I made soap and nobody died...YAY!!!!

[Jaderyn]

I made the Anne's shea butter supreme soap from her book..

My husband made the Lye solution and of course he had to do things his own way...lol..but it came out creamy and beautiful like butter...

I realized that the mold I had gotten was to big so it ended up in smaller rubbermaid individual serving bowls..I hope that doesn't make it turn out wrong somehow..

I never realized how badly you could miscalculate how hard it would be to get the solid fats out of their jars. The Shea butter was horrible, but by the time I got to the coconut oil I realized (Duh) that I could just heat it for a few seconds in the microwave. Had to compensate measurements because I was two ounces short on the shea and they don't tell you that the coconut oil bottle might say 10.5 ounces but its actually an ounce less than that...So there's more olive oil to compensate..I hope it still comes out okay..

It looks beautiful, so I'm hopeful

 

[LJA]

LOL!! Your title made me laugh. Hee.
Welcome to the addiction. Dr. Drew will be along shortly...

Here's a little tip about solid oils: Use an ice cream scoop. Works like a charm. Shea butter shouldn't be that hard though. You might wanna check that out.

And we always like pics if you have 'em.

 

[Jaderyn]

Momma and the babies [/img]

 

[Guest]

Congratulations on your first batch , it looks nice and creamy.

And you are all alive , even better. :wink: I felt the same way the first batch.

Kitn

 

[Dixie]

Congradulations! Nice color too. Are you going to cut them or are the containers really small?

 

[Jaderyn]

Thanks for all the support

I needed to hear that my soap looked good..lol..I wasn't sure exactly what it was supposed to look like.

As for cutting..I'm not sure...Either cresents or moons..The containers are about three soap slices thick I think..It will be fun deciding what to do though

 

[LJA]

Nice job, they look GREAT!!! Go you!

 

[topcat]

Congratulations on an excellent first batch!

Just FYI - when you change your oil percentage amounts you change how much lye you need to saponify the oils. It is a very good idea to always run your recipe through a lye calculator before you make it. There are some great ones online. For a small first batch and just subbing out a little bit of your oils, you should be fine :wink:

Tanya

 

[heyjude]

Looks wonderful. Is that recipe from the smart soapmaking book? I've wanted to make that. Congrats!

Jude

 

[Jaderyn]

It is from the smart soapmaking book

Topcat, thanks so much for the advice about the calculator...I have ph strips to make sure that the soap will be consumable..But I will use the calculator for further substitutions....

 

[Lindy]

Congrats on a beautiful first batch!!!

 

[honor435]

looks good, i love using tupperware.

 

[Sugartwist]

Looks good!

 

[reallyrita]

I made soap and nobody died....YAY

Congrats! Your soap looks just as it should look! And the color is nice too..very creamy looking.

 

[ChrissyB]

I would have thought the smaller the batch, the bigger the impact of subbing oils without checking through a lye calc first.

 

[Galavanting Gifts]

That's a nice looking colour, well done, keep up the good work