What soapy thing have you done today?

[penelopejane]

I cracked my rim aghhhh

Too hot

 

[McMomWV]

Made a batch of coconut bars to make laundry soap the other day. Oldest daughter coming over to catch up on GoT. We'll spend the evening watching tv and grating.

 

[MySoapyHeart]

These are the saltbars I was talking about yesterday. 100 % CO, 20% SF, 35% salt. Scented with Lavender, Orange 5 fold and Ylang Ylang. Such a delishious combo, just had to play with something I have never done before.

(Btw - these are not made to be pretty or beautifull, these are just made to be a fun pop of color in the shower.)

A few of them are full of holes because the last scrape of batter set up so fast on me I had to smosh it into the mold. These will not be gifted.

I tested the suds with a gloved hand, and strangely enough the colors are not giving off much color at all, which is great. By looking at them one would think they would stain really bad. Nurture Neon colors and a mix of different samples.

I will give these babies 6 months to cure, can`t wait to test them out!

 

[mzimm]

These are the saltbars I was talking about yesterday. 100 % CO, 20% SF, 35% salt. Scented with Lavender, Orange 5 fold and Ylang Ylang. Such a delishious combo, just had to play with something I have never done before.

(Btw - these are not made to be pretty or beautifull, these are just made to be a fun pop of color in the shower.)

A few of them are full of holes because the last scrape of batter set up so fast on me I had to smosh it into the mold. These will not be gifted.

I tested the suds with a gloved hand, and strangely enough the colors are not giving off much color at all, which is great. By looking at them one would think they would stain really bad. Nurture Neon colors and a mix of different samples.

I will give these babies 6 months to cure, can`t wait to test them out!

I'll say they pop! Just curious, why won't you be gifting them? Are you going to hog them all? lol
My granddaughter (age 6) would spend all day in the bathtub with these as buddies.

 

[MySoapyHeart]

I'll say they pop! Just curious, why won't you be gifting them? Are you going to hog them all? lol
My granddaughter (age 6) would spend all day in the bathtub with these as buddies.

No, not going to hog them all, haha : P I may not have been specific enough, sorry, I just meant that the ones that I feel are too ugly and that have holes in them because of the smooshing - those I will not gift. But the other ones will of course find some new homes after the cure, otherwise I have to make my husband sleep on the couch becuase the appartememt is overtaken by all my soaps, lol : D

I am sure these would be apealing to the kids, they sure are colorfull!

 

[niclycha]

No it was actually cool I took it out about 9 hours later it was back to room temperature. Maybe too thick, May have waited too long

 

[earlene]

jules92207, "California faults"
LOL (I lived in California the first 50 years of my life, so I surely get that!)

MySoapyHeart, "Btw - these are not made to be pretty or beautifull, these are just made to be a fun pop of color in the shower"
They are beautiful anyway! And those colors are wonderful!
~ ~ ~

My soapy thing. I am glad I was too tired to start soaping last night, as we had a storm with a power outage right about the time I would have been wanting to stick blend or see what I was doing.

So I made soap this morning using some of my new stuff from yesterday's WSP delivery. Goats Milk Soap, with an attempt at a ghost swirl (inspired by BlackDog's weekend soaps thread, and Auntie Clara's Ghost Swirl post on her blog.) I am not sure I have enough experience yet to pull this off, but I gave it a shot. Perhaps trying it with GM soap at 30% lye concentration wasn't the best recipe to try this with the first time out, but it's already done, so I'll just have to wait and see.

I also bought some lard today because I have been considering making soap for my husband, the carnivore, using lard. I don't plan to use it myself, but since I cook meat for him I may as well make soap with lard for him, too.

 

[Dahila]

Buttermilk and zinc oxide bastille soap. It is round (some of them) and nice white color one unscended one with Vanilla bean

 

[mzimm]

Yesterday I made a 500 gm batch of 4 butters & lard with goat milk. I used 50 gm each of coco, mango, shea and kokum butters plus 50 gm babassu & 25 gm castor oils then 225 gm lard. I added 14 gm goat milk powder to 50 gm of the water for my lye solution to dissolve it and added that after emulsion. Everything went great until I added the FO and over did the SBing. Ended up plopping pudding in my mold. I'm looking forward to cutting it.

Teresa, I'd be very interested in how you like this soap. I have very small amounts of mango butter, kokum butter, and cocoa butter that I need to use up. Over time, they've come in as free samples from somewhere or another, and I've just never gotten around to testing them out. Lard, castor and shea are regulars around here, but the babassu isn't, I'd have to leave that out.

 

[penelopejane]

These are the saltbars I was talking about yesterday. 100 % CO, 20% SF, 35% salt. Scented with Lavender, Orange 5 fold and Ylang Ylang. Such a delishious combo, just had to play with something I have never done before.

(Btw - these are not made to be pretty or beautifull, these are just made to be a fun pop of color in the shower.)

A few of them are full of holes because the last scrape of batter set up so fast on me I had to smosh it into the mold. These will not be gifted.

I tested the suds with a gloved hand, and strangely enough the colors are not giving off much color at all, which is great. By looking at them one would think they would stain really bad. Nurture Neon colors and a mix of different samples.

I will give these babies 6 months to cure, can`t wait to test them out!

Love the owls! So cute. Love the hearts too.

