Add a Finishing Touch: Lavendar Soap

A few weeks back I mentioned I was going to be making soap. Well I finally was able to carve out some time to complete it. Some background on the whole soap making undertaking.

I decided months ago I was going to make Christmas presents for family and friends and soap was one of the items I was going to include. I thought for the women I could do a "spa" basket and include homemade soaps, sugar scrub, and include essential oils, etc... I went out and bought a "kit" for spa soap and my girlfriend had some olive oil soap as well from a previous purchase that she never used.

I spent an afternoon making soap to see how it was done and created "samples". This was back in September. I dragged it all out, mind you, my husband had me set up the hot plate outside in the event I make a mess. So by the time I was done with my trial, had all the stuff picked up and put away, the idea of dragging it all out again was less than appealing.

Needless to say, I ended up buying all the women socks.

Now for today, my girl friends birthday is coming up and I thought, why not. So I trimmed lavendar from my friends garden, Thank you Theresa, and pulled it all out this weekend. I decided to do it at the stove, Steve frowned, but I made sure there was no spillage.

I melted the soap with the lavendar and let it steep to infuse as much of the scent as possible. I loved that the stems turned the soap a light shade of green. I added extra buds to the container so it would be mixed throughout the bar.