What soapy thing have you done today?

[msunnerstood]

I totally understand @msunnerstood !! I’ve been making labels with my cricut too and just today a friend and I were trying to do that with a label for her daughters baby shower. She’s giving some soap as gifts to the guests. It took us 4 hours to figure it out , mistakes all all! we just finished an hour ago!
ETA my daughter bought me a planner so I can organize better. I wrote in it “ plan a day for one label”

Finally got the labels down so I thought id try business cards. After 3 hours, I ordered them.

Im going to stick to labels and other projects with the cricut.

 

[MrsZ]

I have a pot of IrishLass' Creamy Cocoa - Shea GLS covered and turning to paste right now. It was so easy to make! And much nicer in my opinion than my last batch of hot process LS. It was so hard to tell when it was done.

I have to order a couple things before I dilute the GLS, but I couldn't wait to start the process. Thank you @IrishLass for sharing your recipe and technique!

 

[maryloucb]

Well I just had a total freaking disaster and of course it was with a double batch I was trying to do a drop/hanger swirl and my brown was supposed to be a very dark brown, but it was like milk chocolate brown, so I tried to add more cocoa powder, and in the meantime the other 2 colors totally thickened up and it turned out to be a plop/hanger swirl, and I don't think it even swirled because it was so thick! So now it's a blobby mess that looks like a candy corn. Ugh. And this is why I should not attempt complicated designs and just stick with what I'm good at!

 

[ScentimentallyYours]

I cut the mantra swirl, my first, that I made last night. It is a lard and olive oil base with rose clay and white kaolin, plus TD. Unscented for my mom and fragrance sensitive friends.

 

[AliOop]

Made my first ever batch of foaming bath butter base, from the DIY Bath & Body recipe. I've never made foaming sugar scrubs before, just emulsified ones, so this will be a first for me. Judging by how nice it felt during clean-up, I can already tell that I will love these! These will be part of the speaker's gift bag at our upcoming retreat.

I'm also in the process of making Cakes Vaisselle, or solid dish cakes, using Arienne Arsenault's YT recipe. I chose to make the one with just SCI, since I don't have SCS on hand. I was going to make the HumbleBee & Me version by subbing in SCI instead of SCS; however, two of my tester friends now have allergy-type reactions to CapB, darn it... so SCI it is.

The dish cake mix is currently melting down in the handy mani-pedi wax melter that I inherited, and which I also used to melt all the ingredients for the foaming bath butter base. I love how quickly it melts things; how it is much lighter than any crock pot; and how easily it can be used in my soaping room (aka home office during the week). Beats dragging everything to the kitchen, for sure.

 

[Mobjack Bay]

I have a pot of IrishLass' Creamy Cocoa - Shea GLS covered and turning to paste right now. It was so easy to make! And much nicer in my opinion than my last batch of hot process LS. It was so hard to tell when it was done.

I have to order a couple things before I dilute the GLS, but I couldn't wait to start the process. Thank you @IrishLass for sharing your recipe and technique!

Thanks for reporting on your liquid soap adventure! You put me one step closer to making liquid soap.

 

[Peachy Clean Soap]

A real OT Peche de Vigne soap! The FO smells wonderful, just like peach, and not overbearing at 5%. I love the size of the mold, but need to get the hang of working within the “confined” area, especially with pipe dividers. I made a bit of a mess with drips and drops, but I think it turned out okay. The green will likely be a bit less olive if it morphs back to the planned color.

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Oh my goodness thats beautiful!!!

 

[MrsZ]

I cut the mantra swirl, my first, that I made last night. It is a lard and olive oil base with rose clay and white kaolin, plus TD. Unscented for my mom and fragrance sensitive friends.
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These are so pretty!

 

[Peachy Clean Soap]

I cut the mantra swirl, my first, that I made last night. It is a lard and olive oil base with rose clay and white kaolin, plus TD. Unscented for my mom and fragrance sensitive friends.
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Thats Beautiful.

 

[Misschief]

Made my first ever batch of foaming bath butter base, from the DIY Bath & Body recipe. I've never made foaming sugar scrubs before, just emulsified ones, so this will be a first for me. Judging by how nice it felt during clean-up, I can already tell that I will love these! These will be part of the speaker's gift bag at our upcoming retreat.

I have one friend won't use anything but the Foaming Bath Butter Body Wash; it's the only body wash that doesn't give her a rash. My daughter loves it and uses it as her shampoo. She likes it even better than the DIY shampoo bars.

 

[AliOop]

I have one friend won't use anything but the Foaming Bath Butter Body Wash; it's the only body wash that doesn't give her a rash. My daughter loves it and uses it as her shampoo. She likes it even better than the DIY shampoo bars.

