Hearts and Rebatching

I feel a good bout of rebatching coming on - it's not actually as painful as I remembered and feels pretty instant. Why don't I do a bit more of it? I'm sure it's something worth exploring to see what I can come up with. Here's a pic of some rebatched lemon soap to which I've added some berry fragrance, swirled in some pink colour and extra grated soap and blobbed some heart and ball embeds in the top. And glitter? Why not?

Avocado Oil

Have you ever made a sweet milk shake or ice cream with avocados? Me neither, but apparently it is thus used in The Philippines, Brazil, Indonesia and Vietnam. That's according to Wikipedia and at first sounds a bit odd, but that smooth creaminess might just whizz up nicely into a nourishing treat.
Here at You're Gorgeous Handmade Soap, we like to get our hands on beautiful cold pressed Avocado Oil because we know how wonderful it is for the skin. I'm all for smoothing it on to the skin 'neat', as it were. We've heard that it can reduce age spots and heal sun damaged skin and there's a study which found it can increase the amount of collagen in the skin significantly. It is easily absorbed into deep tissue and is rich in vitamins A, D and E as well as potassium. All good.
When it came to designing a soap using this gorgeous oil, all I could think of however, was Mexican food and how well avocado lands on the palate accompanied by other flavours. Well, it seemed obvious to team it up with fresh and citrussy essential oil of coriander and lovely, lovely mouthwatering lime. We whizz up a puree of fresh leaves too, to give the colour a bit of a kick. This looks great when the soap is freshly made, but of course, all that green does fade over time. Oh, and I nearly forgot - poppy seeds!