There’s shipping to Tokelau and Vanuatu but not Japan?
Soaps look amazing tho
Just keep them out of reach for toddlers, right? Right?
I need soap in my life
Well you’re in luck because I got it (and sell it!) in spades! Also I love your username lol
I AM THE CLIT COMMANDER AND I WANT MY BALLS TO SMELL LIKE COTTON CANDY
these look sicknasty. 🤙
They’re to dye for
Oh good, you’re in a different market so you aren’t competing with my mom :P
What do you use for colors? They’ve very vibrant and I know it’s hard to get those reds and blues without fading or staining.
Thank you! Does your mom make soap too?
I use micas and pigments dispersed in sunflower oil. I use proper ratios and a lower superfat to make sure they don’t stain. I also make color blends as I have an art background so instead of buying every shade under the sun I try and mix my own! I test everything myself first to make sure nothing stains and other than some tinted lather (Vaporwave has a beautiful periwinkle blue lather!) I haven’t had it stain my skin or shower 😊
Yeah she’s been selling as a hobby for like 25 years, she got started because typical commercial scents and dyes didn’t play nice with her skin. So she mostly uses natural pigments like clays and oxides and mica. It makes the more saturated colors hard to get (but the earthy stuff plays well in the Seattle market and her business is as big as she wants it to be, so not a lot of pressure to change beyond pure hobby fun).
Nice work! I love homemade stuff
Wait, you are making your own soap? Like in your house? I am very curious how this is done. Does it need special machinery?
Yep! You don’t need literal machinery other than a stick blender (stainless steel, NOT aluminum because lye and aluminum aren’t friends) and sturdy plastic (lye will etch away at glass over time and cause it to break) to mix everything in. It’s a lot like cooking but some of the bowls and things used need to be a bit more specific (and NOT used for cooking afterwards!)
Okay this is actually fascinating. Since your reply I’ve been doing some Googling… I’d always thought making soap was a difficult / expensive / complex process that required a lab, special equipment, etc. Like if you look at the ingredients for any soap off the shelf there’s always a bunch of chemical stuff and I always assumed it was some complex interaction between them that makes you clean. Then you say all you need is a blender.
Turns out it’s all just some variant of ‘lye, fat, oil, dye, fragrance’. And the lye gets mixed with something else so they don’t have to call it lye. I feel I’ve been lyed to my whole life </bad pun>.So thank you for opening my eyes to something fascinating that I didn’t know existed yesterday :) I may actually try making soap at some point.
Two questions if I may–
First- for the colors, I assume you prepare two or more batches of the soap liquid, and then layer them in the mold with a small stir. How do you get the honeycomb effect on the oatmeal/milk/honey flavor?
Second- I once was gifted a bar of ‘fancy soap’ that looked similar to yours with larger blocks of solid color, but the different colors all seemed to dissolve at slightly different rates and didn’t adhere together well. Within 2 showers it had fallen apart. How do you prevent that when making soap?
Ha, loved the Aurora one, clicked on it:
Welp, geography isn’t our friend today. Good luck with sales though, maybe if I ever manage to get a group together I’ll order some too.
UGH, I know and I don’t blame you. Etsy sets the shipping prices on my profile. I want to delve more into shipping costs and how I can save people money because that’s just ridiculous!
Oh hell no. Reddit? Reddit!?!
Yep, that’s how I found Lemmy because Reddit banned my old roommate years ago and now every time I try to make an account it gets banned too. Reddit is dumb and they keep shooting themselves in the foot with this crap, but hey I got some good sales out of it 🤷🏻♀️
Reddit is dumb and they keep shooting themselves in the foot with this crap
Agreed. Sadly I think their management has lost the plot.
Imagine you’re a city mayor, and the more people live in your city the more you get paid. You probably start out trying to build a utopia, but then there’s a slippery slope of ‘well option A is more resident-friendly, but option B will mean more people move in’ and you start with one or two of those because nobody will notice and after a while it becomes a mindset that’s part of every decision process- ‘how will this affect our population?’
Reddit, Facebook/Meta, Twitter, Discord, TikTok, all doing it.
I got banned for mentioning Lemmy too often. Glad you are here.
Bummer, can’t use Etsy.
why
No account.
IIRC you can check out as a guest
I wanted to order something, but 32 euros shipping cost for 1 and 43 for 2 is major sad face… It looks amazing! Palm free and vegan is also what I like. Keep up the good work!
Ugh I know, shipping is ridiculous in general, even within the US! Thank you though, your support still means a lot to me 😊
I fucking hate these kinds of soap because I always feel an intense need to eat them.
With that out of the way these look amazing keep up the great work.
Thank you! I call them “forbidden fudge” 😉 lol
…can one do this with fudge!?
