November 2023 Soap maker’s Contest ~ Christmas Memories
November 2023 Soap maker’s Contest ~ Christmas MemoriesContinue Reading
2023-11-04
Join us Tuesday Nights at 10 PM est on TikTok Live for a new recipe.
Join us Tuesday nights at 10 PM est. on TikTok Live for a new recipe. Beginning Tuesday October 10th the Thermal Mermaid will be live on TikTok answering your questions and doing a live demonstration on a soap or cosmetic recipe posted in the recipe directory.There will be aContinue Reading
2023-10-04
The Making of Home Made Mozzarella
How To Make Home Made Mozzarella Cheese Whipping up a pound of hand made artisan cheese takes no more than 30 minutes and you can tell your friends that you squeezed in a semester in Tuscany back in college while you make them jealous of your summer snack skills. Mozzarella,Continue Reading
2023-10-03
October 16th-27th Soap Swap : Time to Swap & Post
Get ready for the October SOAP SWAP! The Great American Soap Swap is back. Beginning October 1st members can add their name to the soap swap thread to receive a soap swap partner and make a new friend! Here is the October schedule: October 1 – 14th sign up. JustContinue Reading
2023-10-02
How to find your favorite type of soap making?
For those who have newly discovered soap making the first thing one does is binge watch all the fantastic designs that brilliant people across the internet have crafted. Its easy to get lost in one video after another watching so many different methods and styles of soap making that areContinue Reading
2023-09-22
The History Of Soap
Soap Fact Sheet:Soap Making1IntroductionThis fact sheet describes the history of soap, what is soap,how it’s made, and two processes to make soap. Soap is anecessary item for good hygiene. Teaching people how tomake soap can be a good addition to any water, sanitationand hygiene (WASH) project. Ingredients for making soapcanContinue Reading
2023-06-08
How to Use the Soap Maker’s Calculator
The Oil & Lye Soap Calculator is a great starting place for those who want to craft their own hard bar soap or liquid soap recipes. There is a ton of information provided on the recipe result page that is provided once the recipe is built andContinue Reading
2022-11-02
Top 16 Homestead Cottage Business Ideas
Home based businesses are the bedrock of the American economy. Family run and small businesses power 80% of the American economy. In the post lock down world more and more people are looking to build a back up plan to provide a sense of security should the world become lessContinue Reading
2022-06-17
The Great American Soap Swap
Welcome to the Great America Soap Swap : A Community Game for Soap Makers Every soap maker is welcome to join. You must be a member in the Crafter’s Community here. Everyone can be a part of the Soap Swap including FREE members. (Once you register you must be sureContinue Reading
2022-03-28
Water & Oil Emulsions Make Beautiful Hand Made Lotions
Body care lotions are made from part water and part oil. Anyone who has ever tried to combine the two knows that oils do not dissolve in water. No matter how long you stir, blend, or shake the two parts, they will pull away from each other and separate. OilContinue Reading
2022-03-25
Preservatives ~ A breakdown for lotion & cosmetics
Why do we need a preservative in topical cremes and cosmetics? A preservative is essential to help prevent microbes (bacteria, mold, and yeast) growing. Preservatives stop growth by acting on spores when they germinate and killing cells (usually by disrupting cell membranes) or by making the product hostile to growth.Continue Reading
2022-03-25
The basics of DIY lotion to body butter creation
Let’s walk through how to make a natural lotion, cream, body butter and moisturizer from scratch. Lotions, creams, body butters and skin soothers are all a combination of water/oil emulsions that are made with a blend of mostly the same ingredients. Light lotions and summer cremes tend to beContinue Reading
2022-03-25
The harsh reality of a chemical burn from soap making.
Accidents are called accidents for a reason, and even when responsible, careful smart people do what they are supposed to do, sometimes accidents happen. One rarely dives into hand made soap making without almost immediately hitting foot notes or comments from the author to makes sure that anyone attempting thisContinue Reading
2020-08-28
How to Identify Mold or Bacteria in Your DIY Lotions
Once you embark on the path of hand made lotion making you will undoubtedly become familiar with a handful of popular preservatives in the DIY lotion world to prevent mold,fungus,yeast,and bacterial growth in your custom made products. Depending on what kind of lotion you make will influence the vulnerability thatContinue Reading
2020-08-22
Can I save lotion that has separated?
Today’s topic is about how to salvage a batch of DIY lotion that you thought was just about to come out perfect, only to find that it began to separate shortly after you packaged it. Yup, it happens. So, let’s talk about why and how to fix it. Recently, oneContinue Reading
2020-04-28
Making A Christmas Holiday Wreath from 4 lbs. of Pure Soap
The holidays are here and you may be looking for the next craft idea in your soap makers tool belt. Let’s not stop at all the same old conventional idea. Let’s just start creating and see where it takes us. For the first project to kick off the Holiday theContinue Reading
2019-11-28
FREE Chocolate Body Butter Recipe
Get this Free printable recipe for the Number 1 most popular recipe published at Thermal Mermaid. Chocolate Coconut Body ButterContinue Reading
2019-10-09
On Golden Pond – All Natural Cold Process Soap
Let’s make an Autumn inspired New England Cold Process Soap using only natural colorants and essential oils. This is a purely luxury bar. – On Golden PondContinue Reading
2019-10-01
Have You Explored the Healing Power of Lake Lotion?
