Thursday, 24 April 2008

more soap

Made some jasmine and cranberry soap yesterday. Cant look at it till about 3pm tho ( have to leave it covered for 24hours and if you cheat and look you can get "ashing"on top. It doesnt actually harm the soap bar but you have to threw a slice away cos it doesnt look very good so I dont peak. Wont be home till about 5:20 so will have a look then. I had a thought tuesday whilst walking round the art shop at central six about packaging - cant find any I like that is affordable - dont really want to use greaseproof paper tho at least its natural and better than polythene both cos it allows the soap to breath ( being a natural product with only either vitamin E or grapefuit seed oil as preservative it can just go mouldy!) Also printed fancy papers may cause leaching of nasties into the soap and having made natural soap I dont really want to cover in nasty chemicals even if on paper. I saw loads of very expensive squares of checks and gingham but I think they might be a bit too countrified. Maybe I should try a few. Tho perhaps the dyes might leach too so maybe that would be a bad idea as well. I need to learn to fold paper as well cos it was difficult wrapping some bars I recently gave away to a friend to try out. I suspect it will be easier with practice. Oh and now I have some labels. I know you can print them with WORD so have to refresh my memory about how now. Better remember to buy some ink for the printer too!

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