I haven’t tried but you probably could in a limited capacity (more simple swirls and things like that)
Yes, they look like psychedelic taffy.
Most of the time I see these handmade soaps at a display I pick one up to smell it, and it is instantly amazing. For a second it makes me wish we had Smell-o-Vision monitors, but then someone would just find a way to dutch oven the rest of us and I realize afresh what a truly shitty idea that is. But I’d have it for your soaps.
Well done, OP.
Dutch oven the rest of us lol!!
Thank you, that’s so kind of you to say! They all smell wonderful and I try my best to describe the scents in the listings 😊
New Rick rolls would be just that…
The covers would never lift again, lol
I wonder if there are there any active fediverse communities where people share their handmade works they make like this. I’d love it if you kept posting your work.
Wren on my instance has an alchemist art guild community where they share various fun stuff. They got me to make paper from junk mail recently.
Thank you! I had to look up what the fediverse was, and now that I know I may need to make some socials on some “fed” accounts! I found Lemmy because Reddit keeps banning any account I make for some reason, so I came here. I’d love to expand more into the Fediverse and I definitely won’t stop sharing what I make!
I mention it because lemmy is very anti advertising, even for self plugging hand made crafts. Ultimately I’d love a community where we can support small artists.
I think that’s a great idea! It’s nearly impossible find genuine stuff these days, so an instance like that would really fill a need
Stick around, we’re better than Reddit. If you want a twitter-like experience, check out Mastodon, Pixelfed ≈ IG, and they’re both a part of the fediverse (you’d need to create accounts on each platform, but one can follow another).
You can use your current account to post/reply on any server/instance.
Yeah that’s one thing I don’t super understand with the fediverse and Lemmy is the servers/instances. It reminds me of how 4chan operated and I never fully understood that either lol. I’m sure I’ll figure it out! I just wanna share the soap and other things I make with anyone and everyone!
Okay here’s the primer.
Think of email. Email is based on a protocol called SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). Anyone can run their own SMTP server and thus participate in the wider world of email. Or you can use somebody else’s server- companies like Google (gmail) and Microsoft (outlook.com) and others run public email servers you can make your home on.
If you want to make your own SMTP server you don’t need anyone else’s permission to do it. Your domain name (@whatever.com) tells other servers how to connect to your server. That concept is called federation- that the email servers can talk to each other.
In contrast to that, you have something like Reddit. Reddit is a monolithic system- only Reddit Inc runs the servers. You can’t host your own Reddit server and if you could there’s no way to link it with the rest of Reddit. Same with other platforms like Facebook, Twitter/X, etc. Discord too- they call their instances ‘servers’ but in reality it’s all ran by them, you can’t host your own Discord server on your own hardware.
With that in mind, a lot of smart people looked at this and saw a problem- with monolithic systems, the entire community is essentially hostage to the whims of the host company. So if Facebook decides to sell all your data or start charging, there’s not much you can do short of leaving and then you can’t participate in Facebook anymore. OTOH, if your email host decides to get shitty, you can just move to another email host. So it is understood among many tech people that while federated systems are harder to build and maintain, they are more beneficial for the public because they avoid any single points of control.
Thus, you have Lemmy. Lemmy operates like Reddit in terms of functionality, but it operates like email. You’ll notice that every user has a domain name after their username-- like you’re @TheArtfulLlama**@lemmy.zip**. Lemmy.zip is the ‘instance’ (aka server) you happened to register on. You can choose any of them or make your own. As you can see I’m @SirEDCaLot**@lemmy.today**-- lemmy.today is the instance I registered on. I could register @siredcalot@lemmy.zip and that would be totally different than @siredcalot@lemmy.today, much in the same way that the email address DaveJones@outlook.com isn’t the same as DaveJones@gmail.com.
On the back end, each server hosts communities (aka subreddits) created by its users, and makes those communities available to all others on other servers. You posted this to the community !imadethis@lemmy.zip (that’s a community, note the ! rather than @ for the username tag). So lemmy.zip server is hosting this comment thread. When I reply here, I’ve got lemmy.today open in my browser and I see this post. So when I hit reply, my instance will send my reply to your instance. And thus it all works :)
On Lemmy, different instances have different rules and policies. For example some openly permit posting pornography and gore, others require trigger warnings on potentially triggering words. So if you’re going to create a Lemmy community, make sure it fits within the rules of your home instance. Your home instance policies DON’T apply to what you visit through them-- for example if lemmy.zip disallows porn, that doesn’t stop you from going to to a porn community on another instance.
Hope that helps!
searches lemmyverse.net
Neither appears to be getting much traffic at the moment.
Yeah, this would be too niche to have something atm. It would need to be an artisan community where people would post handmade crafts you can purchase.
