Castile Rebatch and Creamy-white Unscented

MoonBath · Jan 6, 2014

The darker one is my rebatched red wine castile. I kept a little aside, the excess I'd poured into a plastic cup, to show the difference between the original and the rebatch. The other is Don's No-Nonsense Business Bar, for my vegetarian father-in-law who refuses to use anything fancy and doesn't realize that Ivory has tallow in it. I've made him a coconut-olive bastile that I think will suit his spartan sensibilities.

Hazel · Jan 18, 2014

The coconut-olive bastile looks very creamy. Did you leave it unscented for your FIL? Also, that's quite a color difference in the wine batch. Did you add colorant when you rebatched?

MoonBath · Jan 25, 2014

I actually DIDN'T add color to the rebatch. That's all heat - except, of course, for the dusting of crimson mica on the top. And, yes: unscented for FIL. Won't use anything that seems even slightly frilly or frivolous. LOL

Seawolfe · Jan 25, 2014

That sounds like my hubby. His favorite soap so far is an unscented olive oil & coconut soap. Yours is really pretty! I like the dusky red too.

Hazel · Jan 25, 2014

Wow! That's quite a color change in the rebatch.

MoonBath · Jan 26, 2014

I had used a small amount of crimson sparkle mica in the original batch, and used a Pringles can mold. I got a partial gel (actually a partial overheat) and tried to fix it with CPOP. The overheated part was this new, darker color and the other part was the sort of terra-cotta color of that little bit of the original batch I have there for comparison. That's what made me decide to try to rebatch it.