How to make Christmas decorations with Melt & Pour
The festive season is upon us, and there's no better way to celebrate than making some Christmas soaps! These adorable star decorations will festoon your tree- until you need to wash your hands! They also make a perfect handmade gift for loved ones.
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How to make a charcoal shaving soap
In honour of Movember, we've made these refreshing peppermint shaving soaps- the perfect gift for the moustachioed gentleman in your life. With added kaolin clay, glycerin and a gently exfoliating charcoal embed, this bar produces thick velvety suds that are perfect for shaving, especially when used with a shaving brush.
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Autumn Spice & Sweet Orange Natural Liquid Soap
As the nights close in and the wind gets chilly, cosy up with this autumn spiced sweet orange soap. Made with our Liquid 105 soap base, this recipe is easy to make and can be made organic. Tip: If you soap base goes hazy, make sure to keep mixing and then leave overnight, as most haziness will clear up.
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How to make Marbled Spiced Fig Loaf Soap
Autumn is well and truly here- so to ward off the chilly weather with this soothing and aromatic Spiced Fig soap. Made with our Crystal Oatmeal and Shea soap base, this bar is soothing and luxurious to keep dry winter skin at bay.
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How to Make Whipped Coconut Body Butter
Make the most of the last few weeks of summer with the tropical scents of this nourishing coconut body butter. Our body butter base uses shea and cocoa butter to soothe and hydrate the skin, leaving the indulgent and fresh scent of coconut lingering afterwards.
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How to Make Gardener's Soap
With all this glorious weather, it's the perfect time to get stuck in with some gardening! Learn how to make this exfoliating soap bar to scrub off mud and dirt, made with Crystal Cucumber Carrot and Aloe soap base, with added pumice, scented with Lemon and Rosemary essential oil.
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How to Make Solid Shampoo
Reducing your plastic waste is a great way to do your bit for the environment. Learn to make this solid shampoo bar with our Crystal Solid Shampoo base, reducing the need for shampoo bottles! We've added nourishing macadamia nut oil and fragrant coconut to this hand-sized bar for clean and happy hair.
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How to make sleepy time lotion using Easy Lotion Base [video recipe]
Learn how to make a sleepy lotion with our Easy Lotion Base, with lavender, cedarwood and orange essential oils.
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How to make a ‘soap-cake’
It's time to treat yourself and others and the perfect way to do it is with soap cupcakes video recipe.
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How to make a Valentine's soap with embedded hearts [video recipe]
Share the love with this recipe for an embedded hearts soap! This soap makes a great gift for loved ones. The slightly more complex recipe requires some understanding of soap layering and embeds, so make sure to watch the video if you are unsure.
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How to make an almond soap with Crystal Donkey Milk
Soap away that winter dry skin with this ultra-moisturizing soap bar. With a luxurious Crystal Donkey Milk base and added almond oil, this formulation is a treat for the skin. This soap also has ground almonds throughout, which when mixed with water, produce almond milk, a soothing and moisturising liquid, rich in Vitamin E.
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How to make a Crystal OPC English Rose sugar scrub
Feeling the love? Have a floral fling with this whipped, foamy, English Rose sugar scrub, made with Crystal OPC.
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How to make Holly Jolly Festive Soap
Ready for Christmas? It'll be here before you know it, so get ready with this festive recipe for yourself or as a great gift for family and friends.
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How to make Orange Zest Autumnal Easy Lotion
Rich in Vitamin E, Easy Lotion Base is simple to process with only the addition of colour, fragrance and essential oils needed to make a beautiful finished product.
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How to create spooky halloween pumpkin soaps
With Halloween on the horizon, we’re preparing some spooky soaps to keep your Halloween theme consistent throughout the household!
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How to create lavender and eucalyptus Soap Bars using Crystal Oatmeal and Shea
The mystical art of Melt and Pour swirling is a tricky technical art to master but with patience and practice it can be achieved!
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How to Make Lemon & Bergamot Scrub Soap Bars
Our resident in-house crafter, Tim, shows us how to make Lemon & Bergamot scrub soap bars. Keeping up with consumer trends is key to expand your range and be successful despite declining bar soap sales.
