Festive Soaps 2012

Poppy: The Winner .....

Poppy: The Winner .....

Wildwood

 top notes of orange and lime with aloe, olive, fresh green leaves, basil, rosemary and lavender with fruity touches of pineapple and peach. Leading into a floral heart of jasmine, geranium, rose, lily, gardenia and hawthorn on a base of sandalwood, cedarwood, amber and musk.

Blackberry Basil Ice Cream

A luscious confection of creamy vanilla notes, tart blackberries and warm basil, combine to give you a slice of heaven.    Thick, frothy lather created using Coconut oil, castor oil, shea butter and almond oil.

New Look Website

We have updated our website to look less pink and white and more neutral.   We  felt it needed tweaking as it just felt a bit too girlie, and we are aiming to produce soaps and bath products for kids and men, and not just women.  So with this in mind, we've dropped the sugar coconut ice look in favour of cooler greens, greys and monotones.  

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Bathtime Buddy Bear

Introducing the EarthKandi Bathtime Buddy Bear Soap.   Currently in three scrumptious fragrances,  Lemon Meringue, Raspberry Trifle and Ocean Fresh.

Make bathtime fun, fragrant and bubbly for that special little person in your life with our skin softening glycerine soaps, mild, gentle and SLS free.

Pomegranate Noir

Our new design for this amazing fragrance.  

Pomegranate L'Issey Cups

A base of purest white fragranced with L'issey Dizzy, topped with mouthwatering piped pink and ivory swirls scented with Pomegranate Noir.
Two popular designer duplicate fragrances, combine to create the Soap Cup from Heaven.

L'issey Emerald Glycerine Soap

Lavender & Amber Glycerine Soap

Aloha Lei

A glycerine soap fragranced with Hawaiian jasmine flower with notes of tuberose, jasmine, and tea rose.  

Lava Noir

Palm Oil

EarthKandi has made the decision not to use any more palm oil in its soaps.   We have been using sustainable palm oil, but even this sits ill on our ethical stance, and we feel that we must stop using any kind of product that has even the remotest possibility of destroying our environment and the animals on our planet.

Juicy Fruit Glycerine Soap

Mouthwatering soap made with real lemon, orange, grapefruit and lime juice and zest, and orange fragrance oil.   Smells divine.

Range Recherche from EarthKandi

Introducing our new range of exclusive, limited edition soaps.   Using designer fragrances and our own unique mix of scents, here is our first baby....the reborn, Lava Noir.

We've used sweet orange oil, jasmine absolute essential oil, patchouli oil, gardenia fragrance oil and musky oakmoss combined with indigo and a shard of pure creamy lemongrass soap topped with purest gold mica dust.

Tribal Pilgrims: Dance Without Cruelty - part Two!

Tribal Pilgrims: Dance Without Cruelty - part Two!: Shimmying Caterpillars ...... I have just realised how long it's been since my last post! Almost a month since I chatted to you all about ...

Bellingham Soap Company "Working with Nature": Trade Fairs

Bellingham Soap Company "Working with Nature": Trade Fairs

Rose Geranium & Frangipani Glycerine Soap

Soap Gift Box

This dinky little lemon heart shaped gift box contains bathbombs, massage bar, and soap.   A great gift at an affordable price of £18.00

Tahitian Tropic Cupcake Soaps

Here they are!   They look and smell absolutely gorgeous.  If you've always loved the smell of Hawaiian Tropic Sun cream, then this soap is for you.

You can see me piping these out here on my You Tube channel

Odalisque

Orange, patchouli, musk, sandalwood and lemon rind

Tahitian Tropic

Tahitian Tropic

A fresh and gorgeous new cupcake fragrance from EarthKandi.  Coconut, Lime, Pineapple, Peaches and Cream.

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EarthKandi offers some beautiful wedding cake alternatives with our Wedding Cake Soap designs.   Prices start from £230 and with colour and fragrance of your choice.   You can choose from single tier, up to triple tiered.  Soap Wedding Cakes are a great  and increasingly popular alternative to real cakes for guests to take home.  Calorie free, fragrant  and lasts much longer!

Our Soaps

Frankincense Essential Oil Night Cream

RECOMMENDED FOR: Mature skins. A very rich, night cream with a strong, musky scent. One of the very best anti aging essential oils around after Patchouli combined with a drop of Carrot Tissue Oil for added boost.

PROPERTIES:
Frankincense is used in modern cosmetics to rejuvenate the skin and has excellent cytophylactic properties (encourages the growth of skin cells) while being a good all-over skin tonic.The inherent astringent qualities of this oil also act as balancer of the skin and reduce any dry or oily skin condition returning it to normal.

