Citrine Sun Pure Essential Soap

Citrine Sun was made as an antidote to the lack of sun happening this summer (at least in Ireland anyway!).  I wanted something sunny and bright and what better than the fabulous brightness given by fresh carrots.  Oh yep, I did say fresh carrots .. in soap? For sure, full of vitamins and antioxidants and pure skin goodness, why not? It's a mega skin treat.

Added to this, I also included organic Greek yogurt, goatsmilk, kaolin clay, Sweet Almond & Golden Olive Oils and lashings of creamy Cocoa Butter.  I've fragranced it with my own blend of essential oils which include May Chang, 5 Fold Orange, Bergamot, Lavender & Ylang Ylang and smells divine! And it's all sprinkled with Black Poppy seeds.

Below is a short video on how to make a carrot puree for soap - you replace your water with this when making your lye water:




And here is the Cutting video:




And, finally, the stills photos courtesy of Titch Holland of http://www.facebook.com/takenbytitch:

 

Hope you enjoyed the videos and photos ... if you'd like to give a good home to this soap, check out the website at  http://www.iamhandmade.com/ourshop/prod_2089431-Citrine-Sun-PreOrder-Cure-Date-23-July.html.

Sale!!

We're having a quick sale! It started on Friday, which was, if you hadn't noticed, Friday 13th ... which is usually supposed to be unlucky but I thought, why not make your own luck and so I thought, let's have a sale!

The sale is via a discount code .. just put the code FRIDAY13 as your voucher code, and you'll get 13% off your whole order (excluding P+P) ... so take advantage NOW cos this will finish on Monday at midnight (GMT). 

Order now, order often, use FRIDAY13 and be lucky!!!

Summer Break!

Holiday Schedule

The iamhandmade.com team will be taking a well deserved break this Summer (lets hope the sun shines). Fear not though, as you will still be able to order when we're off picnicing and paddling and doing whatever one does on a break, it's just that we won't be able to send your goodies to you until our return, all tanned (one hopes) and refreshed (one hopes even more). So, just to make it really easy:

All orders placed on or before Tuesday 17 July will be posted on Wednesday 18 July.

All orders received from 18 July onwards will be posted on our return which will be 13 August.

We hope you all have a fabulous Summer, that the sun shines and the birds sing and the bees bee or whatever they're supposed to do. We fully intend to recharge our soaping batteries in order to come back and wow your little cotton socks off with new soaps and other goodies! 

Happy Summer Everyone!! xxx

New Soap Boxes

I thought I'd show you my new soap boxes! I got these designed and custom made for me and they'll be replacing all my soap packaging very shortly.  I adore them!

Check out www.iamhandmade.com for the soaps and packaging and lots of other cool stuff! Mega thanks to Titch from www.facebook.com/takenbytitch for her fab photos.

Soap Sale Now On!

Did you know we have a sale on? Yep, all our fully cured soaps are on sale now ... 12% off from now until Tuesday next midnight (GMT). 

No code, no voucher needed ... all the prices are already reduced for you ... just find what you want to buy and order!

Why not go and treat yourself or your friends and family right now... http://www.iamhandmade.com/ourshop/cat_549886-Available-Now.html is the link you'll need! So make sure to treat yourself and enjoy before next Tuesday!

Kokomo Joe - Pure Essential Soap

Here is another of my Pure Essential Soap collection ... this is called Kokomo Joe and it's made with Coffee infused with Coconut overnight, then liquidised and strained. Then I added in a whole fresh Banana, and Coconut milk and liquidised again.

I added the organic White Chocolate to my oils - Sweet Almond and Olive oils with Cocoa Butter and allowed everything to melt together.  To the lye water, I added my Silk, as always.  I used White Clay & Colloidal Oatmeal also because they are just stunning in soap and to them I added my fragrance of Coffee & Bourbon Vanilla CO2 extracts with a spiced background of warm Nutmeg.

As you'll see from the cut pictures, the soaps are a lovely coffee colour with lots of speckles from the vanilla pod seeds ... plus we sprinkled it with dried Coconut, just cos we could!

The soap is available for pre-order now on http://www.iamhandmade.com/ourshop/prod_2032605-Kokomo-Joe-PreOrder-Cure-Date-25-June.html but order quickly cos there are only 7 left!

We made a video for the Making Of... and Cutting Of... this soap so I'm showing you those too!

Making of Kokomo Joe:

 Direct You Tube Link: http://youtu.be/Ies4xMeL404

Cutting of Kokomo Joe:

Direct You Tube Link: http://youtu.be/ZD9WA6LbxeQ

Cut Pictures (courtesy of Titch Holland at http://www.facebook.com/takenbytitch)

 

 

 

International Soap Swap - Sabons Carmeta & iamhandmade.com

The wonderful Julia from the Soap Artists blog (http://www.soapartists.blogspot.com) organised a HUGE international soap swap and I was picked to swap with Carmen from Sabons Carmeta based in Spain.  I was a little behind in sending out my parcel but I held off on my blog post for her soaps until she received mine.  Then Titch and I did a video and Titch did a photo shoot of the soaps.  They were all fabulous, the packaging (as you'll see in the video) was amazing and she even included her own, homegrown, lavender which will definitely be included in one of my soaps very very soon.  She sent a wonderful selection of her soaps and they all smelt incredible .. check out the video for our reactions, we were VERY happy indeed.  Below are the stills photos that Titch took, I think you'll agree the soaps look amazing and Titch's photos really brought out their natural beauty.

Check out Sabons Carmeta on http://www.sabonscarmeta.blogpsot.com if you would like more info about her soaps... her post about my soaps is there too (I can't seem to link the title I'm afraid, pity).  If you'd like to see more of Titch's photos, check out her page at http://www.facebook.com/takenbytitch.  All our soaps can be seen and bought on http://www.iamhandmade.com.

Thank you so much Julia for introducing us and thanks SOOOOOOOO much to Carmen for allowing me to experience and enjoy your soaps xxxx

Enjoy!

Lime Light - Pure Essential Handmade Irish Soap

Here's another in our Pure Essential Soap collection...Lime Light - made with Sweet Almond & Golden Olive Oils, Aloe Vera, Wheatgrass, Kaolin Clay, Colloidal Oatmeal, Lime Zest, Cocoa Butter & Pure Silk.

This incredible soap is fragranced with our own essential oil blend of lashings of zesty, Italian Sweet Limes, softened with herbal Rosemary & freshened with soothing Eucalyptus and a dash of Cedarwood essential oils and is coloured with a wheatgrass infusion. Topped with a generous sprinkling of Black Poppy Seeds.

Available for pre-order on http://www.iamhandmade.com/ourshop/prod_2027215-Lime-Light-PreOrder-Cure-Date-18-June.html.  Thanks to Titch from http://www.facebook.com/takenbytitch for her fab photos!

Cutting Lime Light:

http://youtu.be/mkQ7ccu2Bn0

Cut Pictures: