'HIMALAYAN'

Хималајската сол е нешто релативно ново на овие простори. Како луѓето се повеќе се свртуваат кон здравата исрхана, се повеќе откриваат и нови артикли кои ги воведуваат во секојдневниот живот.

Јас хималајската сол ја воведов и во сапуните!

Да не навлегуваме во сите бенефити кои можеме да ги искористиме од ова сол, ќе се задржиме само на нејзините дејствиа на кожата.

Хималајската сол е богата со дури 84 минерали, меѓу кои и калциум, бакар, магнезиум, калиум и железо. Таа е позната по своите терапевтски способности да ја подобрува циркулацијата, да ги одстранува токсините и да го отпушта телото. Поседува моќ на прочистување и подмладување на кожата, а заради минералите во неа, не ја исушува ниту сувата кожа.

До сега сигурно сте имале барем еднаш некој проблем со кожата, можеби со сува ,перутава, или со мрсна кожа, склона кон акни.  Како стареете, почнувате да го приметувате недостатокот на еластичност на кожата, која за последница има појавување на фини линии, а оваа сол е одлична и како дел од anti-aging терапијата. За хималајската сол се вели дека помага кај проблеми, како што се екцеми, акни и псоријаза. Исто така, делува антибактериски и антивоспаллувачки. 

Благодарејќи на нејзините компоненти, масажата со Хималајската сол помага да се ослободат штетните супстанци и отрови од целото тело. Исто така, ја стимулира секрецијата на вишокот вода од лигаментите, така што помага да не се  наталожуваат штетни  материи и целулит, додека порите и кожата стануваат поцврсти, појаки, поздрави, и тоа на потполно природен начин.

Бидејќи ја подобрува циркулацијата, сапунот со Хималајска сол ја омекнува грубата кожа на рацете, лактовите, стопалата и може да служи како фантастичен помошен третман при зајакнувањето на ѕидовите на вените.

Покрај сите бенефити од Хималајската сол, овој сапун содржи поголема количина на ши путер и кокосово млеко, кој ќе ве негува и хидрира.

Како да го користете 'Himalayan':

Првен, добро напарете се под туш со топла вода 20-25 секунди, за да ви се отворат порите.

Натријте го сапунот помеѓу раце и со рацете истријте се.

Ако кожата некаде ви е испукана, или избричена, не го нанесувајте 'Himalayan'.

Првото чувство на солен сапун е пецкање на кожата. Тоа чувство ќе се изгуби за  2до 5 минути. Кожата се ослободува од токсините, а тоа  вие го чувстувате како пецкање. Со понатамошното користење на сапунот, ќе се изгуби секаков вид на пецкање. 

Овој сапун го направив во три форми, а срцињата ќе бидат поклон за моите читатели на блогот и фановите на страницата. Затоа, бидете тука и следете не, за да не ја пропуштите прилика да пробате овој единствен сапун!

Поздрав до сите и имајте убава работна недела!

I have made my first salt bar. I choose to try Pink Himalayan Salt,not only for its benefits, but also for its colour. I didn't wanted to add neither colours, nor scents, but I couldn't resist adding some f.o. only to these flower-shaped soaps. Those I will keep for myself.

This salt I bought is, as you can see, finely ground, what I really like. I think it would be too coarse for skin, if it wasn't, considering its amount in this bar (75%). 

I've been so curious about salt bars, as many people are so delighted with them and use them on regular, daily basis. I know some of you like them a lot, so I wanted to check myself what makes them so special.  I also have read that they are excellent for dry and even sensitive skin, for eczema, psoriasis and other skin disorders. 

So, I decided to give those little hearts away to those who have problems like these and  where the salt bar might help. I count on these lovely properities Pink Himalayn salt provides, as a great source of minerals. It improves blood circulation and it can be used for strengthening walls of blood vessels. And the most interesting, it is used as a part of anti-aging treatments.

The only three oils & butters I used for this soap, are: coconut, shea butter and castor oil. Also, this soap is with coconut milk, for extra bubbles and creaminess. I will let it cure for few months at least, but I know I will try it much sooner. The best results are obtained within six to twelve months, though! 

What do you think and feel about salt bars,what are your experiences? Looking forward to hearing from you!

Thanks for reading and have a nice working week!

Состав / Ingredients: Сапонифицирани масла/ Saponified oils - Кокосово (Sodium Cocoate), Ши путер (Sodium Shea Butterate), Рицинусово (Sodium Castorate), кокосово млеко, розева хималајска сол (Pink Himalayan Salt) 

Get your body ready for summer!

I just wanted to share with you what I've been up to lately!

In case you don't have a fb profile, or you've missed my recent posts, you can take a look here

First I made new batch of whipped shea body butter. I'd had this order from quite long back

Then, I just thought it would be great to make some sugar scrubs,as a giveaway to my loyal customers. I've made them before, but for the first time, I used my own CP soap. It was so fun, simple and quick and I think it complements this butter,or a soap (or both) just perfectly. After having them unmoulded and cut, I rolled them into extra sugar, making them to look like jellybones we have here (I adore those jellies). 

Do you know this recipe 1-2-3? 1 part of oil, 2 of soap, 3 of sugar! Could it be simplier?

I made three separate batches. In the third I added activated charcaol, not only for colour, but for detoxification effect, too (the black one is in the right upper corner on the last photo). I was eager to try one, so headed to take a bath with my new cube the very first evening. My skin really loved it. The extra oil  (olive and almond) the cubes contain is so moisturizing and left my skin so smooth and baby soft.

We have holidays here, starting from tomorrow, up to Tuesday (tomorrow is interntional holiday, May Day - Labour Day and just afterewards it's Othodox Church Easter), so I have decided to make a special offer with these cubes for everyone who would buy a soap these days. 

Any soap goes with a cube!

Now, all these goodies make a wonderful Care Trio!

What do you think?

Do you like sugar scrub cubes and what is your favorite non-soap product to make and use?

Have a nice day!

World Soap Challenges- Final Week

Hello everyone!

We're done with Amy's challenges for this year! 

I enjoyed these challenges for so many reasons, but the most valuable is that I had a chance to discover some soap artists I hadn't known before. So, thanks Amy for organizing this year's fun for all of us. I believe you enjoyed, too, but yet, you were the one who had to prepare  a new video every week, new instructions and afterwards to visit everyone's blog or page and encourage everyone of us.

Let me say first I feel I didn't give my best (though, it's not that I was not trying), but every new batter brings me another risk, I almost never work without surprises, lol.

This week's challenge was something I had tried before (you can see my first 'Leo' soap  here), but I can say this one gave me the headache the most. Ok, let's start!

The First batch:  "Hey yellow, where are you???"

I still don't know what happend here!? For my not-meant-to be yellow, I used yellow oxide, and that puzzles me even more!? The inner spots were piped, the outer scooped with a spoon.

Ok, this is a nice soap loaded with shea butter and avocado oil! Liquid used- Whey! I think this will be great nourishing bar. But, for this challenge- it's just not what is was supposed to be!

The Second batch: I'm not giving up and rolling my sleeves up again! Now I opted for green, as basic colour and kiwi fragrance. I was considering adding poppy seeds into the base to give it more kiwi look, but gave it up in the last second, thinking it would be maybe too much. Now, I think I should have gone with poppy, it would have been charming. This time I left my piping bags behind and tried pouring with spoons. One teaspoon, the other one was smaller. Let's see what I ended up with

WHAT??? Now, I'm furious! What the heck has happend here?

I think I know. My 'spots' portion were unfragranced and stayed so perfectly smooth and middle-traced all way long. On the other hand, my base portion, was fragranced and was slowly setting up. I think that this thicker, basic portion pressed the thiner leyers underneath and made them spread. By the way, this soap has a lots of ash! But, the ingredients are fab, so much cocoa and shea butter! Whey again for whole liquid amount!

And the Final one: New ride, guys! New colours, new method, sweet almond oil in place of butters and goats milk for liquid . Oooh dear, it soaped fantastically! This time I took two piping bags (zip bags,actually) and cut their corners as little, as I could.! Unmoulded, not cut:

Don't ask me how I ended up with NO ash on tops!!? I have no idea,but  I'm glad I did! 

And what I have found inside:

Not bad this time! I still can complain about this one (my spots should have been placed differently), but boy,  I must say I am so tired of this leopard design, I'm not going to repeat it soon again! I really need some rest ! I love these colours and no ash on tops. Do you think ash is related to butters amount in the batter? This one is without any, unlikely the previous one, which contained  both cocoa and shea butters and have had so much of ash!

I'm going to take more pics of this one and will update this post later, so if you wanna check it out, you're welcome. Or, have you had enough of my 'leopard spots' for this year?

Thank you for visiting my blog and please leave a comment! Don't be shy to express your thoughts on my first attempts! ...And hope to see you all sooner than next year's challenges!

Take care!

Updated: As I promised earlier, I took some more pictures (I adore soap porn), so here they are:

Состав ('Manmma Tiger') / Ingredients: Сапонифицирани масла/ Saponified oils - Маслиново (Sodium olivate), Кокосово (Sodium Cocoate), Палмино (Sodium palmate), Рицинусово (Sodium Castorate), Авокадово (Sodium avocadate), Ши путер (Sodium Shea Butterate),  Сурутка (Whey), пигменти (pigments), мирис (fragrance).

Состав ('Papa Tiger') / Ingredients: Сапонифицирани масла/ Saponified oils - Маслиново (Sodium olivate), Кокосово (Sodium Cocoate), Палмино (Sodium palmate), Рицинусово (Sodium Castorate), Масло од маслодајна репка (Sodium Canolate), Ши путер (Sodium Shea Butterate),  Какао путер (Sodium Cocoa Butterate), Сурутка (Whey), Активен јаглен (activated charcoal),пигменти (pigments), мирис (fragrance).

Состав ('Baby Tiger') / Ingredients: Сапонифицирани масла/ Saponified oils - Маслиново (Sodium olivate), Кокосово (Sodium Cocoate), Палмино (Sodium palmate), Рицинусово (Sodium Castorate), Ладно цедено сончогледово (Sodium Sunflowerate),  Бадемово (Sodium almondate), Козјо млеко (Goat milk), пигменти (pigments), мирис (fragrance).

'DIVA SOAP' ships anywhere!

This might be a great news for all fans of natural, handmade, artisan,unique soaps!

Now, you can, at great price, get our soaps and treat yourself with divine bath products!

To make this offer is something I had been contemplating earlier, but when a customer from Spain found this blog, I suppose, accidentally and ask for soaps, I realized I should enable the option for customers, no matter where they are from, to buy my products.

 If you would like to purchase any of our soaps, we can deliver them straight to you!

Flat shipping rates for all European countries (except France, which requires air mailing, but usually, small packages can go through). The rates are the same for the whole world, if you opt for traditional transport means (not airmail). However, the airmail is not included here and it costs much more, depends on destination.

Packages shipped to Europe gets their destination within a week:

1. Up to .250 kg (two soaps) - 5 EUR
2. Up to .500 kg (four soaps)- 7.5 EUR

I highly recommend ordering two or four soaps, so your total cost per soap could be lower.

Each soap is 3 EUR, but I make special offerings:

1. If you order 2 soaps, you'll get discounted 1 EUR, so you'll get your soaps for 10 EUR total. And even better,
2. If you order package of four, you will get discounted 2 EUR (2.5 EUR per soap). So, for 17.5 EUR total, you can get 4 wonderful, natural, unique, handamde soaps! Isn't it great! 

This is a promotional offer, as we have realized that many European customers have been wondering how they can get our soaps. To get started our shipping abroad successfully, we have decided to make our soaps more affordable for anyone who would like to have them. As our motto says: 'A touch of Diva's care for anyone'!

Payment method: PAY-PAL
We ship your goodies right after receiving your payment (the same day, or day after)

To set up an order with 'Diva Soap', please visit our Facebook page -link is on the blog (if you don't have a Facebook profile, you can write me a mail on diva.handmade.soap@gmail.com) and check the soap availability in our 'Моментално доступни сапауни-  Available soaps' album, so you make sure the soap you like is in stock!

If you have any questions, please, feel free to ask. 

'Forest Wind'

Новиот сапун за мажи!

Се уверив дека мажите, иако помалку ги купуваат природните сапуни, многу добро знааат што сакаат. Или, поточно кажано, што им одговата. Се трудам постојано да имам неколку видови на машки сапуни и навистина бргу останувам без нив.

Овој сапун е направен поради  размената која штотуку ја завршивме, а с оглед на тоа дека во неа учествуваше и еден маж, јас овој го сапун направив за него. Првиот примерок отиде за Хрватска! Вито, се надевам дека уживаш во сапунот!

Сапунот содржи јогурт и со оглед на тоа дека содржи само пет масла, најдобрите од нив се и во најголем процент. Овој сапун обилува со какао путер, што го чини нежен и погоден за сите типови на кожа.
Мириса.....многу добро. Има јаки, машки ноти на шума, на свежина, па така си го доби името. На сите што го помирисале многу им се допадна. А и на мене, морам да признаам.

Следниот сапунски пост ќе биде посветен на World Soap Challenges 2013, а потоа следат преубави прикази за сапуните од целиот свет. Имаме од Франција и Хрватска, а Ксенија од СенМи (Холандија) беше многуууу дарежљива и ми прати пак два нови преубави сапуни (ох Ксенчи, ти должам за ова, ама ќе ми платаш за ова збрка,хи,хи).

Затоa, STAY TUNED!

Ви благодарам што го читате 'Diva Soap' блог !

Состав / Ingredients: Сапонифицирани масла/ Saponified oils - Маслиново (Sodium olivate), Кокосово (Sodium Cocoate), Палмино (Sodium palmate), Рицинусово (Sodium Castorate), Какао путер (Sodium Cocoa Butterate), јогурт, козметички пигменти, мирис (fragrance).

I'm trying to have in stock at least one man soap. They seem to care about what they wash up with and really appreciate when find something it works for them.

This one was made intentionally, for the swap I had mentioned before, because one of the participants was a man. So, the first piece of this one went to Croatia!

It contains yogurt, as a half part of liquid needed and cocoa butter at generous percentage.

Colours are pigments and TD.  Fragrance is typical masculine type, fresh, strong it reminds me of  deep forest,really, really good! Any man must like it!

Thanks for reading, hopefully I'll soap tomorrow to make my envisioned 'leopard' soap come true!

World Soap Challenges- Week Three

I'm maybe the last one to post on this (I mean third) week challenge!

But, better late, than never,right?
(Edited: I just don't know how I could forget to link this post) If you want to see what others made for this third week, here's the link of Amy's page!  You will find, as usual, so many beautiful creations there!

This soap has collected nearly 90 likes on FB page 'Soaper's Retreat' by now!

I never guessed it would be like this, but now you will see why!

The mica swirled tops are totally put astray here!

But before I show you an interesting picture, let's see the mica swirled top

first:

Wet soap and...

...cut

Now, time to reveal what has drown everyone's attention:

Do you see faces here?

Take another look!

I was suggested on 'Soaper's Retreat' page to put it on E-bay for an auction! Funny, I never thought of this and I have no idea how to do that! Some say this soap price would rocket!  I don't know what to think.

When I cut it, I wasn't even excited about the way it looked. Not even when I sow these faces. But, many seem to think differently. Now, I'm more confident about its look.

I have only three of these, others are more like these two (on the right and behind):

They are fine,I like them, they just are not faces!

What a lucky accident! After so many not-so- lucky ones, I guess it was my turn to discover unexpected and yet, pleasent look of soap!