That's great to hear! After I make the sugar scrubs using 300g of the base, I planned to use the remaining 200g to make a couple of different small batches of the face cleanser.

For your daughter's shampoo, do you start with the Foaming Bath Butter Base, or the Foaming Mud Bath, Cleanser, & Facial Mask base? I only saw a shampoo recommendation for the mud recipe. If you can share any tips on using either as a shampoo base, that would be wonderful.

 

[Misschief]

That's great to hear! After I make the sugar scrubs using 300g of the base, I planned to use the remaining 200g to make a couple of different small batches of the face cleanser.

For your daughter's shampoo, do you start with the Foaming Bath Butter Base, or the Foaming Mud Bath, Cleanser, & Facial Mask base? I only saw a shampoo recommendation for the mud recipe. If you can share any tips on using either as a shampoo base, that would be wonderful.

The Foaming Bath Butter Base: I only did it as the whipped cleanser, as per the recipe. Whipped with the carrier oil (jojoba is my oil of choice) and the FO. She loves it! Which reminds me that I should probably make some more before we head to the Island later this month. I didn't start out making it as a shampoo but it's the right pH and I told her that. She tried it and loved it!

 

[AliOop]

@Misschief thank you, I will try that, as it sounds almost like a combined shampoo and conditioner - which my dry hair would love.

 

[TashaBird]

It’s SOAPtember!

 

[Kari Howie]

I haven’t done anything soapy in ages except plan a Sailor Moon soap for my daughter’s friend. Our dishwasher started sneakily leaking which we discovered a couple weeks ago. My husband has been trying to find the source of the leak ever since and has tools everywhere, the dishwasher pulled out, fans running to dry up the waterlogged cabinetry, rags everywhere acting like sandbags to stem the tide. You get the picture; I can’t work around that mess. So my Sailor Moon idea is to make a grey and white moon in a tube, a cat from a cat mold I have, but never used yet, and put the cat on the ground looking up at the moon. The sky will be a “Starry Night” kind of ITP. It’s a very ambitious design that may be beyond my rusty skills.

 

[bookworm]

I am trying to make space.
My daughter told me someone close by was destashing and selling some botanicals : rosebuds; chamomile petals; calendula. So I told her the price looked good, to please collect.
Walked in after work and see this large box of items : a 500g each bag of calendula; hibiscus and chamomile - at most only 1/5 used from each bag. Unopened 500g bags of organic beetroot powder and Spirulina powder. Unopened bag of rose buds 250g.
A half used bag of Spirulina powder.
I am just amazed and overwhelmed tbh.

Now what to do with it all?
I already have some botanicals.

I successfully store dried herbs and spices in the freezer. I'm wondering if I can do this with all this stuff?

 

[Vicki C]

I finally got my etsy site up and spent the next six hours staring to see if I had any sales. I didn’t.
but luckily I had a project to distract me, I’m working on a large order for a friend who is giving bars to all her clients. She wants natural colorants so I am using gromwell for one of the designs. I love this colorant. The blue is gorgeous, I expect it to turn purple. I’ll show the cut tomorrow. Before and after the addition of lye below.

 

[Catscankim]

Hear is a soap I created back in 7-5-21 I used "Ginger Tea Water" & Coco De Coconut "sweetened c-milk". notice the bubbles which I think contributed to the bubbles. I'm going for the wings design' or sunglass which ever you see' art is in the eyes of the beholder, as it's stated. colors are Peacock' Full throttle' liquid red' coral' green' & TD. scent is a combo of many but I think the ginger tea is ever so slightly detected. I can't recall who suggested using Ginger tea for more bubbles' but I remember a few of you chimed in believing it does' so had to try' & I gotta agree.

What is c milk? Sweetened condensed milk? If so, how do you use that in soap? I never thought of that

 

[KiwiMoose]

I cut the mantra swirl, my first, that I made last night. It is a lard and olive oil base with rose clay and white kaolin, plus TD. Unscented for my mom and fragrance sensitive friends.
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Gorgeous! Tell me more - is it done in a slab mold? Or in the that mold behind the soap there? I want to try!

 

[AliOop]

I am trying to make space.
My daughter told me someone close by was destashing and selling some botanicals : rosebuds; chamomile petals; calendula. So I told her the price looked good, to please collect.
Walked in after work and see this large box of items : a 500g each bag of calendula; hibiscus and chamomile - at most only 1/5 used from each bag. Unopened 500g bags of organic beetroot powder and Spirulina powder. Unopened bag of rose buds 250g.
A half used bag of Spirulina powder.
I am just amazed and overwhelmed tbh.

Now what to do with it all?
I already have some botanicals.

I successfully store dried herbs and spices in the freezer. I'm wondering if I can do this with all this stuff?

If you lived in the US, I'd buy some from you. Maybe other soapers in Oz will take some off your hands?