PrairieCraft
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Experimenting with small batches to try out FOs.
Gardenia
Green Tea with Tea Leaves Left in fridge a day to avoid gel. Tea leaves still bled into soap after taking it out. If anyone knows how to avoid this please advise the leaves looked so pretty until they "steeped".
This is the green tea right after pouring
100%CO soap with Coconut FO Can't smell FO only a chemical kind of odor. Tried to avoid gel by putting it in fridge, didn't work. This smells so bad I don't even want to use it.
The 2nd coffee batch I have effed up. Did a 10% lye discount and then added 10% coffee butter as superfat. Meant to do one or the other, not both, that's what I get for not checking after printing out my soapcalc sheet.
Orange Cucumber Natural FO from sweetcakes siezed in a bad way, should have just let it set up in the bowl it was nice and smooth one minute and a gelled blob the next my attempt to smoosh it into the mold did not work.
Happy for Men FO
Fresh Cut Grass this layering did not go as intended, don't even ask! It overheated and the brown ran down into the white and made it look purple -ish.
My first GM soap Honey Almond Oatmeal
First lotion bars, love these things. On left is Cocoa Butter & Almond Oil with Almond FO and the right is Shea & grapeseed with Apple FO, my sister has a nut allergy that includes some nut oils, hopefully the shea blend will be alright for her. The cocoa butter smells so stongly of chocolate that it overpowered the almond FO.
My favorite bar yet, even though I messed it up. This is a Bastille scented with Twilight Wood. I tried for no gel and still ended up with gel in the middle, should have went all the way. I was so surprised when I cut open the tan bar to find it pink in the middle. So far the fam has liked the two tone effect but I can't imagine recreating it since I don't know how I ended up with this in the first place.
100% OO with 0 superfat Hardened up really quickly with no zap after 24 hrs. Hope to try some liquid soap made with pectin that was mentioned in a thread somewhere around here. The chunk in the front was not gelled the bars were, should have stuck it all in, really white bars would have been nice.
With most of these batches I kept a smallish bit aside to either gel or not gel, opposite of what I was doing with the rest of the batch. It's a great way to see what the difference is and some look better gelled and others not. With two of these batches, the gardenia and the happy, I did not gel the batch and after about a week of curing a spidery web of lye developed over the outside of the bars. This did not happen on the bit of each batch I kept out and forced to gel by heavily insulating. It was like they were from different batches but it was all the same. Does something about not gelling make this happen? When I cut into the bar it looked fine and there was no zap on the inside.
Gardenia
Green Tea with Tea Leaves Left in fridge a day to avoid gel. Tea leaves still bled into soap after taking it out. If anyone knows how to avoid this please advise the leaves looked so pretty until they "steeped".
This is the green tea right after pouring
100%CO soap with Coconut FO Can't smell FO only a chemical kind of odor. Tried to avoid gel by putting it in fridge, didn't work. This smells so bad I don't even want to use it.
The 2nd coffee batch I have effed up. Did a 10% lye discount and then added 10% coffee butter as superfat. Meant to do one or the other, not both, that's what I get for not checking after printing out my soapcalc sheet.
Orange Cucumber Natural FO from sweetcakes siezed in a bad way, should have just let it set up in the bowl it was nice and smooth one minute and a gelled blob the next my attempt to smoosh it into the mold did not work.
Happy for Men FO
Fresh Cut Grass this layering did not go as intended, don't even ask! It overheated and the brown ran down into the white and made it look purple -ish.
My first GM soap Honey Almond Oatmeal
First lotion bars, love these things. On left is Cocoa Butter & Almond Oil with Almond FO and the right is Shea & grapeseed with Apple FO, my sister has a nut allergy that includes some nut oils, hopefully the shea blend will be alright for her. The cocoa butter smells so stongly of chocolate that it overpowered the almond FO.
My favorite bar yet, even though I messed it up. This is a Bastille scented with Twilight Wood. I tried for no gel and still ended up with gel in the middle, should have went all the way. I was so surprised when I cut open the tan bar to find it pink in the middle. So far the fam has liked the two tone effect but I can't imagine recreating it since I don't know how I ended up with this in the first place.
100% OO with 0 superfat Hardened up really quickly with no zap after 24 hrs. Hope to try some liquid soap made with pectin that was mentioned in a thread somewhere around here. The chunk in the front was not gelled the bars were, should have stuck it all in, really white bars would have been nice.
With most of these batches I kept a smallish bit aside to either gel or not gel, opposite of what I was doing with the rest of the batch. It's a great way to see what the difference is and some look better gelled and others not. With two of these batches, the gardenia and the happy, I did not gel the batch and after about a week of curing a spidery web of lye developed over the outside of the bars. This did not happen on the bit of each batch I kept out and forced to gel by heavily insulating. It was like they were from different batches but it was all the same. Does something about not gelling make this happen? When I cut into the bar it looked fine and there was no zap on the inside.
