What soap I'm makin this weekend

[Guest]

I feel like a lil kid, no responsibility, just me in this big ole house and a buncha soaping supplies.

I know I'll be trying a recipe with lard, olive oil, castor, safflower and coconut (may add small amounts of shea and canola)

I've got coconut milk and evaporated milk in the ice tray, trying to achieve that "nutty' smell and a wicked lil mix of leftover fo's patchuli dusk and orange berry from daystar, and 1/2 of nutmeg eo...all mixed together

It's going to be CP (I can wait now, I'm overloaded with cp and hp, everything cured and ready to go)

I am going to weigh up my icecubes as part of my lye water...will there be any explosion when I drop these cubes in the lesser amt of plain water and lye...basically will the hot lye water spit the ice cubes back at me?

adding nothing but TD and fo at trace and see what I get tommorow morning. I am so excited.

ME=>sitting here drinking coconut and soy milk, eatting corn chips and contemplating my can ravioli dinner...happy as a clam 8)

 

[Dixie]

LOL your so funny. Well, you do know we demand pics when you get done don't ya?

 

[heyjude]

Lucky you!!!

Besides my shower, I think the closest I will get to soap this weekend is unmolding some I made a few days ago.

Happy Soaping!!!!

Jude

 

[Guest]

LOL your so funny. Well, you do know we demand pics when you get done don't ya?

Yes I am so sorry, my camera is in the middle of the floor waiting for me to get it photo quality batteries, my flip video is my most reliable camera, so what I will do is make a video, post that so you guys can see all my soaps

 

[artisan soaps]

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[Guest]

I can't wait to see you video post

 

[Guest]

Okay, so i soaped my recipe, a 5 lb batch

I did use lard, olive oil, castor, safflower and coconut, shea but I didn't have canola like I thought. I had ice cubes in equal proportions of coconut milk and evaporated milk, so 12.5 oz of my lye water was the milks and an equal portion was plain water.

Me being overly confindant soaped with only gloves on, no socks and a tank because my house is HOT. So I was all shakey especially with the lye pellets (I do hate them, they stick and bounce every where) I use a very small amount of fo for the size batch, I think I did achieve that "nutty' smell with fo's patchuli dusk and orange berry from daystar, and 1/2 of nutmeg eo...all mixed together.

Incorporating the Titanium dioxide and fo was difficult because I had to stick blend after light trace and it was turning to pudding quickly, is that siezing?

and I thought I may have seen "ricing" BUT I kept stick blending, when I poured I saw this one cornerI poured off did not have the fo incorporated, so I expect i will see a brownish skid in my soap, and maybe clumps of td.

I put the whole thing in the refridge uncovered until it sets tommorow then I''ll slice it and put it in the basement to cure. I want NO gelling, just a creamy whitish yellow bar, I call my sweet baby coconut cow.

OH yes I forgot, the whole icecube in lye water thing, I was so afraid, I mixed the lye water and it started bubbling, I ran over to the freezer got the icecubes in a bowl and dumped um, the lye water got like tan spoiled milk pudding water but no bad smell Like I expected.

EXCITING, now I can clean my house and go shopping

 

[Guest]

Well bunk the no gell ideal, that mold is hot a h-e-double hockey sticks, LOL, if I had put it in the freezer it probably would have broke the freezer

oh well i'll see what kinda mess I made in the morning

 

[rupertspal42]

woooo hoooo video!!! I can't wait to see some SOAP!

 

[Guest]

Sounds like you are having a blast phillysoaps , good for you .You go girl.
We definitely would like to see some pics . I haven't soaped for couple of weeks and it will be some time yet before I can , so I am going to soap vicariously through you. ok ?

Kitn

 

[LJA]

VIDEOS!!! We've gone high tech!

 

[Guest]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLNPiDg7Q5Q"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLNPiDg7Q5Q[/ame]

okay this my video, my soap is ugly but my formula is good

the best looking soap in the basket is from natural soap wholesale, my chocolate oatmeal is in the basket, my ugly flesh colored experiment is next to it...then you see my wrapped soap...

don't laugh

 

[Guest]

YUCKY! my white bars have a big goo gap, not like it gelled, no each bar has a 1/4 gap of white drippy goo

rebatch...

 

[Guest]

Your soaps look great .

Some of the rebatching I have seen here turns out great.Keep us posted, please.

kitn

 

[Guest]

Your soaps look great .

Some of the rebatching I have seen here turns out great.Keep us posted, please.

kitn

this is my first disaster, so I'm trying not to be a baby about it. I had soap christmas this morning, lots of packages to open and examine.

The center of my milk soap looks exactly the same as the lye water looked with the two milks in it. (rusty reddish brown)The soap is rice-y (I'm sure thats what it looks like), it's weeping clear liquid and there is a white vaseline like goo mantle right under the top crust.

So I'm going to EVENTUALLY make a simple lard/coconut/maybe one other oil soap batch of hp and cook my milk monster right up at a 50/50 rate.

My last rebatch of squishy canola soap was reborn in several good batches, so I'm hoping the same happens this time.

I am going to FORCE myself to step away from the computer, clean my work area, buy batteries for my camera and go do this street fair, instead of giving in to my hermit tendencies and be in here making soap like a mad woman. :?

 

[ChrissyB]

Does it zap?

 

[Guest]

Does it zap?

it's cp so won't it zap no matter what till it cures?

 

[carebear]

So, your soaps zap when you unmold them?

OK, I'm seriously trying to reign it in here - but I strongly STRONGLY suggest that you stop selling soaps for a bit until you have a better handle on soapmaking. I'm not saying this because I don't want you to be a soaper or sell soaps or save the world. I'm saying this because it worries me that you may potentially sell something dangerous which would be bad for the recipient and for you.

No, it shouldn't zap. The cure period is to allow the soap to mellow somewhat, and to dry and harden. But unless you've got something unusual going on (true, some accomplished soapers are set up for it) your soaps should be completely saponified before you take it out of the mold. Now there are times when my soap doesn't get a complete gel going that the end pieces are softer and still caustic, but for the most part this is not a good thing.

 

[LJA]

No Philly - if it zaps, you have lye heavy soap. Did it zap for ya?

 

[Guest]

Waiting to hear the outcome, crossing fingers for no zap.

Kitn