Katie and i made soap last year for Christmas presents. They turned out beautifully, even with the many snafus that we had. The biggest being that our instructions said to stir slowly until “trace.” After an hour, our idea of “trace” was a little skewed, we gave up, and poured into our big molds (one litter pan of peppermint body wash, one Ikea storage bin of grapefruit soap, and two small show bins of lavendar shampoo). The didn’t set right.

This year, we did a little research and discovered that an immersion blender saves so much trouble! I will continue to post pictures as we move through this process – so far, we have made the soap and cut the soap. In about three weeks, we will wrap the fully cured soap.