kryse13
Well-Known Member
My first bar is a 100% coconut oil laundry bar. The mold I used was a plastic puff pastry box from Walmart. I cut the bars about 20 hours after molding them which was too late for the coconut bars (I found out later) so they were really hard to cut then they broke apart once I cut about 3/4 way through. At least I don't care what they look like because they are getting shredded anyway! And they gelled, so I discovered what gel was, soo exciting!!!! lol
My next bar was a calendula oats and honey bar.
I infused calendula petals in olive oil and some in sunflower oil for quite a while, maybe 3 weeks before using it.
Olive oil 20%
Coconut oil 76 degree 10%
Lard 60%
Sunflower oil 10%
SF 5%
added ground large flake oats and some ground calendula petals (some from the infused oil, which turned out to be an ugly mistake)
I added 1 heaping TBSP of honey in at a medium trace because it seemed like it wasn't going to get any thicker. The honey used was from the bee farm (lol) so I guess it wasn't as processed as the stuff you get from the store. I'm thinking that added to that weird waxy stuff that was left on top. Or is it ash? is ash waxy? Anyway, when I added the honey it turned dark brown and wanted to stay in one spot and not mix in. I grabbed the hand blender and started mixing. Then i got scared it was going to (or is already) burning the honey and was going to make the whole batch garbage. so i threw it in a mold and hoped for the best. It gelled, which at the time i thought was a good thing and that meant it was actually going to become soap, but was still was worried about the honey burning.
Unmolded it the next day, was very soft. Cut it and left it to cure and after a week it got harder. yay. It smelt wonderful even though it was not scented and i have no EO or FO's to put in. Smelt like a carmalized yummy ness.
Ok after that long post here is the pictures!
My next bar was a calendula oats and honey bar.
I infused calendula petals in olive oil and some in sunflower oil for quite a while, maybe 3 weeks before using it.
Olive oil 20%
Coconut oil 76 degree 10%
Lard 60%
Sunflower oil 10%
SF 5%
added ground large flake oats and some ground calendula petals (some from the infused oil, which turned out to be an ugly mistake)
I added 1 heaping TBSP of honey in at a medium trace because it seemed like it wasn't going to get any thicker. The honey used was from the bee farm (lol) so I guess it wasn't as processed as the stuff you get from the store. I'm thinking that added to that weird waxy stuff that was left on top. Or is it ash? is ash waxy? Anyway, when I added the honey it turned dark brown and wanted to stay in one spot and not mix in. I grabbed the hand blender and started mixing. Then i got scared it was going to (or is already) burning the honey and was going to make the whole batch garbage. so i threw it in a mold and hoped for the best. It gelled, which at the time i thought was a good thing and that meant it was actually going to become soap, but was still was worried about the honey burning.
Unmolded it the next day, was very soft. Cut it and left it to cure and after a week it got harder. yay. It smelt wonderful even though it was not scented and i have no EO or FO's to put in. Smelt like a carmalized yummy ness.
Ok after that long post here is the pictures!