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How to Make Vanilla and Marshmallow Scented Body Butter
This Vanilla and Marshmallow Body Butter recipe is easy and fun to make! Follow the steps on the video to create your very own luxurious body butter that will smell good enough to eat!
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How to create Christmas Cup Cake Soaps using Crystal Shea and Crystal OPC
Our Christmas elves have been busy experimenting with some festive soap creations this week! Here we show you how to create a Crystal Shea and Crystal OPC Foaming Bath Butter christmas cupcake!
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How to create Festive Soap slices
Our resident lean mean christmas crafting machine Tim has been busy away in his studio conjuring up new recipes for over the festive period. Today he shows us how to create some Festive Soap slices using Crystal Shea, Crystal HCVS and Crystal OPC.
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How to Create a Festive Foaming Bath Butter using Crystal OPC
Our third installment in our trilogy of Christmas recipes shows you how to make this DIY Faoming Bath Butter recipe.
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How to Make Honey & Grapefruit Soap
To celebrate the launch of our new Crystal Honey Melt & Pour soap base, we've created a fun and effective recipe to make Honey and Grapefruit soap!
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How to Make Cosmic Galaxy Soap
Swirling is one of the toughest soap techniques to get right, but looks so beautiful when done right! After seeing several wonderful examples of cosmic galaxy soap online, thought we'd give it a try.
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Recipe: How to Make Pumpkin, Skull and Spider Soaps... Oh My!
With Halloween fast approaching, we thought we'd share a few of our favourite spooky recipes with you. Fantastic for an alternative treat for trick-or-treaters, you'd best get started now.
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How to Make a Cleansing Oil using Durosoft
This formulation takes you through a step-by-step processing guide on creating a cleansing oil using Durosoft.
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How to make Triple Butter Swirl Soap
Anna-Laure Parkinson takes us through the tips and tricks of how to make fabulous Triple Butter Swirl Soaps!
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HOW TO MAKE SHAMPOO FOR DRY HAIR
When it comes to shampoo, one size does not fit all. Different ingredients will add different benefits to our premium shampoo base, meaning you can create an entire haircare range suitable for all hair types from one base.
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HOW TO MAKE A SHAMPOO FOR GREASY HAIR
Some shampoos for greasy hair contain a lot of harsh chemicals that strip the natural grease from your hair. This shampoo recipe uses Tea Tree oil to help naturally remove grease from your hair, leaving your hair soft and shiny, as well as smelling great too.
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How to create Mocha and Oatmeal Soap Slices
Yvonne Mcintosh has been busy creating more fantastic recipes. This week she shares with us how to create scrumptious and creative mocha soaps using Crystal Oatmeal and Shea. Be warned, these are so realistic that you will need a ‘Caution, do not eat!’ sign!
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How to make Frozen Princess Soaps
Yvonne is our most recent Soapologist to join our blog programme here at Stephenson Personal Care. In her first post with us, Yvonne shares with us how to make Frozen Princess Soaps! This is a really easy recipe for all ages and abilities and can be made in 7 simple steps. It makes a great gift for kids and adults who love the Disney movie.
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How to make Igneous Rocks
Our friends over at Orestis Craft Center have been busy creating some crafty recipes to share with our #soapandshare community! Here they show us how to create some beautiful Igneous Rocks.
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DIY Lotion with Easy Lotion Base
Creating lotions isn't always an easy task. We knew this when developing our Easy Lotion Base which is why we set out to create a simple, quality lotion base. Rich in Vitamin E and made using Sun Flower Oil, our Easy Lotion Base has a light velvety texture that leaves the skin feeling silky. Gabby shares with us some simple steps in making your own personal lotions.
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How to make DIY Lemon Coconut Shampoo
Gabby's never really been all that interested in products made with organic ingredients until we introduced our Shampoo Base to her. Here she shows us how to make a DIY Lemon Coconut Shampoo.
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How to make Honey Soap bars
Aline is one of our many trusted 'Soapologists' who have their own successful craft/lifestyle blogs and continues to support us here at Stephenson Personal Care by creating fantastic recipes. She's extremely interested in Organic & Natural soap bases, in particular, ones that help with common day to day issues like acne & eczema. Aline shared with us this recent post using Crystal Honey Melt & Pour soap base.
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DIY Body Butter
January, you beast – be GONE! It is howling outside my kitchen window, the rain is lashing against the panes and our boiler will not fire up. Hands up who is ready for February?!
