Adding small amount of liquid, wine, to traced soap

[serfmunke]

I have a small amount, 1/2 C, cooked down wine that I was thinking of adding to traced soap, as a swirl. Will this take? I have never added anything but scent and herbs to traced soap. How will adding a liquid to traced soap affect it? Any liquid, not just wine. I researched the boards and found one post that makes me think it will turn out awesome :wink:

 

[Tegan]

Well....you'll need to mix that liquid in with the soap...if you just swirl the liquid you're going to have liquid pockets in your soap.

 

[kaaty]

Hello, good question...i'm interested too..

• It's recommended to boil the wine first to eliminate the alcohol ? or it's ok without boiling?

• if i have 1 kg of oil and i want to add the red wine in 500 g (half), how many grams do i have to add without damaging my traced soap

thank you

 

[serfmunke]

Well....you'll need to mix that liquid in with the soap...if you just swirl the liquid you're going to have liquid pockets in your soap.

That is what I figured but wanted to hear it from the forum, so thank you. I will do what a couple others have said and that is to mix their lye, let it cool, then add the cooked down wine. I will do two batches and swirl them together and hope for something other than doo doo brown :wink:

 

[serfmunke]

Hello, good question...i'm interested too..

• It's recommended to boil the wine first to eliminate the alcohol ? or it's ok without boiling?

• if i have 1 kg of oil and i want to add the red wine in 500 g (half), how many grams do i have to add without damaging my traced soap

thank you

Yes boil to at least get the alcohol out. I boiled my down from one bottle to 1/3 cup of thick dark liquid. Use whatever amount of wine you want as your water portion. I have one wine batch under my belt, so that is all the info I can supply, hope it is somewhat helpful!

 

[kaaty]

thank you, dear

 

[brandnew]

adding wine liquid to soap

serfmunke, did your wine smell funny or had you added a scent? If so which one goes well? I made one unsuccessful swirl but am happy with the lather and soap in general...but as my daughter says the wine part still smells like liver!! Mine is a reddish doo doo brown! yummm!!! only been 2 wks. or so Thanks :wink:

 

[Seventeen Soaps]

Yes boil to at least get the alcohol out. I boiled my down from one bottle to 1/3 cup of thick dark liquid.

Why did you boil so much of the liquid away? I have made wine soap where the wine 80% of the water and just simmered it for 30mins. It made a wonderful soap, I didn't swirl with it but I added Dark Red Mica and when cured it looked the same colour as wine. I scented with a blend of Orange and Lavender eo. It took a couple of weeks before the "wine" smell went away but after that it was fine

 

[serfmunke]

Yes boil to at least get the alcohol out. I boiled my down from one bottle to 1/3 cup of thick dark liquid.

Why did you boil so much of the liquid away? I have made wine soap where the wine 80% of the water and just simmered it for 30mins. It made a wonderful soap, I didn't swirl with it but I added Dark Red Mica and when cured it looked the same colour as wine. I scented with a blend of Orange and Lavender eo. It took a couple of weeks before the "wine" smell went away but after that it was fine

I boiled it down to get a real intense color. Perhaps next time I will try to just cook the alcohol off and then see what color I get. I try to keep my soaps as simple as possible with what I have at the house so to get the color I want to try to manipulate stuff :wink:

 

[serfmunke]

Re: adding wine liquid to soap

serfmunke, did your wine smell funny or had you added a scent? If so which one goes well? I made one unsuccessful swirl but am happy with the lather and soap in general...but as my daughter says the wine part still smells like liver!! Mine is a reddish doo doo brown! yummm!!! only been 2 wks. or so Thanks :wink:

I made another batch of wine soap. I did mix the wine with a cooled down lye solution and that seemed to work real well. The soap smells better than the first batch. I did not scent the wine portion, 15 oz, but did scent the other 27 oz with blood orange, cedarwood, and patchouli. It seems to have a faint scent of funky wine but if that fades with time, the scent should be wonderful! There are pics in the photo gallery. The color is a little doo doo ish but it is swirled in with an orange-ish color due to the EOs. I dig it and am pumped to give the log to my friend.

 

[brandnew]

It's really nice!!! Well done! Makes me want to give it another try!! Thanks!!

 

[serfmunke]

Yeah, just a few simple tweaks and everything worked out pretty good. I think I failed to mention I added the wine after it being in the freezer, it was kinda like a wine slushie, it looked pretty tasty. Hmmmm, a new idea, wine slushies for summer time, YUM!

 

[brandnew]

sangria slushie?!?

 

[Seventeen Soaps]

Re: adding wine liquid to soap

I made another batch of wine soap. I did mix the wine with a cooled down lye solution and that seemed to work real well. The soap smells better than the first batch. I did not scent the wine portion, 15 oz, but did scent the other 27 oz with blood orange, cedarwood, and patchouli. It seems to have a faint scent of funky wine but if that fades with time, the scent should be wonderful! There are pics in the photo gallery. The color is a little doo doo ish but it is swirled in with an orange-ish color due to the EOs. I dig it and am pumped to give the log to my friend.

Congrats on your sucess! The wine smell should fade and that scent combo sounds lovely

 

[serfmunke]

sangria slushie?!?

OHHH! Great name, can I steal that?!?! I was racking my brain trying to think of something clever. All I can up with was Wine Soap in Italian, Sapone di vino rosso.