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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


Essential Tools and Materials for Beginner Soap Makers
Equipment and ingredients for soap making
Apr 29, 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


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


Be Cool - Cold Call - a blast from the past
I was looking in my bookmarks for a business link and found this interview from my hero at Brambleberry in America. The last couple of...
Jun 8, 2022


Fragrance oils TESTED
We love what we do at Riverlea and one of the most fun and rewarding things to do is test all our fragrances. We recently got a little...
Jun 18, 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


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


Brush Embroidery on Soaps
It has been a while since I entered a soap challenge the Soap Challegne Club but we have been ridiculously busy (YAY) and have,...
Aug 24, 2019


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


Making Soap for Father's Day
It will be Father's Day in South Africa on the 16th of June and we have been furiously making soap to prepare. See your Instagram page...
May 30, 2019


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