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How to make key chain gemstone soaps
This little gemstone soap on a chain takes that whole “soap on a rope” idea and makes it way, way more chic
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How to make gingerbread man Soap Bars
Today I'm going to share with you how to make easy gingerbread man soap bars in 10 minutes! This is a super quick and easy soap project, and I don't know about you...
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How to make Spooky Spider Halloween Soaps
Happy October! Today I want to share with you how to make a super quick, kid-friendly soap project:
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How to make home made Popsicle Soaps
I love making homemade soaps products for my family and I to enjoy. I wanted to step it up a notch and create these fun Homemade Popsicle Soaps...
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How to make Heavenly Honeysuckle Soaps
Hello friends! I have an awesome soap-making tutorial for you today: Golden Honeysuckle Soap Bars!
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How to make Paper Confetti Soaps
Hello, hello and welcome to another one of my Soap Tutorials to make Paper Confetti Soap! Those of you who know me understand my obsession...
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How to make easy Argan Oil Calendula Soap Bars
Hello Friends! Today I wanted to share with you how to make Argan oil calendula soap—it’s super easy! What is Argan Oil, you ask? Argan oil is derived from the kernels of the Argan tree, which is...
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DIY Coffee and Coconut Soap Sticks
I made these coffee and coconut marbled soap sticks after I had the most fun making my Semi Precious Stone Soaps.
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Make your own Lemon Poppy Seed Triple Butter Soaps
These soap bars are made with Stephenson’s BRAND NEW Crystal Triple Butter soap base, which is infused with mango butter, shea butter, and cocoa butter. It’s divine, let me tell you....
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How to make a Whipped Chocolate Body Butter
Homemade body products are a luxury especially when they contain a delicious helping of chocolate. That’s right ladies today we’re making a Whipped Chocolate Body Butter and it’s amazing.
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How to make a Whipped Spearmint Bath Butter
Homemade Beauty products are always such a special treat and I love having the full and creative power to make my own.
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How to make Earl Grey Tea Soap
I go through phases with my hot beverage of choice. I’ve been on a coffee (decaf only!) kick for quite awhile now, but I’ve been easing my way back into tea. I just love everything about tea...
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How to make Shamrock soaps
It’s time to get in the spirit of St. Patricks Day since it’s coming up right around the corner! These Homemade Shamrock Soap are sure to be a hit in your home.
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How to make semi precious stone soaps
It's probably one of my favourite DIYs to date and that took me by surprise! When Stephenson Personal Care contacted me to collaborate on a project I must admit...
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How to make Handmade Easter Soaps
Easter is one of my favorite holidays and I couldn’t wait to make my very own Homemade Easter Egg Soaps for the kids to enjoy at home.
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How To Make Shower Jellies
First, let me just say that I know every time I try a new Stephenson soap base I tell you it’s my new favorite, but the soap base you’re about to see REALLY IS my new favorite.
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How to make Homemade Vanilla Orange Citrus Soap
I absolutely love the smell of Vanilla and oranges so what better way to bring those scents to my bathroom than by making a Homemade Vanilla Orange Citrus Soap.
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How to make Homemade Rosemary Mint Soap
There is nothing more amazing than homemade products in the home. Today I made up a batch of Rosemary Mint Homemade Soaps that look so gorgeous.
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Valentine’s Day handmade soap gift
Hello, Friends! I thought I would pop in today to share with you a short tutorial on how to make cute Valentine’s Day themed soaps!
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DIY 'Galentines' Day Soap Gift
In honour of Galentines Day coming up, I thought I’d make some little gifts for the special sisters in my life. They are the fellow mamas, the not-yet-mamas, the wild ones, the thoughtful ones...
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How to make Vanilla & Coconut soaps
I’ve been feeling really crafty lately and especially coming up to Christmas. There are so many things you can make yourself that make really nice Christmas gifts, but also really useful things...
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How to make Christmas Tree Soap
Since Christmas is almost upon is, I thought today I would share with you how to make some Christmas-themed soaps using Stephenson’s amazing soap bases!
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How to make Dark Chocolate Soap
Today I had the pleasure of trying out Stephenson Personal Care's Crystal Natural HF soap base, and boy do I love it!
