Tuesday, May 5, 2015

soaps by Steso

I am so excited! I received a wonderful gift from a very talented soaper and my friend Tatsiana! (here is her blog). She sent me 6 of her handmade soaps, all of them are amazing.  Each soap is nicely wrapped in a matching box.

Here is Tatsiana's Lavender soap with 15% mango batter:
lavender soap - Creative soap by Steso

This is her castile type soap with 95% olive oil and 2% olive leaf powder,  with the addition of goat's milk. The soap is scented with a blend of essential oils: cypress, peppermint, marjoram, basil, grapefruit and lavender.
castile type soap - Creative soap by Steso
 
This one is made with calendula petals, it smells and looks truly fantastic!
handmade soap with calendula petals - soap by Steso
 
 
Here is another rimmed soap, this time it's all cold-processed. It was created in our "duel" with Tatsiana where we challenged ourselves to make a cold-process rimmed soap. This one is scented with vanilla:
cold-process rimmed soap - Creative soap by Steso


And another rimmed soap - the rim mimics the look of crocodile skin. This bar of soap is made with kelp powder and it's scented with a blend of essential oils.rimmed soap - Creative soap by Steso

The 6th soap is made with an unusual recipe: 55% extra virgin coconut oil, 25% mango butter and 20% shea butter, superfatted at 18%. It is unscented but it smells very nice. I love its look too! I am really curious to try this one.
cold-process soap - Creative soap by Steso


But that's not all! I've also received this amazing soap cutter made by Tatsiana! It is designed to cut soaps made in slab as well as log molds.

soap cutter by steso
 
soap cutter by steso
It's wonderful, isn't it?

P.S.
P.S. You can read about our meeting with Tatsiana and see a few soaps which we made together here.

11 comments:

  1. Леночка! Я так рада что тебе все понравилось! А какие красивые фотографии! Спасибо!

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    1. Это тебе спасибо, Таня! Твои подарки - настоящий праздник. :)

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  2. Wow amazing.... I tried made this rimmed soap before i found you blog and i don't know that it is a special technique in CP soap. Of course it failed because i don't know that this technique requires special cutter. I made it by scroll a square and thin soap after unmold but still soft enough to scroll it with a pipe. Do you have the video tutorial of this technique? Thank you

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    1. Unfortunately, I don't know of any video tutorial on this technique. You can check 2 posts with tutorials in steso's blog:
      http://bysteso.blogspot.com/2015/07/blog-post_22.html
      http://bysteso.blogspot.com/2015/03/blog-post.html

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  3. si postean en espanol tutoriales sobre como hacer los ajbones sus tecnicas, trucos, recetas y materiales seria magnifico, gracias

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  4. Hi Jelena!

    So, Tatsiana's soap cutter will cut the thin layers needed for rimmed soaps?

    That would be great. What other things can this cutter do?

    Also, what cylinder molds do you use?

    Thanks for answering so many questions!

    Mark

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    1. Yes, it can be done. There are a couple of pictures in Tatsiana's blog showing how it's done:
      http://bysteso.blogspot.com/2015/03/blog-post.html

      I have one acrylic cylinder mold, but I also use pringles containers. :)

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  5. Hi Jelena!

    I am loving these rimmed soaps! I am trying to wrap my brain around how they are created!

    On Tatsiana's alligator rimmed soap, do you know the process of coloring the "skin" whereby a two-tone effect is created - the lower area of the skin seem to be darker. Or is it just the lighting in the photography?

    Thanks!

    Mark

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    1. It's a double rim on Tatsiana's alligator soap, and it's textured - I mean the rim was poured on a textured mat. In this case the rim is made of melt and pour glycerin soap. Tatsiana has a few tutorials on how she makes her soaps:
      http://bysteso.blogspot.ca/2015/07/blog-post_23.html
      http://bysteso.blogspot.ca/2015/07/blog-post_22.html

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  6. Hi Tatiana, could you tell me the price of the soap cutter?
    I leave you my mail
    artalm87@gmail.com
    Thank you!!! Greetings from Canary Islands !!

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    1. Hi J. Miguel! I have transferred your question to Tatiana.

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