What soapy thing have you done today?

[MorpheusPA]

An unscented soap done with iron oxides (yellow, red, and black) and titanium dioxide (white). The base is mostly olive with some palm and 8% coconut.

 

[Ruthie]

Wow, Morpheus, that looks fantastic! I'd love to see it after cut!

 

[mattiesmom]

Opportunity?

Sorry about the Mother-in-Law issues--that's sad - instead of cleaning up, teach her how to make soap and turn her into your soaping buddy.

 

[MorpheusPA]

Wow, Morpheus, that looks fantastic! I'd love to see it after cut!

Yeah, me too. I only lightly layered the inside, so we'll see.

 

[cmzaha]

Just finished up a peppermint, lavender and cedarwood batch and a litsea and basil batch. I have been in need of a few new ones for market, and hopefully these will be winners. One is in the freezer and one in a plastic crate to gel.

 

[Saponista]

And you said you couldn't do swirls Morpheus! That looks beautiful to me!

 

[DeeAnna]

Made my first ever piece of wet-felted fabric today. (Is it correct to call it fabric?) A local gal is a passionate wet felter and taught a little class to several of us beginners. This might seem a little OT, but here's the link -- I had made several felted soaps, but wasn't comfortable with my technique, so I wanted to learn how to do it correctly.

I learned that soap is used when wet felting (even if you aren't felting bar soaps!) because the alkalinity of the soap helps the wool to felt together. The soap my teacher preferred was an olive oil soap that is mild to the hands and does not suds much at all. The soap should have a relatively low superfat because fats interfere with felting. I see some homework and maybe a soapy project in my future -- what about a liquid soap paste made from olive oil or something like that........

 

[maya]

Just finished up a peppermint, lavender and cedarwood batch and a litsea and basil batch. I have been in need of a few new ones for market, and hopefully these will be winners. One is in the freezer and one in a plastic crate to gel.

Those sound nummy!

I wrapped soap. wrappedsoapwrappedsoap and wrapppedandwrappedandwrappedandwrappedandwrapped. And then I wrapped more soap.

 

[TRBeck]

Small batch of lavender and green tea soap to check out a couple of new micas from Mad Oils.

Batch of shave soap with a new evergreen fougere fragrance blend.

 

[TBandCW]

Your soap looks awesome! I'll be wrapping a lot of soap in the next few weeks. Luckily my 12 yr old grandson is a champion wrapper and makes good money from Grandma for doing it!

 

[TBandCW]

This soap forum is dangerous!!!! :razz:

After reading up on 100% CO soap for laundry and advice from y'all, I went to the store, got some coconut oil (lucky for me Kroger has their own brand and saved me $3!) and made soap. It was the easiest soap I've ever made and today I cut it into stain sticks to cure. Can't wait to try it and also make my laundry soap with it!

 

[maya]

Thank you TBandCW!

 

[FlybyStardancer]

I learned that soap is used when wet felting (even if you aren't felting bar soaps!) because the alkalinity of the soap helps the wool to felt together. The soap my teacher preferred was an olive oil soap that is mild to the hands and does not suds much at all. The soap should have a relatively low superfat because fats interfere with felting. I see some homework and maybe a soapy project in my future -- what about a liquid soap paste made from olive oil or something like that........

Yup, the alkalinity of the soap lifts the scales of the wool fibers up, allowing them to interlock. Heat and agitation do too (which is why those nice sweaters shrink down when getting accidentally mixed up with the clothes going into the washer on hot). This is why my handknits are amongst the few things I'm not willing to wash with natural soap.

 

[MorpheusPA]

And you said you couldn't do swirls Morpheus! That looks beautiful to me!

Even a blind hog finds a truffle occasionally.

 

[reinbeau]

This is my take on a recipe a fellow FB soaper posted yesterday. I used calendula infused rice bran oil, instead of neem I used karanja oil (same family, a little less stinky), those two made the batter nice, creamy yellow. I used goat's milk for the lye and added a couple tablespoons of finely sifted ground oats. Kept out a little batter and added a touch of TD to get a swirl and to use on the top. Oh yea, I used a nice lemon verbena FO from Sweet Cakes, it smells so much lime LV it's amazing.

This is also the maiden voyage of the Upland mold I got from the soaper I bought out - hard to take a good picture of the soap it's so long! I've got it under cover in the oven, but not CPOPping it, I'm just keeping it nice and cozy. I've got my eye on it in case it overheats, I'll whip that out into a snowbank!! We'll see how it turns out.

 

[cmzaha]

Those sound nummy!

I wrapped soap. wrappedsoapwrappedsoap and wrapppedandwrappedandwrappedandwrappedandwrapped. And then I wrapped more soap.

How fun to wrap so much soap... Yep the peppermint, lavender and cedarwood does smell nummy!

 

[SweetBubbleTreat]

I cut my first textured top soap....I'm so proud of it it turned out phenomenal!!!!

And this is my clay soaps I did a little while ago.

And here's my red white and blue that turned out pink white and purple...thank goodness it's shampoo for women lol

 

[kchaystack]

Here is the cutting from my BB mini mold.

I also got several more 1lb molds from WSP and a few FO from natures garden.

To be ready for all this I am master batching a 50:50 lye solution so all I have to deal with is prepping oils.

This weekend I need to put together a proper light box....

 

[FlybyStardancer]

I'm working on a confetti soap, using some of my failed whipped soap from earlier this year. My first confetti soap! And even using what's maybe half of the failed batch, I'm still going to have more than enough for this batch. @_@ Oh well, at least it'll give me a chance to play around with scent mixes! lol

I have my oils measured out, but I need to wait until after my cat's dinner time to do more... She's constantly bugging me right now (in an attempt to get me to feed her sooner), but she'll settle down once her tummy is full.

 

[jules92207]

Cut my two batches from this weekend - a Mango Orange soap and a Lavender & Tea Tree. Both were experimenting with higher coconut and lard and the Mango Orange was my first with some added silk.