What soapy thing have you done today?

[msunnerstood]

Wow I didn't know that helps !

I think it was the salt. I just started using soy wax at about 19% and i love how the soap feels but last night is the first time I added a teaspoon of salt in water after reading it helps harden the bar. i tested the soap with some of the scraps and it didnt seem to affect the lather either.

 

[msunnerstood]

CP Salt bar with a in the pot swirl and poured into the Tube mold.
Can't wait to see how it turns out.
Now to figure out how long till I get to cut it !!! That is the hardest part in a PVC tube AND it being a salt bar you just never know

Darn good thing I pulled it out./ Hot as hell but just a tad late on cutting. Some crumbling but I Like the Swirl !
I just noticed...please excuse the water stain on the wall behind, we had Ice dams

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I was I was too busy looking at the beautiful soap to notice any water stains. Love these

 

[earlene]

I used my soy wax soap this morning. Here's what it looks like when I made it last December:

I will take some comparison hand washing photos or make an all-inclusive video, probably next week, because there are several soaps I made that I wanted to compare. (Mentioned in this thread.)

So this soap is 30% Soy Wax (415) and it has a fabulously creamy lather, and bubbles up well enough to suit me. That's why I want to do a comparison video; my description is subjective. I am not positive about the actual formula at the moment, but I'll have to look it up before I do the video because the other ingredients matter, too, of course.

 

[lrpolillo]

Just a quick batch. I added a little avocado purée this time.View attachment 29705

Thats beautiful

 

[lrpolillo]

So i have a show in two weeks my soaps are all curing and i am working on bath truffles lotions and more. I hope its a good show!!

 

[DeeAnna]

Made a test batch of 85% neem oil and 15% coconut oil yesterday and cut it this morning. Yes, it smells, but it's not nearly as super awful disgusting stinky as I expected it would be.

Pic in this thread, if you're curious: https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/neem-oil.69716/

 

[penelopejane]

Made a test batch of 85% neem oil and 15% coconut oil yesterday and cut it this morning. Yes, it smells, but it's not nearly as super awful disgusting stinky as I expected it would be.

Pic in this thread, if you're curious: https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/neem-oil.69716/

In post 37

 

[Lin19687]

Got some bins for my soaping rack,

 

[SoapAddict415]

I got the chance to go to hobby lobby today. A coworker was going & invited me. It was my first time there. I didn't buy anything but I made a mental list of all the EOs & other goodies I'd like to buy.

 

[Lin19687]

Dear lord don't buy those tiny bottles of EO for that price ! WOW, there are better places to buy.

I am slightly biased as I will not buy anything from them due to their 'religious' outlook

 

[earlene]

SoapAddict415, if you have a chance to go to The Vitamin Shoppe, they have a nice 'smelling station' set up for their EO's. They even put out a bottle of coffee beans to 'cleanse the palate' (so to speak) between sniffs. Even if you don't want to spend the money, you can get a very good idea of what each one smells like OOB, at least.

Today I got out my soapmaking notebooks. No, I have not finished unpacking from my recent trip. That's one of my goals for today, because I don't want to keep putting it off. I have been working on my computer, which is so much more time consuming than I'd like.

 

[Lin19687]

I bought a couple things to do swirls in my PVC tube. Hoping it works as it is with a Salt bar.
Got water in freezer and everything is all set up to do 2, 2# batches. 1) Green swirl Apples & Oak. 2) Reddish swirl Autumn leaves.
These are my 2 favorites from years ago. Bubbles & Lights FO's, yes I know they are not in business anymore.

 

[ItsForrest]

Lot of soap this weekend, well lots of soap for me at least. Poured these Friday. On the left is scented with dragon fruit and pear from WSP, colored with micas from Nurture. On the right is WSP ginger lime with a mica/blush clay layered swirl. Liked these so much I did a second loaf of each today. Only change from this was playing a bit with darker clay to try and contrast better with the green in the ginger/lime. I also made a goat milk soap, oatmeal and honey loaf and another attempt and perfecting a coffee soap. All of those are still in the molds. We shall see in the next day or two how they turn out.

 

[Lin19687]

Ohh I like those !
This is my end result
https://www.soapmakingforum.com/thr...-the-mold-swirl-test-results-not-great.69781/

 

[SaltedFig]

Steamed some (airtight) bags of scraps to make new soaps (using rebatching to practice pouring) ... and found a combination that turned a pretty sage green.
I'm enjoying this (bag scraps, toss in steamer, pour), it's very hands-OFF (and mess-free)

 

[amd]

Made 2 batches of soap this weekend: Very Sexy for Men VS dupe, and Vanilla Mint. This is the second time I've made both. The first time for the VS dupe, I only used .5oz FO PPO and there wasn't really any scent at all in the cured soap. I increased it to 1oz PPO, and still can't smell it. Hoping it will morph back in during the cure process because that was a spendy FO, and if I have to use more to get a decent scent... well, I won't be using it! My cure rack is now full, which hasn't happened since... September?? So I am done soapmaking for 2 weeks until soaps start coming off the cure. Guess it will be time to make bubble scoops! My lip balm caps will be here tomorrow, so I'll have time to do those too.

Chris' salt bars came off the cure rack (he is more than happy with a 60 day cure, so I humor him), so I made individual labels for them with cute little sayings on each label. Something different for each one, so he gets a little "love note" with each new bar. He says its incentive for him to use them up faster, lol. I used a different sized label than my usual bars and they printed really nice, no weird margin issues like my usual labels, so I may switch that too when I run out of labels.

 

[ItsForrest]

Cut four more loaves of soap from the weekend.

First we have the coffee and milk.
The coffee soap is my 3rd batch of coffee soap and the 3rd coffee fo. This time I used Coffee Beans fo from WSP. Liking it so far but of course time will tell.
The milk soap is goat milk, oats and honey, straight water substituted with goat milk. Added honey and oats. I'm sure the milk fat means extra superfat. Should be pretty mellow soap.

This is batch two of the same recipe posted before: Ginger/lime and dragonfruit/pear.

 

[msunnerstood]

I made my first batch of Coffee soap tonight. it was much darker when it was cooking so I was worried but seems to be lightening up as it cools. Also made a batch of dragons blood which I knew there was vanillan in it so I went lighter with the red assuming it would darken.. it didnt and now I have pepto pink lol

 

[artemis]

Also made a batch of dragons blood which I knew there was vanillan in it so I went lighter with the red assuming it would darken.. it didnt and now I have pepto pink lol

It may darken up yet. I had one FO go from pale yellow to tan over a few days after cutting the soap.

 

[Saponificarian]

I am slightly biased as I will not buy anything from them due to their 'religious' outlook[/QUOTE]

Just curious, is anything wrong with having a 'religious' outlook?