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Making Grapefruit Confetti Soap
Hello, hello and welcome to my second soap tutorial on how to make some lovely confetti soap that smells of refreshing grapefruit. The perfect remedy for those groggy mornings!
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How to make spooky Halloween Soap
Since Halloween is almost upon us, I thought I would share with you all today a short tutorial on how to make your own Halloween-themed soaps!
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Get creative with this DIY Rainbow Soap
This innovative rainbow in a cloud looks very impressive but it's actually very easy to make! This is a two parts project and requires medium skills and some experience in soap making. Still- i...
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Making Lotions using EasyLotion Base
We recently launched our EasyLotion base, ideal for creating a wide range of Lotion products with just a few simple steps. Here Gabby shows you just how to create your own Lotions using EasyLotion...
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How to make a Rustic Carrot, Cucumber & Aloe Vera Soap
Made with Carrot oil, Cucumber seed oil, and Aloe Vera, Our NEW Crystal CCA soap base really takes creative chemistry to the next level.
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Making a Lavender Lotion
I've been working with Stephenson Personal Care to develop DIY soap recipes- they recently asked if I wanted to give their new Easy Lotion a try and I was allllll over it.
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Making soap with Crystal OS
I'm thrilled to be sharing with you today a soap project I made using Stephenson Personal Care's NEW and EXCLUSIVE Crystal Oatmeal and Shea Butter Base...
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How to make Jewel Soaps
As part of our Blog Partner program Natalie from Doodlecraft shows us how to simply create a range of Jewel Soaps using our new SLS and SLES Free Crystal Soap Base... enjoy!
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How to make a Facial Cleansing Soap Bar
Here Ashley Pahl as part of our Blog Program shows you how to create your own Facial Cleansing Soap Bar, in just a few simple steps. Ashley runs a leading craft and DIY blog called She Makes a Home.
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Making Liquid Soap with Liquid Crystal Concentrate
Today I am going to share with you how to use Stephenson's Liquid Crystal Concentrate to make a batch of moisturizing liquid hand soap in under 10 minutes!
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How to make Snow Soap Slices
We show you how to make a 'snow' topped soap slice stack. Great for family and friends over the Festive season.
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How to make a Mint & Green Tea Sugar Scrub
A quick and easy soap making tutorial, we show you how to make a Mint and Green Tea Sugar Scrub using our fantastic Foaming Bath Butter base, enjoy!
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How to Make Soap & Win Prizes with AO at Home
Make Soap & Win Prizes. We teamed up with our friends over at AOatHome, the lifestyle blog of market-leading retailer ao.com to launch an exciting soap making competition.
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How to make Sweet Coconut Exfoliating soap bars
We show you how to simply and quickly create wonderfully Sweet Coconut Exfoliating soap bars right here.
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How to make Cinnamon & Coffee ReBatch Soap
Here we show you how to transform our new ReBatch Base into some beautiful Cinnamon & Coffee rustic soap bars. Simple easy and totally natural it's time to Grate and Bake!
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How to Make an Aloe Vera & Mint Soap
Trying out a new craft is always daunting! "What happens if this all goes pear-shaped?” I keep asking myself... But you never know until you try!
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How to make a Zesty Fresh Lemon Scented Soap
Try and catch the last of summer with this fabulously simple zesty fresh soap making recipe.
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How to make a Beautiful Soap Gift
We totally love this soap making recipe, its simple, and so effective. This soap making tutorial is perfect as a small gift for Mother's day, Birthdays, but also makes a fun Handmade wedding favour.
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How to make Jasmine and Dead Sea Salt Soap!
In this soap making recipe we show you how to make a Jasmine and Dead Sea salt soap, it's fun join us!
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How to create a fun three-layer circle of soap
Soap Making sounds intimidating, we'll be showing you how to make a range of interesting and unique soaps right here using Stephenson Crystal Melt & Pour soap bases.
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New Jelly Soap Base
Following customer and market demand, we developed a new jelly soap base, it behaves in line with our Crystal range and can be melted then poured into a range of shapes moulds and applications.
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How to Make Melt & Pour Soap
Here is a simple and basic guide on how to make melt and pour soap. Pretty much every soap making recipe starts with the few steps mentioned in this post, a great help for first time soap makers...
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