Let’s make SOAP!!! Review & Giveaway!!

What a fun review I just did! I was creative!!  I made SOAP!!!! You can TOO!!
The Joy of Melt and Pour Soap Crafting
Written and Photographed by
Lisa Maliga
Super fun and super easy!!  This ebook is 134 pages of easy-to-follow directions, hints, and even a chapter of ‘don’t make these mistakes!’

This ebook is so easy to follow.  I had so much fun!  Lisa provides you with a shopping list of exactly what you need to make some great smelling and long lasting soap!
I love that she doesn’t just show you ONE kind of soap, there are instructions to even make baby soap! So many great idea’s!!

Making Soap

I opted to make a mix of 2 different kinds of soap.  I picked up a tiny pan at the Goodwill for my melting pot.  I used the bottom of a washed out plastic milk container for my first soap. While I was feeding baby Alice lunch it dawned on me I could make small soaps for the kids using the plastic baby food containers!!

Soap Making supplies

I have to tell you my soap smells PERFECT!!!  AND why shouldn’t it!! I am the one that added the scent! I did the additives!  I had so much fun!! I could see how this could be addicting! I want to play with more colors, scents and additives.  I used Avocado oil (Lisa recommends Avocado for dry skin). I am so proud of my first soaps!! It kind of looks like a pretty pink quartz rock.

Finished soap
Lisa’s “The Joy of Melt and Pour Soaps” is AWESOME!!!  Now that I’ve done a practice batch I’m ready to try some soap for the kids.  Who knew making soap could be addictive?!?!
Lisa’s book is easy to use. Lots of detailed instructions. Lots of pictures.  A great list of places to look to for your supplies.  Lisa even has a chapter on helping you to sell your soaps!! WOW!!
I give Lisa’s book an whole-hearted A++++++++++!!!
I think you will too! Lisa has graciously offered one of Peanut Butter and Whines’ readers their own ebook!!
So get too it!!  You can smell great and be soft like ME!!!
Winner will be chosen by Rafflecopter and I do verify the winner did the action they said. I’ve had to disqualify several of my last giveaway ‘winners’ because they don’t actually do the item they clicked ‘Enter’ on.  : (    I know… I know…. “okay MOMMMMM” okay so now go enter!!  (And wash behind your ears!) TON’s of ways to enter! Do one… or do ’em all.  (Course ya know if I had my way…… okay okay… just sayin’!!)

This Giveaway Is Closed. However, my $50 Your Way Giveaway is alive and well. Every. Single. Month. I hope you will check it out.

Updating My SEO Because Even the Internet Needs a Good Declutter

If you’ve been poking around peanutbutterandwhine.com lately and thought, “Huh, something feels different,” congratulations. Your instincts are sharp and possibly paranormal.

I’m deep in the process of updating my SEO. Not the glamorous kind of update where confetti falls and Google personally thanks me, but the gritty, behind-the-scenes kind where old posts get dusted off, links get refreshed, and keywords are gently coaxed into behaving better. Think less makeover montage, more haunted house cleanup.

While revisiting early posts, I discovered something unsettling. Many of the original photos and videos have completely vanished. Not broken links. Not corrupted files. Gone. Poof. Into the digital ether. This can only confirm one thing: peanutbutterandwhine.com is haunted.

There is no other explanation. Sure, it could be old hosting changes, platform migrations, or me being wildly optimistic about my organizational skills a decade ago. But let’s be honest. It’s ghosts. Internet ghosts. Possibly annoyed by my early font choices.

So here I am, updating old posts with new images, clearer formatting, better internal linking, and SEO-friendly structure so Google can finally understand what I’ve been yelling into the void all these years. I’m also making sure posts connect to each other logically, like linking back to my ongoing fun stuff such as the Monthly $50 Your Way Giveaway right here:
👉 https://peanutbutterandwhine.com

Internal links help readers stick around, help search engines crawl the site, and possibly appease the spirits living in my archives.

I’m also adding relevant external links to trustworthy sources, because Google appreciates good neighbors. For example, SEO best practices straight from the pros over at Moz:
👉 https://moz.com/learn/seo

The goal isn’t to rewrite history. It’s to make sure my content is still useful, readable, and visible in a world where the internet changes faster than my craft room fills up.

If you stumble across a refreshed post, missing photos, or suspiciously improved clarity, just know it’s intentional. And if something disappears again overnight… I’ll be lighting a sage bundle and updating my alt text.

Stay tuned. The ghosts are watching. 👻

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