What soapy thing have you done today?
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Finally found time to plan my challenge soap and few others to use up all my scraps. I got a bunch of design ideas from my DH and I'm excited to give them a try. 
Have ordered my lye, but I don't think I'll get it in time for either the monthly challenge or to make Valentine's Day soaps. That's alright. I'll make up for it later. Excited to see everyone's work in the challenge!
I bought 20L of olive oil! I don't buy anything soap-related in bulk, and have barely been making soap for the past 2-3 years, so this commitment is a big deal. When the price of OO sky-rocketed last year, I experimented with other oils, but there's really not a good replacement, so when I saw that the bulk purchase would save me about 50%, I decided to commit. And that way I can stop price comparing and worrying about running out.
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It's a new year and now with holidays over and garden planted it's time to address my next stage of cp soap making. I stated last year I need to take the tome to check out eos and safe fragrances and mica and natural colourants. So I came up with a way that would give me small soaps and make this learning process more fun. I have some small moulds to make 600 gram batches for and an array of tiny molds. I choose 5 colors of micas. Light pink magenta,a yellow magic and a violet and a blue ultramarine. Mixed with the avocado oil from the recipe I was using. Heated the oil till warm then added. My soaping recipe I was using has no olive oil. I used 35% lard 23%coconut extra virgin oil 6%caster 15% shea unrefined and 10 unrefined coconut butter 8% avacado oil . My daughter wanted a hard bar that lasted and had plenty of bubbles. So testing several things at the same time. I used juniper, peppermint
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Then double posted. Gremlins! Anyway it's how I'm testing things! Hope everyone is having a great day!Well it frozen then posted ! Lol ....
Wow that's a lot!! I have yet to try making multi batches at the same time. I usually plan the night before have everything weighted out and do my lye solution the night before. When I get home from work I warm everything up to my soaping temperature and make it. You must be so organized!I masterbatched 24 pounds of 50% concentration lye water. Before coffee
And realized I used 22 pounds of lye last year
Yes, I have soap coming out my whazoo
When I make slabs, not so much. But multicolor or multi-loaf batches requires days of preparation and checking and rechecking. Then execution is fast.
Fragrance and/or sodium gluconate gets missed often
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I laugh because I have done that a few times!When I make slabs, not so much. But multicolor or multi-loaf batches requires days of preparation and checking and rechecking. Then execution is fast.
Fragrance and/or sodium gluconate gets missed often
OH! You mean I can do that and I won’t be darned to soapy heck for all time?! I am laughing! Thank you, that’s great! I love ordering from my favorite online shops. TheSage.com being one of them. Why do I feel guilty buying lye from a hardware store? Ha!That’s why you visit the plumbing section of your local hardware store @MomInWA, to purchase a jar of Red Devil. I know where you live, and you DO have stores there!
Hope we can meet for coffee next time you’re in my area. Hit me up!
Today I received my order for lip balm tubes. Yay, Inventory Guy was on it before I ran out! I also boxed up several cured soap batches. Boo, Inventory Guy forgot to get cotton balls, which I like to dab with the essential oils I used for scent.
My inventory guy finally got his fragrances. Only 3 days late
The oud is phenomenal. As is the hardwood musk and plumeria. The white tea smells like grass.
Hoping they're even better when they come up to room temperature
The oud is phenomenal. As is the hardwood musk and plumeria. The white tea smells like grass.
Hoping they're even better when they come up to room temperature
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Tell that guy to put them on Mrs Z's grocery shopping list, she will remember to pick them up.
It's snowing! For southern Oklahoma, that's usually about a once a year occurrence, except for those odd years where we get a ton of snow. I'm going to collect snow to make a tiny batch of snow soap with Winter Wonderland FO.
I've been sick and have absolutely zero sense of smell right now. That's really sad for a soapmaker.
I've been sick and have absolutely zero sense of smell right now. That's really sad for a soapmaker.
When we visited Hawai'i, it was sensory overload -- and plumeria was intoxicating.My inventory guy finally got his fragrances. Only 3 days late
The oud is phenomenal. As is the hardwood musk and plumeria. The white tea smells like grass.
Hoping they're even better when they come up to room temperature
Normally I am not drawn to floral scents but, oo, plumeria is sumpin' sumpin'. Don't tell anyone, but I make plumeria scented lotion bars for myself.
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Love frangipani, I have a pink one in flower atm outside the bedroom window, the scent is very strong when it's hot and it's hot now.When we visited Hawai'i, it was sensory overload -- and plumeria was intoxicating.
Where did you get it from?View attachment 80446
I got my mold!
It's really really really well put together. Can't wait to wash and use it. It'll do 18 bars at a time no matter how they are cut (horizontally or vertically)
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