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Crafting Your Own Soaps: A Beginner's Guide
Crafting your own soap at home can be a rewarding and creative hobby. Not only do you get to customize your scent and texture, but you...
May 22, 2025


A Beginner's Guide to Crafting Homemade Soap
Making your own soap at home is not just a fun hobby, but it also allows you to create customized products that are perfect for your...
Apr 22, 2025


Home Spa Day - make your own products
Exciting Guide to Hosting a Home Spa Day Hosting a spa day at home can be a wonderful way to relax and show some self-love. It's a great...
Apr 1, 2025


How to Start Crafting with DIY Soap Making Kits
This kit is something we are still working on but it will have all your oils, silicone mould, Lye, colour, fragrance and everything you...
Mar 31, 2025


Essential Guide to Choosing the Best Soap Ingredients
Choosing the right soap ingredients is crucial for crafting beautiful and effective soaps. Whether you are a seasoned soap maker or a...
Mar 25, 2025


Slice Like a Pro: Mastering the Art of Even Soap Bars with Riverlea Soap's Soap Cutters
Ever found yourself gazing wistfully at those perfect, even soap bars in artisanal shops and wondering, "How do they do it?" Well, wonder...
Oct 4, 2024


Making Soap Stamps
Read below to see how we used to make our stamps before 3d printers came along!! You can send us your artwork and we will quote you on a...
Oct 16, 2023


How to make your own White Melt & Pour Soap
Making your own White MP is so easy. You can buy plain, clear M&P and add Titanium dioxide and mix. So easy You will need: 1kg MP -...
May 31, 2022


Colour Theory Basics
We have had a lot of requests and questions about colour so we thought that we would post some information that will help those who are...
Jun 30, 2021


Creating Red in Christmas Soap - Cold process
It is so hard to achieve a red color in cold process soap because it is a white , cream or sometimes green batter/ base. Basic colour...
Nov 9, 2020


Reduce, Re-use, Recycle - Storage Tubs
At Riverlea we hate to see things go to waste. Everytime we place an order for our colourants they arrive in these very sturdy wooden...
Oct 23, 2020


Mica Powders
MICA POWDERS AND ITS USES: ·WRITTEN BY GLITTER INSANITY MICA POWDERS AND IT'S MANY USES: Mica powders are wonderful because they tend to...
Jul 11, 2020








Using our fragrances
Good news, we have information of how our fragrances behave in soap and what colour they are naturally when no colourant has been added...
Jul 1, 2019


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