I just went out and bought a 2 speed KitchenAid stickblender at Walmart. I hope to have time to test it out tonight.
I'm setting up for my next batch It's Dandelion Honey. My Dandelion Infused oil is ready, so here we go.So I'm just wondering what stages everyone's at. I'm a curious little cat, I am.
For myself, I'm waiting for my most recent batch of bar soap to firm up (trying to give it 24 hours before I even touch it, since the soapcalc numbers put it just shy of the 'ideal' hardness range). In addition I fiddled around with the liquid soap I made yesterday (a good chunk of it didn't dissolved, and I was seeing if that was because there wasn't enough water to dilute it all... sure enough that was the problem so it was diluted and added to the bottle holding the rest of it).
And right now I have a tea going that will eventually be strained and frozen, to be used when I make my shampoo bar. Still need to get to my aunt's to pick her citrus trees... But at least I can have the liquid ready to go! I measured out 1/2 oz of dried marshmallow root, 1 1/2 cups water (both weighed to the gram), and then for kicks I tossed in one bag each of Bigelow's Chammomile Lemon and I Love Lemon teas. I'm going to be infusing both chamomile and lemon into the oils, and needed to use the teas anyways (and I don't drink tea). Win-win, right? I might not need all of the tea for the shampoo bar (I'll only be using about 500g oils after all), but at least I'll have it done.
Nice!!! I was just going to post something about whether to infuse tomato powder in oil or add it like mica into my soaps.I infused madder root, ancho chili, tumeric, and tomato powder into castor oil (sous vide, 12 hours, 152°)View attachment 77438View attachment 77439 Life popped up in the tumeric
The tomato didn't seem to do a thing
The ancho and madder root seem to be the same color
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