My recent soaps!

[eleraine]

This is my latest - Black Beauty (GM, bamboo charcoal, adzuki bean, rosehip powder and red clay)

 

[Hazel]

Gorgeous! Absolutely gorgeous! You're starting to inspire me and I don't want to be inspired! I've got too many batches sitting around to make more right now. You need to stop tempting me.

I've never used adzuki bean in soap. Did you add it as an exfoliant?

 

[green soap]

This is true soap porn! the last one is genius, and grayscale is my favorite as far as looks.

 

[btapdancer5]

soaps

They are all beautifuly crafted. I have one question , when I use organic cocoa powder it bleeds...does yours and is it okay. It does not stain a washcloth or scubbie....
thanks marguerite

 

[eleraine]

Thanks ladies for the lovely compliments!

12 hours into curing and Black Beauty has morphed - as I would expected with ungelled GM-based soap! This is how it looks now...

Less orange and more pinkish-red.

@Hazel, it's an exfoliant - I bought coarse adzuki bean and then grind it into very fine powder. I wouldn't recommend using too much as it can be pretty abrasive.

@btap, so far, so good. I don't have brown suds with my chocolate soaps unless they are sitting in water - which isn't supposed to happen in the first place. And no bleeding in the soap as well - it looks like it's bleeding during gelling but when I unmould later, nothing. Maybe you can cut back on the quantity? With powders/colours, I usually start with a bit and then increase - find it to be easy than cutting back.

 

[Hazel]

Thanks for letting me know. I had heard of adzuki (I think it might have been a Lush soap) and wondered about it. Have you used it before?

 

[AriaGirl77]

Wow! So beautiful! I especially like the grey with the imbeds.