diy gifts. lavender soap.

I have been a little missing in action over the last few weeks as I’ve tried to find a new balance between starting a few hours in a new job, organising for Christmas and tiding over the everyday jobs of having 3 kids and a home. I haven’t quite got the balance yet but am looking forward to new year and the new rhythms it will bring.

So, on a completely different note we’ve found some space in the busyness to make a few gifts…

..this was inspired by my brother in law who gave me some soap base a while back. We thought it would make the perfect gift to add to a teacher gift.

I bought the lavender in our local Christmas market!

And it was so easy:

{ prep…line a cake tin with clingfilm }

*you’ll need…soap base, lavender essential oil (I used this oil simply because our local natural food store sells this brand), lavender stalks and flowers plastic jug, cake tin and cling film

*cut up the soap base

*place it in a jug ( I bought a plastic one to keep for this purpose from the pound store) and melt in the microwave…I stopped and stirred every 30 seconds until it was lump free!

*add about 20 drops of lavender essential oil and stir

*add a spoonful of lavender flowers and stir again

*pour into the cake tin and leave to harden

*turn out of tin and peel cling film off

We left it a couple of hours but actually it hardens much more quickly than we thought. We cut it into slices when we had turned it out.

Just an addendum:

We made a second batch using this soap base I ordered from Amazon. This time we made a thinner batch as the girls wanted to use cookie cutters to make heart shapes.

We loved these and they were so lovely to give as wee extras with the teacher gifts!

Am now on the hunt for some new soap combinations!!

To see who I’m linking up with head here.

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