There are so many things to come in the wonderful new year, but this post is about soap! I had planned on last year’s big thing being cheese/dairy but the truth was soap and lots of it, not just making it but teaching friends to make soap, giving soap, curing soap, planning soap and even dreaming about soap..

Then a one friend asked if I could show her how, by the end of the year, I had helped make this a hobby for around a dozen other folks 🙂 I had entered in two soap swaps, and I have added in new colors, new scents and I am excited to see and do new things for this coming year.

Now the truth is, I don’t sell my soap, so I am going to try (haha) to limit myself a bit this year on how many batches I make and I am going to expand, I want to make body butters, homemade lip balms, A really good Hair Shampoo Bar and a lotion bar this year!

So my average loaf is 2.5 pounds of soap, at 12 batches that’s 30 pounds worth of soap, and that does not count custom soap requests from friends or family, or swap soaps 🙂

My plan is each month make and share a soap with you, with the extra’s thrown in as they go, at the moment all plans are to make cold pressed soaps, but each month will be something extra or fun, be it liquid, colors, patterns, or styles.

I want to learn to make a cupcake soap, I want to learn to make a soap cake, I want to learn to do embeds better, I just want to PLAY!

The only two soaps that I know that I will be repeating with tweeks in the coming year are

Hair of the Dog (Beer and Egg Soap)

Gardener’s Scrubby Soap (Coffee Grounds/Coffee Soap)