 

[earlene]

Last night I unmolded by ghost swirl Goats Milk soaps & cut the 1-pound loaf. I saw an eagle in one of the bars last night, but can't find it this morning. It flew away! Well I did have my eyes dilated this morning at the eye doctor's office, so maybe it's my vision. Love the new FO I used, WSP's Sweet Honeysuckle; it behaved so well, and smells so nice to me. I did use 5 ounces of lavender infused almond oil in the recipe, too so it may have some effect on the FO, but I doubt enough to notice, given it was only 14% of the oils. But the scent of the lavender is really unexpectedly strong in the oil. I've been using it straight on my hands and loving it.

Today: gather soaps to bring along to give to my niece & her husband (roadtrip starts tomorrow). Package some laundry butter & Zero % SF CO soap for her, too. Tidy soaping worktable and other soap related stuff. Package some of my shampoo to bring on trip (for personal use only - not giving away something so new until thoroughly tested on myself for several months). Weekly soap weights (may be a day early).

 

[TeresaT]

Teresa, I'd be very interested in how you like this soap. I have very small amounts of mango butter, kokum butter, and cocoa butter that I need to use up. Over time, they've come in as free samples from somewhere or another, and I've just never gotten around to testing them out. Lard, castor and shea are regulars around here, but the babassu isn't, I'd have to leave that out.

I shouldn't have wrapped it in a towel. It overheated and got ugly, which I didn't discover until yesterday. I had to cut a lot of soap off to make it presentable. But, that gave me a chance to try it out. It is like washing with lotion. There was a rich creamy lather and my skin was soft and pampered afterwards. There was no tight feeling or dryness. I'm looking forward to seeing how it feels after a good cure. If you PM your address, I can send you some babassu to try in your batch. I had melted it down and poured it into my cube mold. I used half a cube for my batch.

 

[earlene]

Today: gather soaps to bring along to give to my niece & her husband (roadtrip starts tomorrow). Package some laundry butter & Zero % SF CO soap for her, too. Tidy soaping worktable and other soap related stuff. Package some of my shampoo to bring on trip (for personal use only - not giving away something so new until thoroughly tested on myself for several months). Weekly soap weights (may be a day early).

All of the above done Plus:

Tossed out soap shavings I've been saving to use in rebatch. (I have enough soap & decided if I don't use them right away, then I don't need them.)
Tested my 8-9 month old/young Castile Soap. Lovely lather. I had to work at it to get it to slime, but it did finally. :think:
Tested my pumpkin oil soap; also so good lather, but I don't think I am fond of this soap. Smells good (no fragrance added) with a hint of the pumpkin seeds. It's still quite young, so I'll let it cure a bit more, maybe I'll like it later.
Re-organized/consolidated some of my EO/FO storage; colorant storage; moved some curing soaps around (relocation).
I'm generally happy with the amount I got done today, both soapy & non-soapy. I made 3 trips to the garbage can & recycle bin tossing things out!

 

[shunt2011]

I'm planning on doing some wonderful soapiness this weekend. Need to make a few restocks and more salt bars. Those things have been selling like hotcakes lately. Had my second show of the year last weekend and sold a lot of soap and scrubs.

Want to try a couple new techniques that I haven't had the time to try out in my slab mold too.

 

[apples]

Browsing this thread and happy to hear everyone's "soapiness"! My upset-ness is gone and planning for soaping marathon next weekend! (Upset because someone commented that she's SOooo worried that my soap won't sell coz they look so plain she won't even buy, gosh I'm never gonna offer her any of my "gift soap" anymore...but thanks to her, I came up with more designs for my coming marathon) *feeling determined*

 

[MySoapyHeart]

Browsing this thread and happy to hear everyone's "soapiness"! My upset-ness is gone and planning for soaping marathon next weekend! (Upset because someone commented that she's SOooo worried that my soap won't sell coz they look so plain she won't even buy, gosh I'm never gonna offer her any of my "gift soap" anymore...but thanks to her, I came up with more designs for my coming marathon) *feeling determined*

Wahhh? Tsk, tsk! She obviously does not know that awesome soap doesn`t need to look super fancy with toppings of leaf gold, and dried organic Passion Fruit leaves.

You know the most interesting people in the world are usually those who doesn`t look like supermodels. I have found that the same goes for soaps! As long as they are safe, well put together, and well cured it doesn`t matter how they look like!

I am sure your soap will do just fine!

 

[skayc1]

Made Strawberry scented Soap this morning, used the embeds that I made a few days ago.

Top view of the 1 lb mold

side view of the 1 lb mold

top view of the tall n skinny mold-

side view of the tall n skinny mold-

 

[penelopejane]

Browsing this thread and happy to hear everyone's "soapiness"! My upset-ness is gone and planning for soaping marathon next weekend! (Upset because someone commented that she's SOooo worried that my soap won't sell coz they look so plain she won't even buy, gosh I'm never gonna offer her any of my "gift soap" anymore...but thanks to her, I came up with more designs for my coming marathon) *feeling determined*

Funny! My boys had always used white commercial soap and had to be convinced that coloured handmade soap was ok! They are still happy with plain but like the coloured too, now.

 

[MySoapyHeart]

Made Strawberry scented Soap this morning, used the embeds that I made a few days ago.

Well, I just gained 3 pounds by looking at this delishous dessert of a soap! Well done : D

 

[artemis]

Browsing this thread and happy to hear everyone's "soapiness"! My upset-ness is gone and planning for soaping marathon next weekend! (Upset because someone commented that she's SOooo worried that my soap won't sell coz they look so plain she won't even buy, gosh I'm never gonna offer her any of my "gift soap" anymore...but thanks to her, I came up with more designs for my coming marathon) *feeling determined*

I *love* a simply designed soap. While I appreciate an elegant swirl, I am always drawn to clean lines and minimal color combinations.