What soapy thing have you done today?

[seven]

last night i made a batch of oatmeal and honey soap. it was loaded with lotsa olive, coconut, avocado and a dash of rice bran. no palm this time, since i cant find it here. no fancy swirls, no fo/eo as well. just a simple soap loaded with goodness.

tomorrow i'm making my bearberry extract soap.. it better make my skin fairer, or else i'd be pissed as hell.

 

[jules92207]

Made a goats milk fragranced with milk sugar kisses and a bit of clove. Most of them gelled without any help from me, also was the first time I added the fragrance to the oils before the lye mix knowing the spicy eo would likely give me issues - what a brilliant concept! This is why I love this forum. Smooth as a babies butt to work with!

Also made a fishing soap for hubby with industrial strength triple brewed coffee and anise eo. So far it looks awesome but I did notice two of the bars have slight weeping in them. They are the two in the middle of the mold so maybe just the heat? Haven't zap tested it yet, hoping it just absorbs.

 

[inkyfingers]

My soapy thing I did today - after my soaping buddy became overwhelmed with a few stressful events, she emailed to tell me she had to back out of our soapy dream of selling soap. She encouraged me to go it alone, as I've become good at soaping (compared to how I was 2 months ago), but I just don't want to do this by myself.

So I'm sad over my broken bubbly dreams.

I think I'm going to cry now.

 

[jules92207]

My soapy thing I did today - after my soaping buddy became overwhelmed with a few stressful events, she emailed to tell me she had to back out of our soapy dream of selling soap. She encouraged me to go it alone, as I've become good at soaping (compared to how I was 2 months ago), but I just don't want to do this by myself.

So I'm sad over my broken bubbly dreams.

I think I'm going to cry now.

Not broken dreams, maybe just delayed. Nothing wrong with doing it on your own when you're ready.

 

[seven]

found some animal molds that were heavily discounted last night. i personally don't like them, but they sure come handy for the kiddies party favor in the upcoming months.
for today, i made my 1st beef tallow soap. i mix it with olive, rice bran, and hemp. i did it hp, simply coz i wanted to add some bearberry extract and didn't want the lye monster to eat it if i cp-ed it.

 

[songwind]

This weekend I felt like I was the star in a hidden camera documentary entitled "How Not To Make Soap."

On Saturday, I made a cold process loaf of soap in one of my column molds. Tried a funnel swirl, and it went okay. But I overfilled the mold, so I had to tip it to pour some out. Then an hour later I realized I had measured out my frag. oils but never put them in the soap batter. Also splashed a bit of soap batter on my forearm.


Still looks pretty.

Sunday I made more shave soap. Let my oils get too hot in one of the crock pots, and and boiled my lye. If you haven't tried it, it's kind of alarming. While mixing additives in, I stuck my thumb into the pot of 170 degree soap. Don't recommend that, either.

In the end, both batches came out okay, but I felt like I was in a Monty Python sketch for a while, there.

 

[houseofwool]

Today I boiled beer for a beer soap.

 

[Saponista]

Today I made an I scented boring 100%CO no superfat soap for laundry. Hot processed it.

 

[HerbalEarthling]

Today I "steam cleaned" the ash off of my bars. They look 1000x better! So much easier than rubbing, dousing, or whatever other weird ways people try to remove the ash.

 

[Pepsi Girl]

Today I placed an order from WSP, they had butters on sale! I'm a sucker for a sale!

 

[Tienne]

It's taken two months to get here and the wretched shipping and customs fees near tripled the price, but... *drumroll*.... my Bud Cutter is finally here!! It's here!! Woowoo!!

 

[Saponista]

I tried making some soap with soya wax to make it hard instead if Palm, lard, or cocoa butter.

 

[songwind]

Despite my Keystone Cops shenanigans, the soap came out pretty well when I cut it yesterday.

 

[Sagebrush]

Bought a canopy online for the farmer's market I'll be setting up for starting in a month. Made a couple molds of sage leaves with mold putty yesterday, which I'll eventually fill to try to make into stamps for product bags. Optimistically bought a stamp pad today

Songwind, those soaps look beautiful!

 

[jules92207]

Love the soaps Songwind, those look fabulous!

I made a new recipe with a citrus, lavender, rosemary and peppermint blend I wasn't to happy with so I could give a go at swirls. I am actually really happy with the results. The fragrance is already improving too!

 

[Sagebrush]

Had a friend over and showed her how I make soap...it was nice to have someone interested in the process We made a black charcoal and white swirled soap with vanilla and cedar leaf EO. Hopefully, it turns out well...it started thickening up quicker than I hoped.

 

[mintle]

My leg got fractured (unluckily) and I have plenty of time (luckily).

I tried to make a camo soap yesterday. It is a very gentle recipe with cleansing value 13 and it is too early to unmold so I don't know what it's like on the inside.
Scented with a lot of patchouli eo and a bit of litsea & grapefruit.
The colours were supposed to be very bright but faded away overnigh. The orange mica had some shimmers and they show through, even after gelling!

I need to cut soon because I'm afraid this batch could run away and camouflage itself among, let's say, zillions of these little beetles!

Btw, this is my all-time favourite soap mold - that is iPhone package box . Perfect size (approx. 600g of soap) for trials and errors; it allows to practice swirls but at the same time if something goes wrong I don't have to throw 1kg of oils away. I really don't know what I will do if this mold wears out, I guess I will have to buy another phone hehehe.

 

[neeners]

tried my rasta soap today. it didn't QUITE turn out the way I wanted, but it's still ITM. I will post pics when I cut (don't want the angry mob at me quite yet....). oh, also tried Taiwan swirl, which turned out not too bad considering the batter was kind of thick...

oh! the scent blend I ended up with was 80% lemongrass, and 20% each dark patchouli and blood orange.

 

[jules92207]

Made a contestant for the absolute ugliest soap ever. Wanted to make a soap with little loofah cuts in it, must have mixed too much fragrance oils cause its a mustard yellow with brown stained spots where the fragrance must have seeped out. Seriously debating tossing it.

Luckily I also made a fabulous salt bar with spearmint and key lime EO's to brighten my day. Those turned out awesome.

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

I worked on the marketing for The Admirable Lady - I couldn't finish the labels as I hadn't worked out a strap line, but I now have it!

"Enchanting Formulations for the Discerning Lady."