January 2025 SMF Challenge - Confetti!

[ScentimentallyYours]

If I use leftover shreds, which may have come from 3 different soap formulas with different ingredients, how do I label soaps? Is there a way to streamline ingredients such as “soap, fragrance, and mica coloring”? Or do I go with “may contain” and list all possible ingredients? If I go the “may contain” route, I still won’t know exact percentages to put ingredients in the correct order for my vegan vs lard soap shreds. There is no problem so small that I can’t make it complicated!

Am I the only one who didn’t figure this out already?

 

[AliOop]

If I use leftover shreds, which may have come from 3 different soap formulas with different ingredients, how do I label soaps? Is there a way to streamline ingredients such as “soap, fragrance, and mica coloring”? Or do I go with “may contain” and list all possible ingredients? If I go the “may contain” route, I still won’t know exact percentages to put ingredients in the correct order for my vegan vs lard soap shreds. There is no problem so small that I can’t make it complicated!

Am I the only one who didn’t figure this out already?

I take the "may contain" route and do my best to put things in descending order.

Remember that in the US, there is no legal requirement to label something that is a true soap for which no claims are made. If it is labeled, there is no legal requirement to put the ingredients in descending order.

 

[Humblegoat]

@ScentimentallyYours I think either way would be fine and you could guesstimate the order, e.g. castor oil would probably be the least. I take the easy route, coloring: mica, and just say fragrance: either my name for the custom scent or just what the scent is, e.g. lavender & jasmine. My understanding is you don’t have to say what is in the fragrance and I don’t if the fragrance is my custom scent.

 

[justsomeguy]

I think I got alien brains on my first attempt
I'm a little excited at the thought of it

 

[bookworm42]

I made a goal to use up all my confetti with this challenge. I made attempt 1 last week and am hoping to make #2 tonight.

Edit to add that I was successful. The top looks pretty but I'll have to wait for the cut to really see

 

[artemis]

To enter the January 2025 SMF Challenge, copy and paste these instructions and the entire list into a new post, adding your name and the next number at the bottom.
Sign-up list:
1.MrsZ I think I can swing this one!
2. Bookworm42 I was just planning on this for my next batch
3. Justsomeguy
4. basti - what a coincidence. i was already going to make terrazzo soaps this week
5. dibbles - what a coincidence. I made a batch today that unexpectedly accelerated - I'm sure it's destined for shredding.
6. Tammyfarms - perfect challenge for the new year.
7. ScentimentallyYours - Confetti soap was already on my list with NY resolution to declutter my soap stash.
8. McKherring Farm
9.Firefly24~
10. BobbiOh
11. KiwiMoose - I'm doing the 'fetti and I'm doing it now!
12.akseattle- I'm excited to try making this confetti soap!! Thank you for including M&P scraps in this challenge!
13. Shirley-D my first challenge, yabba dabba do!
14. Mobjack - I’m in pieces, bits and pieces…
15.humblegoat - tossing something a little different around in my mind, not sure it will work. My 1st challenge, excited!
16.Midnight_sun - i already have soap i was planning to shred! Thank you for this challenge!
17.mobe_45- sounds like something to rid myself of some very drying soaps for a while back.
18. Artemis -- I know I have some shreds somewhere...

 

[Vicki C]

What great participation this month! The entry thread opens on Thursday. Still lots of time to make your soap…

 

[justsomeguy]

I think I got alien brains on my first attempt
I'm a little excited at the thought of it

It's a fail. But, I learned. Thicker trace. Better suspension of confetti (way to much on the bottom). And more iron oxide. I was aiming for black. Got grey.

HO sunflower oil. Unscented. 1/8 tsp black iron oxide. confetti made of 3 different soap trimmings:

• Mango scented Shea/mango/PKO/castor
• Grapefruit scented Shea/CO/castor
• Tonka& tobacco scented CO

I'll try again eventually