Denise's Yadda Yadda on Soap Making, Crafts & Personal Ramblings

Looking for an easy way to color your bath sea salts? This short video may help. The "Sea Salt Dyes" from GoPlanetEarth.com are e...

My life has been so crazy lately. On a 'crazy" scale of 1 to 10, I'm nearing the 10 marker. There is so much going on and I fin...

My parents celebrated their 56th wedding anniversay this past Saturday. Many of you know from my posts that my Dad is ill with cancer. He...

I haven't posted lately as I've been out of the office for the last week. I was curious to know how I would do with my weight loss w...

After a long, cold winter, we Northerners are always anxious for signs of Spring. The first spotting of a colorful butterfly signifies that...

Here in Northern Michigan the first signs of Spring are evident. Warm beach weather isn't far off and we'll soon be heading to our ...

Well, it's now been one month since I started my weight loss plan. Here is what I lost this week (shown in soap, of course). That BIG bl...

Once you've mastered how to make Soap Logs , you can then have the option of making soap curls. Soap curls are great for embedding in m...

In my last post I showed you how to make a soap log and a ribbon embed for use in a Mold Market loaf mold . This post will show you how to...

In January 2008, GoPlanetEarth discontinued the production of ready-made soap logs and ribbon embeds. We were the only company online offer...

This week I hit the goal I had set for Week Five. That's good news; but, I'm still not feeling the weight loss when I put on my clo...

I received the following email from a customer concerned about Phthalate issues. I have posted my response on the blog in response to other ...

I've been in the soaping business for so long that I sometimes forget there are many newcomers who are clueless to the basics of melt an...

Well, I'm still on track! I've been walking on the treadmill 4x a week for 35 minutes and eating 5 small meals a day. Also started u...

Organic, Organic, Organic Everywhere we turn there’s some kind of "organic" product being marketed and sold. My local grocery stor...

I thought it odd the first few times I received emails from customers about how to wrap a bar of soap. I thought, doesn't everyone know ...

This week I experimented with our soap stencils using colored mica powder as the medium. Sapphire blue and 24 kt. gold mica powders were u...

" Blocks of Soap Motivates Woman to Lose Weight ". Reads like a headline on the cover of a tabloid magazine. In this case, the hea...

Chris Dzyngel, owner of Bathtanicals , has a fabulous spa-quality product line. For those of you just starting out in the soaping/toiletry ...

In a previous soap making instructional we showed how to make soap frosting using MP soap base and whipped soap. There was quite a bit of so...