The Generosity of other Soapers

A few years ago my cousin and I held a soap making workshop on the farm.

We had a great time and made some new friends. Among those was a lady who threw herself in feet first and really enjoyed every bit of making soap. We have kept in touch all these years. She recently told me that she will be moving to the USA and has given me ALL her soap making ingredients and goodies. So generous. Included are soap making oils, fragrance oils, Botanicals and so much more...

I think my most coveted items are the soap beveller and perspex mould with dividers.

Thank you SO much Cheryl

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A Soapy Birthday for Emma

At Riverlea Soap we offer soapy workshops or birthday parties which can be a lot of fun for all involved. You can see some of the previous workshops we have done here and here.

 

Everyone arriving.

Demonstrating how to fill the fizz bomb moulds

   

Getting stuck into the fizz bomb mixture. It's hard work making fizz bombs.

Birthday girl Emma and her brother Dieter.

Making the delicate cupcake soaps

  

  

Everyone with their products: Sugar scrub, cupcake soaps, froggy soap and fizz bombs

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Workshop Fun

I recently held two workshops in Durban for the daughter of a friend. She had attended a workshop I had earlier in the year and had so much fun she wanted MORE! I think the soap bug has bitten her.

   

For the first workshop they made cupcake soaps, fizz bombs, sugar scrub and a bar of soap with dolphin stickers.

           

And for the second  workshop they made cupcake soaps (this is always a hit), fizz bombs, sugar scrub and a bath scrunchie set in soap.    

                   

We all had a lot of fun and I am sure I will be seeing the girls again soon.

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Workshops, work spaces and beautiful soaps

This weekend I held a soap workshop at the farm. I was so busy making soap and talking that I didn't take and photos of the soapy creations - very clever.

Anyway I have pictures of my soaping work area and the beautiful soap I made this weekend. I LOVE the Mantra swirl and for the first time I had some extra hands to help me hold the divider. This made such a difference and I think the soap turned out really well. Thanks for your help Michelle.

 

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Workshop Fun

On the Fourth of July I held a kiddies workshop with Lara of Just Boutique Fame.

Holding up their bags of slime. You can find that recipe and tutorial here
As you can see we had a lot of fun.
  
We made Fizz bombs, Dolphin soaps, Slime and Sugar scrub.
 








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Kiddies workshop - 4 July

Riverlea Soap will be running a kiddies soap workshop in conjunction with Lara of Just Boutique

I posted a recipe on how to make Slime last week. This is one of the goodies we will be making along with fizzies, a soap and sugar scrub. Come and join us for some soapy fun. 10am - 12pm.

You can book here.

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It's workshop time again. Making Slime - a tutorial

 

It is holidays time again for schools and every holiday I run a series of fun workshops for adults and kiddies. It is always fun trying to think up new things for them to make. This time I was also a little challenged to I went onto my favourite pastime - Pinterest and found this amazing tutorial. I just just had to try it. What a lot of fun and I cannot wait to make it with the kids.

Ingredients and equipment:

Borax
White Glue
Water
Food Colouring (optional) but so much more fun with colour
Ziploc bag or a heavy duty plastic bag

   

How to:

1. Take a cup of water and add to it 1 Tbs. of borax (approx. 4% solution). Stir until completely dissolved. Borax is available in the laundry section of your local grocery store.

2. Make a 50% water 50% white glue solution. i.e. Take 1/4 cup of each and mix thoroughly. I put the plastic bag into a jug and mixed the glue and water straight in the bag.

   

3. Add a tiny amount of food colouring to the water/ glue solution

 

   

4. Add equal parts of the borax solution to equal parts of the glue solution. 1/2 cup of each will make a cup of slime.

   

5. Seal bag or just tie the top and knead the mixture.
6. Dig in and have fun. Remember to wash your hands after playing.
7. Keep your slime in the sealed bag in the refrigerator when not playing with it to keep it longer. Unfortunately it may eventually dry out or grow mould. Just throw it out and start again!

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