Plain olive with orange soap swirls

Tried another experiment making swirls. The effect is pretty but because of the way it has mixed I garuntee that the other end of the orange is pure orange soap. It was to thick when I poured in the other colour and as a result only some mixed. Oh well, more variety then.:)

eBay postage scammers were here

So as you would have guessed from my constant plugging I have been trying to sell off soap on eBay. I have done well over all. The majority of my 6 customers have been honest. Unfortunately a couple have been far from honest which is a little depressing.

Basically I ended up being threatened and harassed for extra monies when two customers told me that they had received the items with postage due. At first I believed them and refunded the money like I should according to eBay's polices and then these pair had the nerve to tell me I had to send them more money to cover the cost of the supposed postage due, evidence of which they never showed me! One left it alone after I calmly informed her that I had acted with in eBay's buyer protection scheme and that if postage due was paid then she was liable for it because she accepted it (! If you ever receive anything with postage due on it, refuse to pay it at the post office and they will return it to the original sender to pay the fees!). All I got was a crappy 'follow-up feedback'. Nothing really to worry about with the glowing feedback before it.

The seconds person has not been so easy to shake. Even though I have refunded all three transaction she made over three days she was still harassing me. But the funny part was in one message she had claimed to already have paid to receive the items and in the next she claimed to be going down to the post office to collect them! Believe me I was quick to report her....

Anyway I am now trying bid lazy.com

Now I am getting fancy

This pretty effect was created buy mixing coffee soap blend with milk soap blend. Might do this again. I like the effect!


This was related to my last post. Because I have been hand blending my mix the past few days I decide to take advantage of the thinness of the mix when it was poured into the mould.

Hand blended soaps!

On the left I have a batch of coffee soap made with recycled filter coffee (kindly given by Starbucks, as I am not at home and they coffee I have access to is instant). On the right I have orange citrus blend sitting a professional bikky tray. These are intended for family so I don't need to worry about fancy loaf shapes since they are not for sale.


You wouldn't believe how much trouble these were. I bought a cheap hand blender to mix these. It burnt out on a failed batch yesterday so I had hand mix these. Took me 30mins and the blended soap mix was no where near as thick as normal when I ladled it out because hand blending is so much slower.

Of course the hand blender burn out cause it was cheap crap from asda who, while the delivery service was fantastic,substituted my important ingredient for a cheaper lower quality one that was not fit for my purposes. Unfortunately the ingredient they substituted was the lye which meant I lost two batches before I went and bought more

My exciting Starbucks life

I have traveled all the way to Oxford and what do I do? Sit in Starbucks! Like a proud starbucktonia.... :)

My top reason: I can get a filter coffee + free refill + free wifi and sit in Starbucks in comfy chairs for hours on end.