Recommendation Wednesday - Starting Soap Making

As everyone in the "soaping" world will tell you Bramble Berry is one of, if not, the go to place for anything soap or body product. They even offer easy to do kits if you want to just try your hand at a certain project. They also offer a Starter Kit that includes a handful of useful items for getting started with the Soap Making or other Bath and Body Product making process.

Unfortunately, Bramble Berry is an American based company and that can result in very high and expensive shipping charges. Some alternatives to this are of course ordering to a P.O Box in the US that you can pick up your order from, or ask a friend to looking into what may be cheaper shipping charges or to hold them for you until you can pick them up. (Please note that it is your responsibility to claim anything you bring into a country at the boarder, this includes Soaping Materials.)

Alternatively, you can try and find what Bramble Berry suggests to start with. According to the listing on their website for the starter kit, it includes:

- 1qt Mixing Bowl

- 1 Square Spoon

- 1 Spatula

- 1 Ladle

- 1 Round Spoon

- 2 Easy Pour Mixing & Measuring Containers

- 2 Squeeze Bottles

- 1 Pair of Soaping Goggles

- 1 Plastic Mini Mixer

- 1 KD 7000 Scale with Adapter

The only other item we would recommend is a Stick Blender especially for making soap. This will come in very handy. Some of these items can be easy to find and if you are new to soaping you don't need to spend crazy amounts of many just to start off.

The mixing bowl seems to be a Tempered Glass Measuring Cup, and this should work fine especially when beginning. Though we couldn't find any online examples of this, we recommend Anchor products they are tempered (please read the information provided with the glass containers to make 100% sure of this) and they are good quality. We got ours at Canadian Tire for less than $12. The Spoons, Spatula, and Ladle can all be found at a Dollar Store or any kitchen supply store. The key to buying these is to make sure they are silicon. Some of the other items can be found at Candora.ca or Amazon.ca, These are the best Canadian options we have found. Unfortunately, Candora's shipping charges can get expensive too so trying to buy a large order at once or picking up personally would be a good option.