I am also interested in making French Mill style soap. I want to use a Saipua recipe and would like to know if anyone has a source for the beautiful tissue paper they use. I believe it's an Italian paper. Is this wax backed?
From what I find online, Saipua is a vendor that sells 6oz bars of soap for $22.00. I'll pass on that one.
Thank you. I really appreciate the time you took to research and get back to me. Very helpful!!! Has anyone heard about a young man who is developing soap to fight skin cancer? I think he received a very high award and was curious if anyone knows about the ingredients/@Fishingerk1 , I found two things when I googled for a Saipua recipe.
First, is what @DeeAnna and @Carly B also found.
It looks like Saipua is a company out of New York that sells handcrafted soap and also makes flower arrangements (from flowers that they grow on their own farm.) I thought maybe the paper you referenced them using was to create an imprint on the soap or as an exfoliant inside the soap- my mind really got ahead of itself.... But, looks like Saipua wraps their soaps in really beautiful paper.
If this is the soap you were hoping to reproduce, the good news is that these are very common oils, easy to find and use. The bad news is Saipua make their own paper. So, they probably won't sell it to you- since that's their niche. But, there are many handmade paper vendors where you can get some beautiful paper.
I see that one of the owners, Sarah Ryhanen, is of Finnish descent and Saipua means "soap" in Finnish. Her company seems well respected. Her prices are a little steep, but to be honest, that's about in line with soap sold by LUSH in the Seattle area. I confess to having bought some in the past when going to a birthday party on short notice, and gifts weren't really expected. My older son was given some LUSH soap by a friend with lemon fragrance and brazilian sand that he loves and which i intend to copy one of these days ( I brought home some superfine sand from Celestun, Mexico for that purpose.) So, there is a market for this very high end priced soap.
The second thing I found is that there is a traditional Finnish sauna soap. It's made from vegetable oils and citric acid to harden it.
So, I don't know about the milled part- I think that's just re-batching. But, if its soap like Saipua, it should be easy enough for you to make some soap and wrap it in beautiful paper. I guess you can do the same with sauna soap.
I hope our input has been helpful to you! Good luck!
Has anyone heard about a young man who is developing soap to fight skin cancer? I think he received a very high award and was curious if anyone knows about the ingredients/
I have had melanoma and this interests me greatly! Im a curious person a designer by trade and always open to new ideas and I like highly curated products.@Fishingerk1 , I'm glad my post was helpful to you. Now, your question about cancer soap was way easier to find- like one quick google. Below is a link. The 15 year kid from Virginia is named Heman Bekele. I don't know what's in his soap, I suspect has gotten a patent. But, apparently the soap itself doesn't fight the cancer, rather it
could be a "more accessible way to deliver medication to treat skin cancers, including melanoma,"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ancer-heman-bekele-time-magazine/74812811007/
An amazing accomplishment for this young person! I'm a sucker for looking things up on the internet. There is no need to wonder anymore , google can answer so much. Of course, there is always the danger of misinformation. But, this 15 year old seems real enough.
Now, what I want to know is: Where on earth do you get all these little tidbits of info that are so intriguing? ?!!
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