I made some lemon myrtle infused soap today. Very natural, only slightly fragranced with some lemon myrtle, lemongrass, lemon, mandarin, bergamot & sweet orange. Used lemon myrtle hydrosol & aloe for water. Organic fair trade coconut, shea, sunflower and olive were my lipids. HP but still in mould will cut tomorrow.
Worked on assignment about composition of skin. Finding it really interesting so glad my institution is on the Wiley research paper library - means I don't have to pay to read finally
And I unmoulded and cut @zany's no slime castile. Had no issues except I ran out of olive oil so added a bit of CO
Love the colour. Do think I might invest in beveller, I can't do with a peeler well. Never bothered about it before much but, I think I want to. I know it's not necessary. Been soaping for years without one. But, there's so much more stuff these days. Hard not to be envious.
Tomorrow, I have roped a mate into driving up to Kenilworth to grab my order from the small farm. Not a big order, only almond oil and olive oil. Straight from the farm, been waiting for a bit as knew it would only be ready late June. Look forward smelling it. There's something romantic about casks.
I made soap today. It’s the first time this year I have made soap. Been dealing with stress and depression and a lack of cooperation from daughter and husband about NOT piling crap on my soaping cart! Nothing worse when you’re already dealing with crap than to want to soap, but have to spend an hour cleaning first.
I only made two-10” loaves; Cantaloupe for hubby and Chocolate Espresso for my BIL. Hubby had asked if I could make his soap more ‘bubbly’, so I decided to try sugar. Now I know you are supposed to dissolve it in the water before adding the lye, but I Master Batch and being new to using sugar, added it to my FO/Kaolin Clay and stirred the heck out of it and then added it to my oils. For the Chocolate Espresso, I separate part of the batter for a ‘whip cream’ top and ran into a problem with my dispersed TD. I thought I had shaken the bottle really well…no TD on the bottom…but noticed that it seemed a bit on the light side after stirring in a couple of teaspoons. So I looked inside the bottle and I had this really thick clump of TD (I made clay dough). So I added a bit of Distilled water and used the handle of a spoon to thin out what I needed.
Going to make more soap tomorrow. I’m getting down to the bottom of my bucket and then I can MB another 40 lbs.
good on you gecko. Life is always full of roller-coaster highs and lows, so you should be proud of getting motivated again. I hear you about hating having to clean up before you can soap. I have the same issue. Child#1 Mr18 is constantly using my just sterilised bench. I swear, if I've sterilised, he knows it and decides to come up to my area and make mess. Every. Single. Time. I miss him being at school. This so called "gap year" business is testing my sanity and patience.