Triple Rice with Salt & Pepper

[Misschief]

Sounds like a food order, doesn't it?

Here are yesterday's soaps. First is the Triple Rice soap that was inspired by @Dawni. Obviously, there's no colour added; the fragrance is Jasmine FO. Second is a remake of my Salt & Pepper soap. I used raw shea butter which doesn't make white soap; it's very yellow. I added TD to lighten it up and to help create the glycerin rivers. Yes, I wanted them. In this particular soap, I just love the look of glycerin rivers soap for some reason. The black section contains coarse sea salt to give it a mottled look and the "white" side has poppy seeds which gives the soap just the right amount of scrubby.

 

[SPowers]

Sounds like a food order, doesn't it?

Here are yesterday's soaps. First is the Triple Rice soap that was inspired by @Dawni. Obviously, there's no colour added; the fragrance is Jasmine FO. Second is a remake of my Salt & Pepper soap. I used raw shea butter which doesn't make white soap; it's very yellow. I added TD to lighten it up and to help create the glycerin rivers. Yes, I wanted them. In this particular soap, I just love the look of glycerin rivers in this particular soap for some reason. The black section contains coarse sea salt to give it a mottled look and the "white" side has poppy seeds which gives the soap just the right amount of scrubby.

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Gorgeous... very creative. Did you use AC for the black?

 

[gardengeek]

Sounds like a food order, doesn't it?

Here are yesterday's soaps. First is the Triple Rice soap that was inspired by @Dawni. Obviously, there's no colour added; the fragrance is Jasmine FO. Second is a remake of my Salt & Pepper soap. I used raw shea butter which doesn't make white soap; it's very yellow. I added TD to lighten it up and to help create the glycerin rivers. Yes, I wanted them. In this particular soap, I just love the look of glycerin rivers in this particular soap for some reason. The black section contains coarse sea salt to give it a mottled look and the "white" side has poppy seeds which gives the soap just the right amount of scrubby.

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Love them both. The creamy color of the rice soap is perfect.

 

[Misschief]

Gorgeous... very creative. Did you use AC for the black?

Thank you. Yes, the black is AC.

 

[AliOop]

Love the yin-yang look of the salt-and-pepper bars. And the rice bars look like they will be so nice on the skin.

 

[Zing]

Your salt and pepper is stunning. Love the contrast.

 

[Zing]

@Misschief, I bookmarked this years ago and now have a couple questions about your beautiful salt and pepper ying/yang soap. Is the sea salt scratchy in a good, invigorating, exfoliating way? The coarse sea salt I got looks to be the size you used. I love poppy seeds and coffee grounds in my soap (and I use a boatload per batch) -- but the salt grains are waaay bigger and I'm curious if you or your customers have an opinion. I've never used sea salt and it just seems like it would be scratchy in an irritating way but I have no basis for that.

Also, I like your black. I hold back on my activated charcoal because I'm askeered of black stain on washcloth, but then I'm disappointed in the gray that I end up with. Can I ask what your colorant(s) were and do you just eyeball it or have a specific usage rate?

Also, feel free to say "pass" on your trade secrets!

Thank you!

 

[Misschief]

@Misschief, I bookmarked this years ago and now have a couple questions about your beautiful salt and pepper ying/yang soap. Is the sea salt scratchy in a good, invigorating, exfoliating way? The coarse sea salt I got looks to be the size you used. I love poppy seeds and coffee grounds in my soap (and I use a boatload per batch) -- but the salt grains are waaay bigger and I'm curious if you or your customers have an opinion. I've never used sea salt and it just seems like it would be scratchy in an irritating way but I have no basis for that.

Also, I like your black. I hold back on my activated charcoal because I'm askeered of black stain on washcloth, but then I'm disappointed in the gray that I end up with. Can I ask what your colorant(s) were and do you just eyeball it or have a specific usage rate?

Also, feel free to say "pass" on your trade secrets!

Thank you!

Trade secrets?? Not around here, my dear. I'm happy to share.

I use the coarse sea salt; I don't find it scratchy at all. I find that it tends to dissolve as it's being used and offers very little in the way of exfoliation. The poppy seeds, however, are another story, as I'm sure you know.

My batch is 1 kg (1000 grams) divided. I add some titanium dioxide to the white and I add about 1 tbsp (or so) of AC with a little bit of Iron Oxide Black to help intensify the colour, perhaps 1/2 tsp or so. I do tell my customers they may not want to use a white washcloth, just to be on the safe side.

This is one soap I always have in stock and it always sells well for me. My Lemon & Poppyseed soap is made the same way but without salt in the "lemon" part and is also one that sells well.

Just as a note, the pic in this thread was made without the Iron Oxide Black. My current batches, using the IOB are darker, as you can see in this latest one (and no glycerin rivers in the latest batch).

 

[Zing]

Yet another gore-juss photo! Thanks and thanks for all the tips. Now that I think about it, duh, salt would dissolve in water! I'm also a fan of your lemon.

 

[ResolvableOwl]

salt would dissolve in water

Yes, but lye is not water. (Table) salt aka NaCl will dissolve much worse (and slower) when it has to share its water with NaOH.

 

[Misschief]

Yes, but lye is not water. (Table) salt aka NaCl will dissolve much worse (and slower) when it has to share its water with NaOH.

When you're using the soap, though, you're using water, not lye.