Acai Berry Tea

[hmlove1218]

Tonight's soap is made with Greek yogurt and acai dragonfruit tea. Followed the same recipe that resulted in crumbly soap last time. This batch also gave me problems but that's because I soaped too hot. It was originally going to be blue, but I decided to go along with the natural color of the tea.

I infused the tea into my salt water for a few minutes before adding the lye. Got my oils melted and mixed everything together at a little too high of a temp. Whoops

Everything was going great until I added my yogurt at light trace. Instant gel. It was too thick for the SB so I had to stir the yogurt in with a spoon. I'm glad I had mixed my colorant and tea leaves into the yogurt. Otherwise they probably wouldn't have made it into the batch at all. All I had to add was my FO and I'm not sure how well that got mixed in.

But it smells good and I like the look of it Got it cut and only had crumbling on the bottom of two bars.

 

[Lynnz]

Well for all the challenges you faced in the making of this soap you did well. Acai dragon fruit tea sounds very exotic and exciting.

 

[hmlove1218]

Thank you. This batch turned out much more like how I was wanting it too. It has an earthy smell with a hint of something sweet. I think some of the tea's original scent must have come through as well.