and I promised that I would take a picture of the Almond Meal that was left over after straining the milk. If I had not slipped all of the […]

Almond Meal

 in Thoughts from The Sage by