Named for its soft essential oils that lightly smell like the beachy banks of a summertime vacation getaway, this medium weight body cream is packed full of traditional herbs that ease muscle pain, bruising, and red swollen skin. Then to give it double the punch a generous amount of hempContinue Reading
2019-09-20
Mango Massage Mousse
Featured product Mango Seed Massage Mousse complete with review and discussion on oils and additives for pain and anti-inflamation.Continue Reading
2019-09-13
River Pebble : Men’s Slow Cooked Soap
If I could only make one type of soap you might be surprised that it wouldn’t be chalk full of fancy designs and impressive tricks. My favorite soaps for personal use are always similar. So it should be no surprise when you are out on a Sunday afternoon selling atContinue Reading
2019-07-06
Tomato & Basil : A soap from the garden
The following story board was created by SherryLynn, otherwise known as “The Thermalmermom” Some of you may know that although my mother and I live on far ends of the country we share the same enthusiasm for soap making, and some days just become a big project. Thermalmermom has takenContinue Reading
2019-06-25
New Forum Boards
A few weeks ago I created a poll over in the face book group asking if any of you would like to see a forum style message board created for those who don’t love to use Facebook or are feeling less in love with Facebook these days, and about 1/3Continue Reading
2019-06-19
Lesson 10.7 Your Line Item Sheet for Wholesale Products
What is a line sheet? This is a simple version of your product catalog that you circulate to potential buyers. With this printout you can establish a visual of your branding, the feel of your product, and the necessary information to buy your product from your prospective wholesale customers. TheContinue Reading
2019-06-09
Lesson 9.4 – Get Your Free Shopping Cart
Hi Fellow Mermaids (and Mer-Gentlemen) Just making a late night update to let you know that Lesson 9.4 has been published in the Thermal Mermaid Course and Members will be able to make their free shopping cart if they want to sell online. Starting today I am taking the firstContinue Reading
2019-05-28
What’s New in the Member’s Directory for 5/25
Hi fellow crafters! This post is the very first day of a new feature for Thermal Mermaid subscribed members. As I am working on building the content it might be helpful to give you a place to check to see where new content is being built.Continue Reading
2019-05-25
CBD Massage Oils & Lotions
What is CBD oil? CBD stands for cannabidiol. Cannabidiol (CBD) is a naturally occurring compound found in the resinous flower of cannabis, a plant with a rich history as a medicine going back thousands of years. In previous decades CBD was associated with marajuana because CBD and the dried herbContinue Reading
2019-05-21
How to Start a Soap Business for Nearly Nothing
If you have been dreaming of getting your cosmetic business started this year you may fall into the category that so many experience in the early days when you’re moving from the dreaming stage into the planning stage. For so many of us wanting to get into an artisan craftContinue Reading
2019-05-02
Rose Crystal Healing Body Butter
OK, the name of this body butter is a little ambitious. The name Rose Crystal Healing – Body Butter is in no way making a healing claim, although it will moisturize and provide an abundance of aroma therapy. This luxury butter was crafted to match its sister cold process soap.Continue Reading
2019-04-12
Best DIY “Chap Stick” Type Lip Balm
We’ve tested many recipes over the years, and frankly there are a lot of good lip moisturizer formulas that are knock out of the park spectacular. This one is not only my personal favorite, it is, hands down, one of the most highly preferred, and has been rated by ourContinue Reading
2019-04-11
Infused Oil with Camillia Flowers
Infused oils are a little luxury that you can make at home for your beauty and skin care. Camillia Infused Oil: Infused oil is not essential oil, and they’re used in a specific number of beauty products, like massage oils, lotions, and body butters. An infused oil is a lightContinue Reading
2019-01-12
How to Make Rock Hard DIY Bath Bombs
For years, I’ve been watching bath bomb makers test their experimental recipes on the perfect bath bomb. Of course, there are one or two basic recipes floating around on the internet that have been copied dozens of times and posted everywhere. So why is it that so many of theseContinue Reading
2019-01-12
How I make soap dough
Soap dough for cold process is something I like to call Soap Clay because non soap makers sometimes get this confused with a soap play dough that is sometimes found on the market packaged for children to play with in the bath tub, and the soap (dough) clay I’m postingContinue Reading
2019-01-02
Making Piped Soap Frosting for Cupcakes
Sea Berries Soap Cupcakes There are a ton of “frosting” recipes out there on the internet for topping off your favorite soapy treats like cupcakes and little torts. For years I’ve held on to my biggest frosting secret, and in this article I’m going to discuss this with you. Let’sContinue Reading
2019-01-01
French Lavender Flowers Goat’s Milk Soap
French Lavender Flowers Goat’s Milk Soap This recipe creates a very clean creamy hard bar of soap. If you already love the rich texture of goat’s milk on your skin, the combination of butters makes it all the more rich and silky. This is a hot process recipe and canContinue Reading
2018-09-13
Hand Dried Aloe Vera & Clay Soap Made At Home
How to Make (DIY) Aloe Vera & Bentonite Clay Spa Bar There is really nothing like the luxury of holding the weight of a solid hot process clay bar in your hand. When the cremes and butters just aren’t what your skin wants, it may be the earthy clayContinue Reading
2018-09-09