What soapy thing have you done today?

[Soapsense]

Ocean Rain is that the one that smells like Lever 2000? If that's the one, I had a slight bit of acceleration but not too bad. I love that smell.

 

[eyeroll]

I'm getting ready to make my first ever beer soap. Squeeeeee! SO. EXCITED.

 

[seven]

doing my first ls as we speak. doing half water half glycerin. took a while to trace. having a ciggie break while waiting for my sb to cool down..

 

[Susie]

It is supposed to rain today, so I am going to do a lemongrass EO CP soap to mix the ugly confetti soap into. Lemongrass/mint should not be too bad. Trying hard to wait to take yesterday's batch out of the mold to let it finish setting up. I did my first attempt at room temp non-gelled, so no idea how long it should take. Any ideas? There is no room in the freezer, so I can only hasten it by putting it in the fridge, would that work?

 

[crey15]

Sounds like it would smell
Delicious. U could add ginger or coconut milk and make a Thai soup inspired soap. Im a chef professionally so always think with my stomach. Haha

 

[Miz Jenny]

CPRT double butter soap with Orchid fo from NDA. Smells delish. Pink swirls on top using squeeze bottle. Put leftover batter in cowboy boots molds so I'll have 3 pink cowboy boots soaps. Gonna call the soap Pink Orchid.

 

[crey15]

Just bought 2.5 lbs of pink Himalayan salt from the supermarket ( sprouts) in the bulk section for $2/lb!! Almost screamed in joy when I saw the price . Hahha this ties back to the grocery store post - my shopping was slowed down by my soaping dreams

 

[FlybyStardancer]

Went shopping today! Got gloves and oils for soaping. (Sadly, I couldn't even find the non-certified kirkland organic OO. Had to go with their normal OO.)

Also, my shipment of colorants and FOs from WSP arrived today! I just opened it. I think there was a bit of an accident while filling one of the bottles of FO, because there's a bit of it on the outside of the bottle (just a touch, and I couldn't find any crack for a leak), but it was enough to make everything smell like it even to my plugged-up nose! And I got a little on my hand looking to see if there was a crack for a leak, so next time I need to handle them, I'll be putting on gloves.

Now, if only my kitchen would clean itself, I'd make a batch of soap...

 

[mom2four34]

Forgot to add fo to my beautifully swirled soap so rebatching is on tap, UGH!

Rebatch= Need I say more

Karen

 

[Violetpoof]

I've been working on a CP recipe for a mild, luxury soap. For experiments I use a one bar sample recipe. 35% Olive oil, 30% coconut, 15% castor, 15% cocoa butter, 3% jojoba, 2% shea butter. It came to trace within a couple minutes, popped easily from my recycled fancy feast mold but was a bit crumbly on the edges. I tested it after a week of curing and found it to have a stable, silky lather. I'm thinking I need to rework to decrease cocoa butter for a more pliable soap.

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

I've been working on a CP recipe for a mild, luxury soap. For experiments I use a one bar sample recipe. 35% Olive oil, 30% coconut, 15% castor, 15% cocoa butter, 3% jojoba, 2% shea butter. It came to trace within a couple minutes, popped easily from my recycled fancy feast mold but was a bit crumbly on the edges. I tested it after a week of curing and found it to have a stable, silky lather. I'm thinking I need to rework to decrease cocoa butter for a more pliable soap.

I'd say you need to lower the castor and maybe even the CO, too

 

[Violetpoof]

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a go. hmmm maybe 5% castor and more olive (oil on hand in this novice state) and CO, cocoa or coconut? I figured on taking cocoa down to 7% or so.

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

A lot of people find anything more than 20% coconut oil to be too drying, but it depends on SF and skin type.

 

[Violetpoof]

Ahhh, thanks. I'm planning to work with palm and sunflower oils for more versatility and cost effectiveness. Palm may be ticket for replacing some of the coconut.

 

[shunt2011]

I too would takeyour Coconut down. I generally use 15-22%. Your Castor is a bit high as well. I would lower that to 5-7% as it can make your soap sticky. I have used as much as 15% with no problem but used Sodium Lactate which probably helped. I also superfat between 8-10%.

 

[seven]

nothing much today, just finishing a couple of orders for mp base. i'm thinking, black raspberry vanilla soap for tonight, but i have no idea how to do it. zero in the creativity and inspiration department at the moment.

 

[kryse13]

checked my package status 3 times WHY ISN"T IT HERE YET! its only been 4 days since I ordered it and they call for 2 weeks. :razz:

 

[ilovesoap2]

I hope this is not a double post. I'm feeling a little off kilter right now. Based on trying to get the best prices on bulk purchases, I ordered
10 lbs of lye. It came today with big warning signs on the box about dangerous goods, and on the outside the box is listed exactly what's
inside The mailman is probably wondering what the heck?? I have not opened the box but it's very heavy, based on the company website
I guess a lot of the weight is the bottles themselves. I still think 10 lbs is a lot and that I may have overdone myself...
Is this too much guys? hopefully it has as forever shelf life.eta: $4.40 per lb is what I got.

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

...............I still think 10 lbs is a lot and that I may have overdone myself.............

That's only enough for, what, 40 1kg batches of soap?

 

[ilovesoap2]

^^^
So not that much after all? This heavy 'danger' box was just a little daunting to me. Baby soapmaker, baby steps :crazy: