making soap as a hobby

 

melt and pour soap. using clear and white soaps.

 

 

various colours  using mica, some glitter

added Beans for interest, how sweet is she sleeping !! awake she bites... lol

again more mica colours, this one using all clear soap.

oh, also all each soap batch I did had a different fragrance, some essential oils, some fragrance oils. 

my tutuorials came from YouTube, just look up 'Melt and Pour Soap Making' and you will find a thousand videos... lol

 

making candles as a hobby

pouring candles

watching them start to set up

nearly cured here

four lovely candles. Two for  me, two were gifted.

I get my supplies from Candle Shack, as they are not too far away to collect from and save postage. 

Wax is EU464. Fragrance oils are Warm Woods and Cashmere and Enchanted Forest.
 

wax melts

the fragrance oil to make candles comes in 50g bottles... I use 44g to make two candles which leaves just a little bit in the bottle.... what to do with it? so I decided on wax melts. also used a little bit of colour in the wax for the first time.

and here they are, the next morning, popped out of the moulds. I will be gifting them as I don't use wax melts. and for future candle making I will just straight away use the little bit up making wax melts. otherwise all these little bottles sit about taking up space. 

GW 494 wax and  fragrance oils are from Candle Shack . I used Cucumber and Melon, Warm Woods and Cashmere, Enchanted Forest. 

the colours are left over from the first candle kit I used, and the moulds were gifted to me.