What soapy thing have you done today?

[Jorah]

Cut my Fig and Cassis soap - made yesterday. Very happy with the outcome.
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I love, love, love the swirl-pattern tops!

 

[Georgeandstella]

Welcome, it sounds like we're at similar stages. I also struggle with scent. I would probably sell exclusively unscented soap, but my wife has pointed out that everyone we've watched pick up a bar of handmade soap sniffs it! So, I've recruited her to be our 'perfumer,' and now she's studying perfumes and scent construction.


Looking at the soap just after I spooned it into the blue mold, you can see why I said it looked ugly, but they turned out okay looking. It's nice to have a super-easy way to use up scraps and off-cuts. It will be interesting to see if these try to break up during use. If so, the next time I have a quart of scraps I'll look into some of the rebatching methods I've seen mentioned here on SMF.

Your soap is lovely! Where did you get your deep single soap mold? Thank you

 

[Servant4Christ]

Thank you so much for liking my soaps! Revive was one of the first EO blends I ever used and I still love it, plus it seems to stick pretty well in my soaps. I‘m not sure what kind of peppermint I used in the past, but lately I’ve been using this one from Camden-Grey.

Thanks. I believe that is first distill based on the description, but I've emailed for confirmation.

 

[Mobjack Bay]

Your soap is lovely! Where did you get your deep single soap mold? Thank you

Not Jorah, but I’ve been eyeing what looks like a similar mold on Amazon. I don’t really need any more cavity molds, but I like the depth of those bars.

 

[The_Phoenix]

Today was good soapy fun! Making gift bags for my neighborhood Bunco friends for the Fourth of July. Both of these are two-ish years old. One on the left was made using Oregon Trail’s Bonsai. One on the right Nurture Soap’s Creation. Both still strong and fragrant! Adding lip balm and body polish to the bags.

 

[Zing]

Just got back from 10 wonderful days in Maine for a friends reunion. Everyone appreciated my gifts of soaps and lotion bars. I even got an order for Christmas already.
I really unplugged and don't know how I'll catch up with all these posts from my soap peeps!

 

[NewlyCreative]

I tested 11 fragrance oils and one EO blend. Anyone have soap turn orange and rice when adding sweet orange EO and rosemary EO blend?

On the plus side this soap will probably make an amazing degreaser. The soap is white on the bottom so I’m thinking of just cutting the top off.

Plus I really like Kokum butter - it makes my soaps shiny and hard, even at just 10%.

 

[AliOop]

Anyone have soap turn orange and rice when adding sweet orange EO and rosemary EO blend?

What brand of EO, and how old? Many brands from Amazon are adulterated with ingredients that cause problems in soap. Plus, any EO can easily oxidize over time, or under less than ideal storage conditions. Oxidiation will definitely cause acceleration.

 

[NewlyCreative]

What brand of EO, and how old? Many brands from Amazon are adulterated with ingredients that cause problems in soap. Plus, any EO can easily oxidize over time, or under less than ideal storage conditions. Oxidiation will definitely cause acceleration

The same brand that made the neroli fragrance water I was talking about previously, lol. That said I cannot get the cap to screw back on the EO correctly, so maybe it did oxidize.

I bought the EO about 2.5 months ago.

 

[Jorah]

Your soap is lovely! Where did you get your deep single soap mold? Thank you

Edit: sorry, I misread your question the first time. I found that mold on Amazon. It's called the
"JET LAG Rectangle Silicone Soap Mold 4oz, 12 Bar Soap Mold for Soap Making, Thick and Durable with Flat Sides and Smooth Lines"

 

[Jorah]

Today I finally got off my butt and made soap. I had to clean the whole basement room where my workbench is, as 5 weeks of entropy had made the place unusable. Once that was done, I made two batches of 500 grams of fat each (a Castile and a 72% that I threw some madder root into) and one charcoal and pumice batch that had 2,324 grams of oil. That last one should give me 20-22 bars. I'm expecting the bars to be a light gray color, but the batter looked very dark.

 

[Terri E]

I decided to make a small batch of hot processed soap. I was never a fan of hot processed for some reason but after making this little batch I may just change my mind I fragranced it with
my version of a dupe of Hempz Apricot & Clementine that was inspired by a post by @dmcgee5034

 

[dmcgee5034]

I fragranced it with my version of a dupe of Hempz Apricot & Clementine that was inspired by a post by @dmcgee5034

How did your dup come out @Terri E? I am waiting for my FOs to give it a try.
BTW - I love the soaps with the darling toppers add on them. I’m going to guess that’s an alpaca, since I have this funny guide to telling llamas and alpacas apart

 

[Terri E]

How did your dup come out @Terri E? I am waiting for my FOs to give it a try.
BTW - I love the soaps with the darling toppers add on them. I’m going to guess that’s an alpaca, since I have this funny guide to telling llamas and alpacas apart

Thank you and yes I think it is an alpaca the dupe came out great! Very close I think. I have the lotion and I keep smelling it then smelling the FO mix. I get nose-blind so I think it must be close
It is a mix of Peach Bellini, Clementine, Apricot and Market Peach

 

[Shelley D]

SMF Decals ~ are they digital or an actual stick-on sticker? I see the announcement in the daily email and when I click on it it goes to the page that explains the "support the forum" stuff but I'm not seeing how to go about getting some

 

[Servant4Christ]

I made a simple no color batch to test a FO that I suspect I have a contact allergy to. I really love the smell, though.

 

[dmcgee5034]

SMF Decals ~ are they digital or an actual stick-on sticker? I see the announcement in the daily email and when I click on it it goes to the page that explains the "support the forum" stuff but I'm not seeing how to go about getting some

They are real actual stickers - mine magically appeared in the mail one day

 

[BWt]

Or you could invest in a program like Soapmaker 3.

Just purchased Soapmaker 3. Learning to use it.

 

[Shelley D]

They are real actual stickers - mine magically appeared in the mail one day

Ah, I checked my account info but I don't see a place to enter my mailing address

 

[BWt]

Here are the two scrubby soaps I made yesterday, with palm and OO pomace. Both batches behaved well, which surprised me, because really, what was I thinking when I combined them and then added clays in the mix… The one thing these batches did not have is castor oil. Maybe the castor with palm thing has been my problem all along. I left it out because I made these soaps with 25% CO instead of 20%.

The scrubiness in this one is from pumice and sea salt and it’s colored with clay and oxides. This batch is scented with EOCalc’s Revive (tea tree, peppermint, lavender and eucalyptus).

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The scrubiness in this one is from a blend of coffee, cornmeal, orange peel and powered chamomile and calendula flowers. The colors are from the additives and clays, including some that I dug myself from a friend’s property in central Virginia. The clay colors ranged from yellow to red so I’m not exactly sure how I achieved that bronze green color. This one is scented with a blend of Orange 10x and BeScented’s Volcano. I probably should have done orange and cedar, but I was very worried about acceleration(!) and picked scents I knew would slow things down.

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All so gorgeous and so well planned!