“Gardeners Soap”

[Catscankim]

I feel like i have been waiting forever on deliveries from suppliers. I ran out of CO and i was at the supermarket who had a good sale, so i bought a few bogo containers.

In the meantime as luck would have it, the tub of CO i ordered also came, so now i have A LOT lol.

I tried a few different things with this recipe. Firstly, i made it 100% coconut oil with 20% superfat. I also used coffee instead of water...ok, that lye mixture smelled like the oil in the pan after you fried fish lol. I also used the coffee grinds for scrubbies. Lastly i did my first hanger swirl. Oh, and scented with coconut fo, TD on one layer, charcoal and brown dioxide in the others. Its darker than expected cause i apparently didnt get all the way to the bottom with the hanger.

I personally was thrilled with it, mainly because its my first hanger swirl. I showed a picture to my friend and he said it was the ugliest soap he ever saw lol. I hung up on him lol.

Tell me what you think. I promise not to hang up on you lol

 

[AliOop]

These are gorgeous - great job! Yes, coffee + lye = STINK. But it does fade and doesn't affect the final smell of the soap.

 

[TashaBird]

I feel like i have been waiting forever on deliveries from suppliers. I ran out of CO and i was at the supermarket who had a good sale, so i bought a few bogo containers.

In the meantime as luck would have it, the tub of CO i ordered also came, so now i have A LOT lol.

I tried a few different things with this recipe. Firstly, i made it 100% coconut oil with 20% superfat. I also used coffee instead of water...ok, that lye mixture smelled like the oil in the pan after you fried fish lol. I also used the coffee grinds for scrubbies. Lastly i did my first hanger swirl. Oh, and scented with coconut fo, TD on one layer, charcoal and brown dioxide in the others. Its darker than expected cause i apparently didnt get all the way to the bottom with the hanger.

I personally was thrilled with it, mainly because its my first hanger swirl. I showed a picture to my friend and he said it was the ugliest soap he ever saw lol. I hung up on him lol.

Tell me what you think. I promise not to hang up on you lol

Absolutely beautiful! I love the rich colors!!

I feel like i have been waiting forever on deliveries from suppliers. I ran out of CO and i was at the supermarket who had a good sale, so i bought a few bogo containers.

In the meantime as luck would have it, the tub of CO i ordered also came, so now i have A LOT lol.

I tried a few different things with this recipe. Firstly, i made it 100% coconut oil with 20% superfat. I also used coffee instead of water...ok, that lye mixture smelled like the oil in the pan after you fried fish lol. I also used the coffee grinds for scrubbies. Lastly i did my first hanger swirl. Oh, and scented with coconut fo, TD on one layer, charcoal and brown dioxide in the others. Its darker than expected cause i apparently didnt get all the way to the bottom with the hanger.

I personally was thrilled with it, mainly because its my first hanger swirl. I showed a picture to my friend and he said it was the ugliest soap he ever saw lol. I hung up on him lol.

Tell me what you think. I promise not to hang up on you lol

Did you scent them?

 

[shunt2011]

They turned out very nice. Great job with the swirl. Let us know if the Coconut FO sticks. I've not had much luck. I've tried a few times.

 

[TheDebby]

The soaps look really nice!

 

[Zany_in_CO]

Boo hiss on your friend! LOL Keep up the good work!

 

[Catscankim]

They turned out very nice. Great job with the swirl. Let us know if the Coconut FO sticks. I've not had much luck. I've tried a few times.

Well its only been a few days, but its pretty faded...the fragrance. It still smells nice. I cut them in half to make i nice little hand held bar of soap for scrubbing at the sink.

 

[TheGecko]

Your friend needs to have the back of his head slapped. I think it look cool.

 

[Catscankim]

Well, i said something “similar” before i hung up on him lol.

The cut-in-half mini bars

They are super hard. I have since polished then up with a microfiber cloth

 

[StarChild]

They are super hard. I have since polished then up with a microfiber cloth

How did you get them super hard?

 

[Catscankim]

I have no clue im new at this. I just know they are harder than other bars that i have made. They are 100% coconut oil. I didnt even add sodium lactate.

cured covered in the bedroom. Its a little warm in there.

I unmolded around 12 hours. Cut the bars the next day and then the next day i cut them in half and beveled.

if you can make sense out of it, these are my notes lol.

i ran it through soapcalc

 

[Catscankim]

They were oily when i unmolded, but that went away

 

[shunt2011]

You’ll want to put some paper towel or parchment under your soap. The metal can react and cause issues like DOS.

 

[Catscankim]

They are coated with, i dunno, plasticy rubbery

 

[MGM]

Nice looking! Your friend just doesn't know what a hanger swirl should be! You cut your soap like I do....a few slices here, some cubes there, oh here's a little leftover lump...

 

[Kamahido]

How did you get them super hard?

100% Coconut Oil bars are naturally VERY hard. So much so that if you wait too long to cut them it gets almost brittle.

 

[Catscankim]

Nice looking! Your friend just doesn't know what a hanger swirl should be! You cut your soap like I do....a few slices here, some cubes there, oh here's a little leftover lump...

oh, you should see the spare bedroom in the garage. I have a ton of curly cues from practicing beveling. Shards and slabs everywhere lol. Little chunks and cubes. I hate to think i am wasting anything.

I just got my cheese cutter, so that made my soap cutting a heck of a lot more even. I think its going to cut down on my extra pieces lol. The soap was sliding around, which also made them uneven. I just glued a piece of a flat skewer at the 1” mark i made. Hopefully that will help with the slide.

 

[MGM]

I save ALL my scraps and reuse in confetti soap. Am I the only one who refuses to throw a single shard away?

Pink, blue and white is made with Stormwatch, unappealing grey is Patchouli, Green is Moroccan Mint, 3 different ones are lavender combos (vanilla, frankincense, mint); Orange/Beige/White is Passionfruit Nectarine; the one that looks like coconut cake is Nag Champa (fresh cut...it's MUCH darker now); pink & black is Midnight Jasmine (now THAT's a fragrance that sticks! Probably a year now and still going strong).

I even have soaps that are confetti within confetti! (the grey one is Sandalwood Amber, with confetti from my alien brain lard soap; then the light peach one is Amber Romance with confetti from the grey one!)

I try to match the scents of the confetti and the new soap, but to be honest, the confetti scents have often faded so much that I don't need to worry.

 

[Catscankim]

Those are very pretty.

I was wondering about the scents mixed with different soaps. I always scrape the last bit of batter into my embeds. So far i have a bunch of little piles of embeds of varying smells. Are they ok to put them all together

I love nag champa incense. Do you have a good fo?

 

[MGM]

I've got the one from New Directions Aromatics and it seems good. Strong, long lasting and accurate to my nose. But I am no connoisseur.