What soapy thing have you done today?

[msunnerstood]

I do make a complete mess, so the kitchen looks like a disaster zone afterwards - or worse.

I think that comes with soaping. Id be horrified if you saw my soaping area currently. I soap one day, and clean up the next because its a project all by itself.

 

[lindakschickens]

Made a gentle cleasning face and hair soap I did add a few special oils as I found them at a decent price like jojoba oil and sea buckthorn oil and hemp (my lab loves the smell of hemp oil and followed me around while I had it), I added some beeswax to help make it a harder bar I used fine ground comfrey,sunflower and calendula petals as well as a little bee pollen and vit e. added maybe 1/4-1/2tsp of rosemary ess oil.

Was quite happy with it smells like a herbal therapeutic medicine but I forgot one lil think while I was patting putting myself on the back for a job well done.. that would be I forgot a soap molds but living in the UK where scones are sold in cardboard loaf trays I had a soap old haha. Add petals on top.

 

[Serene]

Continued to work on the challenge soap even though I was supposed to be finished. It went from 1 soap to 4. I am at the point where an intervention is needed. I cant seem to stop. Help.

 

[SudsanSoaps]

I made a couple batches of soap and picked up 20 lbs of fat to render.

 

[Dean]

When security wasn’t looking I illicitly fondled a bar of castille soap at the grocery store. Is it suppose to be soft i.e. dent-able? I thought 100% OO soap dried hard.

 

[earlene]

Dean, did you read the ingredients label? Was it 100% OO? IN the US, not all Castile soaps even contain OO, let alone 100%, as the result of a 1932 court case, James S. Kirk & Co. vs. the Federal Trade Commission (link).

However, if it was 100% OO, then my guess is it was so new it had not cured long enough to become hard yet. Out of curiosity What kind of soap was it? Commercial soap or Hand-crafted/Artisanal soap?

 

[OldHippie]

I made pumice soap last night, and rebatched it this morning. Not enough pumice imo. I had used 1T ppo but you could barely tell it was in there.

I've found that about 1.2 oz pumice PPO is a functional quantity.

 

[Misschief]

One of my co-vendors asked me last week if I was able to make custom scents. She wants something that smells like a Williams Sonoma soap that she absolutely loves -- Lemongrass and Ginger. Today, I made a Lemongrass and Ginger soap. We don't have Williams Sonoma here in Canada so I have no idea if my soap will be close to their scent or not but it does smell nice.

 

[Dean]

Dean, did you read the ingredients label? Was it 100% OO? IN the US, not all Castile soaps even contain OO, let alone 100%, as the result of a 1932 court case, James S. Kirk & Co. vs. the Federal Trade Commission (link).

However, if it was 100% OO, then my guess is it was so new it had not cured long enough to become hard yet. Out of curiosity What kind of soap was it? Commercial soap or Hand-crafted/Artisanal soap?

Olive was the only oil. It had some type of salt in it too.

Wasn’t artisan but not quite commercial either. I dont recal the brand. It was sold at Whole Foods, a high end chain grocer.

 

[earlene]

Then I would guess it hasn't cured long enough before sent to the store. Or maybe it's really humid in LA right now and the soap is soaking up the humidity?

 

[Rune]

I have a castile soap, so I ran and fondled it. It is rock hard. But it is also very old. I don't remember exactly, but it is around or more than 1,5 years old.

The castile soap you fondled might be one of those "fresh handmade soaps" that are so popular these days. I have seen Lush marketing fresh soaps, but I have also seen pictures of it elsewhere. I think it was from a grocery store in America, where they cut bars from a loaf. And if castile soaps are fresh instead of cured, they will be relatively soft for a while, if I don't remember wrong. It is a while since I made it, and my memory is like zero.

 

[Dean]

Then I would guess it hasn't cured long enough before sent to the store. Or maybe it's really humid in LA right now and the soap is soaking up the humidity?

It has been a lil humid lately but compared to other parts of the country LA is not very humid. The soap was wrapped in plastic. The brand also had a mostly CO soap that was much harder...as could b expected.

 

[steffamarie]

Finally bit the bullet and grated up my Daisy Chain soap. It's about half and half olive oil and rice bran oil, but I dispersed the colorants in FCO and it just made it so soft and squishy, even after a month's cure. I'm going to leave them for a while and see if they end up hardening up enough to be used. I have some more Daisy Chain FO on the way so I'll probably make a confetti soap with the shreds once they've dried out a little. We'll see how it goes...also I have some RBO infusing with spearmint and lemongrass tea for further lovely botanical soaps

 

[Dean]

Just poured a batch 100% almond oil soap. We will see if it lives up to the single-oil soap tests. I think I finally got the color right...”sunshine” to go with the faint orange scent. My silly fantasy that keeps me from jumping out a window at work is to create a soap brand around the sunshine-orange theme. Have u seen the documentary on Burt of Burts Bees? Fascinating. His GF that later became his wife created an entire brand around him and his bees.

 

[steffamarie]

Just poured a batch 100% almond oil soap. We will see if it lives up to the single-oil soap tests. I think I finally got the color right...”sunshine” to go with the faint orange scent. My silly fantasy that keeps me from jumping out a window at work is to create a soap brand around the sunshine-orange theme. Have u seen the documentary on Burt of Burts Bees? Fascinating. His GF and later his wife created an entire brand around him and his bees.

Let us know how that turns out!! I saw one lather test that had great results, and I'm very curious.

Love the sunshine idea!

 

[msunnerstood]

I've found that about 1.2 oz pumice PPO is a functional quantity.

Thats about what I rebatched it with. Its taking a long time to dry out.. pretty soft yet. Ive heard rebatch takes longer but I have no idea how long to expect.

 

[Lin19687]

The last rebatch i did was still soft after a week. I tossed it due to that and it just looked god awful and the scent was just blahk

 

[penelopejane]

Made castile in individual molds. I took it to emulsion as I wanted it to pour really well and fill the corners. I was going to do a decoration on the top with some tools when it had set enough. It is freezing here and it still hasn't set enough 7 hours later.
I want to go to bed.

 

[Lin19687]

Oh I so hear you @penelopejane . I hate it when I soap too late and then get really tired. I went to bed thinking it would be all fine to cut in the morning. It was ok, but harder to cut and I was afraid of breaking a wire.

 

[SoapAddict415]

I finally made my African Black soap and used my butterfly embed. I LOVE how it turned out so much that plan to order another mold and put my butterfly in all of my future loaves.