I can't wait to try this one in the shower! It's 80% olive oil, 8% shea butter, 6% grapeseed, and 6% castor. I read a lot of the archived posts here about castile and bastile, and decided to take a small water reduction, and I'm glad I did because it didn't take forever and a day to trace like I'd feared.
For the "water", I shredded some carrots into a bowl of buttermilk and let that sit overnight. Some of the carrot shreds got pureed and deducted from my water weight, and I used the carroty buttermilk (partially frozen) for the rest of my water.
Even with the milk frozen into slush, the buttermilk smelled pretty funky once the lye was added, ick. I stirred in the carrot puree and honey at trace, then poured it into the mold and hoped for the best. To see the difference between gelled and non-gelled, I poured a bit into one of the little Wilton silicone dipping bowls since it's really easy to stop gel in those. Looking at them side by side, I really don't know which I prefer, so I'd probably just leave them alone and let them gel if I make this one again.
I didn't add any colorant or fragrance to this batch (a sort of penance for my neon colored Mountain Dew smelling batch, lol) but it has a really faint scent from either the carrots, buttermilk, honey, or some combination of the three. It's hard to describe, sort of sweet and nutty, and I really hope the scent sticks around.
Oy, soap is addictive, now I want to try other veggie purees since the carrot came out such a pretty color. The other soap from this weekend, my layered and swirled one that's scented with neroli FO....well, it's about as homely as a box of baboon butts, so I haven't taken any pics of it yet. I'm hoping that the color will somehow change into something less hideous as it cures.
It smells good, it's just profoundly ugly.
For the "water", I shredded some carrots into a bowl of buttermilk and let that sit overnight. Some of the carrot shreds got pureed and deducted from my water weight, and I used the carroty buttermilk (partially frozen) for the rest of my water.
Even with the milk frozen into slush, the buttermilk smelled pretty funky once the lye was added, ick. I stirred in the carrot puree and honey at trace, then poured it into the mold and hoped for the best. To see the difference between gelled and non-gelled, I poured a bit into one of the little Wilton silicone dipping bowls since it's really easy to stop gel in those. Looking at them side by side, I really don't know which I prefer, so I'd probably just leave them alone and let them gel if I make this one again.
I didn't add any colorant or fragrance to this batch (a sort of penance for my neon colored Mountain Dew smelling batch, lol) but it has a really faint scent from either the carrots, buttermilk, honey, or some combination of the three. It's hard to describe, sort of sweet and nutty, and I really hope the scent sticks around.
Oy, soap is addictive, now I want to try other veggie purees since the carrot came out such a pretty color. The other soap from this weekend, my layered and swirled one that's scented with neroli FO....well, it's about as homely as a box of baboon butts, so I haven't taken any pics of it yet. I'm hoping that the color will somehow change into something less hideous as it cures.
It smells good, it's just profoundly ugly.
