More DIYing

You guys can see that I am really digging DIYing ;)  Well, you are absolutely RIGHT!  LOL!  I am enjoying making my own skincare and having 100% control over what I am putting into it. 

Not to say that I will NEVER buy commercial brands again, I mean how can you say no to the MAC Hello Kitty Range Awwwww so cute!  Anyway, I digress.

I made an appointment with Susan and Elaine of Jayeon Miyin again and this time for the DIY Soap and Skincare Workshop.

Here are the products of my labour today:

Bag FULL of goodies! and how sweet smelling all of them are!

First off are the soaps.

Susan told me that there are 4 different kinds of processes to make soaps:

1. Melt and Pour (MP)
2. Cold Process (CP)
3. Hot Process (HP)
4. Rebatching

Jayeon is mainly teaching the MP method, whereby you deploy ready made plain soaps and then add certain additives into it to customise the properties according to what you want it to be, be it Essential Oils, Natural Coloring etc.

They are in the process of trying to procure a raw material to be used to teach CP but that’s another story:)

I googled and found a programme that calculates all the ingredients for you when making soaps.  How cool is that?!

I made 2 types of soaps today using the MP process.  Susan let me divide the batch of raw materials into 2 so that I can have different types of soaps to bring home (THANKIE!)

First off are soaps made with Spinach powder

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The Spinach Powder is supposed to be good for oily complexion and I added Hempseed Oil for extra measure:) 

I used some new soap molds today (HURRAY!!) The one in the 3rd picture is a new mold and my soap is the virgin soap made using it LOL.  And doesn’t the soap in the middle remind you of some ancient Chinese Jade disc?  So quaint!

The other type is soap made with Chestnut Shell Powder.

These are good for open pores and green tea oil was added to it.

Don’t the chestnut ones look like yam biscuits?!  LOL.  You can see a clearer picture of the mold used for the disc cos we used it for the chestnut ones too.  Just look at the detailing.  So pretty!  Just imagine, if it is black in color then it will be Anna Suiish Soaps ;)

Susan and I made the soaps first then moved on to the skincare items while the soaps are cooling off.

Here, I have a Hydrating Moisturiser, Aloe vera Toner and Brown Sugar Face Scrub.

As you can see from the pictures below, the texture of the moisturiser is really fluffy and light but then don’t be tricked into thinking that it doesn’t do its job. 

You have to apply the moisturiser sparingly in the morning and then a heavier hand at night.  The addition of Hyaluronic Acid will ‘grab’ moisture from your surroundings to your face while the moisturiser does its part to lock up all that moisture and prevent losses to the environment.

I do not have a picture of the toner but I doubt if I will take a picture of it cos it looks just like water;)  But the toner also has Hyaluronic acid added it it:)  So double the moisture? =)

The last item is a Brown Sugar Scrub

This scrub is made using a finer sized brown sugar hence it would not be so ‘scratchy’ to use on the face.  Doesn’t it look good enough to eat?  Now I can use it up to two times a week but can I keep my paws out of the sugar jar;P

I have learnt soooo much from my classes and yet I can’t say that I know even one hundredth of what Susan and Elaine knows.  Throughout the lesson, Susan was educating me on so many different possibilities to DIYing but my brain can only absorb that much at one time.  So I’ll definately make more trips down to pick their brain;)

Till my next DIY, Adieu!