Creative Soap Week

Name: Celine Blacow

Company Name: Soaperstar

Website: www.soaperstar.com

Description:

My Winter Wonderland is a traditionally made cold process soap made with Coconut, Palm, Olive and Sweet Almond Oils. I have added pure silk for extra luxury and a wonderful smoothness, and it is fragranced with a fragrance oil that I specially purchased for this competition. This is described as having top notes of eucalyptus, spearmint, wild rose and dew fresh ferns leading to snow pines, blue jasmine magnolia and white lilies finishing with a base of white musk, balsam and sandalwood.

I wanted something reminiscent of the cold, fresh air the hits your lungs when you walk out on a snowy Winter’s day and I think this one achieves that nicely – it smells so much of clean, fresh air, and it is almost icy.

I’ve coloured it using a touch of titanium dioxide to whiten it and pale blue to illustrate the snowy tops of mountains in Winter and the way ice can look both white and blue at the same time. It’s generously dusted with sparkling silver mica to represent the crisp ice sparkling in the sunlight. The blue/white pattern is reminiscent of a glacier in wintertime.

The concept of Winter Wonderland is really interesting – I did some research on Facebook, as part of my planning for this soap, and the replies I got were that the phrase Winter Wonderland meant different things to different people but it, generally, divided up into two areas – a variation between red/gold/spice and blue/white/ice.

Personally, Winter Wonderland says snow topped moutains, that crisp crunchy sound of the new snow underfoot and the wonderful scent of fresh air, pines and, ultimately, a clean cool peacefulness. I really hope you believe this soap portrays that image.

The bars are approx 100g each.