Riecht wie Lapislazuli

"Riecht wie Lapislazuli" ("Smells like lapis lazuli" - don't ask, it's an insider) is the first in a long line of colouring experiments gone wrong. I had bought a huge bottle of Nag Champa fragrance oil because the scent of these incense sticks brings back lots of memories from high school. The plan was to make a dark blue and white soap with a silver vein to make it look like lapis lazuli (I had seen pictures by some very lucky soapaholic who had managed to make a soap wich looked exactly like lumps of lapis lazuli). What can I say? Instead of blue-and-white, the soap turned out dark green and ochre. To make things worse, the silver vein - which was supposed to be the icing on the lapis lazuli cake - had somehow vanished.

However, true beauty lies within. The soap is made of olive oil, palm oil, rapeseed oil, coconut oil, almond oil, shea butter and castor oil. When you look at the picture, please try not to laught and keep in mind that this soap is really, really nice to use - it makes wonderful lather AND smells like lapis lazuli, okay?!