Excited about making my first Tussah silk soap!

[RocknRoll]

So I just got my new fragrances from Wellington and among them is my favorite one "Shea Cashmere" (B&BW) Tonight Im going to make a round soap scented with this and add tussah silk and goats milk! Im gonna call it "Cashmere Silk" I may just leave it plain white, not sure yet... maybe a swirl of natural and white? This will be my first time using silk so I have my fingers crossed. :mrgreen:

 

[Moonshea Botanicals]

So jealous. :cry: I have to wait to next month, till I can get some equipment together. My mom is buying my starter stuff, and she's retired, so I don't want to make her broke.

 

[RocknRoll]

So jealous. :cry: I have to wait to next month, till I can get some equipment together. My mom is buying my starter stuff, and she's retired, so I don't want to make her broke.

Little by little is how I aquired most my things too. Its so hard to wait ( i know!) I'm excited to see your first batches of soap! In the meantime you can feed your addiction here... that's what i do lol! :shh:

 

[2lilboots]

So I just got my new fragrances from Wellington and among them is my favorite one "Shea Cashmere" (B&BW) Tonight Im going to make a round soap scented with this and add tussah silk and goats milk! Im gonna call it "Cashmere Silk" I may just leave it plain white, not sure yet... maybe a swirl of natural and white? This will be my first time using silk so I have my fingers crossed. :mrgreen:

My first batch using tussah silk didn't turn out the greatest. I used way too much and it didn't disolve in my lye/water mixture. It looked like hairs in my soap. But I love the way they turn out now! I cut my silk into smaller pieces now before I put it into my lye/water container. Works like a charm. I also don't use frozen liquids anymore, just refridgerated liquids in order for the heat of the lye solution to melt the silk fibers. You will love the feel of your silk bars. I put it in all my soaps now.

OOOOOOOOOH what all FOs did you get????????

 

[Moonshea Botanicals]

Little by little is how I aquired most my things too. Its so hard to wait ( i know!) I'm excited to see your first batches of soap! In the meantime you can feed your addiction here... that's what i do lol! :shh:

*PHEW* I was kinda afraid be panned as a future soapkmaking business because of that. Silly but feelings are neither right nor wrong, they just are.

~Juli

 

[RocknRoll]

My first batch using tussah silk didn't turn out the greatest. I used way too much and it didn't disolve in my lye/water mixture. It looked like hairs in my soap. But I love the way they turn out now! I cut my silk into smaller pieces now before I put it into my lye/water container. Works like a charm. I also don't use frozen liquids anymore, just refridgerated liquids in order for the heat of the lye solution to melt the silk fibers. You will love the feel of your silk bars. I put it in all my soaps now.

OOOOOOOOOH what all FOs did you get????????

I got Orange spice, cinnamon bun, chamomile, shea cashmere (from wellington)

then from sweet cakes i got: candy cane, bay rum, chocolate amber, precious amber, beeswax and honey, pineapple, ginger essence, bermuda sands, and black orchid. I like most of them :mrgreen: I know, i'm outta control...:angel:

 

[RocknRoll]

So far so good, chopped up silk into little pieces and added them to my water... then added lye. They disolved fine. Interestingly though, now the lye solution smells faintly of corn meal lol! Must be the silk as I have never smelt this before :think:

 

[2lilboots]

Don't feel bad. I have been making up lists of FOs that I want and checking prices on all the sites to see who has the best deal.

 

[JennH]

So far so good, chopped up silk into little pieces and added them to my water... then added lye. They disolved fine. Interestingly though, now the lye solution smells faintly of corn meal lol! Must be the silk as I have never smelt this before :think:

I recently gotten some tussah silk and I think my lye water has an almost floral smell with the silk in it. Glad that someone else thinks their lye water smells different.

 

[RocknRoll]

I recently gotten some tussah silk and I think my lye water has an almost floral smell with the silk in it. Glad that someone else thinks their lye water smells different.

It definately does, but in a good way lol!

 

[2lilboots]

So far so good, chopped up silk into little pieces and added them to my water... then added lye. They disolved fine. Interestingly though, now the lye solution smells faintly of corn meal lol! Must be the silk as I have never smelt this before :think:

It does make the lye/water mixture have an odd scent. It doesn't come through in the soap.

All your new FOs sound great. I got pineapple, rose garden, lily of the valley, chocolate, vanilla, sand and sea, very berry, pomegranite, coconut, pear berry, honeydew melon, violet, and clean cotton. I was like a kid in a candy store. Now I need to use them!

 

[RocknRoll]

Don't feel bad. I have been making up lists of FOs that I want and checking prices on all the sites to see who has the best deal.

I've only ordered from Zenith supply, sweet cakes, wellington and bramble berry. I dont dare look elsewhere because then i would get lured into wanting even more scents!

 

[RocknRoll]

So everything went as planned! I did an in the pot swirl with half natural, half whitened. The new fragrance performed beautifully without any complications so I would suggest this scent even when using goats milk because it doesnt morph...well yet anyway.

 

[2lilboots]

I've only ordered from Zenith supply, sweet cakes, wellington and bramble berry. I dont dare look elsewhere because then i would get lured into wanting even more scents!

Unfortunately I look at all the sites that ppl post and of course the ones I have found on my own. I like the sites that let you know how the FOs perform in cp soaping as well as other body products.

I have my recipes all planned for new FOs along with the colorants I will use. I was finally able to make soap today. I waited a long time for that coconut oil.....lol! First batch was a chocolate coffee soap!

 

[SueSoap]

I love tussah silk in my soap. I take a small hunk and add it to my lye water. I've never had a problem.

 

[RocknRoll]

I love tussah silk in my soap. I take a small hunk and add it to my lye water. I've never had a problem.

I cant wait to feel what its like! I can see it already.... I will want to put it in all my soaps! :crazy:

 

[RocknRoll]

Unfortunately I look at all the sites that ppl post and of course the ones I have found on my own. I like the sites that let you know how the FOs perform in cp soaping as well as other body products.

I have my recipes all planned for new FOs along with the colorants I will use. I was finally able to make soap today. I waited a long time for that coconut oil.....lol! First batch was a chocolate coffee soap!

That sounds good! I've been wanting to make a chocolate oatmeal soap with coconut milk or halk & half and color it with cocoa powder. I have so many ideas which is fine but if I end up making every one of them, my inventory will be up to 50 different soap choices lol. Thats a lot of lables to design. Its hard for me to make the same soap twice because its funner to experiment :?

 

[melstan775]

That's excited Royal! I also have one planned called "Kashmir Silk," Part of a silk series when I get all my stuff together in a few more months. I know yours will be beautiful because all your soaps are. Are you making it tonight?

ETA: Oh I read more of the thread. You DID make it tonight. :-D Pic please

 

[Kansas Farm Girl]

What does silk add, protein? How do you use it?

 

[melstan775]

Silk is a protein, it's great for hair products because it will bind to your hair's fibers and "fill in" the gaps in damaged cuticles, makingyour hair softer and smoother. In soap it adds silky slip! You just dissolve some in your lye water and voila - silk lye water!