welsh black
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I live near the sea so have collected some seaweed, dulce and bladder wrack to make some soap. I added 2 teaspoons of dulce, and one of bladder wrack into some avocado oil before adding to my base oils 1000 grams. The bladder wrack was a bit scratchy in the oil so I strained it before adding lye to get out some of the large bits, next time I will blend the dried seaweed a bit more, the dulce is fine as it's a much softer seaweed to start with. The colour to the oil before lye added was a lovely deep avocado colour but as you can see lightened considerable to a pistachio colour! Ni think next time I will add 3 times as much powder.
The fragrence I used is one which was suggested here.
Lavender EO 44%
Rosemary EO 22%
Spearmint. 5.9%
Bergamot b22%
Eucalyptus 5.9%
I put it in the batter but I don't care for the smell, the eucalyptus overpowered the rest of the Eo, but of course, too late I had put it in the batter.
I had some lemongrass melt and pour curles on hand so put them in the mould , hoping that the smell would dilute the eucalyptus. Here are the photos. Can you see the white lines around the melt and pour curles? What are these? They are not unattractive but it must have something to do with heat, as they are not on the ends.
The fragrence I used is one which was suggested here.
Lavender EO 44%
Rosemary EO 22%
Spearmint. 5.9%
Bergamot b22%
Eucalyptus 5.9%
I put it in the batter but I don't care for the smell, the eucalyptus overpowered the rest of the Eo, but of course, too late I had put it in the batter.
I had some lemongrass melt and pour curles on hand so put them in the mould , hoping that the smell would dilute the eucalyptus. Here are the photos. Can you see the white lines around the melt and pour curles? What are these? They are not unattractive but it must have something to do with heat, as they are not on the ends.
