jaybyrd

Gotta say, they all live up to their outsides. Awesome!

(I'll take this one, and this one, oh, and these two over here, and. . .)

Oo, I love that look:drool: - frosty-cool inviting!

Well done, you! :highfive:

All beautiful - though the surprise would be if it weren't! I especially love the Sandalwood-Oakmoss. The colors, shape, composition, stamp - the whole look is utter serenity, which I bet is perfect for the scent. Is it a blend of eo or someone's fo?

Your labels look great, and cheers very much for the jar link!

I just love plumeria & your color choice is great. And I'd snap up that GM-OMH as soon as I saw it. Great job!

Good golly, woman, you're a machine! They're all gorgeous and can't wait for the cuts . . .

Gorgeous! Nice white contrast for the cocoa - I just love it!

I think the second one is quite attractive, too - it's not a feathery swirl. but it's like the random veining you get in stones. Refresh my memory - who is BnL?

Wow, that's impressive. Your stuff must be great to cover up rosacea (bane of my life). Your Li'l Girl is cuter than cute!

WELL IT IS CUT!!!

Swirls didn't come out the way I had hoped but nice enough for a first success and they smell ummm ummm good!

Look like clouds to me!

Now off to the foot doctor and I will be back...

Clouds it is .. and pretty damn pretty ones at that. Great job!!

I LOVE this look!!! Totally beautiful!! Are the little streaks the powdered anise, or drips of liquid colorant, or . . .?

I'm not a huge fan of black licorice as a taste treat, but the eo is wonderful to use. It's one of those fragrances you can add just a dot to a blend to give a fabulous new depth to the whole character. (Kind of like lemon juice in cooking.)

I can't smell it. The soap actually has no smell at all and I added no FO or EO. When I first added the honey, monoi and carrots all you could smell was the carrots and a bit of the monoi and honey. Since the carrot smell was so strong, I thought it might stick around but it did not and by the next day, when I unmolded, you couldn't smell it all. Maybe when it gets wet the scent will come back a bit.

I've wondered if that might be the case - it's pricey enough that I've only used it in things like bars & butters to take advantage of that lovely fragrance. I'll be interested to learn if it does resurface for you.

I actually like it and I love the color of it!! Kind of looks like a sponge with the scrubby on one side :smiley2: , but I do like it!

ANgi

That's exactly what I thought! I really do like it.

How does the black clay feel - is it slick like a kaolin or more scrubby like, um, one of the others?

Beautiful - to look at and sooo inviting to be used. (nose pressed up to the window in longing . . .)

I love the one on the left - it looks like a painting of a sun or morning harvest moon over snow fields. I want to blow it up and use it for wallpaper on my pc! That's one of the many things I think that makes "natural" soap so special - when the textures & colors let me see beautiful images.

OMG, those are all stunning. I keep coming back to look at them... Awesome, in the literal sense of the word.

Meredith, that's so luscious! For some reason mixing milks has never crossed my mind - go figure, lol. Does the fragrance of the monoi survive saponification? It's so intense just in the plain oil.

Jaybird… I was born in S. California; it’s where those memories were made. You know the scent I’m talking about… does it sound right to you? I promise everyone I will repeat this for a swap. Maybe a Christmas swap, as citrus and roses were big for my mom at Christmas. Maybe not what most people think of for Christmas, but if I add red swirls think I could get away with it?

I'd say you nailed it. Of course, I'd need to try some to be ABsolutely certain (:whistle: hinthint )

To my mind, Xmas doesn't necessarily need to be santa red and pine green - it's gorgeous as is.

Love it love it love it! :)

That looks great! Beautiful swirls, & the color is perfect for the fragrance. Love it!

Beautiful! Classy, and appealing, and way better than lots of magazine adverts. Great job!

Oh, G'Ma, that's simply magical. Makes me think of how the (rapidly disappearing) citrus orchards around here smell on the breezes of a spring evening. I so wish I could smell, touch, try a piece. I love your gift!

:undecided Laugh? Cry? Smack 'em one? Men aren't just from Mars, most of them still seem to be living there. Makes you want to carry a recorder on you at all times so you can just play back conversations at them, doesn't it? Very cool about expanding - you've got all kinds of talent & now the support (however clueless the source, lol)! :highfive: Go for it!

Maybe, if you want the look of raw cane crystals but don't want to risk Brenda's melting issue, you could tint coarse sea salt crystals...?