Not just soaps

I received an email on my facebook page on Thursday asking what else I was going to make when I re open or do make that isn’t soap.

This seems like a 2 part question so here it goes..

1- When I re-open I will be selling more than soap. I’m not 100% sure what yet. I am still in the planning faze. But I know I will be making bath bombs. Not from a kit either. They suck. well the one I bought many years ago did. Possibly some scrubs and body butter.

2- Before I went on hiatus I made hair products, scrubs , lip balm and bath jelly. Also face scrubbies and soap savers ( pic below) . For the hair I made conditioner, dry shampoo, kids de-tangler  and hair rinses.   If my budget permits I may make conditioner  and lip balm.

counter clockwise – Hair rinse, dry shampoo, bath jelly, lip balm, basic scrub and conditioner .

Soap saver and scrubbies.

 

 

Throwback Thursday

Hello and welcome to another #TBT post 🙂

Today’s throwback is Embossed Soaps.  With just a little rubber stamp you can make your soaps look eye catching and gorgeous.

Below are the first soaps I ever embossed. Year: 2006 .

This one is my favorite!

Here are some more I made in 2009.

 

 

 

Tie Dye Soap Fail-ish

The other night I had an itch to make soap . I had a few blocks of my soap base . I wanted to try something new so I searched the wonderful internet and found a tie dye soap tutorial.

I thought this would be the easiest thing , but it wasn’t. With the first bar I made , as you can see in the picture below, when I poured the soap into the mold, most of the color  went to one side. I realized I missed a step. So with the second soap I made sure I did not miss that step, but I poured in too much soap so the color drops didn’t spread as much .

Since I didn’t have any more soap blocks left to try again , I cried a little bit..lol just kidding. I was really bummed out though.

 

 

Throwback Thursday

Lets #TBT to 9/5/13 when I made cupcake soaps. I made much more than this for a local church yard sale. They were a big hit. 🙂

Melon

Pink Grapefruit

Toasted Coconut

New Facebook banner

I love it. Its simple and shows my fave soaps. What do you think? 🙂

An Introduction

Hi Readers,

I’m Erin and I love making soap and scrubs as you will see. I started this blog to share my “come back”  ( LOL ). Its been a few years since I made and sold soap. I opened Handmade Soaps or BUST! under another name ( Princess Soaps ) in 2006. This is back when myspace was sorta like facebook now. I had a page just for my soaps and a lot of people liked my stuff. I loved my customers.

When I lived in Florida in early 2009 , I made soaps and scrubs and shampoos for a boutique . I made enough to pay my rent for my studio apartment and that was about it. Customers were asking me to make the weirdest scrubs , ( I wish I could remember at least one of them) . When the boutique went out of business in the summer of 09, I lost the only income I had. It sucked living in my car. I was able to sell the small inventory I had to past customers and I was able ( with a help of a friend who came with me) to move back to Massachusetts .

Years later and I want to make soaps and scrubs for people again. My wonderful hubby to be has been encouraging me to get back to something I love . Ive been crocheting for 4 years and although I love it, its getting kinda stale. My etsy shop (Get Hooked~ Crochet by Erin) will remain open and I will be filling orders and making items to put in the shop , my main focus will be  soaps in my other shop.

Before I just go and grab a bunch of supplies I am making a list of soaps  I want to make. Due to the poor ventilation and my cat I can not make cold processed soaps. Some day I might. So I have to use the hot process ( melt and pour ) . Its not a bad thing. It works just as good. Oh the fun I will have 🙂

So stay tuned… Follow , Like and comment .

P.S. Here are some soaps I made ….

 

 

 

New home of Handmade Soaps or BUST!

I will be moving all posts and pagers from my other blog to here over the next few weeks. until then you can follow me over on my facebook page Handmade Soaps or BUST!