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Title: Hello from London :) Post by: Ollieblue on August 28, 2010, 12:28:04 AM Hello all :)
I have seen so many posts to which I'd love to respond but that would be rude as none of you know me! So here goes with my introduction and I look forward to participating soon. I have been making soap for a few years now, the first one when I was 14 (I will not tell you how long ago that was!) and also balms and creams etc, for personal use. I just love creating and love spending hours in the bathtub. A very old fashioned girl with bubbles and essential oils occupying my every thought. I 'specialise' in CP, EO's and mostly 'natural' colours. Except for micas. You see, they sparkle. And I can't help myself. All those pretty patterns, dusted tops, swirls and stamps... I am a Mica Magpie. I am gearing up to launching a business soon, I hope. Have just spent every last minute of the past 18 months formulating and trying out new batches and ingredients. I think now I have decided what I'd like to sell as a first line and so now need to go down the routes of certifying my recipe and getting my PIFs in place etc. The fun part, huh? If I can upload a couple of pictures now, I will do. Otherwise, to all of you in the UK, have a lovely Bank Holiday and to everyone else, a great weekend. Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: EJ on August 28, 2010, 12:32:06 AM Hello Ollie, welcome.
Impressive swirls you have there! Please do replies to all those posts which you wanted to 'cos when you've made more posts you get to see more boards. Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Ollieblue on August 28, 2010, 12:33:48 AM oooh? I do? I thought I could see them all. How fun - look forward to it!
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Eva on August 28, 2010, 12:36:02 AM Hello and welcome! :buttrf:
Gorgeous looking soaps. What scents do you have in them? Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: halfabubbleoffplumb on August 28, 2010, 12:46:09 AM Welcome! I see you read some posts about our
Your soaps are beautiful :buttrf: Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Ollieblue on August 28, 2010, 12:57:18 AM Hello and welcome! :buttrf: Gorgeous looking soaps. What scents do you have in them? Hello Eva, well, I'll have to go find my notes as can't remember fully... but something like orange, jasmine and patch in the gold one, the granite one is just a mix of 4 soap gratings including salt soap so it's anyone's guess - at the moment to be honest, it smells like a wet road! And the avocado one with the indented swirl is unscented as it is for my baby niece. Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Ollieblue on August 28, 2010, 01:00:10 AM Welcome! I see you read some posts about our Thank you :) And yes, I figured there'd be a lot of grumbling if I just introduced myself and not my soaps!!!Your soaps are beautiful :buttrf: Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Helen on August 28, 2010, 01:19:47 AM Wet road.... :mwaha:
Ho Ollieblue (you will probably be shortened to OB - is that ok?) Wow! that is a perfect intro, stuff about you and PICS!!! I love them all but that last one really caught my eye. Something about it tells me you really care and that the detail is important to you. What was the very first soap like when you made it (the one when you were 14) and, just got to ask, did you save any of it so that you have that momento? Welcome to the boards and I look forward to chatting with you more around the forum :buttrf: :buttrf: Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Loretta on August 28, 2010, 06:04:39 AM Lovely soaps, the top one is amazing
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: gillsta on August 28, 2010, 06:29:07 AM Hello and welcome. Love your soaps. Hope you can help re thie micas. I have some sitting in my special goodies box. Been a bit scared to use them. :mwaha:
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: polly on August 28, 2010, 07:36:51 AM Hello and welcome - your soaps are lovely, the orange mica one is just gorgeous, lovely swirls :buttrf:
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Denise on August 28, 2010, 07:43:17 AM Hi Ollieblue :hi: welcome to the forum. Lovely soaps, I love the swirls on the last one.
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Avril on August 28, 2010, 09:48:43 AM Hi OB...lovely soaps...
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Ollieblue on August 28, 2010, 10:03:32 AM Good morning all and thank you for your warm welcomes.
Gillsta, don't be afraid of the fairy dust! Practice is half the fun and there's always rebatching :) Helen, my first soap was in class. We used pig fat and that was it. We mixed by hand and of course it took forever. And in it's early stages it looked and smelled like the transluscent glop you find in some public loos. But it fascinated me. We took it way beyond a suitable trace!! And rolled our little experiments into balls. My class mates abandoned theirs but I kept mine in my pocket and washed it away to nothing. And that was it for many years. I satisfied myself with avocado facemasks and olive oil hair conditioners. Does anyone remember the Vogue Book of Beauty? I read that avidly when it came out in the late 70's. I was 11. Had loads of recipes for homemade beauty products. I still have the book. Attention to detail has to some extent been my artistic downfall - my artist friends were always so free with their paintbrushes, so unique with their expressions, whereas I was hell bent on perfecting the last detail that I never really developed a truly individual style. Now with soap, I may have found my niche. The last one, the avocado one, used a mica in oil on a very thinly traced 50% NaOH solution. The balance was between it setting up and allowing for swirls. The weight of the mica gradually sank into the soap as it began to set up, hence the indented swirl. This weekend I plan on making some textured topped treasures! And perhaps another couple of swirls. I will let you know how they turn out. Happy Soaping :) Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Carousel on August 28, 2010, 02:22:16 PM Hello... I love the sparkly gold one
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Honey on August 28, 2010, 02:40:24 PM Welcome Ollie, hope you enjoy it here! Whereabouts are you in London?
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: madpiano on August 28, 2010, 11:08:15 PM Welcome Ollie!! Your soaps look lovely. I have also been making things since I was 14. We didn't have the Vogue Book in Germany, we had Hobbythek instead (still a popular series for German Soap and B&B makers), probably similar.
Whereabouts in London are you? I am in the SE Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Ollieblue on August 29, 2010, 10:05:42 AM I'm in the SW. Funny how things we do as kids come back to haunt us!
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: clairesoaps on August 30, 2010, 08:23:43 PM Hello Ollie, Lovely soaps.
I am a newbie too! Sorry but 'C' decided she 'wanted to reply & do the typing. If only she could work out how to upload our photos. Great soaps . This is a great hobby isn't it. bye, bye, Claire. S Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Suzanne on August 30, 2010, 08:44:30 PM Hello and welcome. Really lovely looking soaps.
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Ollieblue on August 30, 2010, 10:33:16 PM Hello all - thanks. Look forward to chatting more as times goes on.
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: ks196 on August 31, 2010, 08:58:42 AM Hello and welcome Ollieblue, lovely soap pictures thanks, see you on the boards.
Kath Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: retropants on August 31, 2010, 03:55:26 PM Hi Ollie! I am in the burbs of West London! welcome to the pot!
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Ollieblue on August 31, 2010, 04:38:21 PM Pants, just love your name!
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: electrogirl68 on August 31, 2010, 05:01:07 PM Hi Ollie, lovely soaps! :buttrf:
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: retropants on August 31, 2010, 05:12:53 PM tee hee! thanks :buttrf:
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Vanilla on August 31, 2010, 07:54:56 PM Hello & welcome, love your soaps too!
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Hayley on September 02, 2010, 10:10:49 AM Hi Ollie nice to meet you :)
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: lynne on September 03, 2010, 08:39:19 AM Hi Ollie
Welcome - What lovely soaps, another Londoner here - North :) Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Scott on September 03, 2010, 10:52:37 PM A warm welcome to you - and your beautiful soaps :)
Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: Andy on September 05, 2010, 08:09:18 AM Oh, I almost missed you here!...
Beautiful soaps, I love the sparkly one. Title: Re: Hello from London :) Post by: kickisunshine on October 07, 2010, 01:03:29 PM Hello and welcome to this forum
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