With all these good therapeutic properties, it is a powerful ally in the fight to keep wrinkles at bay, while at the same time improving the tone and quality of the complexion, even in more mature skins.

Mixed into this cream is carrot tissue oil and a drop of Patchouli, both powerful cell regeneration products and Neroli Essential oil for its anti aging and soothing properties.

Ingredients: Aqua, Cocos Nucifera, Cetearyl alcohol, ceteareth amygdalum, Prunus Armeniaca, Champagne, Citrus Aurantifolia, Hamamelis Virginiana, Glucose & Glucose Oxidase & Lacto peroxidase, Acidophilus, frankincense EO, carrot tissue oil.

Cherry Kernel & Mandarin Moisturiser

RECOMMENDED FOR: All skin types. Light and refreshing redolent of summer and warm sunny days. Non greasy and very easily absorbed. A very relaxing oil, which encourages calm and de-stresses.

PROPERTIES

Cherry Kernel Oil is cold-pressed from the kernels of the Prunus avium tree and is a light, emollient, rapidly absorbed oil which is rich in linoleic and oleic acids. It also contains vitamins A & E and a high proportion of alpha, delta and gamma tocopherols, making it highly stable and suitable for mature skin.

Cherry kernel oil is known to contain the polyunsaturated fatty acid eleostearic, which helps to protect hair and skin from UV damage.

Mandarin Essential oil is used in aromatherapy on the skin for stretch marks in pregnancy and skin conditions such as acne, oily skin, rejuvenation and mature skin.

Base cream ingredients:Aqua, Cocos Nucifera, Cetearyl alcohol, ceteareth amygdalum, Prunus Armeniaca, Champagne, Citrus Aurantifolia, Hamamelis Virginiana, Glucose & Glucose Oxidase & Lacto peroxidase, Acidophilus.

Rose Absolute Moisturiser

PROPERTIES

A light refreshing face cream, feminine and soothing, with the healing, hydrating and regenerating properties of rose absolute, with a touch of Neroli True (Orange Blossom Essential Absolute Oil). Neroli oil encourages cell regeneration and is a great anti ageing oil.

Organic base. 50mls.

CAUTION: Although this cream uses very diluted amounts of absolute, Rose oil should not be used if you are less than 6 months pregnant as it can encourage menstrual flow.

Base cream ingredients:Aqua, Cocos Nucifera, Cetearyl alcohol, ceteareth amygdalum, Prunus Armeniaca, Champagne, Citrus Aurantifolia, Hamamelis Virginiana, Glucose & Glucose Oxidase & Lacto peroxidase, Acidophilus, Rose Absolute EO, Neroli Absolute EO.

Sea Foam

A dark sea  blue chunk of foamy bubbly soap, topped with creamy twinkly star fish and blue, green and lemon soap curls. A fresh enlivening fragrance with notes of ozone, cedar and moss, on a base of seaweed and musk. 

Orange Honey Sherbet

Imagine soft powdery Honey I Washed the Kids type fragrance mixed with the sharp fizzy tang of fresh orange sherbet.   A concotion made in heaven.  Almost good enough to eat.  Thick chunks of creamy bubbly soap shot through with lemon and orange shards.

Lava Noir

Lava Noir fragrance has base notes of Sandalwood,  middle notes of Blue Aguava and Musk,  and top notes of  orange rind.  Dark  purple mingles with earthy ochres and sandstone, fern and moss coloured mica.  A deep underground and sensually secret cold process soap with a rich bubbly lather.   

Pomegranate Noir

A confection of creamy shea infused soap, fragranced with the Jo Malone type Pomegranate Noir.

 A sumptuous blend of pomegranate, raspberry, and plum underpinned with spicy pink pepper, and grounded in a base of patchouli and frankincense.

We used black soft mica to create the grey with pink clay to create the pink.   Super creamy and smells divine.

Wedding Cake

Our royal Icing Wedding Cake soap, is made from the creamiest shea, olive oil and coconut oil and enriched with Bay Rum and Patchouli fragrance.  A rich creamy lather, and hard white bar make this an excellent choice for wedding favours.   We pipe the top with traditional Royal Icing techniques.

Rose Garden

English Rose fragrance in a creamy, Shea Butter mix, subtle rose petal pink topped with piped peaks scattered with soap leaves and ice glitter.  A truly feminine soap, with a good bubbly and creamy lather, enriched with castor oil, coconut oil, olive oil and Shea butter.   Total indulgence.

Lemon & Poppyseed Soap

Lemon fragrance with a touch of pure lemongrass essential oil.  Poppyseeds for gentle exfoliation.

Here's our new Indigo Garden...part of the Spring Collection.

Our EarthKandi Spring Collection introduces Spring Sherbet, a mix of lemon fragrance, grapefruit and sweet orange EO, and patchouli and May Chang EO.

