Elements : Fire

Inspired by the four elements this collection explores Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.

Fire is the soap that sparked (pun intended) this collection. 
While I was still in the planning stages for Summer I was working on one of the soaps that I make year round, Midsummer.

Midsummer is temperamental at best, and a complete nightmare to work with at worst.  It is made with Pine tar (the sap collected from pine trees and slowly reduced over fire) which is one of the most challenging ingredients to work with, extreme temperature control and delicate restraint in combining these ingredients is required during emulsion to prevent seizing.  

After lamenting a failed batch caused by slightly elevated temps and 3 extra turns of my tools while slightly distracted I devised a plan to salvage what I could so this soap could rise from the ashes as it were. Carefully cut slices were laid out in geometric patterns and set into a new batch of soap, mixing the deep brown smokiness of the pine tar with warm, sauna-like scents of cedar, cypress, ho wood, and cassia. Truly a lesson in patience, perseverance, and stubbornness. Every single bar is it's own unique piece of art.

Pools of burnt oranges and sage greens are crafted with French green clay, Himalayan rhubarb root powder, annatto seed extract, and Madder root extract.

Ingredients / ingrédients
Caprae lac, Sodium Sunflowerate, Caprae lac, Sodium Grapeseedate, Sodium Cocoate, Sodium Shea Butterate, Sodium Castorate, Cera Alba, Sodium lactate, Palustris (Pine) Wood Tar, Vetiveria Zizanoides Root Oil, Cinnamomum camphora linalooliferum wood oil , Cedrus Atlantica Bark Oil, Cinnamomum Cassia Leaf Oil,   Bixa orellana (Annatto) seed extract, Rubia tinctorum, Illite, Illite/Kaolin, Rheum emodi Powder