Ok, just have to tell that this soaps contains goats milk 100% , for colorants were used nettle and pumpkin puree (the orange portion is swirled with green) and rosemary-peppermint essential oil blend.

Thanks for reading and please, feel free to leave a comment!

Does this face scare you? Looks creepy to you, maybe?

'Be careful, somebody is watching you from your shower'!!!

See you next week,guys!

Состав / Ingredients: Сапонифицирани масла/ Saponified oils -  Маслиново (Sodium olivate), Кокосово (Sodium Cocoate), Палмино (Sodium palmate), Рицинусово (Sodium Castorate), Ладно цедено сончогледово (Sodium Sunflowerate), Козјо млеко (Goats milk), Какао путер (Sodium Cocoa Butterate),пире од тиква, пире од коприва, титаниум- диоксид (titanium- dioxide), етерични масла од рузмарин и нане (rosemary and peppermint essential oils)

"Let's twist"

Иако сеуште немам направено сапун за третата недела од 'Soap Challenge 2013' (затоа што бев на пат), денес ви представувам еден сапун, направен пред повеќе од еден месец. Зошто не го прикажав порано?
Затоа што овој сапун настана за една посебна пригода. Покрај 'Captured', сапунот со цветчиња внатре, ова е вториот, кој што отпатува за Хрватска и Франција, како дел од сапунската размена со сапунџиите од тие земји. Не сакав да го представам порано во јавност, поради тоа што сакав да почекам сите да ги добијат своите примероци, како изненадувањето за нив би било ефектно. Сега, кога знам дека е стигнат на своите дестинации, ви го представувам:

Сапунот е наменет за сува кожа, бидејќи содржи поголем процент од вообичаеното, масла кои негуваат. Само од путерите и рицинусовото масло, овој сапун содржи повеќе од 20%. Од путерите, тука се и ши и какао путерот, а ова е еден од ретките сапуни кои што содржат висок процент на рицинусово масло (покрај 'Miss Karota Leo' и 'Honey Soldier', нпр).

Сапунот е обоен со пигменти и мике, а мирисот ќе ве разнежи со бебешки мирисни ноти. Со неговата нежна структура на масла, на секое бебе ќе му биде благотоврно за неговата кожа, а да потоа не морате дополнително да го мачкате со лосиони или масла.
Се надевам дека ќе им се допадне на сите учесници во оваа размена, а јас за се ќе ве информирам кога ќе пристигнат моите пакети.

Пред тоа, морам да се ангажирам за да ја направам мојата визија за сапун, на зададената тема од минатата недела на 'Soap Chalenge 2013'!

Поздрав и негувајте се со здрави меурчиња и здрави путери!

Состав / Ingredients: Сапонифицирани масла/ Saponified oils - Маслиново (Sodium olivate), Кокосово (Sodium Cocoate), Палмино (Sodium palmate), Рицинусово (Sodium Castorate), Какао путер (Sodium Cocoa Butterate), Ши путер (Sodium Shea Butterate), Сончогледово (Sodium Sunflowerate), пигменти и мике (pigments, mica), мирис (fragrance).

No, this one is not part of  'Soap Challenge 2013'. I came back home last night after ten days of being away and my 'Mica Swirl' soap's still awaiting to be made. I suppose I will manage to make it these days.
This soap was made a month ago and was one of two ('Captured'  is the second one) that I had prepared for the swap which involved 4 other participants from 3 countries. I was waiting for their confirmation that my packages arrived on their destinations, so I could write this post. Some of them had already seen 'Captured' before they received it, so I wanted this one to be а surprise for all.
This soap is another one of mine that is meant to be 'conditioning over cleansing' bar. It contains more than 20% of butters& castor oil and I'm really looking forward to testing its conditioning properties. I believe, my baby is, too, because she  loves soaps soooo much.

Thanks for reading, hopefully you'll be hearing form me soon again, my 'Mica Swirl' is still to come!