Hello Soapmakers!

Let's recap this week in soapmaking.

Welcome to issue 2 of Soap Week Update!

Theme of the Week: Salt Bars

This week's theme is all about making salt bars! Salt bars are typically made with 25-100% of oil weight in salt! Here are some great salt bar soap resources from around the web.

The Soap Bar Blog - Salt Soap Tutorial by Ladybug Soapworks

CandleAndSoap.About.com - How to Make Salt Soap Bars

Soap Queen - Pretty in Pink: Salty Soap Bars

Great Cakes Soapworks - Salt Bar Soap Challenge

I'd Lather Be Soaping - Pineapple Ginger Salt Bars

Adventures with the Sage - Salt Soaps by Tess

Lovin' Soap Blog - Charcoal and Sea Salt Acne Soap, Orange Oatmeal Breakfast Salt Bar, Cocoa and Coffee Salt Bar, African Black Soap Salt Bar, Pumpkin and Coconut Milk Salt Bars

Auntie Clara's - Silver Dapple Soap (not quite a salt bar, but interesting technique)

Theme Challenge

Try your hand at making a salt bar! Download the challenge instructions here if you need a bit of inspiration and a recipe! Post your creation on our Facebook page.

Did You Miss These Great Soapmaking Blog Posts From This Past Week?

The Nerdy Farm Wife - How to Make Kombucha Soap

Soap Queen Blog - Pumpkin Spice Swirl Cold Process Tutorial

Candle and Soap at About.com - Paprika and Poppy Seed Natural Soap

Wholesale Supplies Plus - Peach Zinfandel CP Soap Loaf

Lovin' Soap Studio - Top 10 Essential Oils for Soapmaking, How to Make Coconut Oil Soap for Homemade Laundry Detergent

Submit your relevant, soap education-based blog post to us at amanda@lovinsoap.com to be included in our next weekly blog post list. Your post must have been published during the 7 days prior to newsletter publication.

Industry News

No news to report this week. If you have something to contribute that pertains to the soapmaking industry, please email me for next week.

Submit your relevant, industry news to us at amanda@lovinsoap.com to be included in our next weekly news update.

Supplier Sales, Offers & New Products

Bramble Berry - Save $10 on Rustic Fragrance Collection Kit. (expires end of September), 20% off web specials

Wholesale Supplies Plus - Beeswax on sale August 30 and 31 .

Lovin Soap Studio - Soapmaking 101 LIVE WEBINAR!

How to Sell Soap - FREE for a limited time! How to Barcode Soap, Week 6 Download

Soap Collaborative - All of the back issues are up! 100% proceeds go to Lovin' Soap Project!

More supplier offers coming next week!

If you're a supplier and would like to let our readers know about your sales and specials, email me at amanda@lovinsoap.com!

We Need Your Help

It can be hard to catch everything that goes on during the week in the world of soapmaking, especially if you aren't on social media every hour. Our goal is to build Soap Week Update to be the provider of news in the soapmaking industry. Where do we get our news? From you! If you are a blogger, supplier, member organization or industry mover-and-shaker, we want to hear from you! We have three topics that you can contribute to, which include:

Industry News - Features news relevant to the soapmaking industry. It could be about current legislation, a press release for a soap conference or any other news worthy story that a soapmaker needs to keep current on.
Blog Post List - We love reading soapmaking blogs! Submit your blog post to be included in our weekly blog post list. (No product promotion. Think educational. Design tutorials, soapmaking articles, etc. only.) Soap Week Update goes out every Friday; your blog post must have been published in the 7 days prior.
Supplier News - If you are a supplier and have a sale or event coming up, let us know! Did you write and publish a new soapmaking eBook or book? We'll be glad to let our readers know.

Submissions can be sent to amanda@lovinsoap.com.

Happy Soaping!
Amanda Gail

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