Sliced two soaps this am

[Guest]

I sliced some soap this morning. My first time with a log mold.
This is Milk & Honey soap that gelled like crazy. It contains
sesame seed oil and bits of Chamomile Soap with bubble
wrap mold liner. Patchouli/bergamot/peppermint/sandalwood fragrance
smells nice. I have a wire cutter ordered and it has to work better than the blade I used for these two.

This is "Cozy Chamomile" with re-batched Chamomile green soap mixed with white, frosted top with plain white. Business cards are the right size for labels on this type soap mold. Same fragrance.

Both smell wonderful. FUN!

 

[CarmenJean]

OO!! I really like the look of the Chamomile one!! The colours are so pretty. Nice one!

 

[vivcarm]

They are lovely soaps, I really LOVE the green one!

 

[honor435]

Love them, how do i make that white "whippy" soap??? I use same indgredients as you, i dont get white soap. Your label say, coc. oo,palm castor? is that right?

 

[heyjude]

Those are real beauties!!!! Makes me want to run out and buy some bubblewrap! Love the frosted top.

Jude

 

[JenniferSews]

Beautiful! The chamomile is my fav too, it looks good enough to eat.

 

[dagmar88]

Love them, how do i make that white "whippy" soap??? I use same indgredients as you, i dont get white soap. Your label say, coc. oo,palm castor? is that right?

That's odd; normally whipped soap is white by itself. Could it be that you use a dark colored olive oil, or maybe your FO/EO causes discoloration?

 

[oldragbagger]

The chamomile is my favorite to. Gorgeous and beyond.

 

[Dixie]

OMG I am so super jealous of that Chamomile Soap! That is gorgeous!!! Way to go!

 

[Milla]

OMG I am so super jealous of that Chamomile Soap! That is gorgeous!!! Way to go!

what she said!

 

[LJA]

The chamomile one is puuuurrrty!!

 

[Guest]

Seems the green/white soap wins this round. LOL Thanks, Ladies.

The bubble wrap bar got hot galore, just sitting on top of the stove, unwrapped. I let it do it's thing and it got very brown. Doesn't look too cool with green specks, but it is what it is. LOL This soap has sesame oil in it and I've never used that before. Could be the sandalwood fragrance messing around too. I'm just plain not sure why it got so hot. It has goatmilk in it is one reason the heat turned it brown.

Bubble wrap tip: Be sure you use NEW bubble wrap and inspect it for "popped bubbles." I just grabbed this wrap I had on hand. Where the bubbles are popped, you won't get a hole like the rest of the pattern. Lesson learned.

I used the Australian Whipped soap instructions for the peaks on the green/white soap http://nizzymoulds.com/Whipped/index.htm
This is floating soap, cold process with stearic acid for hardness.

 

[Guest]

I like the way both your soaps came out , but the chamomile one is to die for gorgeous ..Well done

Kitn

 

[heartsong]

x

:shock: love the chamomile! really pretty!

the sesame soap is the perfect sahade fore the honeycomb texture.

nice job!

 

[topcat]

Lovely, lovely, lovely! The chamomile is soooo beautiful. Why not send a pic to Nizzy via his email on his site? He will love it.

Tanya

 

[wookie130]

They are both just lush!!!

 

[soapbubble]

beautiful soaps! I love the bubble wrap texture and the whipped one is absolutely fab!

 

[Rosey]

beautiful!

 

[artisan soaps]

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[Guest]

Oh I'm loving that second one too!

As for random popped bubble, I think it shows character

LIGHT BULB GOING OFF -- You are so right! Honey comb has "capped cells" (aka popped bubbles). If I intentionally popped ones in a honeycomb pattern, it would look even more like honey comb.

Like the right side of this photo:
http://www.hivehealthy.com/images/Bees%20on%20Comb1.JPG
Thanks for the tip!