Making bubbles: handcrafted soap making with Jodie

We had such a great time making soap last time we had another try on Friday!

Jodie led the session and carefully melted soap and helped residents choose fragrances to mix into the liquid. Claire chose a vibrant blue cornflower petal mix for her soap and John decided on a honeycomb bee mould for his soap mixture. Valerie decided on a lavender and frankincense fragrance and Margaret chose orange and lemon with an oatmeal base.

Jodie showed us how to dust the soap with different coloured cosmetic mica and volunteer Sue carefully coloured Margaret’s honeycomb and bee with yellow and blue mica dust.

John told us he was making his soap as a gift to his family and said he’d give it to “whoever was the dirtiest!”😊 His soap was a blue and red heart with lemon balm and rose.

Margaret told us that she chose the blue colour as “it matches my jumper and blue nail varnish!“.

Thank you to Jodie for leading the session and our staff and volunteers for helping out – the whole of Charlotte Straker House smelt wonderfully of lemon and lavender for the rest of the afternoon.