Amber Sunrise Soap

This soap uses the usual high quality oils and butters, with a musky fragrance called Amberwood. We've used layers of colour, separated by thin lines of charcoal, which is a great detoxifier.  fresh, citrus notes of grapefruit and lime leading to the heart note of  blue agava, warm cinnamon, amber, vetyver and delicious dark chocolate

Amber Sunrise Soap and Nico's Lemon Face

What is Cold Process Soap?

Cold-process soapmaking requires exact measurements of lye and fat amounts and computing their ratio, using saponification charts to ensure that the finished product does not contain any excess hydroxide or too much free unreacted fat.   It really is an art and requires time, dedication and attention to detail.  Most soap makers formulate their recipes with a 4–10% deficit of lye so that all of the lye is converted and that excess fat is left for skin conditioning benefits.
The lye is dissolved in water. Then oils are heated, or melted if they are solid at room temperature. Once the oils are liquified and the lye is fully dissolved in water, they are combined. This lye-fat mixture is mixed until the two phases (oils and water) are fully emulsified.Emulsification is most easily identified visually when the soap exhibits some level of "trace", which is the thickening of the mixture. (Modern-day amateur soapmakers often use a stick blender to speed this process). There are varying levels of trace. Depending on how additives will affect trace, they may be added at light trace, medium trace, or heavy trace. After much stirring, the mixture turns to the consistency of a thin pudding. "Trace" corresponds roughly to viscosity. Essential oils and fragrance oils can be added with the initial soaping oils, but solid additives such as botanicals, herbs, oatmeal, or other additives are most commonly added at light trace, just as the mixture starts to thicken.

The batch is then poured into moulds, kept warm with towels or blankets, and left to continue saponification for 12 to 48 hours. (Milk soaps or other soaps with sugars added are the exception. They typically do not require insulation, as the presence of sugar increases the speed of the reaction and thus the production of heat.) During this time, it is normal for the soap to go through a "gel phase," wherein the opaque soap will turn somewhat transparent for several hours, before once again turning opaque.

After the insulation period, the soap is firm enough to be removed from the mould and cut into bars. At this time, it is safe to use the soap, since saponification is in essence complete. However, cold-process soaps are typically cured and hardened on a drying rack for 2–6 weeks before use. During this cure period, trace amounts of residual lye is consumed by saponification and excess water evaporates.

Today we made another batch of our popular Odalisque cold process soap.   It will be ready first week of April and for the Easter and Mother's Day period.  We also filmed the making of this soap which is uploaded to YouTube.   You can view our progress here:

EarthKandi Wedding Favours.  

We do special prices on our products if you wish to use them for wedding favours.  Here we have a recent order, in Honey and Almond, wrapped in client's choice of cellophane and tied with iridescent ribbon and glittery label.   We do wedding favours at wholesale prices for orders over 30 pieces.  Email us for details.

Today we made some gorgeously refreshing Lemongrass & Lime cold process soap, using coconut oil, castor oil, olive oil and real Tussah silk.   The palest of pale lemon and lime colours and white creamy topping with shards of spring green soap embeds make this a delight to both eye and nose.  We've used a touch of May Chang Essential Oil to boost the fragrance staying power.  This soap is very large and chunky, weighing in with at least 140gms.   

Introducing a clean fresh unisex fragrance called Bay Rum.   We've kept the lines of this soap simple, creamy white base with a touch of blue.  A hard bubbly soap, uncomplicated that leaves the skin feeling fresh, clean and moisturised.  We've used olive oil, palm oil, coconut oil, and caster oil which combines to make a hard white soap that is long lasting, creamy with a stable lather.

Today we made some brand new soap cake, our Honey Parfait.   Using Honey and lemon fragrance, topped with glitter blood red hearts.   We used a mix of olive oil, castor oil, coconut oil and sustainable palm oil using Tussah cruelty free silk for an extra creamy and luxurious feel on the skin.

A luxury gift for any time of the year, and can be used whole, or cut into slices as wedding favours or for use as guest soaps.   Or simply cut yourself a slice whenever you need it.

We have decided to share our cigar band style soap labels which you can purchase on our Etsy or Folksy sites. Printed out on 90gms linen paper in cream, name of your products, ingredients and logo. Top edge cut out with doilie pattern continuously along the top edge. Length approx. 12 inches. Simply wrap around your soap and sellotape in place. Great for cold process soap, but it is recommended you wrap melt and pour soap in cellophane first.

EarthKandi presents the BE MY VALENTINE soap. A thick chunk of clear soap with a scarlet heart embed, fragranced with Cassis, Fig and White Musk and beautifully packaged ready to give as a gift to the one you love.