Making Cinnamon Soap!

Finally, I did it. I successfully made scented soap on my own! It was a lot easier than I thought. If you take a look at my previous posts, I decided to buy a 5 lb bag of soap base. All you need to do is melt it, and scent it. I'll take you through the process.

Ingredients-

-1 lb Soap Base
-1 Tbsp Cinnamon

I measured out EXACTLY 1 lb of soap base. You don't know how many combinations of soap blocks I made, trying to get exactly 1 lb, but I did it.

Meanwhile, on the stove, I set up a double boiler so I could melt the soap.

Once the soap was melted, I added in the tablespoon of Cinnamon and stirred it until it was mixed in as much as possible.

Then I poured the soap into the mold and tried to make them as even as possible.... It didn't work out that well. I'm going to have to work on that...

Once the soap has cooled down and is solid, you can remove the soap from the mold. Below is the finished product! 

I've done some looking around, and a bar sells for 3-7 dollars online. Maybe I'll start selling them...

Our Hobbies, Brought to you by Coupons, and Hobby Lobby

Emily and I both have hobbies believe it or not. I think that Hobby Lobby is a great place to find unique things that you can't find elsewhere, even though a lot of it is overpriced. That is where the Hobby Lobby 40% off coupon comes in handy. We saved about $15 dollars because of that coupon today, and it is something that they do on a weekly basis. Every week they offer the same coupon.

We made 2 separate transactions since you can only use it on one item per person per transaction per day. I have the Hobby Lobby app on my iPhone, so I sent Emily the coupon.

Emily bought a fabric that she will be using on her project, which I'm sure she would love to tell you about in the next few days as she works on it. I'm not going to ruin her fun! But I get the fun of saying that she saved $7 by using her coupon!

I finally bought the soap base I wanted, and a basic mold. We didn't feel like going to Wal-Mart to get the other ingredients for the laundry detergent, so that will have to wait until tomorrow. The soap base was $20, and I saved $8 by using the 40% off coupon. I LOVE SAVING MONEY!

After saving money so easily, I want to stand by the check out and make sure that everyone is using this coupon, it's just silly if you don't!

A few ideas......

It definitely is not a lack of ideas that is keeping this blog from taking off. 2 ideas that I would like to blog about are soap making (which seems pretty easy when you are using a soap base that is pre-made and just melting, adding color and scent, and pouring into a mold) and making my own powder laundry detergent which would contain some of the soap that I want to make. So they are kind of related.

We haven't really even decided what we want this blog to be about, whether it is about stuff around the house, food, everyday life, or frugality. Right now, most of the ideas that I have are frugal since I enjoy things that keep me busy as well as save money.