my weekend soaps

[xraygrl]

Here are the soaps I made this weekend. All are Hp.

First up is Chocolate Mint. With natural coco butter...around 7%. It is scented with a blend of peppermint and spearmint EOs and swirled with cocoa powder.



Next up is buttermilk Bastille. This has 100 % buttermilk for the liquid part. Pureed carrot (used buttermilk to puree the carrot with), almost equal amounts of OO and lard, 7% shea butter, 4% castor, and 2% beeswax. Honey added after the cook. I wanted to see what a 33% lye solution would do for a HP castille type soap. It's hard as a rock already....in fact I probably should've cut it a bit sooner.



This next one is scented with Tangerine! It smells DEVINE, but the phone rang and distracted me so the soap got a bit too cool to do a decent swirl.





And last but not least Carnation. IRL its a mauve color. Dont know why it doesn't look that way in the pic....other than I suck at photography. :?



TFL!

 

[heyjude]

Beautiful job! The chocolate mint soap is making me want to look in my cupboard for the real thing!!

Jude

 

[pepperi27]

Those are beautiful soapies I love the chocolate mint and buttermilk must feel wonderful on the skin!

 

[LJA]

They look really good!

 

[ChrissyB]

I'm going to make a buttermilk batch, been thinking about it for a while.
You soap is lovely.

 

[jenn624]

those are all very nice! The tangerine would have to be my favorite though, I bet it smells awesome!

 

[xraygrl]

Thanks for all of the nice comments! The tangerine does smell dead on like a tangerine. The fo is from WSP.

Pepper, the buttermilk does feel lovely on the skin!

Chrissy, make the buttermilk soap, you won't be disappointed! It's wonderful!

 

[Dixie]

Nice soaps! Wish I could smell the pink carnation

 

[rubato456]

nice job! i have some carnation fo on the way...can't wait! love the choc swirly ...yum!

 

[chrisnkelley]

Very nice! I think the buttermilk one sounds awesome!

 

[Lindy]

Nice - I can't decide which one I like the best!

 

[Guest]

You have been busy making some beautiful soap , well done .

Kitn

 

[xraygrl]

Thanks everybody for the nice comments!

 

[Guest]

Gorgeous soaps did you use a natural colourant for the mauve one?

 

[Milla]

I love the tangerine and mauve soaps. The swirls seem so delicate and I love the cute round mold!

 

[xraygrl]

I used red oxide in the pink carnation soap

the round mold....heh, just a pringles can!

Thanks again peeps for all of the compliments

 

[studioalamode]

They all look yummy... if I were a soap eater, I would go for the chocolate mint!